Lecture Series Overview

Lectures SS 2011 Tuesday, May 3, 2011, 6.15 pm – 7.45 pm
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"Subversive Mythology: The Sensory and the Spectacular in the Cults of Zhu Xi"

Prof. Dr. Lionel Jensen

Lectures SS 2011 Tuesday, May 10, 2011, 6.15 pm – 7.45 pm
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"De-Rationalizing Chance Mechanims? On the Role of Mathematical Practice and Theory in Divination with Dominos in Late Imperial China"

Prof. Dr. Andrea Bréard

Lectures SS 2011 Tuesday, May 24, 2011, 6.15 pm – 7.45 pm
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"Zukunftserwartung zwischen Diesseits und Jenseits: die politische Sprache mittelalterlicher Traumvisionen"

Dr. Uta Kleine
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Lectures SS 2011 Tuesday, May 31, 2011, 6.15 pm – 7.45 pm
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"Beatus of Liébana, text and images (VIII-XIII centuries). Conceptions of Time and Future in Medieval Spain"

Prof. Dr. Patrick Henriet

Lectures SS 2011 Tuesday, June 7, 2011, 6.15 pm – 7.45 pm
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"Sterndeutung als naturwissenschaftliche Methode der Politikberatung. Astronomie und Astrologie am Hof Kaiser Friedrichs III. (1440-1493)"

Dr. des. M.A. Daniel Carlo Pangerl
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Lectures SS 2011 Tuesday, July 12, 2011, 6.15 pm – 7.45 pm
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"Divination, Revelation and the Dynamics of Religious Change in Modern Taiwan: The Case of Spirit-writing Cults"

Prof. Dr. Philip Clart

Lectures SS 2011 Tuesday, June 21, 2011, 6.15 pm – 7.45 pm
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"Willensfreiheit oder Prädestination? Überlegungen zum Umgang mit übernatürlichen Mächten in den 'Aufzeichnungen von Erschöpfung und Gram' (Qiongchou zhi 窮愁志) des Li Deyu 李德裕 (787-850)"

Michael Höckelmann, M.A.
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Lectures SS 2011 Tuesday, July 19, 2011, 6.15 pm – 7.45 pm
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"Divination and Divinization: The Shi 栻 Board in Medico-Religious Sources"

Dr. Dominic Steavu
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Lectures SS 2011 Tuesday, July 26, 2011, 6.15 pm – 7.45 pm
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"Fate, Prediction and the Threat of Total Destruction in Spain: A Fifteenth-Century Nightmare"

Prof. Dr. Ángel Gómez Moreno
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