Recording Available | ISCSD Book Talk with Zeynep K. Korkman

The International Society for the Critical Study of Divination (ISCSD) is pleased to announce that the recording of our Book Talk held on May 16, 2025, is now available online. The event featured Gendered Fortunes: Divination, Precarity, and Affect in Postsecular Turkey by Zeynep K. Korkman (University of California, Los Angeles), with Canan Tanir (University […]

ISCSD Book Talk Online | The Legacy of Chinese Shamanism: The Wu and Their Successors

The International Society for the Critical Study of Divination (ISCSD) presents a Book Talk on The Legacy of Chinese Shamanism: The Wu and Their Successors, edited by Johan Hausen. This landmark volume—the first to focus exclusively on the Chinese wu (often, though contentiously, translated as “shamans”)—brings together interdisciplinary essays tracing the transformations of the wu […]