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Transcendence in the Small Gestures of Life

The symposium Transcendence in the Small Gestures of Life: Attention and Care for Nature and Humans in Religious Traditions explores how spiritual techniques awaken care and attentiveness towards the natural world, fellow human beings, and creation itself.
Experiences such as Sufi sama ceremonies, the use of fragrance in funeral rites, and the tending of plants and animals serve as examples of how spirituality can be expressed through small, meaningful gestures that foster a connection to transcendence. The symposium also investigates how these spiritual approaches inform the study of religion and address contemporary global challenges, particularly the ecological crisis.

The conference is organized jointly by the Centre for Comparative Studies of Civilisations and Spiritualities (Fondazione Giorgio Cini) the Muslim Worlds Network of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) and the Centro di Ricerche Etnografiche e di Antropologia applicata “Francesca Cappelletto” (CREAa) of the Department of Human Sciences of the University of Verona.

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Tuesday, 2 October
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9:30 – 10:00 | Welcome Greetings

  • Francesco Piraino (Fondazione Giorgio Cini)
  • Lili Di Puppo (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg / KU Leuven)
  • Fabio Vicini (University of Verona)

10:00 – 11:00 | Panel: Disarticulating Transcendence in the Everyday

Chair: Francesco Piraino (Fondazione Giorgio Cini)

11:00 – 11:30 | Coffee Break

11:30 – 12:30 | Panel: Everyday Care and the Sacred

Chair: Fabio Vicini (University of Verona)

14:30 – 15:30 | Panel: Experiencing Subtle Forms of Transcendence

Chair: Lili Di Puppo (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg / KU Leuven)

Friday, 3 October
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10:00 – 11:00 | Panel: Nature, Body, and Transcendence

Chair: Lili Di Puppo (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg / KU Leuven)

11:00 – 11:30 | Coffee Break

11:30 – 12:30 | Panel: Transcendence and Beauty in Pilgrimage

Chair: Fabio Vicini (University of Verona)

14:30 – 16:00 | Plenary

The conference will be held in English.

‘Spanish’ Flu and the Great War: the block of artistic creativity

This study day is organised in collaboration with the Laboratorio Soldado de Nápoles, directed by Gabriele Frasca of the University of Salerno.
The group investigates the intertwining of the First World War and the pandemic as a determining factor in shaping the artistic and cultural climate of the 1920s. The papers offer a series of critical readings that range across various artistic and disciplinary fields: from the faces of the disease in Egon Schiele to the figures of contagion and contamination in T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, to the interweaving of cosmopolitanism and musical nationalism in Igor Stravinsky’s Histoire du soldat, to the impact of the pandemic on the devising of Gian Francesco Malipiero’s Sette canzoni.

Titus Manlius between justice and tyranny: power in Vivaldi’s opera

The September meeting of the Accademia Vivaldi, led by Gemma Bertagnolli, is dedicated to the themes of power, justice, and the legitimacy of command, analyzing the figures of sovereigns—just rulers vs. tyrants—in Vivaldi’s works (in particular Tito Manlio, but also Teuzzone, Bajazet, Ottone, Giustino, Motezuma, etc.), in order to highlight the different styles that characterize their exercise of authority. Attention is also focused on the moral responsibilities of the ruler, the relationship between power and subjects, and the emergence of a new awareness of individual rights, including those of women, a theme that began to gain ground during this period.

The meeting will include an in-depth conference, organized in collaboration with the research group La drammaturgia musicale a Venezia (1678-1792) (Musical Dramaturgy in Venice (1678-1792)) of the Ugo and Olga Levi Foundation, entitled I limiti del potere nel XVIII secolo. The duties of rulers and the rights of subjects in Vivaldi’s works. Held by Giada Viviani, it will take place on Thursday, September 4, at 6:30 p.m. at Palazzo Giustinian-Lolin, headquarters of the Levi Foundation.

