Affiliations
ISCSD cooperations, relations, and partners
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.
