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The colloquium Gesture and Belief, organized under the framework of the group Religious Practices and Sociabilities (CITCEM), intends to be an international and interdisciplinary platform of discussion for young researchers who carry out their investigation within the Religious Studies.
In order to explore and disseminate new and wide-ranging perspectives about the different understandings of the religious phenomenon, this meeting invites contributions from the various fields of Social and Human Sciences, so as to cultivate plural and comparative interpretations. |
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Call for Papers |
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In the last decades, the body’s role and its agency have gained new centrality in the analysis of the religious experience. Through its connection with materiality, the religious expression surpasses the spiritual to be understood as a chain of relationships and encounters between bodies, objects and sensory stimuli.
Accordingly, under the premise of routes, transfers and intermediality, this event seeks innovative readings on subjects that discuss, question and rethink dynamics of circulation, transmission and alterity, through an exchange of ideas and objects of study, which crosses borders and disciplines. Proposals that address any of these topics are particularly welcome: - Sensory stimuli and religious experience - Pilgrimages, romarias and processions - Images and practices - The book inside and outside the monastic scope - Religious syncretism and the new cults of a globalized world. |
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Proposals for 20 minute presentations will be accepted in Portuguese, Castilian, French and English. These should be sent by December 31, 2018, in PDF format to: [email protected] and include the following data: full name of the researcher and institutional affiliation; title of the presentation; abstract (between 150 and 200 words); short biography (no more than 8 lines); email address and phone number. The results will be announced from January 20, 2019. The programme will be announced on February 1, 2019.
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Keynote
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Juan Antonio Sánchez López
Prof. at the Department of Art History of the University of Malaga. López Sánchez earned his PhD in History from the University of Malaga with the thesis El Alma de la Madera. Cinco siglos de Iconografía y Escultura procesional en Málaga, awarded with the Extraordinary Prize of Doctorate in 1993-1994. He was Scientific Director of the Museo de Arte Sacro de la Abadía Cisterciense de Santa Ana (1997-2013) and a scientific advisor of the National Gallery of Art (London) for the exhibition “The Sacred Made Real. Spanish Painting and Sculpture 1600-1700” (2009-2010). In 2013, he co-directed the first Master’s degree in “Spanish Baroque Sculpture” at the International University of Andalucía. His research focuses primarily on religious iconography and sculpture in Early Modern Spain and Italy, with parallel incursions into artistic literature, architecture, public sculpture, gender studies and, more recently, the aesthetics of the music video. In addition to publishing extensively on these topics in journals and conference proceedings of international reach, he is acknowledged for the following individual works: Muerte y Cofradías de Pasión en la Málaga del siglo XVIII. La imagen procesional del Barroco y su proyección en las mentalidades (1990), Cesare Arbassia y la Literatura Artística del Renacimiento (2002, co-written with E. Blázquez Mateos), La Voz de las Estatuas. Escultura, arte público y paisajes urbanos de Málaga (2005), De Saulo a Paulo. Perspectiva iconográfica y dimensión artística del llamado «Apóstol de los Gentiles» (2008), Modus Orandi. Estudios sobre iconografía procesional y escultura del Barroco en Málaga (2010), Statio Urbis. Rito, ceremonia y estaciones de penitencia en la Catedral de Málaga (2012) and Francisco Palma Burgos (1918-1985). El drama de la escultura (2018). He was also part of numerous well-known collective publications, such as the recent Escultura Barroca Española: nuevas lecturas desde los siglos de oro a la sociedad del conocimiento (2016), coord. by A. Fernández Paradas. Pedro Queirós Pereira
Prof. at the School of Health of Viana do Castelo Polytechnic Institute in the disciplinary group Psychological and Social Sciences. Holds a Bachelor’s degree in Anthropology from the University Fernando Pessoa, a Master’s degree in Anthropology from the University of Minho and attended the postgraduate courses on Religious Dynamics and Therapeutic Practices and Cultural Diversity at the School of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon. Acknowledged for his anthropological approach to the pilgrimage to Fátima, which resulted in the publication of Peregrinos: Um Estudo Antropológico das Peregrinações a Pé a Fátima (Lisbon, Piaget, 2003). In 2013 he earned his Doctoral degree in Anthropology from ISCTE – University Institute of Lisbon, with the thesis Em busca da saúde: o culto da Senhora da Saúde numa perspetiva antropológica, in which he explores the connection between health and religion through the analysis of worship places, the movements of believers and images and the reciprocities in the relationship between devotees and Our Lady of Health. Within the scope of this theme, he has contributed to several national and international scientific publications and meetings. Post-doctorate in Anthropology by the School of Social and Political Sciences of the University of Lisbon. |
Pierre-Olivier Dittmar