The Academy will conclude with a concert-narrative on Friday, September 5, at 6:00 p.m. in San Giorgio, in which the students of the course will present arias from Vivaldi’s opera Tito Manlio, RV 778, performed in Rome during the 1720 carnival at the Antico Teatro della Pace.
The figure of the Consul of Rome, Titus, finds himself at a crossroads: should he apply the law or listen to his heart? A tragic-heroic dilemma, which encounters an inner conflict, unfolds in Republican Rome in the 4th century BC. Titus’ son, Manlius, with the fire of youth animating his valiant warrior spirit, disregards his father’s orders and disobeys the Law of the Senate. His guilt therefore deserves death, and the fatal sentence must be handed down without hesitation by Titus, who, before being a father, is Consul of the Romans and must apply the Law to which even the leader is subject. Justice must be done, and it will be fate, on which the destinies of all human beings, subjects and powerful alike, depend, that will decide.

With the end of the 17th century, the era of great plague epidemics came to an end, and the period in which Vivaldi lived and worked did not see Europe as the scene of real pandemics; consequently, his artistic legacy does not address this issue. Instead, there was lively debate on the different possible forms of state organization (monarchy vs. oligarchic republic) and on the limits to the legitimacy of power, which were indispensable precursors to the subsequent development of European thinking on democracy. In the first half of the 18th century, musical drama dealt mainly with the problem of the absolute sovereign, exploring the distinction between the ‘enlightened’ exercise of this function and its degeneration into tyranny. central to this is the reflection on the responsibilities of rulers towards their subjects and the rights of the latter, with regard to which, in these decades, a new awareness began to develop, also reflected in the incipient attention to women’s issues.

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Complex Networks at Statphys29

STATPHYS29 the 29th IUPAP Conference on Statistical Physics, will be held in Florence, Italy (14-17 July 2024). It brings together scientists from around the world to discuss complex networks, active matter, quantum systems and interdisciplinary applications. A key event to discover the frontiers of the discipline, with contributions from physics, biology and data science. Organised by INFN, CNR and the University of Florence, it showcases Italian excellence.

The satellite workshop on Complex Networks will be held at the Giorgio Cini Foundation (Venice, 21-23 July 2025), in connection with STATPHYS29. Focus on networks applied to cultural heritage, socio-technological systems and data-driven models. A bridge between statistical physics, digital humanities and social sciences, with talks by scientists from all over the world.

Activities carried out within the framework of the Project CHANGES – Cultural Heritage Active Innovation for Sustainable Society, project code PE000020 – CUP H53C22000850006, National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRP).

Music and sound after Covid-19. New creativities, new technologies, new soundscapes in a period of crisis

Five years have passed since Covid-19 plagued the world, dramatically changing – at least for some time – interactions and behaviors across various geographical and social contexts and establishing new relationships with the environment.

This Seminar, organized by the Intercultural Institute for Comparative Music Studies in collaboration with the Institute of Music as part of the thematic itinerary Democracy and Pandemics, promoted by Fondazione Giorgio Cini, aims to discuss the medium-term consequences that the pandemic had on the manifold sonic aspects of life, as sound is a fundamental means through which humans exist in, and understand the world.

Confinement led to new ways of communicating and being heard through sound, creating new relationships within both physical and virtual spaces. It also promoted the development of technologies to mitigate the effects of distancing, fostering the spread of unprecedented social practices. Some of these solutions were quickly abandoned once confinement ended and faded from people’s memory, while others became permanent in social life and have continued to evolve to this day. T he pandemic also fostered various forms of sonic agency to face and cope with the medical and social crisis. One may reflect on the new musical creativities that emerged during that time, for instance, as means of addressing the pandemic on emotional, aesthetic, and organizational levels. In this respect, some responses to Covid-19 were global, creating worldwide networks, while others remained locally specific. One should also consider how these creative strategies related to the development of new technologies, starting with the online platforms that saw significant growth in 2020 and have continued to evolve ever since. Moreover, one may reflect on the legacy of the new soundscapes that emerged during the time of Covid-19, from environmental consequences to music from balconies and new ways of organizing social and musical gatherings.

