The Center for Advances Studies Erlangen (CAS-E) and the International Consortium for Research in the Humanities (IKGF) are organizing a lecture series. Every Tuesday starting from the 18th of April to the 18th of July different experts talk about alternative rationalities and esoteric pratices in a global perspective.
When: Tuesday, 6:15 pm – 7:45pm
Where: Hartmannstr. 14, Gebäude D1, 91052 Erlangen, Großer Seminarraum (room 000.235)
and via Zoom
Program
- 18.04.2023: “Prognostics for the Fate of the Nation in Traditional China–Some Calendrical Cases”, Prof. Wang Fan-sen
- 25.04.2023: “Lessons from the Edge of the Village: Extending African Wisdom to a Turbulent World”, Prof. Paul Stoller
- 02.05.2023: “The Uses Of Magic: Walter Skeat’s Study of Malay Magic and the Stereotype of the Superstitious Malay”, Prof. Farish Noor
- 09.05.2023: “Body – Presence – Phantasm: Reflections in and on phenomenological anthropology”, Prof. Robert Desjarlais
- 16.05.2023: “From Numerical Cyphers to Symbolic Lines: Exploring the Process of Graphic Standardisation within the Shuzi Gua Corpus”, Flaminia Pischedda (IKGF)
- 23.05.2023: “Divination Dialogues: Voyance and Understanding in Senegalese Divination Praxis”, Dr. Knut Graw
- 30.05.2023: “South Asian Sources for Modern Occult Yoga (MOY)”, Dr. Keith Cantú
- 06.06.2023: “Becoming a Master: Materializing Esoteric Wisdom in Brazil’s Valley of the Dawn”, Prof. Kelly Hayes
- 13.06.2023: “Activation and Subjectivation: A Photographic Essay on Transformational
Rituals the ‘Do’”, Dr. Raquel Romberg
- 20.06.2023: “The Utopian Project of the Late-Soviet Waterbirth Movement and Its Interactions with the Global New Age”, Dr. Anna Ozhiganova
- 27.06.2023: “A Case Study of Xuantong Dashu 《玄通大书》– The Great Book of Mystery: a Comprehensive Encyclopedia of the Yi Fate”, Dr. Aleksandrs Simons (IKGF)
- 04.07.2023: “The Pandemic Buddha: Reinvention and Reappropriation of Esoteric Buddhis Practices as a Mechanism of Social Re-Organisation and Epidemiological Responses in Bhutan”, Dr. Dendup Chophel
- 11.07.2023: “Hybrid Pathways to Orthodoxy: Esoteric Practices in ‚Sharia-Compliant‘ Exorcism”, Prof. Dominik Müller
- 18.07.2023: “The Status of Esoteric Practices in Present-Day Taiwan”, Prof. Michael Lackner
