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Rituals and emotions
Convegno internazionale
ORGANIZERS:
MARIANNA FERRARA (SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME)
MAŁGORZATA SACHA (JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY OF KRAKÓW)
October 24, Friday
9.30-9.50 – Greetings
Luigi Miraglia (Accademia Vivarium novum)
9.50-10.00 – Opening remarks
Marianna Ferrara & Małgorzata Sacha
10.00-10-20 – Keynote speaker: Raffaele Torella (Sapienza University of Rome), Ritual as knowledge, knowledge as ritual in the śaiva context
10.20-10.30 – Discussion
10.30-11.00 – Coffee break
11.00-12.00 – Session I
Shame, guilt and cognitive structures
Chair: Marianna Ferrara
11.00-11.20 Elżbieta Przybył-Sadowska (Jagiellonian University), Community – Guilt, punishment, forgiveness: on practices of coping with negative emotions in Christian monastic communities
11.20-11.40 – Eduard Iricinschi (University of Erfurt), Shame and classification: ritualized confession Among the western and eastern Manichaeans
11.40-12.00 – Aneta Czernatowicz-Kukuczka (Jagiellonian University), The social brain in ritual action: cognitive and affective routes to collective identity
12.00-12.30 – Discussion
12.30-14.30 – Lunch break
14:30–15:30 - SESSION 2
Contempt, disgust and ritual violence
Chair: 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
October 25, Saturday
09:30–10:30 - SESSION 3
Anxiety and ritual creativity
Chair: Linda Zampol d’Ortia
09.30-09.50 – Małgorzata Sacha (Jagiellonian University), Anxiety and ritual: the uncanny in the kula sādhana
09.50-10.10 – Andrej Szyjewski (Jagiellonian University of Kracow), Hair and foreskin. Symbolic equivalency in aboriginal initiation rituals
10.10 -10.30 – Joanna Malita-Król (Jagiellonian University), When gods enter the circle: mystical encounters in contemporary pagan rituals
10.30–11.00 – Discussion
11.00–11.20 – Coffee break
11:20–12:20 - SESSION 4
Tragic Emotion, Reparation, and Aesthetic Forms
Chair: 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. Contempt and hierarchies in Vedic rituals
12.20-12.50 – Discussion
12.50-14.30 – Lunch break
14:30–15:30 - SESSION 5
Emotion and the Political Imaginary of Rituals
Chair: Elżbieta Przybył-Sadowska
14.30-14.50 – 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
October 26, Sunday
10:00–11:20 - SESSION 6
The Power of Positive Emotions
Chair: Małgorzata Sacha
10.00-10.20 – Giuliano Giustarini (Independent scholar), From joy to joy: The aesthetic of the unmade in Pāli Buddhist poetry
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 – Pierluigi Lanfranchi (University of Aix-Marseille), Time for joy: rituals as occasions for festive emotions in late antiquity
11.00-11.20 – Linda Zampol d’Ortia (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice), Consolation and strategic networking: Jesuit yearnings for a global community
11.20-12.00 – Discussion
12.00-12.10 – Conference conclusion
12.10-14.00 – Lunch break
How to participate
To attend in person (AVN): convegni@vivariumnovum.net.
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Webinar: https://meet.google.com/xbh-ocyg-jhr?pli=1.