Joint Conference with the 'Fritz Thyssen Stiftung' and the 'Konfuzius-Institut Erlangen-Nürnberg'

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Reading the Signs - Languages of Prognostication

May 30-31, 2013










Programme

Thursday, May 30, 2013, 9:30 am - 5:30 pm

9:30 a.m Welcome Addresses
Thomas Fröhlich (IKGF, Erlangen), Klaus Herbers (IKGF, Erlangen), Iwo Amelung (Frankfurt), Joachim Kurtz (Heidelberg)
Panel 1 DIVINATION IN EARLY CHINA
Chair: Nikola Chardonnens, IKGF, Erlangen
9:50 a.m. Divination and Fate in the Eastern Han
Michael Puett (Cambridge, MA)
10:10 a.m. The Organization of the Dynastic Histories Hanshu and Hou Hanshu: Visualization and Questions
Nicolas Zufferey (Geneva)
10:30 a.m. Kidder Smith Revisited: On the Difficulties of the Zuozhuan’s Interpretation of the Zhouyi
Michael Schimmelpfennig (Erlangen)
10:50 a.m. Discussion
11:10 a.m. Coffee Break
Panel 2 THEORIES AND INTERPRETATION
(Chair: Esther-Maria Guggenmos, IKGF, Erlangen)
11:40 a.m. Theorizing Divination: Chinese and Greek
Lisa Raphals (Riverside, CA)
12:00 p.m. The Composition of Commentaries on Classics in the Light of Newly Excavated Mathematical Manuscripts
Karine Chemla (Paris)
12:20 p.m. The Diagram Relevance in Chinese Buddhology and Zhou-Yi
Zhou Qi (Beijing)
12:40 p.m. Discussion
1:00 p.m. Lunch Break
Panel 3 LANGUAGES AND THEIR LIMITS
Chair: Holger Schneider, Erlangen
2:30 p.m. Aha, Chen and Other Misunderstandings
Erling von Mende (Berlin)
2:50 p.m. A Chinese Figurist at Work: Liu Ning and his Studies of Chinese Characters
Chu Ping-yi (Taipei)
3:10 p.m. Ricci 'On Friendship': Some Failures of Transmission
Christoph Harbsmeier (Oslo)
3:30 p.m. Discussion
3:50 a.m. Coffee Break
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
4:20 p.m. Resistance and Societal Change: The Role of Traditional Semantics
Ken'ichi Mishima (Tokyo)
5:20 p.m. End of Day 1

Friday, May 31, 2013, 9:30 am - 6:00 pm

Panel 4 REWRITING THE PREDICTIVE SCIENCES
Chair: Song Xiaokun, IKGF, Erlangen
9:30 a.m. Reflections on the Cultural Role of Popular Encyclopedias (日用類書) in Late Imperial China
Richard Smith (Houston, TX)
9:50 a.m. A New Language of Prognostication: Ferdinand Verbiest on Logic and Astronomy
Joachim Kurtz (Heidelberg)
10:10 a.m. Science and Prognostication in Early 20th Century China
Iwo Amelung (Frankfurt)
10:30  a.m. Discussion
10:50 a.m. Coffee Break
Panel 5 PROGNOSTICATION AND THE MEANING OF MODERNITY
Chair: Philipp Hünnebeck, IKGF, Erlangen
11:20 a.m. The Different Meanings of Life: Rudolf Eucken, Henri Bergson, Ernst Haeckel and Hans Driesch in China
Kevin Chang (Taipei)
11:40 a.m. Modern Millennialism in the Age of Revolution: Taiping and the West
Jürgen Gebhardt (Erlangen)
12:00 p.m. Acceleration of Change and Prognostication of Progress: Two Interrelated Topics in Modern Chinese Political Thought
Thomas Fröhlich (IKGF, Erlangen)
12:20 p.m. Discussion
12:40 p.m. Lunch Break
Panel 6 THE POETICS OF DIVINATION
Chair: Florian Wagner, IKGF, Erlangen
2:10 p.m. Divination, Language, and Rationality in the Classic of Documents (Shangshu)
Martin Kern (Princeton)
2:30 p.m. Rationality in Refutations of Buddhism and Christianity by Chosôn Literati
Marion Eggert (Bochum)
2:50 p.m. Divination as a Mode of Understanding Literary Texts
Christoph König (Osnabrü,ck)
3:10 p.m. Texts on Experiences in St. Patrick’s Purgatory. Signs of Future?
Klaus Herbers (IKGF, Erlangen)
3:30 p.m. Discussion
3:50 p.m. Coffee Break
CONCLUDING REMARKS
4:20 p.m. Confucius at 60 Counting the Stalks: Apocryphal Remarks on Divination in Chinese History
Michael Lackner (IKGF, Erlangen)
5:00 p.m. General Discussion
6:00 p.m. End of Conference

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