Thursday, June 25

Session 210:00–11:30J Building

South Asian Shamanism and the Power of the Word – Part I

J307

Panel

Thu · Jun 25 · 10:00–11:30

Dr. Lidia Guzy

The Power of Shamanic Mantras of Nag Bacca (the Children of the Snake) – in Western Odisha, India

Uwe Skoda

Boil (Boli Yatra) rituals in Western Odisha, India

Changes in Shamanism and Modern Society

J207

Panel

Thu · Jun 25 · 10:00–11:30

Yang Jongsung

Shamanism Activities and Formality in the Age of AI

Mok Jin-ho

Modern Reception and Significance of Shamanic Music

O Mun-Seon

Spatial Agglomeration and Significance of Shamanic Shrines in Seoul

Ban Hye-seong

Continuity and transformation in Gut Tradition: The Case of Hwanghaedo Hajikgut

Yeong Ran Suh

Who Speaks for Village Rituals that Capitalism Does Not Mimic? : Ruptures in Village Rituals as Critique of the Capitalocene and Modernist Development

Korean Shamanism in Cinema, Media & Popular Culture

J309

Individual Session

Thu · Jun 25 · 10:00–11:30

Soyun Lee

The Spirit-Possessed Shaman in Popular Content: Focusing on Destiny War 49

Junhee Kim

Ward off Misfortune or Just Be Cute: Apotropaic Goods in Contemporary Korean Culture

Park Seonghye

Ecological Thought in Narrative Shamanic Chants of Hamgyong-do

Joonseong Lee

Technologies of the (dark) Shaman Self: Nam June Paik, Coded Spirits, and Korean Shamanism in the 2020s

Theory, Definition & Comparative Study

J209

Individual Session

Thu · Jun 25 · 10:00–11:30

Carla Corradi Musi

Finno-Ugric Shamanism and Power

Giovanni Bazzana

Revisiting Jesus as a Shaman

Barbara Wilhelmi

The Power of Prophets - Differentiations of the spiritual power of prophets in ancient Israel, using the example of their initiation, their work, and the changing aspects of spiritual power

South Asia & Iu-Mien Shamanism

J215

Individual Session

Thu · Jun 25 · 10:00–11:30

Anupama Sinha

Conferred Shamanic Identity: Involuntary Calling and Social Recognition among Lower-Caste Jhankris in the Darjeeling Hills

Rumi Roy

Power, Healing and Tradition: Shamanic Knowledge, Art and Social Life in Contemporary Mayong, Assam

Jeffery L. Macdonald

Disempowerment and Empowerment of Iu-Mien Shamanic and Spiritual Practices

Sandip Kumar Mishra

Shamanism in India: Origins, Spread and Contemporary Space in India’s Religious Discourse

Shamanism in History, Archaeology & Mythology

J217

Individual Session

Thu · Jun 25 · 10:00–11:30

Sergio Poggianella

The Shamaness of Bad Dürrenberg

Lila Banach

Tengrism as Unifying Literary Framework: Tracing Divine Imperial Metanarrative in The Secret History of the Mongols

Caterina Angela Agus

The Power of the Bear: Shamanic Figures, Cosmic Mediations and Ritual Transformations from Northern Emisphere Cosmologies to Alpine Carnivals

Session 314:30–16:00J Building

South Asian Shamanism and the Power of the Word – Part II

J307

Panel

Thu · Jun 25 · 14:30–16:00

Stefano Beggiora

Miji Migung and the Power of the Word among the Apatanis

Margaret Lyngdoh

Magic From the Indigenous Contexts of Northeast India

Abhirup Sarkar

Wilderness Deified: A Study on Ritualised Kinship Between Karbi People and Their Ecology – Invisibility Among the Karbi Indigenous Community from Northeast India

Appropriation and Transmission of Sacredness: Shamanism as a Contemporary Folklore

J207

Panel

Thu · Jun 25 · 14:30–16:00

Kim Hyung-Kun

Appropriation and Transmission of Sacredness: Shamanism as a Contemporary Folklore Source and Its Critical Interpretation

Huh Yong-ho

Appropriation and Transmission of Sacredness: Shamanism as a Contemporary Folklore Source and Its Critical Interpretation

Lee Hyun-jung

The Enduring Vitality of Jeju Dang Belief: Co-Evolution with Changing Social Orders and the Role of Women

Lim Kyung-ji

Appropriation and Transmission of Sacredness: Shamanism as a Contemporary Folklore Source and Its Critical Interpretation

Multimedia Perspectives on Shamanic Arts

J118

Multimedia Session

Thu · Jun 25 · 14:30–16:00

Bekah Harding

Korean Art History as Represented in K-Pop Demon Hunters

Wongi Jeong

Tuning Relations through Verbal Art: Recitation-Chanting-Improvised Singing the Myth of Gang-nim, Messenger of the Underworld, in Jeju Shamanic Ritual

