Prof. Dr. Klaus Herbers receives Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
May/October 2020
It is a great pleasure to announce that, on May 29, 2020, the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesverdienstkreuz am Bande) was awarded to IKGF Deputy Director Professor Klaus Herbers. The official award ceremony was held by the Bavarian State Minister of the interior, Joachim Herrmann, at the Heinrich-Lades Hall, Erlangen, on October 2, 2020.
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Dr. Alberto Spataro honoured with Stauferpreis 2020
February 2020
Dr. Alberto Spataro receives the "Stauferpreis 2020" of the "Stauferstiftung Göppingen".
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PD Dr. Guggenmos recieves FAU award for her habilitation
2019
PD Dr. Guggenmos' thesis „Vehicle of Mantic Arts? — Zum Verhältnis von Buddhismus und Divination in China“ honored with FAU dissertation award.
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Donation by Lin Yuh-Chern
December 2019
Prof. Dr. Michael Lackner receives a donation for the International Society for the Critical Study of Divination by visiting fellow Lin Yuh-Chern.
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Prof. Dr. Klaus Herbers met Pope Francis
November 2018
Prof. Dr. Klaus Herbers, deputy director of the IKGF, had a conversation with pope Francis.
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Prof. Dr. Michael Puett appointed as "FAU-Ambassador"
Autumn 2017
Former IKGF Visiting Fellow Prof. Dr. Michael Puett was appointed as ambassador of the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg in autumn 2017. He talked about his affiliation with Erlangen and his new mission as ambassador with the university magazine "alexander", published in March 2018.
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Prof. Dr. Klaus Herbers elected as vice-president of the Union Académique Internationale.
October 2017
The general assembly of the Union Académique Internationale (UAI) at Tokyo elected Prof. Dr. Klaus Herbers as vice-president on October 25, 2017, for four years. The UAI is a worldwide federation of all academies of sciences and humanities. Besides Klaus Herbers, Prof. Dr. Jens-Uwe Hartmann (Munich) represents the Union of German Academies at the UAI.
Prof. Dr. Terry Kleeman honoured with "Médaille Stanislas Julien 2017"
September 2017
Former IKGF Visiting Fellow Prof. Dr. Terry Kleeman was honoured with the Médaille Stanislas Julien 2017 for his study on "Celestial Masters: History and Ritual in Early Daoist Communities", which he prepared during his stay at the consortium.
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Prof. Dr. Michael Lackner honoured with Tsungming Tu award
January 2017
The Taiwanese National Science Council has awarded IKGF’s Director, Prof. Dr. Michael Lackner, with the Tsungming Tu Award 2017. Established in 2006, the award is “given to foreign scientists of international renown with great discoveries or achievements in their academic research fields.” Professor Lackner is the first scholar in the humanities to receive this honour.
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Prof. Dr. Michael Lackner delivered the 9th Annual F.W. Mote Memorial Lecture
December 2014
On December 3, 2014, upon invitation of the Department of East Asian Studies, Princeton University, Prof. Dr. Michael Lackner delivered the 9th Annual F.W. Mote Memorial Lecture “The Minor Ways Have Their Reason - Discourses on Divination in Chinese Tradition”. The annual lecture in honor of Professor Mote invites to Princeton distinguished scholars of Chinese studies.
Prof. Herbers delegate at the Union Académique Internationale.
October 2014
Prof. Klaus Herbers represents the Union of the German Academies of Sciences and Humanities as its delegate at the Union Académique Internationale.
Prof. Herbers new member
October 2014
Prof. Klaus Herbers is a new member of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica's central directorate
IKGF Director, Prof. Dr. Michael Lackner, Invited to The Hong Kong Open University as Speaker on the Occasion of the University’s 25th Anniversary
Hongkong, Open University, Oct 17, 2014: Prof. Dr. Michael Lackner “淺談中國文化對近現代的影響 －The Relevance of Chinese Culture to the Modern/Contemporary World (in Chinese/Putonghua)”
At the invitation of Prof. Tam Kwok-kan, Dean of the School of Arts and Social Sciences of the Open University of Hong Kong Prof. Dr. Michael Lackner was invited to give a lecture on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of The Open University of Hong Kong.
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IKGF Director, Prof. Dr. Michael Lackner, Received the Guanghua Eminent Scholars Award 2014 from Fudan University, Shanghai (Fudan Daxue Guanghua Jiechu Renwen Xuezhe Jiangzuo 复旦大学光华杰出人文学者讲座)
In September 2014 Prof. Dr. Michael Lackner was invited to Fudan University, Shanghai, to receive the Guanghua Eminent Scholars Award.
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Former Fellow Dr. David Juste: New Project on "Astronomical and Astrological Manuscripts of Claudius Ptolemaeus" granted by the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities
On November 16, 2012, the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities granted a new
project for a total of 25 years centering on "Astronomical and Astrological
Manuscripts of Claudius Ptolemaeus".
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Kulturpreis Bayern for Wiebke Deimann: E.ON Bayern würdigt hervorragende wissenschaftliche Leistung an der Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Nürnberg-Erlangen
originally published by E.ON Bayern AG on October 28th, 2010
E.ON Bayern AG writes:
"Dr. Wiebke Deimann aus Fürth wurde für ihre Doktorarbeit mit dem Thema 'Zwischen Islam und Christentum. Religiöse Minderheiten in Sevilla unter muslimischer und christlicher Dominanz vom 12. bis zum 14. Jahrhundert' mit dem Kulturpreis der E.ON Bayern AG ausgezeichnet.
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