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) |