Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Summer, 1563, oil on panel. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
Spiritualities and Healing in Global and Transhistorical Perspectives
La conferenza, dedicata al rapporto tra spiritualità e medicine in chiave comparativa e trans-storica, interroga le medicine popolari, vernacolari, complementari, alternative, indigene e biologiche. I movimenti di cura alternativa alla medicina scientifica che hanno contestato la gestione della pandemia hanno spesso radici di tipo religioso e/o spirituale e hanno avuto ricadute politiche di grande impatto, fornendo nuove energie a nazionalismi, populismi e fondamentalismi. Il convegno riunirà in un unico dialogo antropologi, etnografi, sociologi, storici ed esperti di studi religiosi.
L’evento è co-organizzato dal Centro di Studi Comparati sulle Civiltà e le Spiritualità (Fondazione Giorgio Cini) insieme al Center for the Study of World Religions (Harvard Divinity School), Center for the Study of Lived Religion (Università Ca’ Foscari) e HEAL Network for the Ethnography of Healing.
Spiritualities and Healing in Global and Transhistorical Perspectives rientra nel programma tematico annuale Democrazia e Pandemie, cui è dedicata la mostra Venezia e le epidemie allestita presso la Biblioteca del Longhena a partire dal 20 giugno.
programma
Martedì, 10 giugno
9:30 – 10:00 | Welcome Greetings
- Francesco Piraino (Fondazione Giorgio Cini)
- Giovanna Parmigiani (Harvard University)
- Emily Pierini (Sapienza University of Rome)
10:00 – 11:30 | 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 – 12:00 | Coffee Break
12:00 – 13:00 | 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)
14:30 – 16:30 | 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)
Mercoledì, 11 giugno
10:00 – 11:30 | 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 – 12:00 Coffee Break
12:00 – 13:00 | 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)
14:30 – 16:00 | 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)
Giovedì, 12 giugno
10:00 – 11:00 | 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)
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 – 12:30 Round Table
La conferenza si terrà in lingua inglese.
Prenotazione
Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Summer, 1563, oil on panel. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
