Lecture Series Summer 2022

Time: Tuesdays, 6:15 pm–7:45 pm CEST (US East Coast: 12:15 pm–1:45 pm EDT; China: 0:15 am–1:45 am CST)

The lectures will be held in person at

Building D1, Room 00.235 ("Großer Seminarraum")
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Hartmannstr. 14
91052 Erlangen

Schedule

 

2022/05/03 Orientation and Avoidance: Prenatal Space Divination during the Tang and Song Dynasties
Cheng Wan-Chun (IKGF Visiting Fellow) 2022/05/17 Pictures at an Exhibition. An Illustrated Report on the Exhibit “Signs of the Future. Divination in East Asia and Europe” 2021 at the National Museum in Nuremberg
Michael Lackner ( (IKGF Director) 2022/05/31 The Changing Portrayal of Divination and Prognostication in pre-Han and post-Han shu texts
Thomas Crone (IKGF Research Coordinatot) 2022/06/14 The Epistemology of the UFO: The Communities and Narratives of Extraterrestrial Intelligence in the Cold War USSR
Alexey Golubev (University of Houston) 2022/06/28 "Do Not Tell a Soul" - Evil Dreams and Nightmares in Traditional Chinese Oneirocritics
Dimitri Drettas (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg) 2022/07/12 Destiny and Human Nature in Daoist Internal Alchemy: The Views of Liu Yiming (1734-1821)
Fabrizio Pregadio (IKGF Guest Professor) 2022/07/26 The Prognostication for the Change of Fate—Yiguandao’s Eschatology and Responding Practices
Yeh-Ying Shen (IKGF Visiting Fellow)