Conference Program

October 24–26

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October 24, Friday

09:30–09:50 Greetings, Luigi Miraglia (Accademia Vivarium novum)

09:50–10:00 - Opening Remarks
Marianna Ferrara & Małgorzata Sacha

10:00–10:20 - Keynote Speaker: Luigi Miraglia (Accademia Vivarium novum)

10:20–10:40 - Keynote Speaker: Raffaele Torella (Sapienza University of Rome), Ritual as knowledge, knowledge as ritual in the śaiva context

10:40–10:50 Discussion

10:50–11:10 Coffee Break

11:10–12:10 - SESSION 1

Shame, Guilt, and Cognitive Structures

Moderator: Marianna Ferrara

11:10–11:30 Elżbieta Przybył-Sadowska (Jagiellonian University), Community – Guilt, Punishment, Forgiveness: On Practices of Coping with Negative Emotions in Christian Monastic Communities

11:30–11:50 Eduard Iricinschi (University of Erfurt), Shame and Classification: Ritualized Confession Among the Western and Eastern Manichaeans

11:50–12:10 Aneta Czernatowicz-Kukuczka (Jagiellonian University), The Social Brain in Ritual Action: Cognitive and Affective Routes to Collective Identity

12:10–12:40 Discussion

12:40–14:30 - Lunch Break

14:30–15:30 - SESSION 2

Contempt, disgust and ritual violence

Moderator: Joanna Malita-Król

14:30–14:50 Igor Spanò (University of Palermo), Contempt and Hierarchies in Vedic Rituals

14:50–15:10 Massimo Giuseppetti (University of Roma Tre), Sacrifice and Emotion in Ancient Greek Religion: Ritual Violence and Literary Mediation

15:10–15:30 Dario Cellamare (University of Padua), Disgust and Authority: Animal Sacrifice in the Late Roman Empire

15:30–16:00 Discussion

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October 25, Saturday

10:00–10:40 - SESSION 3

Anxiety and Ritual Creativity

Moderator: Linda Zampol d’Ortia

10:00–10:20 Małgorzata Sacha (Jagiellonian University), Anxiety and ritual: the uncanny in the kula sādhana

10:20–10:40 Joanna Malita-Król (Jagiellonian University), When Gods Enter the Circle: Mystical Encounters in Contemporary Pagan Rituals

10:40–11:00 Discussion

11:00–11:20 Coffee Break

11:20–12:20 - SESSION 4

Tragic Emotion, Reparation, and Aesthetic Forms

Moderator: Massimo Giuseppetti

11:20–11:40 Francesca Scrofani (University of Aix-Marseille), Choros and Chara: Rite and Joy in Plato’s Laws

11:40–12:00 Alessandra Filannino Indelicato (Independent Researcher), The Path(os) of the Mended: Hermeneutics of Skēnē and Sparagmos, and the Resentment of the Righteous in Ancient Greek Tragedies

12:00–12:20 Federica Zigarelli (Sapienza University of Rome), Jealousy and Identity: Building the Divine and Civic Community in the Greek Poleis

12:20–12:50 Discussion

12:50–14:30 Lunch Break

14:30–15:30 - SESSION 5

Emotion and the Political Imaginary of Rituals

Moderator: Elżbieta Przybył-Sadowska

14:30 – Alessandro Saggioro (Sapienza University of Rome), Nostalgia and Memory: Mythmaking through Epics and Divination in Ancient Rome

14:50–15:10 Marianna Ferrara (Sapienza University of Rome), Hate, War, and Yóga in the Ṛgveda

15:10–15:30 Maciej Czeremski (Jagiellonian University), The Long Shadow of Candomblé: Ritual Dimensions of Contemporary Capoeira

15:30–16:00 Discussion

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October 26, Sunday

10:00–11:20 - SESSION 6

The Power of Positive Emotions

Moderator: Małgorzata Sacha

10:00–10:20 Linda Zampol d’Ortia (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice), Consolation and Strategic Networking: Jesuit Yearnings for a Global Community

10:20–10:40 Mara Matta (Sapienza University of Rome), Rituals of Hope and Rituals of Love Against Practices of Shame and Fear

10:40–11:00 Giuliano Giustarini (Independent Scholar), From Joy to Joy: The Aesthetic of the Unmade in Pāli Buddhist Poetry

11:00–11:20 Pierluigi Lanfranchi (University of Aix-Marseille), Time for Joy: Rituals as Occasions for Festive Emotions in Late Antiquity

11:20–12:00 Discussion

12:00 - 12:10 Conference conclusion

12:10–14:00 Lunch break

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How to participate

To attend in person: convegni@vivariumnovum.net.

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