Healing with More-than-Humans: Environment, Historicities, and Sacred Materialities
This symposium will be held primarily at Miller Hall (406 Prospect St., New Haven), with a portion at the Sterling Divinity Quadrangle's Great Hall (409 Prospect St., New Haven). This is a hybrid event, with attendance feasible both in-person and via webinar link.
The event Healing with More-than-Humans: Environment, Historicities, and Sacred Materialities is a two-day Symposium bringing together scholars in the field of anthropology and practitioners (religious practitioners, healers, dancers and artists). The event will be held in a hybrid format with speakers attending in person at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music along with the Yale community, and online attendance will also be made available. The event merges scholarly paper sessions with expressive culture workshops, such as dance, storytelling, sacred art and performances centered around the relationship with more-than-humans held by anthropologists-practitioners.
This symposium explores the connections between sacred histories, historicities—i.e., the ways in which time and temporality are understood, experienced, and lived—and well-being by means of an engagement with more-than-humans through expressive and material cultures.
Free and open to the public.
Please register if you plan on attending lunch at the symposium. Registration is only required for lunch and not for the overall event.
This symposium is convened by Emily Pierini, Giovanna Capponi and Giovanna Parmigiani. Sponsored by the Institute of Sacred Music’s Religion, Ecology, and Expressive Culture Initiative.
Contact: Katya Vetrov
Photo: Henk Kieft