Notions of Fate and Prognostication and their Taxonomies

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a) Middle Ages

Intercultural Translation of Confucian Concepts relating to "Fate": with examples from the Latin translation of Zhongyong embodied in Confucius Sinarum Philosophus and Sinensis Imperii Libri Classici Sex

Dr. Luo Ying
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Mantic, Fate and Freedom in Medieval Europe, esp. in the works of Thomas of Aquinas and Meister Eckhart

Loris Sturlese
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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

Adaptive Agency

Mercedes Valmisa
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Economic Cycles and Price Theory in Early Chinese Texts

Paul R. Goldin
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Fate, Death, and Material Culture in Early China

Lillian Tseng
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Fate and Authorship in Early China

Martin Kern
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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
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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

Dr. Sophia Katz
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c) Late Imperial China

Spirit Writing and the Uncertainly of the Future in Late Imperial China

Elena Valussi
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What goes beyond natural order? The articulation of fate (ming) and principle (li) in Zhu Xi's (1130-1200) philosophical and mantic discourse

Maud M'Bondjo
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Changing Fate: Visual Culture in the Ming and Early-Qing China

Ning Yao
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Probing the Mandate of Heaven: Classicism, Apocrypha, and the Formation of an Empire of the Great Peace in Han China

Zhao Lu
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Research on the idea of "verification" (应验 yingyan) in the "Records of the Five Phases" (五行志 wuxing zhi) of the Chinese Standard Histories

Zhou Zhenhe
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Pattern Precognition in Three “Spring and Autumn” Weft Texts

Grégoire Espesset
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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
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Concepts of Fate and Freedom in religious Ruism of the Song- and Ming-Dynasty (11th - 17th century)

Sophia Katz
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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
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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

Fate, Fatalism and Autonomy

Lisa Raphals
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Fortuna and Monotheism

Andreas Kablitz
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Towards a Theory of Philological Praxis

Christoph König
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