Notions of Fate and Prognostication and their Taxonomies

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a) Middle Ages

Roger Bacon's (ca. 1220–1292) Idea of Progress, Laws of Nature and the Laws of the Stars

Yael Kedar

Strategies for Coping and Arguing with the Future in Early Medieval Italy

Carola Föller
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Signs and prodigies at the Byzantine Court: Their Significance and Function in Political Prognostication from the 6th to 15th centuries

Michael Grünbart
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Fate, Destiny, Prognostication and Dream Divination across Pagan and Christian Cultures: the Case of Dracontius

Maria Jennifer Falcone
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Coping with the Future in the Ottonian Age (10th-early 11th centuries). Transcendence, Contingency and Lack of Herrschaftsrationalität

Stefano Manganaro
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Prophet, Astrologer, Philosopher in the Political Literature of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance

Bee Yun
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Between Fate, providentia Dei and the Free Will: Investigations in Medieval Canon Law on the Basis of Selected Examples (700-1140)

Andreas Holndonner
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Science, Divination and Prophecy at the Papal Court of the Late Middle Ages

Agostino Paravicini Bagliani
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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

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

Alexander Fidora
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b) Early China

Prophecy and Spirit-Writing in Qing Conquest China

Daniel Burton-Rose
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A Study of the Relationship between Buddhism and the Dunhung Prognostication Texts

Gang Yang
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Adaptive Agency

Mercedes Valmisa
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Economic Cycles and Price Theory in Early Chinese Texts

Paul R. Goldin
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The social Origin of Wu (Shamans) in the Shang and Zhou dynasties

Jinfeng Wang
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Myth, History, and Music in the Creation of the Excavated Bamboo Guicang 歸藏 Hexagram Text

Constance Cook
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Reading the Future in the Past: Time, Prediction, and History in Early Chinese Historiography

Piotr Gibas
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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

Scott Davis
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Wang Fuzhi and the Confucian ming Narrative: A Theology of Fate and Destiny

Sophia Katz
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c) Imperial China

Forged Prophecies: Liu Ji's Shaobingge and Late Qing Anti-Manchu Sentiments

Phillip Grimberg
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The Construction and Influence of the Knowledge System of Shushu in the Han-Dynasty

Ru-xuan Huang

The Interpretation and Overseas Dissemination of Zhu Xi's Yi-ology

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

Elena Valussi
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Elite Religiosity in Late Imperial Suzhou: Peng Dingqiu (1645-1719) and Self-Fashioned Literati Piety

Daniel Burton-Rose
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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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Letting the Right Ones In: State-Sanctioned Memories of Diviners, Healers, and Artisans in Five Mid-Sixth to Mid-Seventh-Century Dynastic Histories

Stephan N. Kory
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Sima Guang's commentary to Yang Xiong's Fayan

Nicolae Christian Statu
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Diagrammatic Aspects of Cosmological Thought. An early Song Image and Number (xiang shu) Debate Reconsidered

Holger Schneider
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Disasters and Celestial Phenomena in 11th Century Political Discourse in China

Martin Kroher
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The Relationship between Prognostication and Law as Reflected in Mantic and Legal Manuscripts from the Qin Dynasty

Ulrich Lau
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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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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 (Liaoran zaiwo 遼 然 在 握): A Cultural History of Bodily Arts of Memory, Prognostication, and Being in Chinese Medicine

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

Two Patterns of Cyclical View of History

Prof. Dr. Yangming An
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A Comparative Analysis between the Concepts of Fate and Divinatory Signs in Mesoamerica, China, and Europe

Araceli Rojas Martínez Gracida
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Theorizing Prognostication

Philipp Balsiger
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Leo Strauss and the Doctrine of Providence in Medieval Arabic and Jewish Philosophy

Thomas Meyer
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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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f) Tibet

Rope, Silver, and Lapis: The Unique Mythology and Prognostic Technique of ju thig

Alexander Smith
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Tibetan Geomancy (sa dpyad)

Petra Maurer
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The Dice Divination of the Tibetan Protectress A phyi Chos kyi sgrol ma

Jan-Ulrich Sobisch
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Divination, Fortune, and Kingship in Tibet

Brandon Dotson
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g) Japan

Childbirth and the Arts of Judgement in Medieval Japan

Anna Andreeva
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