Symbolic action in Late Imperial China
Symbolic action in Late Imperial China by CAS-E Associated Scholar Fan-sen Wang My research project investigates the drastically new interpretations of Confucian Classics in the last phase of imperial China. These interpretations responded to major historical changes from the middle Qing Dynasty onwards, and constituted a period I tentatively name as “new antiquity”. When looking […]
Knowing Hands: Chinese Hand-memory Techniques and Handy Knowledge in Situ, Comparison, and Contact
CAS-E is thrilled to announce the international research project “Knowing Hands: Chinese Hand-memory Techniques & Handy Knowledge in Situ, Comparison, and Contact,” commencing in April 2025 for a duration of thirty-six months. “Knowing Hands” is a joint German–French collaboration between Prof. Marta Hanson (CAS-E Associated Scholar, Erlangen-Nürnberg) and Prof. Stéphanie Homola (French National Centre for […]
PRISM – Program in the Study of Mysticism (Tampere University)
PRISM – Program in the study of mysticism (Tampere University) Throughout history, countless people have experienced a not-fully describable union with ultimate reality that is at once recognized in all religions and yet is its least understood aspect. Building on popular and post-critique academic interest, PRISM is a five-year Program at Tampere University, Finland seeking […]
DFG-Kollegforschungsgruppe Mageia (Würzburg University)
DFG-Kollegforschungsgruppe Mageia Magic between Entanglement, Interaction, and Analogy A Centre for the Study of Magical Text Traditions of West Asia and the Eastern Mediterranean in Antiquity Read more here.
Archives of the Impossible (Rice University)
Archives of the Impossible (Rice University) Read more on the project here.
Speaking with Spirits: Indeterminate Multisensory Ritual efficacy
Special Issue of Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft Volume 19, 2-3, Fall/Winter 2024 Guest editor Raquel Romberg Table of Contents:
Daoist Internal Alchemy and Science in Contemporary Taiwan
Workshop organized by CAS-E Fellow Prof. Fabrizio Pregadio. July 10-11, 2025, CAS-E, Big Seminar Room in D1, Hartmannstr. 14, Erlangen Open to the public For information: fabrizio.pregadio@fau.de This workshop addresses a subject barely explored in Western-language scholarship: the modernization and “scientization” of the Daoist practice of Internal Alchemy (Neidan) in contemporary Taiwan. […]
Ownership and Hidden Knowledges in Indigenous South America and Beyond: Human and Non-Human Sounds, Images, and Bodies
Workshop organized by CAS-E Alumnus Dr. Juan Rivera In collaboration with: Prof. Dr. Cecilie Odegaard (University of Bergen) June 12–13, 2025, CAS-E, Big Seminar Room in D1, Hartmannstr. 14, Erlangen For participation and other information: jjriveraandia@gmail.com This workshop is dedicated to the comparative exploration of hidden knowledges and ritual practices in four dimensions of life […]
The Digital as a Space for Esoteric Practices: An Anthropological Study of Esoteric Practices in Contemporary Iran
CAS-E Associated Scholar Maryam Abbasi investigates the digital as a space for esoteric practices in her project at the Institute of Sociology, Chair of Cultural and Social Anthropology, Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Theology, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. The project, commenced in February 2024, culminates in the publication of a monograph on esoteric practices in contemporary […]
Knowing Hands: Thinking with the Mind in Hand in Chinese Medicine and Divination by Prof. Marta Hanson (CAS-E Associated Scholar)
