Mantic Arts in China

July 19, 2016 -
July 22, 2016

Location

IKGF Seminar Room, Building D1
Hartmannstraße. 14,
91052 Erlangen


The International Research Consortium “Fate, Freedom and Prognostication. Strategies for Coping with the Future in East Asia and Europe” at the FAU would like to welcome you to our conference “Mantic Arts in China” on July 19th-22nd, 2016. Mantic arts have long been dismissed as “superstitious” or “irrational.” However, this rejected knowledge not only sheds light on the history of science and technology, but also helps us to understand the wide range of human activities that are yet to be seriously considered in many scholarly fields. This conference is an initiative to bring together scholars from various fields who study prediction and foreknowledge and to exchange our intellectual insights. In order to perpetuate these exchanges, the Consortium would like to launch a publication series that is aimed at helping scholars publish their works in this field. In addition, we also propose to form an intellectual community: the International Society for the Study of Mantic Arts (ISSMA).


For more information and registration, please contact Dr. Zhao Lu (lu.zhao@fau.de).

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Programme

July 19, 2016

9:00 - 9:15 Welcome Address
Günter Leugering (Vice President for International Affairs, FAU)
9:15 - 10:00 Introduction
Michael Lackner (Director of the International Research Consortium, FAU)
10:00 - 10:30 Taxonomy, Classification, Terminology
Marc Kalinowski (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes)
10:30 - 11:00 Sketch of the History of Prognostication
Chang Chia-feng (National Taiwan University)
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:00 Religion and Prognostication
Fabrizio Pregadio (FAU)
12:00 - 13:00 Discussion
With special presence of Esther-Maria Guggenmos (FAU)
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch Break
14:30 - 15:00 Thought and Prognostication
Zhao Lu (FAU)
15:00 - 15:30 Technical arts and literati discourse on necessity in Early and Medieval China
Mark Csikszentmihalyi (University of California, Berkeley)
15:30 - 16:00 The Taxonomy of Good Signs: Prophecies or Responses
Tiziana Lippiello (Ca' Foscari University of Venice)
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break
16:30 - 17:00 The Invisible Face of Fate
Chu Pingyi (Academia Sinica)
17:00 - 18:00 Discussion

July 20, 2016

9:30 - 10:00 Medicine and Prognostication
Marta Hanson (Johns Hopkins University)
10:00 - 10:30 Astrology and Prognostication
Christopher Cullen (Needham Research Institute, University of Cambridge)
10:30 - 11:00 Economic Cycles and Price Theory in Early Chinese Texts
Paul R. Goldin (University of Pennsylvania)
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:00 Astrology and Divination and Crucial Differences between Them
David Pankenier (Lehigh University)
12:30 - 13:00 Discussion
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch Break
14:30 - 15:00 The Living Traditions of Prognostication
Stéphanie Homola (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales)
15:00 - 15:30 The Attempt of Scientification of Chinese Divinatory Knowledge in the era of Republic of China (1912-1949): The Interpretation and Transformation of “Four Pillars” and “Physiognomy”
Lin Yuh-Chern (National Tsing Hua University)
15:30 - 16:00 Diviners with Membership and Certificates: An Inquiry into the Legitimation and Professionalisation of Chinese Diviners
Li Geng (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break
16:30 - 17:30 Discussion

July 21, 2016

9:30 - 10:00 Politics and Prognostication
Hon Tze-ki (The State University of New York at Geneseo)
10:00 - 10:30 Shifa 筮法
Edward Shaughnessy (University of Chicago)
10:30 - 11:00 Reconstructing the Book of Changes. Wang Anshi's 王安石 (1021-1086) Essays on the Zhouyi 周易
Stèphane Feuillas (Université Paris-Diderot)
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:00 Knowing Fate and Changing Fate: The Similarities and Differences between Chinese Astrology (Bazi) and the Yi jing (Book of Changes)
Zhang Wenzhi (Shandong University)
12:00 - 13:00 Discussion
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch Break
14:30 - 15:00 Song Biji and the Transmission of Mantic Knowledge
Liao Hsien-huei (National Tsing Hua University)
15:00 - 15:30 The Culture of Fengshui in Song China
Liu Hsiang-kwang (National Chengchi University)
15:30 - 16:00 Divination and Storytelling in Hong Mai's Yijian zhi: The Narrative Description of Mantic Techniques and Destiny
Radu Bikir (Centre de Recherche sur les Civilisations de l'Asie Orientale)
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break
16:30 - 17:00 Gaming and Divination
Andrea Bréard (University of Heidelberg)
17:00 - 18:00 Discussion

July 22, 2016

9:30 - 10:00 Prognostication in Early Chinese Excavated Texts
Constance Cook (Lehigh University)
10:00 - 10:30 关于秦汉“质日”的新考察 (A new examination on zhi ri in the Qin and Han periods)
Chen Wei (Wuhan University)
10:30 - 11:00 The Role of Divination in the Documents
Michael Nylan (University of California, Berkeley)/He Ruyue (Shaanxi Normal University)
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:00 Wang Chong and Divination
Michael Puett (Harvard University)
12:00 - 13:00 Discussion
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch Break
14:30 - 17:00 Roundtable Discussion


International Consortium for Research in the Humanities

"Fate, Freedom and Prognostication. Strategies for Coping with the Future in East Asia and Europe."

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