Wednesday, June 24

Time

Sessions

09:00–10:00

Registration and Welcoming

10:00–10:30

Opening Ceremony (Mary Hall)

10:30–11:00

Keynote 1 — Rev. Daniel Kister (Mary Hall)

11:00–11:30

Conference Orientation

11:30–14:00

Lunch (Provided) & Korean Dance Performance

14:00–15:30

ACKR Documentary Film Premiere (Mary Hall)

15:30–16:00

Coffee Break

16:00–17:30

Voices of the Spirits: Vietnamese Shamanism between Religion, Power, and Heritage4 people Shamanism in Transition: Indigenous Knowledge, Power, and Representation in Southeast Asia4 people Ecology, Sustainability & Non-human Beings4 people Shamanism in History, Archaeology & Mythology4 people Gender, Female Shamans, Body & Power4 people

17:30–19:00

Dinner (On your own)

19:00–21:00

Music Performance — Korean Shamanism

Session 116:00–17:30J Building

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

J305

Panel

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

J306

Panel

Ranny Apriani Nusa

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

Khusnul Khotimah

Guardians of the Sacred: Shamanic Preservation, Merapi, and Digital Rituals 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

Ecology, Sustainability & Non-human Beings

J302

Individual Session

Diana Riboli

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

Yangkahao Vashum

“Ancestral Lands, Enduring Ecologies: Indigenous Sustainability in Northeast India.”

Garima Maheshwari

Governing Sacred Grooves: Climate Change at the Intersection of Indigeneity and Law

Helena Karhu

In the cliff the red ochre glows fierce – Radical Creativity, Art, and Deep-time Continuum of Shamanism in East Finland

Shamanism in History, Archaeology & Mythology

J303

Individual Session

Erik Solfeldt

An Ethnoarchaeology of Gendered Ritual Authority and Prehistoric Shamanism

Gwendolyne Knight

Shamanism Narratives and Social Realities: Entanglements of Power in Medieval and Modern Fennoscandia

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

Gender, Female Shamans, Body & Power

J304

Individual Session

Ivan Tacey

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

Laetitia Merli

Playing with Norms: Power, Gender, and Embodied Spirituality in Mongolian Shamanism

Haozhen Li

Women, Spirits, and Ghosts: the Intermingled Agencies in the Reshaping of Familial Power Relationship of Female Shamans in Contemporary Northeast China

FNU Wuriga

Spiritual Maps of Power: Mongolian Women’s Shamanic Cartographies Across Heritage, Ritual and Everyday Life

ISARS 2026 SEOUL

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