Magic Un/disciplined: A Societas Magica International Conference
Du 2 au 4 septembre 2022 a eu lieu le colloque « Magic Un/disciplined » organisé par Matthew Melvin-Koushki (University of South Carolina) et Marla Segol (University at Buffalo) pour la Societas Magica à l’Université de Caroline du Sud.
Programme
Vendredi 2 septembre 2022
Session 1 : Astrology and astral magic
9h30-11h
Modérateur : Tuna Artun (Rutgers University)
Margaret Gaida (California Institute of Technology) : « Rethinking Islamic “Influence” in Premodern Europe: The Case of Astrology and Astral Magic »
Alex Matthews (University of Chicago) : « The Daʿwa Abides: Fāṭimid Astrology as a Challenge to ʿAbbasid Rule »
Kathryn Evans (Independent scholar) : « Thābit ibn Qurra al-Ḥarrānī and Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples’ De magia naturali » *
Jeremiah Hackett (University of South Carolina) : « Roger Bacon on Astral-Natural Magic »
11h00-11h15 : pause café
Session 2 : Medicine as magic
11h15-12h15
Modérateur : Nicholas Harris (University of Pennsylvania)
Tiana Blazevic-Bastow (Macquarie University) : « Crows’ eggs, root of peony and dung of a dove: Magical Cures for Epilepsy in Four Medieval Medical Texts » *
Caitlin Yool (University of Aberdeen) : « Breaking the Boundaries: Revisioning pharmaka in Ancient Greece » *
12h15-14h15 : déjeuner
Session 3 : Magic modernities
14h15-16h15
Modérateur : Noah Gardiner (University of South Carolina)
Amy Hale (Independent scholar) : « Antimodernism or ‘Staying with the Trouble’: Emerging Paradigms for Magical Futures in Contemporary Occulture » *
Daniel Harms (State University of New York) : « Conceptualizing an Information Infrastructure for Magical Studies in the Twenty-First Century » *
Samuel P. Gillis Hogan (University of Exeter) : « “He took her by the milk-white hand”: A Case Study of Inquisitorial and White-Supremacist Reactions of the Current ‘Alt-right’ Movement to Modern Magic/Fairy Scholarship » *
Zoe Katzen (Loyola Marymount University) : « Astral Clairvoyance: Chronicles and Methods in the Lyrics of Killah Priest »
Ted Hand (Independent scholar) : « The Influence of Frances Yates on Terence McKenna »
16h15-16h30 : pause café
Session 4 : Artes magicae
16h30-18h
Modérateur : Jeremiah Hackett (University of South Carolina)
Claire Fanger (Rice University) : « Prayers, Figures and Visualizations: John of Morigny’s Visionary Technologies » *
Mai Lootah (Rice University) : « Visionary Practices in Royal Courts: Images and Texts as Divinatory Agents in the fālnāma »
Zachary Schwarze (Rice University) : « Inspired Images: Art, Occultists and Visionary Experience in Late Modern Europe » *
19h : dîner
Samedi 3 septembre 2022
Session 5 : Feminist magics
9h-10h
Modérateur : Sarah Waheed (University of South Carolina)
Amina Inloes (The Islamic College, London) : « The Hand of Fāṭima (khamsa/ḫamsa) in Shiʿi Islam »
Maria Amir (University at Buffalo) : « Jugni as Jadoo: Exploring Themes of Magical Realism in a Spark » *
10h-10h15 : pause café
Session 6 : Lettrism and prayer
10h15-11h30
Modérateur : Matthew Melvin-Koushki (University of South Carolina)
Vladimir Rozov (Saint Petersburg State University) : « Spatial Conceptualization of Islamic dhikr and the Eastern Orthodox ‘Prayer of the Heart’ (umnaya molitva) » *
Amin Mansouri (Central Washington University) : « The Tablet and The Pen: ʿAzīz Nasafī (f. 13th century) and Quranic Lettrism » *
Carlos Grenier (Florida International University) : « God in Slippers: Deciphering the West Anatolian Hurufi Community of the Fifteenth Century » *
11h30-13h30 : déjeuner
Session 7 : Witchery
13h30-15h30
Modératrice : Rochelle Rojas (Kalamazoo College)
Abigail Mitchell (University of Southampton) : « Revisiting Rebecca West: Creative and Community-based Histories of the Essex Witch Trial of 1645 »
Debora Moretti (University of York) : « Magic Practices and Witchcraft Beliefs in post-Enlightenment Italy: From Folk- Medicine to Folklore Traditions » *
Annabel MacPherson (La Trobe University) : « The Greco-Roman Witch in Shakespeare’s Macbeth » *
Monica Stenzel (Spokane Falls Community College) : « “Adversitie, greefe,” and “bewitched in the privie members”: Sustainability Concerns from Witches to CEOs »
Manuel Padro (Independent scholar) : « The Good Witch Must Also Die: The Persecution of Joseph Smith, Nineteenth-Century Witchcraft Belief and Satanic Panic in the Second Great Awakening » *
15h30-15h45 : pause café
Session 8 : Magic crosspollinations
15h45-17h30
Modérateur : Andrew Berns (University of South Carolina)
Catherine Rider (University of Exeter) : « Magic Crossing Religious Boundaries: Christian and Muslim Magical Practitioners and the Inquisition in Malta, c. 1600-1610 » *
Rochelle Rojas (Kalamazoo College) : « Magic in Michoacan: The Trials of Atanacio de la Cruz »
Ilona Gerbakher (Columbia University) : « The Jews Bewitched Muhammad: Practical Magic and Communal Identity in Seventh-Century Arabia » *
Veronica Menaldi (University of Mississippi) : « Supernatural Continuities: A New Lilith Resurfaces from Medieval Kabbalistic Sources in Contemporary Entertainment »
19h : dîner
Dimanche 4 septembre
Session 9 : Sex magic
9h30-10h45
Modératrice : Marla Segol (University at Buffalo)
Sonia Wigh (University of Edinburgh) : « Ṭilismāt-i ulfat va maḥabbat: Pursuing Intimacy, Love and Occult Practice in Early Modern North India » *
Lauren Hamm (Independent scholar) : « Nú mun hon sökkvask: The Connection between Prophetic Magic and the Feminine in Old Nordic Religion »
Simon Eales (University at Buffalo) : « Harder or softer? Faster or slower? Contemporary Sex Magic and Its Transmission Issues » *
10h30-10h45 : pause café
Session 10 : Pandora’s box opened
10h45-12h30
Table ronde conclusive avec les participant᛫e᛫s du colloque, ainsi que (en ligne) Emily Selove (University of Exeter), Claire Fanger (Rice University), David Porreca (University of Waterloo), Kira Robison (University of Tennessee) et Dan Attrell (University of Waterloo)
OpenEdition vous propose de citer ce billet de la manière suivante :
Jean-Charles Coulon (1 septembre 2022). Magic Un/disciplined: A Societas Magica International Conference. Le monde des djinns. Consulté le 9 novembre 2024 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/ns86