Another matter of concern is the historical perspective: how musically specific were the emotional and social reactions elicited by the Covid-19 pandemic compared to similar events in the recent and distant past? What can be learned from a comparative approach? Scholars of musicology and ethnomusicology, performers and artistic directors are gathered to reflect – through an interdisciplinary dialogue – on the consequences of this crucial event and evaluate the impact and influence that the Covid-19 pandemic had on human life through the pervasive presence of sound.

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Institutional greetings and introductory remarks

Gianmario Borio Director,
Institute of Music, Fondazione Giorgio Cini

Giovanni Giuriati Director,
Intercultural Institute for Comparative Music Studies, Fondazione Giorgio Cini

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Institutional greetings and introductory remarks

Giulia Sarno and Daniele Palma
Tracing the medium-term impact of COVID on musical practices, participation, and research methods. A collaborative investigation


Melanie Wald-Fuhrmann
Balcony singing, courtyard concerts and splitscreen performances. Which COVID forms of musicking are here to stay?


Cecilia Balestra
Creativity, live music programming, and target audiences. Ongoing changes and strategies, from a national and international perspective

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Lunch break and visit to the exhibition ‘Venezia e le epidemie’

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Marie Louise Herzfeld-Schild
Sounding sickscapes: pandemic musicking across time


Daniel Margolies
Communitarianism, intimacy, and wellbeing in Latin American musical responses to the COVID and after


Roberto Prosseda
The transformation of the ‘live performance’ concept following online experiences during COVID.
New paradigms in classical music engagement and pedagogy in the post-pandemic era


Ilaria Meloni
“Hypervisible” voices: digital media, gender, and power in post-pandemic Javanese Shadow Puppet Theatre

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Venetiae, mundi splendor – Johannes Ciconia between Rome and Veneto, 1390-1412

Venetiae, mundi splendor – Johannes Ciconia between Roma and Veneto, 1390-1412, the training event is part of the Early Music Seminars Egida Sartori and Laura Alvini and represents an opportunity for scientific reflection on the relationship between music and social diseases, between music and social discrimination following pandemic events such as the great plague of 1348 in Europe.
The seminar is part of the annual thematic programme Democracy and Pandemics, to which the exhibition Venice and the Epidemics is dedicated, set up at the Longhena Library starting on 20 June.

The five-day seminar focuses on the life of Johannes Ciconia (Liège, ca. 1370-Padua, 1412), which has given rise to several biographies, the first of which confused his figure with that of his father of the same name. A young cantor in the service of Cardinal Philippe d’Alençon in the early 1390s in Rome, Ciconia’s son absorbed the polyphonic style of the Papal Chapel – not least that of the scriptor apostolicus and prolific composer Antonio Zacara da Teramo. But later, after d’Alençon’s death in 1397, he used the latter’s political contacts to find new employment in northern Italy: first perhaps in Lucca and Milan, then certainly in Padua from 1402, where he was in the service of the jurist and clergyman Francesco Zabarella and of Padua Cathedral until his early death in 1412.
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One of his motets will receive special attention: Ut te per omnes celitus / Ingens alumnus Padue. Composed in Padua and explicitly dedicated to Zabarella, the piece both describes divine omnipotence and alludes to an apocalyptic scenario through the words omnipater qui cuncta nutu concutit. Well, that this scenario may allude to the plague is suggested by the recrudescence of the disease that occurred in Padua in 1404, which forced Zabarella to retreat, perhaps with part of his familiares, to Cittadella. The hypothesis will be examined along with the relationships that link the plague not only to the biographical events of Ciconia and his protectors, but also to musical repertoires contemporary to him. These include, above all, the lauds of the late 14th or early 15th century in Tuscany – some of which were sung to Ciconia’s melodies or polyphonies – but also the French repertoire and, in particular, the works of Guillaume de Machaut composed in the years around his lucky escape from the plague of 1348, some of which were still circulating in Italy at the end of the century.

