End(s) of Time(s)

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End(s) of Time(s)

Veranstalter
Internationales Kolleg für Geisteswissenschaftliche Forschung
Veranstaltungsort
Ort
Erlangen
Land
Deutschland
Vom - Bis
11.12.2017 - 13.12.2017
Deadline
04.12.2017
Website
http://ikgf.fau.de/events/upcoming-events/
Von
Hans-Christian Lehner, Internationales Kolleg für Geisteswissenschaftliche Forschung, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

For millennia, mankind has imagined the end of time in various ways: ranging from scenarios of a definite finis mundi to the mere closure of a period, the idea of a transformation of society into “Heaven on Earth” (Richard Landes) has been characteristic of most apocalyptic movements. All of them are inextricably linked to the phenomenon of prophecy.
The conference will try to shed light on predictions related to millennialist thought and movements from a cross-cultural perspective. We will examine textual history (including commentarial history) as well as tangible attempts to make the prophecies come true in real life. What kinds of texts have been considered relevant in millennialism, and which exegetic strategies have been adopted for their interpretation? Is there a difference between having a long-term or a short-term perspective with regard to the impact of a given prediction? How do the agents of millennialism position themselves vis-à-vis the traditional claims or interpretations of a text?
In connection with the end of time, some civilizations have emphasized the notion of a judgment taking place, much like at a court of justice in the real world. As a result, numerous scenarios offer more or less detailed depictions of both the judgment and the “chosen” people. The conference will explore different views on judgment, salvation, and entry into timelessness or re-entry into normal time.

Programm

Monday (Dec. 11)
18:15 – 18:30 Welcome Address and Introduction (Michael Lackner)
18:30 Keynote Lecture: Richard Landes

Tuesday (Dec. 12)
Panel 1: Overviews of the End of Times in Different Eras and Areas
9:30 – 10:00 Klaus Herbers (Medieval Studies):
10:00 – 10:30 Rolf Scheuermann (Tibetan Studies): Tibetan Buddhist dystopian narratives and their pedagogical dimension
10:30 – 11:00 Christian Lange (Islamic Studies): The Last Judgement in Sunni Exegesis: Temporal and Spatial Organisation, Procedural Aspects, and Personnel
11:00 – 11:30 coffee break
11:30 – 12:00 Discussion. Discussant: Michael Lackner
Panel 2: The End of Times as Cultural Transfer, Heterodoxy, and Syncretism?
12:00 – 12:30 Vincent Goossaert (Chinese Studies): Competing eschatological scenarios during the Taiping war, 1851-1864
12:30 – 13:00 Brandon Dotson (Tibetan Studies): Millenarianism in the Tibetan Dunhuang manuscripts
13:00 – 14:00 lunch break
14:00 – 14:30 Julia Eva Wannenmacher (Medieval Studies): Mohammed, Mahdi, Antichrist. Christians and Muslims in Joachim of Fiore's Apocalyptic Eschatology
14:30 – 15:00 Discussion and final discussion 1st day. Discussant: Johannes Fried (Medieval Studies)
Panel 3: Practices, Rituals, and Figures of the End of Times
15:00 – 15:30 Matthias Gebauer (Geography and Islamic Studies): Steve Biko in one hand, the Protocols in the other - Murabitun Sufism in Black/African areas of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
15:30 – 16:00 coffee break
16:00 – 16:30 Christine Mollier (Chinese Studies): Eschatology and Messianism in early medieval China: the first Apocalypses
16:30 – 17:00 Matthias Kaup (Medieval Studies): The Infernal Trinity Does the Mole – Satan's Eschatological Activity in the Two Tracts De principe mundi and De semine scripturarum of the Anonymus Bambergensis
17:00 – 17:30 Discussion. Discussant: Patrick Henriet (Medieval Studies)

Wednesday (Dec. 13)
Panel 4: Texts and Commentaries about the End of Times
9:30 – 10:00 Gaelle Bosseman (Medieval Studies): Beatus of Liebana and the Spiritualized Understanting of Apocalypse in Medieval Iberia
10:00 – 10:30 Hans-Christian Lehner (Medieval Studies): The End of Time in Medieval Historiography
10:30 – 11:00 Wolfram Brandes (Byzantine Studies): Byzantine calculations of the end of times (CE 500, 800, ~1000, 1496)
11:00 – 11:30 coffee break
11:30 – 12:00 Zhao Lu (Chinese Studies): Making the Great Peace Up: Chinese Apocrypha in the First Two Centuries CE
12:00 – 12:30 Discussion. Discussant: Matthias Maser (Medieval Studies)
12:30 – 13:30 lunch break
Panel 5: The End of Times and Modernity
13:30 – 14:00 Rudolf Wagner (Chinese Studies): Facing the Modernity of the Others: Eschatological Fears for the Nation and the Race in China, 1895-1920
14:00 – 14:30 Jörn Thielmann (Islamic Studies): The Final Struggle: The “Islamic State” and the Enacting of the End of Time
14:30 – 15:00 Yoshino Kosaku (Japanese Literature): Beyond the ‘end of time’: representations in anime and world-views among the youth in contemporary Japan
15:00 -15:30 coffee break
15:30 – 16:00 Jürgen Gebhardt (Political Studies): The Messianic Quest for the Earthly Paradise in the Modern World
16:00 Discussion, final discussion, and further plans.
Discussant: Andreas Nehring (Religious Studies)

Kontakt

Hans-Christian Lehner

IKGF

hans.christian.lehner@fau.de

http://ikgf.fau.de/events/upcoming-events/
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