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Feature-length documentaries on topics relevant to the Consortium's research and on major events... more
FAQs about IKGF Video Documentaries:How many episodes does IKGF Video Documentaries have?The podcast currently has 30 episodes available.
June 01, 2012Encompassing Continents and Epochs - Research Trajectories of the IKGF (2012) 2016/2017Prof. Lackner, director of the IKGF, envisions in this interview research trajectories of the IKGF. He elaborates on the Chinese reception of Western academia in the 19th and 20th centuries on the one hand, and on the other the significance and role of prognostic techniques in the history of Europe, the USA and China....more6minPlay
June 01, 2012Philosophers and "Mythistories" (2012) 2016/2017In this short film, Lionel Jensen reports on his early academic career, his research focus on the “intellectual history of China” and his time as a Visiting Fellow at the IKGF in 2011. In his research on the oeuvre and heritage of the Confucian scholar Zhu Xi (1130-1200) – one of the most popular Chinese philosophers besides Confucius - he investigates how intellectuals were involved in divination and mythology. Through this relecture, the classification of a “Chinese intellectual” acquires fresh dimensions beyond those classically ascribed to philosophers and intellectuals....more6minPlay
May 31, 2012Three Disciplines at One TableIn the discussion led by Lothar von Falkenhausen, three eminent scholars of Early Chinese history meet. Three fields of specialty are involved: early material culture and archaeology (von Falkenhausen), early Chinese philology and oracle bone inscriptions (Kenichi Takashima) and early intellectual history (Michael Puett). Together, the three scholars debate on the Shang and Zhou dynasties: while Ken Takashima focuses on divinatory texts of the 13-11 centuries B.C. and their diction, Michael Puett considers the Western terms of “Fate, Freedom and Prognostication” in the context of Early China. In cooperation with both, Lothar von Falkenhausen attempts better to understand and classify the divinatory material objects of early Chinese archeology.In the discussion led by Lothar von Falkenhausen, three eminent scholars of Early Chinese history meet....more23minPlay
May 31, 2012Encompassing Continents and Epochs - Research Trajectories of the IKGF 2016/2017...more6minPlay
May 01, 2012Political Prophecies in the Middle Ages 2016/2017The participants in the workshop discussed inter alia the correlation between politics and prophecies, notational diminutives of prognostications and the Pseudo-Methodius. Klaus Herbers reviews the day and the results of the discussion panel in conversation with Hannes Möhring....more14minPlay
May 01, 2011Different Types of Millennialism 2016/2017In his research on Millennialism, Richard Landes distinguishes between active and passive sabbatical millennialism in Christian traditions. With Erik Niblaeus, he further discusses the competitive late antique and early medieval concepts of this tradition. As an example of active, bottom-up Millennialism, the historian explains the Peace-of-God movement....more17minPlay
FAQs about IKGF Video Documentaries:How many episodes does IKGF Video Documentaries have?The podcast currently has 30 episodes available.