Affiliations

ISCSD cooperations, relations, and partners

IKGF – Internationales Kolleg für Geisteswissenschaftliche Forschung

International Consortium for Research in the Humanities "Fate, Freedom and Prognostication" at the University Erlangen-Nuremberg

Established in 2009 and concluded in 2023, the IKGF’s objective was to investigate the historical foundations of prognostication and its repercussions on current reality and contemporary strategies for facing the future, thereby providing new answers to the question of whether the diverse attitudes toward fate and coping strategies in modern China or the medieval European past represent a significant distinction from Western modernity. The IKGF was the nucleus and starting point of the ISCSD and its publications, i.e., the book series Prognostication in History and the International Journal of Divination and Prognostication. The Society continues the work begun by the IKGF, furthering its goals of interdisciplinary, cross-cultural scholarly inquiry into the foundations of human understanding of “Fate, Freedom, and Prognostication” and carrying its mission into the future. ↗ https://ikgf.uni-erlangen.de/

CAS-E - Center for Advanced Studies "Alternative Rationalities and Esoteric Practices in a Global Perspective”.

Center for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences

The Center for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences Alternative Rationalities and Esoteric Practices from a Global Perspective undertakes the investigation of the apparent persistence of practices aimed at predicting, controlling, managing, and manipulating contingent life events, despite an increasingly dominant scientific and technical discourse that delegitimises them.

The main goal of CAS-E is to map a global field of research of such practices from a transcultural perspective and to compare the various interpretations, rationalisations, and legitimation strategies used by practitioners and their clients. Concomitantly, we aim at advancing theoretical explanatory models of the resilience of such practices in the face of dominant and exclusionary global scientific and technological discourses.

↗ https://cas-e.de/