medicine, religion, witchcraft

MEDICINE, RELIGION, WITCHCRAFT
Rome, 30th November – 1st December 2012
Sapienza University of Rome
Department of History, Cultures, Religions
P.le A. Moro, 5 – 00185 Roma
Ethnology Classroom (3rd floor “Lettere e Filosofia” building)
Friday 30th November 2012, morning – 1st Session (Witchcraft:
epistemological issues)
11.00
11.30
12.00
12.30
13.00
Mariano Pavanello, Birgit Meyer, Opening of the workshop
Matteo Aria, Witchcraft, biopower and extraordinary anthropology
Mariano Pavanello, A hypothesis on the nature of African witchcraft
debate
lunch
Friday 30th November 2012, afternoon – 2nd Session (Medicine,
Religion, Witchcraft in ethnographic perspective)
15.00
15.30
16.00
16.30
17.00
18.00
Andrea Ceriana Mayneri, Sorcellerie, enfance et abandon en Afrique
équatoriale
Alessandro Lupo, Patients, mystical journeys and health care:
negotiating therapeutic paths in Mexican contexts of medical
pluralism
Pino Schirripa, Where Christianity is ancient. Pentecostalism, evil in
the world and break with the past in Ethiopia
Osvaldo Costantini, B Yesus Sïm (in the name of Jesus). Some notes
about Eritrean and Ethiopian Pentecostal churches in Rome (Italy)
debate
closing
Saturday 1st December 2012, morning – 3rd Session (Medicine,
Religion, Witchcraft in politics and history)
9.30
10.00
10.30
11.00
11.30
12.30
13.00
Rev. John David K. Ekem Medicine, Religion and Healing. An African
approach
Alice Bellagamba, Politics and African witchcraft: a long term
discussion
Elisa Vasconi, Witchcraft, Traditional Medicine and Colonial Rule in
Ghana
Davide Casciano, Pentecostalism, HIV and Witchcraft in Nigeria
debate
Birgit Meyer, Conclusions
closing