Prof. at the School of Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS), researcher at GAHOM - Groupe d'Anthropologie Historique de l'Occident Médieval (CHR/EHESS) and statutory member of the recent Research Center Ahloma - Anthropologie Historique du long Moyen Âge (CHR/EHESS). His research focuses on medieval image theory and on the transfers between human and non-human, whether animal or artifact, during the Middle Ages. His PhD thesis L’invention de la bestialité. Une anthropologie du rapport homme-animal dans les années 1300 won the Prize for Best Thesis of the EHESS in 2010. In addition to a prolific and international production of articles and conferences, he notably co-wrote Image et Transgression au Moyen Âge (2008) with Gil Bartholeyns and Vincent Jolivet, Le monde Roman par delà le bien et le mal. Un iconographie du lieu sacré (2012) with Jérôme Baschet and Jean-Claude Bonne and Les héros de la pensée. A-Z. 26h (2012), a collaboration with Marc Augé, Daniel Fabre, Bastien Gallet. Emmanuel Giraud, Jacques Hainard, Serge Margel and David Zerbib. He also directed issue 6 (2009) of the journal Images Re-vues. Histoire, anthropologie et théories de l’art, under the theme «Devenir-Animal» and co-directed the collective works Adam et l’astragale. Essais d’anthropologie et d’histoire sur les limites de l’humain (2009) with G. Bartholeyns, Thomas Golsenne, Misgav Har-Peled and V. Jolivet, Faire l’anthropologie historique du Moyen Âge (2010), the 6th issue of the journal L’Atelier du Centre de Recherches Historiques with Elisa Brilli and Blaise Dufal, Les images dans l’Occident medieval (2015) with J. Baschet and Images de soi dans l’univers domestique XIIIe-XVIe siècles (2018) with Monique Bourin and G. Bartholeyns. Pierre-Olivier Dittmar is editor-in-chief of the journal Techniques & Culture since 2016. Rafael Mauricio Pérez García
Prof. at the Department of Early Modern History of the University of Seville. Holds a PhD in History from the University of Seville (2004). His first lines of research focused on Cultural and Spiritual History in fifteenth and sixteenth century Spain, which resulted in works such as Sociología y lectura espiritual en la Castilla del Renacimiento, 1470-1560 (Fundación Universitaria Española, Madrid, 2005) and La imprenta y la literatura espiritual castellana en la España del Renacimiento (Trea, Gijón, 2006), as well as numerous contributions published in various scientific journals, conference proceedings and books of international scope. In the last decade, Pérez García directed his research towards Social History, specifically to the study of social minorities in Early Modern Spain. In this regard he co-authored, together with Manuel F. Fernández Chaves, En los márgenes de la Ciudad de Dios. Moriscos en Sevilla (published by the Universities of Valencia, Granada and Zaragoza in 2009) and Las élites moriscas entre Granada y el Reino de Sevilla. Rebelión, castigo y supervivencias (University of Seville, 2015) and co-coordinated the publication of De que estamos falando? Antigos conceitos e modernos anacronismos: escravidão e mestiçagens (Garamond, Rio de Janeiro, 2016) together with Eduardo França Paiva and M. F. Fernández Chaves, besides producing a wide range of papers about the Moorish, slaves, poor and collective mentalities in Early Modern Spain. At the moment he is committed to the reconstruction of the merchant community of sixteenth century Seville and its relation with the slave trade in the Atlantic. |
Synopsis
In Senhora Aparecida, 50 Km from Porto, the atmosphere surrounding this year’s festivities is tense… The new priest is attempting to discourage the "promise payers" from having themselves carried in open coffins during the procession held in honor of Our Lady. Superstition is opposed by theological arguments: tradition and fidelity to the vows or reinterpretation, which will prevail? The conflict is unavoidable. At the village of Senhora Aparecida the festivities of August are set. Those who have escaped death now celebrate life. |
Catarina Alves Costa is an anthropologist and filmmaker. She is known for directing Senhora Aparecida: The Living and the Dead of Aparecida (1994), Swagatam (1998) Mais Alma (2000), O Arquitecto e a Cidade Velha (2004), Nacional 206 (2009), Falamos de António Campos (2010) Pedra e Cal (2016), among other documentaries. She studied Social Anthropology, holds a Master’s degree in Visual Anthropology from the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology of the University of Manchester with a scholarship granted by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, and a PhD from the Universidade Nova de Lisboa with the thesis Camponeses do Cinema. Representações da Cultura Popular no Cinema Português. In 2000, she co-founded the film production company Laranja Azul, where she produced movies by Daniel Blaufuks, Sílvia Firmino and João Ribeiro, amongst others. Catarina is a professor at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa and coordinator of the Master’s degree in Anthropology – Visual Cultures. She coordinates the Visual Anthropology and Arts Laboratory (NAVA) of the Centre for Research in Anthropology (CRIA). She also teaches at postgraduate courses of the Universidade de São Paulo, the Universitat de Barcelona and at the Lisbon Docs.
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Organization |
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Scientific Commission
Celso dos Santos Prof. at the Department of Heritage Studies (FLUP) Helena Osswald Prof. at the Department of History, Political and International Studies (FLUP), Researcher at CITCEM/UP Helena Vilaça Prof. at the Department of Sociology (FLUP), Researcher at the Institute of Sociology/UP Luís Fardilha Prof. at the Department of Portuguese and Romance Studies (FLUP), Coordinator of the CITCEM/UP RG Religious Practices and Sociabilities Nuno Resende Prof. at the Department of Heritage Studies (FLUP), Researcher at CITCEM/UP Zulmira Santos Prof. at the Department of Portuguese and Romance Studies (FLUP), Researcher at CITCEM/UP Executive Commission Diana Pereira PhD candidate in Art History (FLUP/FCT), integrated researcher at CITCEM/UP Inês Afonso Lopes PhD in Art History and Histoire et Civilisations (FLUP/EHESS/FCT), integrated researcher at CITCEM/UP Rosa María Sánchez PhD candidate in Literary, Cultural and Interartistic Studies (FLUP/FCT), integrated researcher at CITCEM/UP Image Álvaro Dias FBAUP Secretariat Marlene Cruz Vanessa Sousa Learn more about the group Religious Practices and Sociabilities. |
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Deadlines |
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December 31, 2018
Deadline for abstract submissions January 20-25, 2019 Submission results February 1, 2019 Programme publication and registration opening March 15, 2019 Deadline for registration July 14, 2019 Submission of papers for peer-review October 2019 Results |
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Registration |
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Location |
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Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto
Via Panorâmica, s/n, 4150-564 Porto Portugal |
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How to get here
By bus: lines 200, 204, 207, 209, 902 and 903 (bus stop Junta Massarelos) By metro: lines A, B, C, E and F (20 minute walk from Casa da Música or Carolina Michaelis metro stations) |