One of these works, the Bohemian Remède de Fortune, contains a monophonic virelai reworked from a polyphonic ballade circulating in northern Italy in the early 15th century: Amour m’a le cuer mis en tel martire; its text explicitly thematises the relationship between courtly love and medicine. Another, Le Jugement dou Roy de Navarre, offers the cue for an even more general reflection on the link between music and the social, cultural and religious discriminations that emerged from the spread of the great plague of 1348 in Europe. It will be recalled in this regard that in the Jugement dou Roy de Navarre, Machaut dedicates an extensive section to the accusation against the Jews as poisoners of rivers and fountains, believed to be at the origin of the pandemic – the same stigmatisation that, as we know, recurs with great frequency in 14th and 15th century Italian and European literature.
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Lecturers at the seminar will be Barbara Zanichelli, singer and lecturer specialising in the late medieval repertoire, and Pedro Memelsdorff, director of the Early Music Seminars since 2006. They will be flanked by musicologists Francesco Zimei – an expert in laudatory repertoire – and Anna Zayaruznaya – a specialist in French Ars Nova and lecturer at Yale.

The event is organised in cooperation with Fondation Concordance (Basel), Alamire Foundation (Leuven), Irma Merk Stiftung and L.+Th. La Roche Stiftung (Basel), contributors of the winning scholarships.

On 26 June, as part of the seminar, there will be a concert by the scholarship winners of the call.
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The winning scholars were selected by call for papers.
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Vivaldi e l’ornamentazione. Tra la Pietà veneziana e la Dresda di Pisendel

The conferenceis held on Friday, June 6, organized by the Italian Antonio Vivaldi Institute, is part of the annual thematic program Casanova, Venice and Europe.

The art of improvisation and ornamentation, fundamental to Baroque performance practice, reached a level of extraordinary sophistication in the 18th century, closely linked to musical language, national styles, rhetoric, the composer’s intentions and the performer’s style.

The conference explores Antonio Vivaldi’s improvisational language and its transmission through his most prominent disciples: the German violinist J. G. Pisendel and the celebrated soloists of the Ospedale della Pietà, Anna Maria and Chiara. A journey from Venice to Dresden and back, to investigate how these practices continued to develop in the Pieta after Vivaldi’s death.

The conference, which takes place in the Capriate Pavilion, is given by Dr. Javier Lupiáñez.

 

“Il gusto dei ferraresi” nel collezionismo di Vittorio Cini

A new event organised by the Institute of Art History at the Castle of Monselice: on Wednesday, 4 June, a conference entitled “Il gusto dei ferraresi” nel collezionismo di Vittorio Cini (“The Taste of the Ferrarese” in the Collecting of Vittorio Cini) will take place.

The conference “Il gusto dei ferraresi” nel collezionismo di Vittorio Cini, curated by Alessandra Pattanaro (University of Padua), one of the leading experts on sixteenth-century Ferrarese painting, will focus on the presentation of the painting Allegoria dell’Abbondanza (Allegory of Abundance), housed at the Castle of Monselice and now attributed to Camillo Filippi. Filippi was a Ferrarese painter whose activity is well documented in the archives of the Este ducal court. The event will explore the particular significance of this work within the collection of Vittorio Cini, a passionate seeker of “Ferrarese things”, inspired by his friend, art critic Nino Barbantini, and the art historian Federico Zeri. It was under their guidance, during the 1950s and 1960s, that Count Cini assembled the remarkable core of his collection of Este painting.

Free admission subject to availability
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Casanova in Time 1725-2025

The year 2025 marks the 300th anniversary of the birth of Giacomo Casanova (1725-1798), Venetian by birth and European in his life and work. His historical figure is representative of a world that was slipping away, the Old Regime and the Republic of Venice, but also of the preoccupations of the eighteenth century and the transformations of modern society. His legend has spanned the last three centuries, reflecting the views on the eighteenth century of scholars, historians, artists, filmmakers as well as cultural and political figures. The 300th anniversary of his birth is an opportunity to examine the historical figure of Casanova, his works and their
fortunes, as well as to encourage research into his world and the imagery of the eighteenth century.

