a) Middle Ages
Mantic, Fate and Freedom in Medieval Europe, esp. in the works of Thomas of Aquinas and Meister Eckhart
Loris Sturlese
November 2009 - September 2010
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Conceptions and Significance of Future in German Historiography (12th & 13th century)
Hans-Christian Lehner
(PhD Project)
Divination and the Epistemology of Prognostication in the Middle Ages
Prof. Dr. Alexander Fidora
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Concepts of Knowledge as presented in the personal notebook of Albert Behaim in the context of the scientific development at the 13th century papal court
Philipp Winkler
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b) Early China
Fate and Authorship in Early China
Martin Kern
September 2010 – August 2011
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Divinatory Hermeneutics and Text Exegesis in Early China
Joachim Gentz
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Divinatory Techniques and the Interpretation of Signs in the Political Theory of Han Feizi
Death and Ritual Wailing in Early China
The Concept of Fate in the Zhuangzi
Albert Galvany
February 2010 – January 2011
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Human and Non-human Destinies in Zhuangzi and Aristotle
Lisa Raphals
Legal, Institutional, and Social Frameworks of Prognostic Practice in Early China
Michael Lüdke
Sages, Creation, and Fate
Michael Puett
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Writing, Texts and the Divinatory Mission in Archaic China
Prof. Dr. Scott Davis
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Wang Fuzhi and the Confucian ming Narrative: A Theology of Fate and Destiny
c) Late Imperial China
Pattern Precognition in Three “Spring and Autumn” Weft Texts
Grégoire Espesset
November 2012 - October 2013
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The Hidden Vacuity: Divination, Combinatorial arts and Rationality in the late work of Sima Guang (1019-1086)
Prof. Dr. Stéphane Feuillas
September 2012 - August 2013
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Concepts of Fate and Freedom in religious Ruism of the Song- and Ming-Dynasty (11th - 17th century)
Sophia Katz
September 2010 – August 2011
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Contingency and Determination/Destination: The Time of Shao Yong
Martin Doesch
(PHD Project)
Concepts of Fate and the Organization of Mantic Knowledge among the Song Dynasty Elite
Liao Hsien-Huei
February – July 2010
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Subversive Mythology: The Sensory and the Spectacular in the Cults of Zhu Xi
Lionel Jensen
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The Role of Mathematical Practice and Theory in Divination in Late Imperial China
Andrea Bréard
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Understanding is Within One's Grasp (遼 然 在 握 Liaoran zai wo): Hand Mnemonics, Prognostication, and Chinese Arts of Memory
Marta Hanson
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Freedom, Fate and Free Will in Discourses on Chinese Tragedies
Natascha Gentz
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d) Ancient India
Human Agency and Fate in the Mahābhārata
Sven Sellmer
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e) Comparative Studies of Philological Practices
Towards a Theory of Philological Praxis
Christoph König
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