4 November 2020 (Wednesday)
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 November 2020:
Resonances and Repercussions of Kepler’s Harmonices Mundi (Harmony of the World, 1619)
Günther Oestmann (History of Science; Technical University of Berlin)

24 November 2020
Divining the Future and Averting Misfortune in Japan: The Case of Shugendō
George Klonos (East Asian Religions; IKGF Visiting Fellow)

1 December 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 December 2020
Fatal Futures: Prophecy and Its Narrative Function in Middle High German Literature around 1200
Lea Braun (Medieval German Literature; Humboldt University of Berlin)

12 January 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 January 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 February 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)