The international symposium is organised by the Department of Comparative Linguistic and Cultural Studies of Ca’ Foscari University, with the collaboration of the Società Italiana di Studi sul Secolo XVIII, the Fondazione Giorgio Cini (Institute for the History of Venetian Society and State, the Ateneo Veneto, the Venice State Archives and Ca’ Rezzonico), the Museo del Settecento Veneziano and the Correr Museum Library, Venice.

 

 

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15:00 – 19:00 | institutional greetings

Antonio Trampus

Università Ca’ Foscari, Venezia

Introduzione

 

Andrea De Pasquale

Direzione Generale Educazione, Ricerca e Istituzioni Culturali, MIC Roma

Stampare il Settecento

 

Michel Delon

Sorbonne Université, Paris

Casanova couleur de rose

 

Malina Stefanovska

University of California, Los Angeles

La philosophie dans le boudoir et la ‘joie de vivre’

 

Paolo Bernardini

Università dell’Insubria, Como

I suicidi di Casanova: finzione e filosofia

 

Lisetta Lovett

Keele Medical School

Suicide: Do Casanova’s views have any relevance to today?

 

Clémence Carrasco-Vaudon

Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès

Giacomo Casanova le joueur : regard et discours sur les jeux de hasard au XVIIIe siècle

 

Giulia Delogu

Università ca’ Foscari, Venezia

Foscolo, Casanova e la storia

della Repubblica di Venezia

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09:00 – 11:00

Luca Lo Basso

Università di Genova

Guido Candiani

Università di Padova

Navigando tra intrighi e potere.

Il giovane Casanova e la Marina veneziana del XVIII secolo

 

Mirela Mrak Kliman

Biserka Budicin

Jasna Vlahović

Državni arhiv u Pazinu – Archivio di Stato di Pisino

Il confine istriano – punto di contatto fra la Repubblica di Venezia e la Casa d’Austria

 

Rino Cigui

Centro di ricerche storiche di Rovigno

Orsera nel XVII secolo. Congiunture climatico-sanitarie e agricole 

 

Didem İşler

Bartın Üniversitesi, Bartın

Percorsi mediterranei: Venezia e l’arsenale di Tripoli e John Murray a Costantinopoli

 

Maddalena Casarini

Universität Regensburg

Casanova in fuga - »Ein zweyte[r] Trenck«?

15:00 – 18:00

Andrea Merlotti

Centro studi del Consorzio delle Residenze Reali Sabaude, Torino

Il conte Sclopis e l’affare della sposa affittata (1769-74).

Una storia con Casanova?

 

Roberto Ricci

Deputazione Abruzzese di Storia Patria,

L’Aquila – CNR-ISEM, Roma

Giacomo Casanova e il cardinale Troiano Acquaviva d’Aragona

 

Michela Messina

Museo Sartorio, Trieste

La cifra dell’amore: quattro lettere riemerse di Andrea Memmo a Giustiniana Wynne

 

Federico Vidic

Istituto di Storia Sociale e Religiosa, Gorizia

Casanova in Vienna: between poetic flattery and embassy duties

 

Jolanta Dygul

Uniwersytet Warszawski

Casanova come traduttore: il caso delle Turbolenze della Polonia

17:20 – 17:40

Stanisław Świtlik
Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II
La pensée critique de Giacomo Casanova sur le despotisme dans l’Istoria delle turbolenze della Polonia

17:40 — 18:00

Piotr Ugniewski
Uniwersytet Warszawski
Casanova et les historiens des bouleversements en Pologne

18:00 — 18:20

Rafał Waszczuk
Uniwersytet Warszawski
Conceptualisation de l’ordre européen dans l’Istoria delle turbolenze della Polonia

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9:00 — 12:30

Tommaso Scaramella

Università Ca’ Foscari, Venezia

Casanova e il pudore

 

Jean-Christophe Igalens

Sorbonne Université

Corps éprouvés

 

Gregory Dowling

Università Ca’ Foscari

Exploring the legend of La fuite des Plombs

 

Dino Detailleur

Waregem, Gand/Ghent

Are the Memoirs true or false?

