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In the organizer's words:

The Chinese oracle bone inscriptions are among the oldest known written records of mankind. They take us back more than 3300 years to the time of the Shang dynasty, where they served as a medium for divination.

Most of the oracle bones were found around 1900 in Anyang, in today's Henan province in central China. The Shang kings clarified all important matters through divination. Their questions were recorded on the oracle bones, from everyday worries to major political decisions.

Based on the oracle bones from the collection of the Ethnological Museum Berlin presented in the exhibition, sinologist Prof. Dr. Michael Lackner (Friedrich Alexander University Nuremberg) will shed light on practices of divination and fortune-telling in China from the past to the present in a lecture and discussion. Prof. Dr. Christian Meyer (Freie Universität Berlin/EXC 2020) will moderate.

This lecture is part of the series of events accompanying the exhibition "ErzählStoff. New Perspectives on Literature", a collaboration between the EXC 2020 "Temporal Communities" and the Research Campus Dahlem.

Offer: Talk | Lecture / Adults

Free admission.