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12 Report on the First Annual Conference Fate, Freedom and Prognostication Fate, Freedom, and Prognostication Objectives and Research Perspectives of the International Research Consortium place in the IKGF in 2010. The many individual contributions from our visiting fellows will be acknowledged in individual articles. The Workshop Triangle Eurasia - Managing Fate within the Frame- work of Direct and Indirect Cultural Exchange Processes during the (European) Medieval Era and Early Modern Times , which was or- ganised in conjunction with Prof. Dr. Felicitas Schmieder (Hagen), gauged the parameters of previous instances of contact between Chinese studies and medieval history and served as the theoretical foundation for the comparative work of the consortium (see the corresponding report on p. 16). In June a workshop of a more conceptual orientation was organi- sed by Prof. Loris Sturlese (Lecce), a former visiting fellow at the consortium, entitled Mantic, Fate and Freedom in the Middle Ages . The event clearly showed the relevance of this topic for a more complete understanding of medieval history in Europe and singled out a number of uncharted research areas on questions re- lating to mantic practices (in particular astrology), above all their philosophical-theoretical evaluation. The results will be published in a supplement to the Archiv für Kulturgeschichte, thus documen- ting the major results of this workshop. Fresh questions are also tied to the arrival of fresh faces: in

2012 it is envisaged that Prof. Dr. Alexander Fidora from Barcelona C one of the keynote speakers at the just-mentioned workshop C will work at the IKGF as a visiting fellow and will examine issues relating to Arabic-Latin cultural ex- change in the late Middle Ages. Given the major significance of astrology in the mantic practices of the Middle Ages, this topic will be researched in more depth in the coming year at the IKGF. A conference entitled Astrologers and their Clients in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times in Europe will be organised by Dr. David Juste (Sydney;

Visiting Fellow at the IKGF) and Dr. Wiebke Deimann (Erlangen) in September 2011. A conference report reviewing our first Annual Conference Fate, Freedom and Prognostication held in July

2010 is available on p. 12. The second Annual Conference Key Concepts of Fate and Pre- diction and Organization of Knowledge C East Asia and Europe in a Comparative Perspective planned for the 28thC30th of June

2011 will examine, on a comparative basis, conceptual issues exclusively. On the subject of previews (even if no exact prognosis will be pos- sible): apart from the regularly held interdisciplinary and subject- related colloquia further workshops and conferences will take place in the academic year 2010/2011. Prof. Martin Kern who, coming from Princeton University, stays with us for a year, is organising an international conference on the topic Fate, Freedom, and Crea- tion in Early China in May 2011. Finally, further into the future, a conference is envisaged for November

2011 which will examine the significance of pilgrimages in Western and Eastern religions (title: On the Way in the Name of Religion: Contingency Management and Securing the Future in World Religions ). The work of the research consortium does not exclusively consist of conferences. The series of lectures held last semester has esta- blished itself successfully at the consortium and will be continued next year. As in the past semesters, the entire university is welcome to attend the lectures given by the IKGF'