IKGF (Online) Lecture Series
During the summer term 2021 the IKGF organizes an online lecture series on the Consortium’s theme Fate, Freedom and Prognostication. Strategies for Coping with the Future in East Asia and Europe.
It takes place on 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).
For online participation please register at: http://ikgf.fau.de/lectures
| 20 April 2021 | “Sudden, Unexpected, and Contrary to All Calculation”: Coping with Plague in Antiquity Karl-Heinz Leven (History and Ethics of Medicine; Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg) |
| 4 May 2021 | Fatal Futures: Prophecy and Its Narrative Function in Middle High German Literature around 1200 Lea Braun (Medieval German Literature; Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) |
| 18 May 2021 | The Layman and the Spirit-Writing Altar: Peng Shaosheng (1740–96) and the Historiography of Divine Communication Daniel Burton-Rose (Chinese History; IKGF Visiting Fellow) |
| 1 June 2021 | Tales of Success and Failure: Predictive Dreams of Imperial Examinations in Qing xiaoshuo Literature Aude Lucas-Lesain (Chinese Literature; Centre de recherche sur les civilisations de l’Asie orientale, Paris; IKGF Visiting Fellow) |
| 15 June 2021 | Escaping the Epistemic Trap: Problemata Literature and Astrological Prognostication Henrique Leitão (History of Science; Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia, Lisbon) |
| 29 June 2021 | On the Reception and Rejection of Geomantic Divination in Early Modern French and Spanish Literature Hannah Schlimpen (Romance Philology; Universität Trier) |
| 13 July 2021 | Philologisch-hermeneutische Bemerkungen zur Textkonstitution des Zhouyi [Lecture in German] Na Schädlich (History of Hermeneutics; Universität Osnabrück; IKGF Visiting Fellow) |