Wednesday, June 24

Session 116:00–17:30J Building

Voices of the Spirits: Vietnamese Shamanism between Religion, Power, and Heritage

J207

Panel

Wed · Jun 24 · 16:00–17:30

Nguyen Thi Hien

From Heritage to Religion: Heritagization as a Strategy for Legitimacy and Religious Parity in Vietnam’s Mother Goddess Worship

Nguyen Thi Thu Trang & Truong Thuy Vi

Voices of Spirit Mediums in the “Sanitization” of Mother Goddess Worship: Ritual Ethics, Blasphemy Boundaries, and Negotiations of Legitimacy

Tran Thi An

Managing the Sacred: Dialogic Negotiations between State Institutions and Shamanic Practitioner Communities in Vietnam

Mai Thi Hanh

Between the Altar and the Stage: Sacredness, Performativity, and the Politics of Trance in Shamanistic Rituals

Shamanism in Transition: Indigenous Knowledge, Power, and Representation in Southeast Asia

J209

Panel

Wed · Jun 24 · 16:00–17:30

Ranny Apriani Nusa

Shamanism after Disaster: Balia, Shirk Discourse, and Collective Trauma in Post-Tsunami Palu

Khusnul Khotimah

Guardians of the Sacred: The Merapi Labuhan Ritual and the Preservation of Spiritual Heritage in Yogyakarta

Jerina Fujiantie

Framing the Shaman: Media, Postcoloniality, and the Shamanistic Image in Southeast Asia

Saniah

Ritual Authority and Embodied Healing: Bapidara Practitioners and Indigenous Knowledge among the Banjar

Gender, Ecology, Sustainability & Non-human Beings

J309

Individual Session

Wed · Jun 24 · 16:00–17:30

Diana Riboli

Messages from the Stones: Shamanic Power as Multispecies Communication Against Environmental Catastrophe

Helena Karhu

Finnish Shamanic Perspective on Eudaimonic Wellbeing and Planetary Inclusion

Ivan Tacey

Stolen Power: Gender, Shamanism, and the Making of Ritual Authority

Davide Torri

The Power of Forms. Shamanic objects from invisibility to manifestation and back again.

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