CAS-E Lecture Series

CAS-E Lecture Series
Tuesdays│6.15–7.45 pm
Hybrid: Seminar room, Hartmannstr. 14, Building D1, Erlangen and online
Link for virtual attendance: https://fau.zoom-x.de/j/62556506187

Kontakt: Dr. Monika Hirmer (monika.hirmer@fau.de) and Dr. Raquel Romberg (raquel.romberg@fau.de)
More information: https://cas-e.de/2025/10/07/lecture-series-winter-2025-26-2/

Oktober 14, 2025
Dr. Philine Lewek
‘Esotericism’ and ‘Christianity’ within the New Right in Germany and Austria

Oktober 21, 2025
Dr. Eszter Spät
Frauds, Subaltern Rebels, or Sources of Batinî Knowledge: Yezidi Seers in Post-Saddam Iraq

Oktober 28, 2025
Dr. Jeremy Stolow
Picturing Aura: A Visual Biography

November 4, 2025
Dr. Knut Graw
Ritual Praxis Inside Out: Tracing Emic-etic continuities in Mandinka divination

November 11, 2025
Dr. Nestor Manichkin
Collective Memory and the Tradition of Sacred Pilgrimages in the Shamanic Environment of Modern Kyrgyzstan

November 18, 2025
Prof. Robert André Lafleur
Mountains of Discourse: History, Ethnography, and the Cosmology of China’s Sacred Mountains

November 25, 2025
Dr. Alexander Stark
Numbers and Healing: Exploring the Minangkabau Traditional Medical System

Dezember 2, 2025
Prof. Jens Schlieter
Panpsychism and the Power of the Mind: Esoteric Views of Consciousness and Reality in Mahāyāna Buddhism and the West

Dezember 9, 2025
Dr. Mike Cifone
Elusive Remainder: Jacques Vallée and the UFO Enigma

Dezember 16, 2025
Dr. Dominique Hertzer
The Book of Changes (Yijing) in Chinese Medicine: Exploring "Pluralist Rationalities" of Divination and Chinese Medicine

Januar 13, 2026
Prof. Birgit Menzel
Healing in Soviet-American New Age Diplomacy: A TTouch Method

Januar 20, 2026
Prof. Carole Cusack
Bodily Sensation and Esoteric Transformation: Praxis in the Gurdjieff Work

Januar 27, 2026
Paul Johnson
Art, Presence, Sacrifice: The Death and Rebirth of the Cleveland “Thinker"

Februar 3, 2026
Dr. Monika Hirmer
Kuṇḍalinī in Cross-Cultural Context: Transmissions from South Asia to the West