Buddhist Medicine and Asian Medical Systems

WORKSHOP> Buddhist Medicine and Asian Medical Systems, SOAS, 20 June 2013 (Lomi)

The SOAS Centre for the Study of Japanese Religions and the Faculty of Arts
and Humanities are please to announce the Workshop Buddhist Medicine and
Asian Medical Systems, that will be held at SOAS on the 20th of June
(please see the programme below).
This event is free and no registration is required, and we hope that those
of you in the London area will be able to attend.

Further information on the workshop, including abstracts and timetable
updates, are available on our Centre's webpage.
For any other enquiry, please contact Benedetta Lomi at bl21@soas.ac.uk.

SOAS Centre for the Study of Japanese Religions
Summer Workshop
Buddhist Medicine and Asian Medical Systems
Thursday, June 20th 2013, SOAS, University of London
9:30am - 7:00pm
Venues:
Room 4421 (9:30 - 12:00)
Room B104 (13:00 - 19:00)

The workshop Buddhist Medicine and Asian Medical Systems wishes to be a
platform for scholars working in the fields of religious and historical
studies, history of medicine, and medical anthropology to explore the
intersections of healing rituals and medical knowledge in comparative
perspective. Through the discussion of ethnographic, textual and visual
data drawn from different Asian contexts, we hope to stimulate a
comparative discussion addressing common methodological concerns.

Specifically the workshop aims at: 1) analysing the overlapping of
therapeutic strategies emerging from medical and religious
sources/practices; 2) proposing possible approaches to ritualised forms of
healing beyond notions of “magical medicine” 3) exploring new avenues for
comparative work on healing across different fields of knowledge.

Programme
9:30 - 9:45 Coffee

9:45 - 10:00 Welcome by CSJR Chair, Lucia Dolce, and Workshop Introduction

10:00 - 12:00 Panel 1 - Chaired by Lucia Dolce (SOAS)

- Benedetta Lomi (SOAS)

Cur(s)es, Dharanis and Medical Remedies. Thinking Through Magical Medicine
in Heian Japan

- Katja Triplett (University of Göttingen)

Hippiatry and Ritual Healing: Considering Japanese Buddhist Illustrated
Manuscripts on Equine Medicine

- Keith Howard (SOAS)

Rhythms of Soul(s) in Shamanic Healing: Case Studies from Nepal (Tamu),
Siberia (Sakha) and Korea.

Chaired Q&A

12:00 - 13:00 Lunch Break


13:00 - 15:00 Panel 2 - Chaired by Barbara Gerke (Humboldt University)

- Michael Stanley-Baker (UCL China Centre for Health and Humanity)

A Social Geography of the Medico-Religious Market in Medieval China

- Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim (Goldsmiths)

Tibetan Medicine from Dunhunag: Probing Borders between ‘Medicine’ and
‘Ritual’

- Lars Laamann (SOAS)

Torch-bearers of Modernity? Western Missionaries, Demonism and Exorcism in
Modern China (1860s-1930s)

Chaired Q&A

15:00 - 15:30 Tea Break

15:30 - 17:30 Panel 3 - Chaired by Christopher Davis (SOAS)

- Barbara Gerke (Humboldt University)

Ritualised Pharmacology: Religious Empowerments of Mercurial Tibetan
Medicines

- Fabrizio Ferrari (University of Chester)

The Myth of the AIDS-goddess: Truth or Fabrication? Stories of 'Bad Blood'
in Bengali Folklore

- Tullio Lobetti (SOAS)

Healing (and) the Body, Comparative Ontological and Cosmological
Perspectives

Chaired Q&A

17:30 - 18:00 Final Roundtable chaired by Lucia Dolce (SOAS)

18:00-19:00 Wine Reception
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Benedetta Lomi, PhD
Senior Teaching Fellow
Centre for the Studies of Japanese Religions
School of Oriental and African Studies
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square
London WC1H 0XG
email bl21@soas.ac.uk
Tel. (dir): +44 (0)20 7898 4764
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