Tom Wang

“Rhapsody” For Solo Violin and Piano (2025)

Post-Soviet Siberian Shamanism

J309

Individual Session

Thu · Jun 25 · 14:30–16:00

Semyon Petrukhin

Constructing the Shaman in Post-Soviet New Age: Between Indigenous Traditions and Western Esotericism

Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer

“Speaking Truth to Power: Shaman Alexander’s Spiritual and Political Legacies in Siberia”

Khalikova Chinchi Eres-oolovna

From crisis to vocation: personality transformation in the process of acquiring the shamanic gift (by personal example)

Lena Sidorova

New interaction with «old» spirits in the shamans’ practices: case of Yakutia, Siberia.

Taiwan Indigenous Communities

J209

Individual Session

Thu · Jun 25 · 14:30–16:00

Dea Rifia Bella

Coexistence Rather than Conversion: God and Ancestors in Lamalera

Taruh Payu

Illness, Taboo, and Blessing: The Northern Pangcah Sikawasay and the Accumulation and Exchange of Spiritual Power

Pi-chen Liu

Would a shaman help with Covid-19 pandemic? Mivahvah (eliminating epidemic ritual) of the Pangcah/Ami people in Taiwan

Yi-tze

Ancestral Pathways and Boundary Scripts: Healing Power and Affective Infrastructure in Nanshi Amis Rituals

China & East Asian Shamanism

J215

Individual Session

Thu · Jun 25 · 14:30–16:00

Zhuo Ni

The Changes of Chinese Oroqen Shaman Culture in the Context of Social Transformation

Li Yang

In the shadow of mountains and cities: the revival of Shamanism in Northeast China

Yidan Zhang & Ting Guo

Conceptualizing “Shamanism” in Contemporary China

Runze Cao

Gendered Exclusion in Contemporary Manchu Shamanism: Tradition, Modernization, and the Politics of Sacred Authority

Session 416:30–18:00J Building

Interferences: Shamanic Traditions and Christianity in Interaction

J215

Panel

Thu · Jun 25 · 16:30–18:00

Ullrich R. Kleinhempel

The ‘shamanic’ features of the Christian Eastern Orthodox meditation form of Hesychasm

Humberto Schubert CoelhoZOOM

Science of ‘Life after Death’ – in view of transcultural accounts of trance and mediumship

Felicia DujonZOOM

“Shamanic” Practices in Afro-Caribbean Churches in Barbados: Phenomena, Ritual Enactments, and Conceptualisations

Agnieszka Podolecka

Decolonisation of Christianity in the South African Context

Entangled Power: Money, Heritage, Technology, and Metaphysics in Korean Shamanism

J209

Panel

Thu · Jun 25 · 16:30–18:00

Hak Lak Choi

The Power of Spirits and the Power of Money

Seong Hee Oh

The Power of Spirits and the Power of Heritage: Becoming a Shaman in the Northern Ritual Tradition

In Kyoung Rhye

The Politics of the Sacred: Power, Materiality, and Religiosity in Korea’s Digital Divination

Su Kyung Kim

The Metaphysics of Hospitality: Joseon Shamanism via Amazonian Animism

Art Derived from Shamanism

J207

Panel

Thu · Jun 25 · 16:30–18:00

Yun Donghwan

Korean Shamanism: The Wellspring of K-Culture

Lim Soojung

The Theatrical Turn of Shamanic Art: Reconfiguration and Aesthetics of the Performing Arts

Park Jeonggyeong

Musical Uses of the Gut and Their Cultural Meaning

Jeong Eunju

From Ritual to Stage: Performing Arts Derived from the Namhaean Byeolsin-gut

Shin Heera

The Gangneung Danoje Gut as Performing-Arts Content

The Shaman's Experience and Musical Creativity/Sacredness in Korean Shamanism

J217

Panel

Thu · Jun 25 · 16:30–18:00

Yong-Shik Lee

The religious sacredness and the musical creativity in Hwanghae Shamanism

Mi-young Kim

Musical creativity and its religious meaning in the Eastern shamanism

Jungmin Seo

The musical creativity and its realization in Jeolla Provincial Shamanis

Su Jung Ku

The making-music of the shaman song and its religious meaning in Hamgyeong-do Provincial shamanism

Ji-hye Seo

The paternal transmissional structure and musical succession of the shaman music in Seoul

Cinematic Explorations of Healing and Truth

J118

Multimedia Session

Thu · Jun 25 · 16:30–18:00

Seok-won Jin

ART SHAMAN — The Origin of Art: The Art of Healing

Hyun Kyeong Son

Om: The Sound that Begins the Truth

Tom Wang

At the Drum's Edge –– Documentary on My Journey to the Northeast, Shamanism, and Folk Culture

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