Knowing Hands Workshop 12–14 September 2025: Exploring Chinese Hand-Memory Techniques and Their Global Connections
An academic workshop titled Knowing Hands: Chinese Hand-Memory Techniques in Situ, Comparison, & Contact will take place from September 12–14, 2025, at the Centre for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (CAS-E) in Erlangen. Organized by ISCSD Vice President Marta Hanson and ISCSD Secretary Stéphanie Homola, this event will bring together leading scholars to investigate the […]
“Writing with the Phoenix Brush” in the Nuremberg Metropolitan Region – Recap
In July 2025, CAS-E hosted a delegation from a Taiwanese spirit-writing (fuji 扶乩 or 扶箕) community, organized by ISCSD president and CAS-E director Michael Lackner. The visit represented the first public demonstration of “writing with the Phoenix brush” in Germany, providing scholars and the public with an opportunity to observe this traditional religious practice. Following […]
New IJDP Issue Available
This year’s first issue of the International Journal of Divination and Prognostication has been published on July 18, 2025 and can be accessed online at https://brill.com/view/journals/ijdp/6/1/ijdp.6.issue-1.xml. This special issue, edited by our guest editor Stéphanie Homola, is dedicated to the subject of Online Divination Ethnographies: The Transformative Impact of Digital Technology and Social Media on […]
IJDP Vol 6. First Issue
“Writing with the Phoenix Brush” in the Nuremberg Metropolitan Region
We are very pleased to announce the visit of a spirit-writing (fuji 扶乩 or 扶箕) community from Taiwan, hosted by CAS-E at the invitation of ISCSD president and CAS-E director Michael Lackner. The practice of “writing with the phoenix brush” remains widespread in Taiwan and parts of China to this day. A religious temple community […]
Online Lecture by Erwan Dianteill on Ifa and Geomancy
On May 7, 2025, ISCSD member Erwan Dianteill (Université Paris Cité – UFR SHS Sorbonne; Hutchins Center Fellow, Harvard University) held an online presentation on the YouTube channel of The Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University. The lecture entitled “Ifa and Geomancy: A Comparative Hermeneutics of Divinatory Systems in Africa, […]
ANUAC, Call for Papers: Special Issue “The Anthropology of Prediction: Knowledge, Divination, and Algorithmic Futures”
ANUAC (Rivista della Società italiana di antropologia culturale) is an international, peer-reviewed, Open Access journal of the Italian Society of Cultural Anthropology (SIAC). Giuseppe Tateo and Maria Sapignoli, both affiliated to the University of Milan, are the editors of a special issue of ANUAC dedicated to the highly topical subject of divination and AI. The […]
IJDP Vol 5. Second Issue
Second Issue of IJDP 2024 Fresh off the Press
We are proud to present to you this year’s second issue of the International Journal of Divination and Prognostication. Discover Volume 5, Issue 2 The second IJDP issue of 2024 continues the series of memorial articles edited by our guest editor Marta Hanson and dedicated to her late mentor Nathan Sivin, one of […]
First Issue of IJDP 2024 Out Now
We are delighted to inform you about the publication of the latest issue of the International Journal of Divination and Prognostication previously announced in March. What Volume 5, Issue 1 Has to Offer This time, the journal presents a diverse collection of personal and scholarly perspectives on the history and current state of […]
