International Consortium for Research in the Humanities: Lecture Series Summer 2021

Lecture Series Summer 2021

Veranstalter
International Consortium for Research in the Humanities (IKGF), University Erlangen-Nürnberg
Veranstaltungsort
Erlangen (online)
PLZ
91052
Ort
Erlangen
Land
Deutschland
Vom - Bis
20.04.2021 - 13.07.2021
Von
Franziska Hügelmeyer, International Consortium for Research in the Humanities (IKGF), Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

This series of virtual lectures is hosted by the International Research Consortium “Fate, Freedom, and Prognostication” at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg.

Lecture Series Summer 2021

For online participation, please register anytime at http://ikgf.fau.de/lectures

Programm

Tuesdays, 6:15 pm–7:45 pm CEST (US East Coast: 12:15 pm–1:45 pm EDT; China: 0:15 am–1:45 am CST)

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

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

Kontakt

ikgf-it@fau.de

http://ikgf.fau.de/lectures
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