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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
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
