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CREOR Graduate Student Conference: Myth, Magic and Medicine

Friday, April 12, 2019 09:00to17:00
Birks Building 3520 rue University, Montreal, QC, H3A 2A7, CA
Price: 
Free

CREOR Medicine, Myth and Magic Graduate Conferece

 

 

Friday April 12th, 2019, McGill University

 

Arrival, Registration and Coffee: 8:30 – 9:00 am (Birks Senior Common Room)

 

Opening Address by CREOR Director: 9:00 – 9:15 am

 

 

           

 

 

 

Graduate Panels Session 1 – 9:30 to 10:40

 

Panel 1: Lore and Traditional Practices (Room 100)

 

Veronica Isabella D’Orsa

The Holy and Hated Leper: Leprosy as Abject in the Medieval Imagination

 

Sonya Pihura

Religion and Ritual in Anglo-Saxon Medicine

 

 

Panel 2: Modern Cults and Folklore (Room 204)

 

Colby Gaudet

“Ô filles folles”: The Possessed Girls of Bas-de-Tousquet and the Culture of Sang-Mêlê

 

Aaron Ricker

“Medicine, Myth, Magic, Marketing: SBNR Consumer Cult(ure) and Doctor Bronner’s Magic Soapbox”

 

Valerie Thomas

Spirituality and Death in Modern Public Health Care Institutions

 

 

Graduate Panels Session 2 – 11:00 to 12:10

 

Panel 3: Islamic Theology and Medicology (Room 100)

 

Seyed Abbas Zahabi

Health and Sickness: A Reciprocal Interaction Between Medicine and Philosophy According to Avicenna

 

Naznin Patel

Magic and Miracles in Marsilio Ficino and Avicenna

 

Joseph Leonardo Vignone

“The Physician’s Malady”: Contagion and the Limits of Medicine in Late-Medieval Islam

 

 

Panel 4: Health and Christianity: Past and Present (Room 204)

 

Monica Marcelli-Chu

The Shape of the Rational Soul: Remembering the Body in Thomas Aquinas’ Account of the Spiritual Nature of the Human Person

 

Heather McIntyre

“Man’s Redemption of Man” – Medical Authority and the Challenge of Faith Healing in North America, 1840-1930

 

Rachel Engler

Faith and Healthcare in Oral Robert’s Tulsa

 

 

Graduate Panels Session 3 – 1:30 to 2:40

 

Panel 5: Intuition and Healing: Combining Modern Medicine with Tradition and Folklore (Room 100)

 

Madhusudan Rimal

Psychiatry in Indian Traditional Medicine

 

Taylor A. Hughes

Presentiment as Omen and Symptom of Death: A Comparison of Spiritual Custom and Medical Practice

 

Michelle Sraha-Yeboah

Bridging the Divide between Religion and Psychology: Resistance, Rituals, and Reclamation

 

 

Panel 6: Pagan Mythology and Christian Healing Practices (Room 204)

 

Claire Litt

Medusa’s Blood Stones

 

Jacob Goldowitz

Blood, Body, and Soul in Carolingian Medicine (ca. 800-900 CE)

 

Daniel Whittle

“Do you Believe in Magic?”: Observing the Constructions of Authority and Efficacy by Derveni Author

 

 

Graduate Panels Session 4 – 2:50 to 4:00

 

Panel 7: South Asian Religions and Rituals (Room 100)

 

Austin Simoes-Gomes

Trans-Himalayan Healing Traditions

 

H. S. Sum Cheuk Shing

Medieval Chinese Buddhist and Daoist Healing Solutions: Spell Formulae and Recipes from Dunhuang

 

Tahereh Tavakkoli

Tshe dbang: Tibetan Longevity Ritual

 

 

KEYNOTE LECTURE – 5:00 to 7:00

Dr. Lauren Kassell: ‘Universal Medicine’: Lessons from Seventeenth Century England McGill Department of Rare Books & Special Collections

McLennan Library Building 4th Floor - 3459 McTavish Street

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