A Memory Approach

 

Emmanuelle Meunier

Université de Franche-Comté

Réécritures, échos et prolongements: les documents de travail de Federico Fellini au seuil de son Casanova

 

Sílvia Fernandes

Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Braga

Casanova, les plaisirs et Dieu au Portugal

 

Michela Zaccaria

Università per Stranieri di Siena

Manon Balletti senza Casanova

 

Jaroslav Stanovsky

Moravská zemská knihovna v Brně

Casanova et Max Lamberg

 

Stefano Feroci

Firenze

Sabine Herrmann

Centro Tedesco di Studi Veneziani

Antonio Croce, l’ultimo amico di Casanova

15 — 17:00

Gianluca Simeoni

CRES, Verona

La versione Childs – Samaran.

Analisi di una edizione mai nata attraverso la corrispondenza di due casanovisti

 

Laurie A. Preston

McGraw-Page Library Randolph-Macon College

The J. Rives Childs Collection of Casanoviana: The Collection, the Scholar, and the Librarian

 

Richard Shane Agin

Duquesne University

Maria Elena Versari

Carnegie Mellon University

Casanova tra fascisti e antifascisti

 

Massimo Stella

Università Ca’ Foscari

Chiara Portesine

Scuola Normale Superiore Pisa

Casanova allo specchio

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9 — 12:00

Tom Vitelli

L’Intermédiaire des Casanovistes, Salt Lake City

Translating Casanova into English:

The Case of Lana Caprina

 

Branko Aleksić

Université Philosophique Européenne, Paris

Lavori d’ingegno : Casanova e Vico

 

Benjamin Hoffmann

Ohio State University

En lisant en écrivant: de L’Icosaméron aux Minuscules

 

Marie-Paule de Weerdt-Pilorge

Université de Tours

Mystères et imaginaires de Casanova dans le roman policier français : Conjuration Casanova d’Éric

Giacometti et Jacques Ravenne (2006) et Casanova et la femme sans visage d’Olivier Barde-Cabuçon (2012)

 

Elena Grazioli

Università Statale Milano

Marco Borrelli

Università L’Orientale, Napoli

Il «ritmo del vivere»: Giovanni Comisso e Giacomo Casanova

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Spiritualities and Healing in Global and Transhistorical Perspectives

The conference, dedicated to the relationship between spirituality and medicine from a comparative and trans-historical perspective, explores folk, vernacular, complementary, alternative, indigenous and biological medicine. The healing movements alternative to scientific medicine that challenged the management of the pandemic often have religious and/or spiritual roots and lead to political repercussions of great impact, providing new energy to nationalism, populism and fundamentalism. The conference will bring together anthropologists, ethnographers, sociologists, historians and experts in religious studies.

The conference is organized jointly by the Centre for Comparative Studies of Civilisations and Spiritualities (Fondazione Giorgio Cini) the Center for the Study of World Religions (Harvard Divinity School), the Center for the Study of Lived Religion (Università Ca’ Foscari) and the HEAL Network for the Ethnography of Healing.

Spiritualities and Healing in Global and Transhistorical Perspectives is part of the annual thematic programme Democracy and Pandemics, which will be highlighted by the exhibition Venice and Epidemies, taking place at the Longhena Library from 20 June.

