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ARC Workshop
Programme
Monday 4th July 2011
University of Bristol
Graduate School of Arts and Humanities, Seminar Room 1
7, Woodland Road, BS8 1TB, Bristol

10.15 Registration & Welcome Coffee

10.45 Opening


11.00 – 13.00 SESSION 1


Mediumship, Trance and the Afterlife

Jack Hunter (University of Bristol, Dept. of Archaeology and Anthropology / ARC)

Restoring the Relation to the Spirit World: Violence and Desire in Punu Trance-dance Performances

Carine Plancke (College de France, Paris, Laboratoire d’Anthropologie Sociale)  

‘We will not abandon the Tradition of Spirits’: Spirit Possession and Islam in an Urban Context

Daria Trentini (University of London, SOAS)

Rituals of Possession and Agency in North India. Investigating the Success of Traditional Mediums in Garhwal Himalays.

Serena Bindi (Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis, Dept. de Anthropologie)

Discussion


13.00 – 13.30 Lunch Break


13.30 – 15.40 SESSION 2


Spiritual Experience and Identity in Modern British Spirit Mediumship

Hannah Gilbert (University of York, Dept. of Sociology)

Spirit Possession and Telepathic Hypnosis

Terence Palmer (University of Bangor, School of Theology & Religious Studies)

Master Sun, Master Moon: Complementary Forms of Mediumship among the Jaguares of the Vale do Amanhecer

Emily Pierini (University of Bristol, Dept. of Archaeology and Anthropology / ARC)


The Discourse of being ‘possessed’ in Brazil: speaking about mediumship, trance and possession in Afro-Brazilian religions
Bettina E. Schmidt (University of Wales Trinity Saint David, School of Theology, Religious Studies and Islamic Studies
)

Sensing the Divine: Illness and Meaning Making amongst Members of an Anglican Spirituality Group
Jane Derges (UCL, Dept. of Anthropology)

Discussion


15.40 – 16.00 Coffee Break


16.00 – 17.00 SESSION 3


Shamanism, Near-Death Experience, and Afterlife Conceptions in Indigenous Societies: A Theoretically Eclectic Ethnohistorical Approach

Gregory Shushan (University of Oxford, Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion)

Afterlife Geographies and the Nature of Evidence

Fiona Bowie (University of Bristol, Dept. of Archaeology and Anthropology / ARC)

Discussion


17.00 Conclusion and Future Plans


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