CREOR Graduate Student Conference: Myth, Magic and Medicine
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