Lecture Series Winter 2025/26
Lecture Series Winter 2025/26 with Abstracts
Knowing Hands: Chinese Hand-Memory Techniques in Situ, Comparison, & Contact – Digital Exhibition Workshop
Translating the Ineffable: Sino-Muslim Engagement with Esoteric Knowledge across Han Kitāb and Menhuan Networks
Project Director: Prof. Dr. Michael Lackner Research Fellow: Dr. Tommaso Previato Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Center for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences “Alternative Rationalities and Esoteric Practices from a Global Perspective” (CAS-E), supported by a grant from Templeton Religion Trust, awarded via the Program in the Study of Mysticism (PRISM) at Tampere University. […]
‘Esotericism’ and ‘Christianity’ within the new right in Germany and Austria by Dr. Philine Lewek
Frauds, Subaltern Rebels, or Sources of Batini Knowledge Yezidi Seers in Post-Saddam Iraq by Dr. Eszter Spät (CAS-E Fellow)
Picturing Aura: A Visual Biography by Dr. Jeremy Stolow (Concordia University)
Ritual Praxis Inside Out Tracing Emic-Etic Continuities in Mandinka Divination by Dr. Knut Graw (CAS-E Permanent Fellow)
Collective Memory and the Tradition of Sacred Pilgrimages in the Shamanic Environment of Modern Kyrgyzstan by Dr. Nestor Manichkin (CAS-E Fellow)
Numbers and Healing: Exploring the Minangkabau Traditional Medical System by Dr. Alexander Stark (CAS-E Fellow)
