CAS-E Lecture Series

CAS-E Lecture Series
Hybrid: Big Seminar Room, Building D1, Hartmannstraße 14 and online on Zoom
Tuesdays, 6.15 – 7.45 pm

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.

Programm:

April 29, 2025
Dr. Steven Engler (CAS-E Fellow)
View of Healing among Brazilian Spiritists and Medical Professionals

May 6, 2025
Sr. Associate Prof. Dr. Fredrik Gregorius (Linköping University)
Dreams of an Enchanted Africa: Esoteric Images of African Diaspora Religions in the 19th and 20th Century

May 13, 2025
Assoc. Prof. M. Shobhana Xavier (CAS-E Fellow)
Saintly Shrines and Ruptures of Temporalities: Sufi Pasts and Futures in Post-War Sri Lanka

May 20, 2025
Prof. Deborah Kapchan (New York University)
Face to Face with the Spirits: Paradox and the Anthropology of the Esoteric

May 27, 2025
Dr. Marta Hanson (DFG-funded CAS-E Associated Researcher)
Knowing Hands: Thinking With the Mind in Hand in Chinese Medicine and Divination

June 3, 2025
Prof. Stephan Palmié (CAS-E Fellow)
Wittgenstein among the Santeros

June 10, 2025
Assoc. Prof. Davide Torri (Sapienza University of Rome)
Nepalese Ghost Stories from Sacred Texts to Social Media

June 17, 2025
Dr. Eszter Spät (CAS-E Fellow)
Divination through the “Written Word” in Yezidi Oral Tradition: “Bookish” Techniques of Prognostication as Sources of Esoteric Knowledge

June 24, 2025
Asst. Prof. Sergio González Varela (CAS-E Fellow)
Facing the Limits of the Extra-Cultural: Discovering “What You Cannot Learn” Through Pain, Body Transformation, and Performance in Afro-Brazilian Capoeira

July 1, 2025
Prof. Dr. Birgit Meyer (Utrecht University)
Translating “Spirit”

July 8, 2025
Dr. Lili DiPuppo (CAS-E Fellow)
Sufi Practices and Knowledge through Surrender: Developing a New Knowledge Approach in and for Uncertain Times

July 15, 2025
Dr. Oleg Yarosh (DFG-funded CAS-E Associated Researcher)
Spiritual Practices of Sufis in the West

July 22, 2025
Dr. Jessica Albrecht (FAU, CAS-E Associated Researcher)
Buddhist Psychology as Esoteric Activism

Contact: Dr. Monika Hirmer (monika.hirmer@fau.de) and Dr. Raquel Romberg (raquel.romberg@fau.de)
More information: https://cas-e.de/events/lecture-series/