Exploring The Classic of Changes (Yijing 易經): Interpretation, Divination, Application

The Northern Lights Confucius Institute and Chinese Studies Programme at the University of Iceland, start the New Year with a symposium on Yijing (The Classic of Changes). Talks will be given in English. Welcome all, free entry.

Programme:

• 9:00-9:15 Welcome – Geir Sigurðsson and Magnús Björnsson
• 9:15-10:00 Tze Ki Hon, Beijing Normal University (Zhuhai campus): “Coming to Terms with Uncertainty: The Philosophy of Divination in the Book of Changes” (online)
• 10:00-10:45 Guo Haipeng, BNU-HKBU United International College: “An application of the Taiji-Bagua Diagram to the Interpretation of Whitehead’s Categoreal Scheme in Process and Reality” (online)
• 10:45-11:30 Dominique Hertzer, Georg-Agust-University Göttingen: “How does Cognition find its Way into Divination? A Concept of Intuitive Knowing in the Yijing” (online)
• 11:30-12:30 Lunch
• 12:30-13:15 Jana Rošker, University of Ljubljana: “The Precarious Relationship Between Dao 道 and Qi 器 in the Yi jing 易经 and Its Glorious Implications for ‘Chinese Cosmotechnology’” (online)
• 13:15-14:00 Rein Raud, Tallinn University: “The Ideas of Dynamism and Stability in the Yijing and Modern/Contemporary Thought”
• 14:00-14:45 Téa Sernelj, University of Ljubljana: “Yijing in Chinese Aesthetics” (online)
• 14:45-15:00 Coffee/tea
• 15:00-15:45 Sharon Small, Tel Aviv University: “References to the Yi in Proto-Daoist Excavated Manuscripts”
• 15:45-16:30 Jim Behuniak, Colby College: “Image as Instrument (qi 器): Yijing Prognostication and ‘Knowing’ in American Pragmatism”
• 16:30-17:00 Geir Sigurðsson, University of Iceland: “Notions of Timeliness in and around the Yijing: Shi 時, Zhong 中 and Shi 勢”