Lecture Series Winter 2019-20

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Lecture Series Winter 2019-20

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12.11.2019 Simon Marius: A Seventeenth-Century Franconian Court Mathematicus
Thony Christie (History of Science; Simon Marius Society/The Renaissance Mathematicus blog)

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26.11.2019 The Mataliʿ al-saʿ adet (Book of Felicity), 1582: Time and Fortune in the Early Modern Ottoman World
Sara Nur Yildiz (Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations; Max Planck Institute for the History of Science)
03.12.2019 Health and Hemerology in the Ancient Near East
Vérène Chalendar (Assyriology; CNRS research unit "Proche-Orient—Caucase: Langues, Archéologie, Cultures"; IKGF Visiting Fellow)

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17.12.2019 Forged Prophecies: Liu Ji’s 劉基 Shaobing ge 燒餅歌 and Late-Qing Anti-Manchu Sentiment
Phillip Grimberg (Chinese Studies; Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg; IKGF Visiting Fellow)

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07.01.2020 New Varieties of fengyu zhan 風雨占 (Prognostication of Winds and Rain) in Seventeenth-Century China
Zhang Qiong (Chinese History; Wake Forest University; IKGF Visiting Fellow)

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14.01.2020 Modes of Prophecy in Medieval Jewish Mysticism
Michael Miller (Theology, Philosophy, and Religious Studies; Liverpool Hope University; IKGF Visiting Fellow)

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21.01.2020 Fate and Space in China: Spheres of Validity
Helwig Schmidt-Glintzer (Chinese Studies; Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen)

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28.01.2020 Calculating the Length of Life in Western Medieval Astrology: Methods and Social Attitudes
Helena Avelar de Carvalho (Medieval Studies and History of Science; Warburg Institute, University of London; IKGF Visiting Fellow)

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