20 April 2021
--- “Sudden, Unexpected, and Contrary to All Calculation”: Coping with Plague in Antiquity ---
Speaker: 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 ---
Speaker: 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 ---
Speaker: 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 ---
Speaker: 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 ---
Speaker: 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 ---
Speaker: Hannah Schlimpen (Romance Philology; Universität Trier)

13 July 2021
--- Philologisch-hermeneutische Bemerkungen zur Textkonstitution des Zhouyi --- [Lecture in German]
Speaker: Na Schädlich (History of Hermeneutics; Universität Osnabrück; IKGF Visiting Fellow)