UCL$Conference$Schedule$
«$The$Bodily$and$Material$Cultures$of$Religious$Subjectivation$»$
June$17B18,$2014$
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Chair$of$the$morning$session:$Urmila$Mohan$
I.$17th$June,$Tuesday,$Morning$session.$9:00$am.$Keynote!
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1.!9:00!Jean+Pierre!Warnier!
“The! Bodily! and! Material! cultures! of!
Religious! Subjectivation;! what! kind! of!
surplus!value?”!
2.!9:30!David!Morgan!
“Phenomenology! &! Network! Theory:! A!
Collaborative! Model! for! the! Study! of!
Religious!Material!Culture”!
10:00$am:$Break$
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II.$17 $June,$Tuesday,$Morning,$10:30$am.$Motions*
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3.!10:30!Laurel!Kendall!
“The! God’s! prosthesis:! Divine! presence! in!
painted!images!and!in!the!costumed!bodies!of!
shamans”!
4.!11:00!Emma!Gobin!
“Becoming! a! santero:! Redifining! the! self!
through!bodily!and!material!mediations”!
5.!11:30!Denise!Thorpe!
“Lighting! the! way:! Velines+ visuality! as!
participation,!resistance,!rupture,!and!repair”!
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12:00!pm:!Film!Screening!(see!the!“Films”!document)!
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12:45$pm:$Lunch$
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Chair$of$the$afternoon$session:$JeanBPierre$Warnier$
III.$17th$June,$Tuesday,$Afternoon,$2:00$pm.$Motions*+*Emotions*
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6.!2:00!Brian!Brazeal!
“Austerity,! luxury,! salvation! and! the! Indian!
emerald!trade”!
7.!2:30!Michael!Houseman!
“On! the! relational! entailments! of! bodily! and!
material!practice!in!ritual!settings”!
8.!3:00!Raquel!Romberg!
“Matter! matters:! Spirit! ‘manifestations’! as!
religious! forms! of! embodiment,! affect,! and!
subjectivation!in!popular!spiritism”!
3:30$pm:$Break$
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IV.$17 $June,$Tuesday,$Afternoon,$4:00$pm.$Motions*+*Emotions*+*Senses*=*‘MES’*
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9.!4:00!Urmila!Mohan!
“Hindu! prayer! beads! as! efficacious! aids! in!
devotion”!
10.!4:30!Sukanya!Sarbadhikary!
“Sounds! of! the! drum,! sounds! of! the! body:!
emotive! overlaps! in! external! and! internal!
sensoria”!
“Religious! materiality! affects! prosocial!
behaviour”!
11.!5:00!Jan!Kratky!&!John!McGraw!
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5:30$–$6:00$pm:$Discussion$
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6:00$pm:$Wine$Reception$
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Chair$of$the$morning$session:$JeanBPierre$Warnier$
V.$18th$June,$Wednesday,$Morning.$9:00$am.$‘MES’*+*Production*
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12.!9:00!Timothy!Carroll!
“Clothed!in!grace:!Making!the!person!more!by!
clothing!the!body”!
13.!9:30!Elsa!Mescoli!
“Islamic! religion! and! food! practices! in!
migration!context:!Negotiating!belonging!and!
performing!subjectivities”!
14.!10:00!Hanna!Nieber!
“They! all! just! want! to! get! healthy:! The!
materiality!of!scripture!in!an!inflicted!body!–!
kombe+as!medicinal!practice!in!Zanzibar”!
10:30$am:$Break$
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VI.$18th$June,$Wednesday,$Morning.$11:00$am.$‘MES’*+*Production*+*Space*
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15.!11:00!Émilie!Guitard!
“The! trash! pile! neither! speaks,! hears,! nor!
sees,! but! what’s! inside! speaks,! hears! and!
sees”;! waste! management! and! religious!
subjectivation!in!North!Cameroon”!
16.!11:30!Katerina!Kerestetzi!
“Embodied! spaces:! the! spatial! dimensions! of!
ritual! identity! and! praxis! in! Palo! Monte!
worship!(Cuba)”!
17.!12:00!Alyssa!Ransbury!
“Negotiating! pilgrimage! on! the! road! to!
Santiago!de!Compostela”!
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18.!12:30!Chris!Pinney!
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Concluding!remarks!
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End$of$conference$ca.$1:30$pm$
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