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9:30 – 10am | Welcome Greetings
  • Francesco Piraino (Fondazione Giorgio Cini)
  • Giovanna Parmigiani (Harvard University)
  • Emily Pierini (Sapienza University of Rome)
10 – 11:30am | Panel: Spiritualities and Healing in the Mediterranean and Beyond
  • Giovanna Parmigiani (Harvard University)
    Magic and Healing in Southern Italy: Spiritual Pizzica as a Magical Practice
  • Theodoros Kyriakides (University of Cyprus)
    Magico-Religious Proximity and the Aesthetics of Healing in Cypriot Yitíes and Yiatrosóphia
  • Francesca Conti (The American University of Rome)
    Secret Words Revealed: Gender, Tradition, and Change among Italian Folk Healers and Segnature

Chair: Francesco Piraino (Fondazione Giorgio Cini)

11:30 – 12pm | Coffee Break
12 – 1pm | Panel: Spirituality, Healing, and COVID-19
  • Bettina E. Schmidt (University of Wales Trinity Saint David)
    Non-Ordinary Experiences during the COVID-19 Pandemic
  • Felicia Cucuta (Harvard University)
    Au Creux de l’Oreille / In Your Ear: The Curative Potential of Arts during the Pandemic

Chair: Giovanna Parmigiani (Harvard University)

2:30 – 4:30pm | Panel: Spiritualities and Healing in Historical Perspective
  • Tatiana Tiaynen-Qadir and Ali Qadir (Tampere University, Finland)
    Mystical Consciousness and Healing: Modern Eastern Orthodox Mystics between Trascendence and Community
  • Claudia Stella Geremia (Harvard University)
    Enchanting Remedies: The Donne de Fora and the Blurred Lined between Magic and Healing (16 th -20 th Centuries)
  • Silke Felber (University of Arts, Linz, Austria)
    Tracing the Pomander: Aromatic Medicine, Colonial Extraction, and the Becoming of the Body in Early Modern Europe
  • Maryam Abbasi (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)
    The Zar Ritual: Spirits, Healing, and Cultural Heritage in Southern Iran

Chair: Giovanna Capponi (Universitade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro)
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10 – 11:30am | Panel: Healing between Spiritualities and Biomedicine
  • Emily Pierini (Sapienza University of Rome)
    Doctors, Saints, and Spirits: Therapeutic Itineraries between Spirituality and Biomedicine
  • Géraldine Mossière (Université de Montréal, Canada)
    The Work of Energy in Mind-Body Practices: A New Medicine? The Cases of 5 Rhythms and Core Energetics
  • Cecilia Draicchio (KU Leuven)
    Taking Belief Seriously? Looking at the Intersections of Psychiatry and Spiritual Healing in Ghana Through and Old-Fashioned Category

Chair: Joseph Sanzo (Ca’ Foscari Universtiy of Venice)

11:30 – 12pm Coffee Break
12 – 13pm | Panel: Healing Sounds
  • Jessica Roda (Georgetown University)
    Jewish Healing, Sounds, Body, and the Global Culture of Wellness
  • Zeynep Bulut (Queen’s University Belfast)
    Experimental Music as a Sustainable Care Model

Chair: Francesco Piraino (Fondazione Giorgio Cini)

2:30 – 4pm | Panel: Spiritualities, Healing, and Politics
  • Luis Fernando Bernardi Junqueira (University of Cambridge)
    Mental Healing, Nation Building, and Alternative Modernities in Early 20th-Century China
  • Pilar Morena d’Alò (Newcastle University)
    Spirituality as Decolonisation: Co-option and Embracement in Argentine Feminism
  • Fernanda Gebara (Yorenka Tasorentsi Institute)
    Ancestral Medicines, Biocultural Conservation, and the Politics of Recognition: Indigenous Spiritualities as Pathways to Healing the Future

Chair: Giovanna Parmigiani (Harvard University)
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10 – 11am | Panel: Spiritualities and Healing from South America
  • Giovanna Capponi (Universitade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro)
    Health Practices in Afro-Brazilian Religions: Navigating Science, Ecology, and Public Health Crises
  • Piera Talin (Center for the Study of Lived Religion at Cà Foscari University of Venice)
    Rite and Treatment in Ayahuasca Religions and Urban Neo-Shamanic Ayahuasca Groups

Chair: Emily Pierini (Sapienza University of Rome)

11 – 11:30am Coffee break
11:30 – 12:30pm Round Table

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The conference will be held in English.

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