CAS-E Lecture Series Winter 24/25

CAS-E Lecture Series Winter 24/25

14.10.2024–7.2.2025

Have you ever wondered how esoteric practices are deployed to predict and influence everyday life events? The DFG-funded Center for Advanced Studies “Alternative Rationalities and Esoteric Practices from a Global Perspective<https://cas-e.de/>” CAS-E investigates these practices and their resilience from a transcultural perspective by bringing together researchers from all over the world.

You are invited to the CAS-E Lecture Series, where international fellows and guest speakers present their latest research on the topic.
Tuesdays, 6.15–7.45pm, Big Seminar Room, Building D1, Hartmannstr. 14
or on Zoom<https://fau.zoom-x.de/j/62556506187>

[Textfeld: Tuesdays, 6.15–7.45pm, Big Seminar Room, Building D1, Hartmannstr. 14 or on Zoom]

Program:

15.10.24
PD Dr. Viola Thimm (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg)
“Super-Power” in the Grave: Meaning-Making of Muslim Saints’ Graves in Southeast Asia and on the Arabian Peninsula

22.10.24
Prof. Michael Taussig (Columbia University)
Fairy Castles Gliding Like Swans: How Daydreaming Affects Writing and Analysis
Special Lecture at Orangerie (register here<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe1bakD1lBZfgejRyrwwLRmXkVrTCl1rV2fnY6CYwMyZ0NQ1A/viewform>)

29.10.24
Dr.phil. Dr.rer.med. Dominique Hertzer (CAS-E Fellow)
Unlocking the Unknowable: Exploring Intuitive Cognition in the Yijing (Book of Changes)

5.11.24
Prof. Roger Canals (University of Barcelona)
Visual Miracles, Trust, and the Cinematic Experience

12.11.24
No lecture

19.11.24
Prof. Audrius Beinorius (Vilnius University, Lithuania)
Malleable Fixity: On Destiny, Agency and Indian Astrologers
Extra: 3.15pm: Screening of documentary “Managers of Luck” by Eglė Vertelytė and discussion with Prof. Beinorius

26.11.24
Prof. Per Faxneld (Södertorn University, Stockholm) – on Zoom
A Touch of Zen: Spirituality in Japanese Martial Arts in Sweden

3.12.24
Dr. Davide Marino (CAS-E Fellow)
Translating Western (?) Esotericism (?): The People’s Republic of China

10.12.24
Prof. William Mazzarella (University of Chicago) – on Zoom
Advertising as Integral Magic: An Afterlife

17.12.24
Joanna Katharina Kiefer (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg)
Practices of Multiple (Religious) Affiliations: Spatial and Practical Negotiations in Havana, Cuba

7.1.25
Dr. Tommaso Previato (CAS-E Fellow)
Sufi Saints and Their Contestation in the Modern Islamic Revival: Lessons from the Chinese Qadiriyya and Jahriyya

14.1.25
Prof. Heather Freeman (University of North Carolina at Charlotte)
Podcasting and Popular Media as Research Advocacy in Magic and Esoteric Studies

21.1.25
Prof. Sabina Magliocco (University of British Columbia) – on Zoom
The Magical Resistance 2.0: Meme Magic and the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election

28.1.25
Dr. Douglas Farrer (CAS-E Fellow)
Art, Dreams, and Witchcraft in the Malay World

4.2.25
Prof. Peter Pels (Leiden University)
Sacralizing Human Production: Commodities, Identity Fetishism, and the Spirit of the Screen

Contact: Dr. Monika Hirmer (monika.hirmer@fau.de) and Dr. Raquel Romberg (raquel.romberg@fau.de)
https://cas-e.de/2024/09/21/lecture-series-winter-semester-24-25/