Please register below to participate in the IKGF lecture series online.
After registration, we will send you an email with the link for online participation.
On the day of each lecture, you will receive an invitation by email (which also will include the required link).
| 04.11.2020 | Virgin Mothers and Hell-Bent Sons: Daoist Rituals for Delivering Mothers from Blood Lake Hell Jessey Choo (Cultural History of Medieval China; Rutgers University–New Brunswick) |
| 10.11.2020 | Resonances and Repercussions of Kepler’s Harmonices Mundi (Harmony of the World, 1619) Günther Oestmann (History of Science; Technical University of Berlin) |
| 24.11.2020 | Divining the Future and Averting Misfortune in Japan: The Case of Shugendō George Klonos (East Asian Religions; IKGF Visiting Fellow) |
| 01.12.2020 | The Emperor’s Dragon Form: Physiognomy and Appearance Politics in Early Ming China Lex Jing Lu (East Asian History and Gender Studies; Clark University) |
| 15.12.2020 | Lea Braun (Medieval German Literature; Humboldt University of Berlin)cancelled |
| 12.01.2021 | Self-Knowledge as Religious Knowledge: Lottery Divination in Buddhist Temples in Contemporary China Yang Shen (Cultural Anthropology; Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen) |
| 26.01.2021 | On Eagles, Lions, and Things to Come: Prophecies in the Late Medieval Holy Roman Empire Manuel Kamenzin (History of the Middle Ages; Ruhr University Bochum; IKGF Visiting Fellow) |
| 02.02.2021 | Reorganizing the Knowledge of the Future: Local State Divination (yinyang) Schools in Yuan China (1271-1368) Qiao Yang (History of Asia; Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin) |