Erlangen, Germany
27 – 28th Oct 2015
The International Consortium for Research in the Humanities “Fate, Freedom and Prognostication. Strategies for Coping with the Future in East Asia and Europe” of the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg is delighted to announce the Workshop
IKGF seminar room in building D1
(Hartmannstr. 14, 91052 Erlangen)
Please register until October 16, 2015, via our website: External Link…
Programme
Tuesday, October 27, 2015
9:30 a.m. Welcome Address
Prof. Michael Lackner (Director, IKGF Erlangen)
9:45 a.m. Introduction
Dr. Sophia Katz (Tel-Hai College)
Panel 1: Monsters, Portents and Prodigies in Pre-Modern East Asia and Medieval Europe
10:00 a.m. Mi’am Ci: Exploring the Strange, the Grotesque, and the Wondrous in the Land of Snows
Prof. Donatella Rossi (Sapienza University of Rome) Discussant: Prof. Fabrizio Pregadio (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg)
10:35 a.m. The Man-Bird Mountain: Writing, Revelation, and Winged Beings in Early China
Prof. Fabrizio Pregadio (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg)
Discussant: Dr. Burchard J. Mansvelt Beck (Leiden University)
11:10 a.m. Coffee Break
11:25 a.m. Prodigies and Divination in Classical and Medieval Western Europe Prof. Stefano Rapisarda (University of Catania)
Discussant: Dr. Hans-Christian Lehner (IKGF Erlangen)
12:00 p.m. Historiographical Handling of Monstrous Births in the European High Middle Ages
Dr. Hans-Christian Lehner (IKGF Erlangen)
Discussant: Prof. Stefano Rapisarda (University of Catania)
12:35 p.m. Round Table 1
1:00 p.m. Lunch Break
Panel 2: Divination, Strangeness and Literati in East Asia
2:30 p.m. Demon Hunters and Performers of Miracles: Common Ground Between the So-called Confucians, Buddhists, and Daoists in Early Medieval China
Dr. Zhao Lu (IKGF Erlangen)
Discussant: Dr. Esther-Maria Guggenmos (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg)
3:05 p.m. Divination and the Strange in the Liaozhai zhiyi Medieval China
Dr. Sophia Katz (Tel-Hai College)
Discussant: Dr.Vladimir Glomb (Charles University in Prague)
3:40 p.m. Coffee Break
3:55 p.m. Laughing Literati and Fortune-Telling Confucians: Stories about Prognostication in Ŏu yadam
Dr. Vladimir Glomb (Charles University in Prague)
Discussant: Prof. Donatella Rossi (Sapienza University of Rome)
4:30 p.m. Taming the Demonic: Emergence of a Modern Discourse on the Uncanny in Japan
Prof. Faye Kleeman (University of Colorado)
Discussant: Prof. Tze-ki Hon (State University of New York at Geneseo)
5:05 p.m. Round Table 2
Wednesday, October 28, 2015
Panel 3: Strangeness, Portentology, and Divination in Pre-Modern China (I): Early Textual Sources and Religious Traditions
9:00 a.m.
Danger and Disorder: Reading Anomalies and Strange Events in the Yijing
Prof. Tze-ki Hon (State University of New York at Geneseo)
Discussant: Dr. Zhao Lu (IKGF Erlangen)
9:35 a.m. Strange Creatures and Prodigies in the Shanhaijing and in Some Chu Bamboo Manuscripts
Dr. Marco Caboara (HKUST Hong Kong), in absentia
Discussant: Prof. Terry Kleeman (University of Colorado)
10:10 a.m. Coffee Break
10:25 a.m. Divination and Demonology in Daoist Ritual Treatments of the Dead
Prof. Terry Kleeman (University of Colorado)
Discussant: Prof. Joachim Gentz (University of Edinburgh)
11:00 a.m. Divining by Diving into the Strange: Examples from the Biographies of Thaumaturge Monks (Shenseng Zhuan, T. 2064)
Dr. Esther-Maria Guggenmos (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg)
Discussant: Prof. Faye Kleeman (University of Colorado)
11:35 a.m. Round Table 3
12:00 p.m. Lunch Break
Panel 4: Strangeness, Portentology, and Divination in Pre-Modern China (II): Han and Liu Song Dynasties
1:30 p.m. Uses We Can and Cannot Make of the Portent Treatises
Dr. Burchard J. Mansvelt Beck (Leiden University)
Discussant: Prof. Tiziana Lippiello (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice)
2:05 p.m. “Falling Stones: Five. Six: Fish-Hawks Flying Backwards.” Readings of a Strange Record
Prof. Joachim Gentz (University of Edinburgh)
Discussant: Dr. Grégoire Espesset (CRCAO Paris)
2:40 p.m. Coffee Break
2:55 p.m. Portents in Han China and Some Weft (wei) Observational Patterns: An Experiment
Dr. Grégoire Espesset (CRCAO Paris)
Discussant: Prof. Joachim Gentz (University of Edinburgh)
3:30 p.m. Why Was Shen Yue So Fond of Auspicious Signs?
Prof. Tiziana Lippiello (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice)
Discussant: Dr. Burchard J. Mansvelt Beck (Leiden University)
4:05 p.m. Round Table 4
For further information, please refer to our website at: http://ikgf.fau.de/events/upcoming-events/2015-10-workshop-divination-and-the-strange-in-pre-and-early-modern-east-asia-and-europe.shtml .
In case you would like to attend, please register until October 16, 2015, via our website at http://ikgf.fau.de/events/upcoming-events/registration/2015-10-workshop-divination-and-the-strange-in-pre-and-early-modern-east-asia-and-europe-registration.shtml.
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We welcome your participation!
Kind regards,
Rolf Scheuermann
Wissenschaftlicher Koordinator / Research Coordination
Internationales Kolleg für Geisteswissenschaftliche Forschung
“Schicksal, Freiheit und Prognose. Bewältigungsstrategien in Ostasien und Europa.”
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
International Consortium for Research in the Humanities
“Fate, Freedom and Prognostication. Strategies for Coping with the Future in East Asia and Europe.”
Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg
Hartmannstr. 14
Gebäude D3
91052 Erlangen
Germany
Tel: +49 9131 85 64337
rolf.scheuermann@fau.de
http://www.ikgf.uni-erlangen.de