Fate, Longevity, and Immortality: Europe - Islam - Asia

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Fate, Longevity, and Immortality: Europe - Islam - Asia

Veranstalter
International Consortium for Research in the Humanities (IKGF) "Fate, Freedom and Prognostication - Strategies for Coping with the Future in East Asia and Europe", Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg; in collaboration with the International Union of Academies (UAI); Organisation Committee Danielle Jacquart, École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris; Agostino Paravicini Bagliani, Président honoraire de l’UAI, SISMEL; Fabrizio Pregadio, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg; Klaus Herbers, IKGF, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
Veranstaltungsort
International Consortium for Research in the Humanities (IKGF), Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Hartmannstr. 14, 91052 Erlangen, Germany
Ort
Erlangen
Land
Deutschland
Vom - Bis
23.02.2016 - 25.02.2016
Deadline
15.02.2016
Website
http://ikgf.fau.de
Von
Heiduk, Matthias

The aim of this conference is to develop as far as possible a comparative perspective on traditions and practices concerning Fate, Longevity, and Immortality, which together constitute a fundamental subject in the fields of cultural, social, and anthropological studies. This will be done across a vast range of civilizations, regions, and periods that span Asia (China, Tibet, Japan), the Islamic World, and Western Europe (Middle Ages, Renaissance).

In particular, the conference will focus on the following issues: the philosophical and medical background of longevity metaphors; occurrences of extraordinary longevity and limits of life; astrology and prediction of life span; elixirs and immortality; literary and spatial myths of longevity; natural death, its prognostics and predispositions; prediction in contemporary genetics; resurrection or regeneration of the body and immortality; animals and prolongevity.

Scholars coming from various disciplines and research fields – from alchemy to astrology, from history of the body and medicine to hagiography – shall enter an academic dialogue on how theories and practices concerning the prolongation of life have been influenced or restricted at different times by the beliefs of antiquity; by Christianity, Buddhism, Daoism, and Islam; and by the respective cultural traditions. How has longevity been predicted, theorized, and calculated within those civilizations and traditions? Which ways towards immortality or avoidance of death have been elaborated? What was the social diffusion of such theories and practices? What are the commonalities and differences regarding these interactions between traditions and humans seeking to extend their life? Is there a general human need to make death predictable and knowable?

Programm

FATE, LONGEVITY, AND IMMORTALITY: EUROPE – ISLAM – ASIA

International Conference in Collaboration with the International Union of Academies
Erlangen, 2016, February 23-25 International Consortium for Research in the Humanities

February 23, Tuesday

Morning
Chair: Michael Lackner (IKGF, Erlangen)
9:30 - 9:45 Introduction: Danielle Jacquart, Agostino Paravicini Bagliani, Fabrizio Pregadio
9:45 - 10:15 Danielle Jacquart (EPHE, Paris)
Est-il possible et légitime pour un médecin médiéval de prévoir la longévité d’un patient?

10:15 - 10:30 Discussion

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 - 11:30 Chiara Crisciani (University of Pavia)
Lunga vita: promesse, inconvenienti, immaginario

11:30 - 12:00 Michel Pastoureau (EPHE, Paris)
Longévité et immortalités animales dans les bestiaires médiévaux

12:00 - 12:30 Discussion

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch

Afternoon
Chair: Klaus Herbers (IKGF, Erlangen)

14:00 - 14:30 Jean-Patrice Boudet (University of Orléans)
Les experimenta magiques de résurrection

14:30 - 15:00 Discussion

15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break

15:30 - 16:00 Georges Tamer (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg)
Time and Mortality in the Koran

16:00 - 16:30 Basma Dajani (University of Jordan, Amman)
The Demises of the Ardent Lovers

16:30 - 17:00 Discussion

February 24, Wednesday

Morning
Chair: Lisa Walleit (IKGF, Erlangen)

9:00 - 9:30 Charles Burnett (Warburg Institute, London),
The Postponement of Death and the Alleviation of Old Age in the Middle Ages

9:30 - 10:00 David Juste (Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Munich)
Calculating the Length of Life with Latin Astrologers (12th-17th Century)

10:00 - 10:30 Discussion

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 - 11:30 Agostino Paravicini Bagliani (University of Lausanne, SISMEL)
Prolongevity and Elites of Power in Medieval Europe

11:30 - 12:00 Joseph Ziegler (University of Haifa)
Theorizing and Predicting Longevity around 1300

12:00 - 12:30 Discussion

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch

Afternoon
Chair : Zhao Lu (IKGF, Erlangen)

14:00 - 14:30 Donatella Rossi (University of Rome "La Sapienza")
Faith or Fate? The Path towards Immortality according to the Tantric Traditions of Tibet

14:30 - 15:00 Rolf Scheuermann (IKGF, Erlangen)
"You Will Die Soon!" – Predictions of Death in Tibetan Divination Manuals

15:00 - 15:30 Discussion

15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 - 16:30 Catherine Despeux (INALCO, Paris)
Nature et quête de l’immortalité

16:30 - 17:00 Barbara Hendrischke (University of Sydney)
Modes of Avoiding Death in the Taiping jing

17:00 - 17:30 Christine Mollier (CNRS, Paris)
Fate and Astrology: Longevity in (Medieval) Daoist and Buddhist Traditions

17:30 - 18:00 Discussion

February 25, Thursday

Morning
Chair: Hans-Christian Lehner (IKGF, Erlangen)

9:00 - 9:30 Didier Kahn (CNRS, Paris)
La quintessence dans les œuvres authentiques et apocryphes de Paracelse

9:30 - 10:00 Joël Coste (EPHE, Paris)
La "mort de vieillesse": une cause de décès incontournable? (XVIIe siècle - XXIe siècle)

10:00 - 10:30 Discussion

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 - 11:30 Manuel Förg (Technical University of Munich)
The Centaur’s Death: The Myth of Chiron and the Transfer of Immortality

11:30 - 12:00 Matthias Heiduk (IKGF, Erlangen)
Longevity and the Emergence of Alchemy in the Latin West

12:00 - 12:30 Discussion

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch

Afternoon
Chair: Song Xiaokun (IKGF, Erlangen)

14:00 - 14:30 Lennert Gesterkamp (University of Amsterdam)
Man and Mountain: Daoist Immortals in Chinese Art

14:30 - 15:00 Benjamin Penny (Australian National University, Canberra)
Did Immortality Change? Historicising Daoist Hagiography

15:00 - 15:30 Discussion

15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 - 16:30 Dominic Steavu (University of California, Santa Barbara)
"The Secret of Divine Immortals": On Generating and Consuming Longevity Mushrooms

16:30 - 17:00 Fabrizio Pregadio (IKGF and University of Erlangen-Nuremberg)
Which is the Daoist Immortal Body?

17:00 - 17:30 Discussion

Final Round Table

17:30 - 18:00 Chairs: Moneef R. Zou’bi (Académie des Sciences Islamiques, Amman), Danielle Jacquart,
Agostino Paravicini Bagliani, Fabrizio Pregadio

Kontakt

Matthias Heiduk

International Consortium for Research in the Humanities, Universtät Erlangen-Nürnberg
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matthias.heiduk@fau.de

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