Contemporary ‘Spiritual’ Practices,EASA Network, First Workshop

Thursday, April 7
5:00pm Introduction: Sara Le Menestrel (CNRS) & Thomas Witzeling (Unil Lausanne)
5:30-­‐7:00 Brief individual introductions
Friday, April 8s
9:30am Ongoing research groups:
-­‐ Emily Pierini (Sapienza Università di Roma): « THETRANCE – Transnational healing:
Therapeutic trajectories in spiritual trance » and « HEAL – Network for the
ethnography of healing »
-­‐ Marta Contijoch Torres (Universitat de Barcelona): « Research Group on Religious
Mystics and Heterodoxies -­‐ GREMHER »
-­‐ Carine Plancke (Ghent University): « Cultural (re)appropriation and (de)gendered
becoming: Ethnographies of contemporary tantric spirituality »
-­‐ Emma Gobin (LAVUE, EPHE): « Comparative approaches to the New Age »
-­‐ Michael Houseman (EPHE) : « New forms of relational mediation Workshop »
10:30 Coffee break
10:45 Roundtable 1: Contested categories vs. analytical concepts (convenor: Laure Rakez)
12:15pm Lunch break
1:30 Round table 2: Negotiation of fieldwork/positionality/long-­‐term ethnography
(convenor : Nicolas Boissière)
3:00 Coffee break
3:15 Round table 3: Transnational circuits (convenors: Emily Pierini & Denise Lombardi)
4:45–6:00 Perspectives (2022 Belfast EASA conference, publication opportunities, website…)