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Religious Healing and Sacred Health Curing: Online Documentary Film Program and Debate (week 6)

Webinar Registration

Topic

Religious Healing and Sacred Health Curing: Online Documentary Film Program and Debate (week 6)

Description

Please join our fifth biweekly webinar (19 September 2020), documentary film presentation and debate organized by the Network of the Anthropology of the Middle East and Central Eurasia of EASA in collaboration with the Religion and Society Research Cluster, Western Sydney University.

Introduction to the session by Dr. P. Khosronejad (Western Sydney University), debate by Dr. Natasha Fijn (Australian National University) researcher and director, discussants Prof. Geoffrey Samuel (University of Sydney) and Dr Natalie Kohle (Hong Kong Baptist University).

Film presentation

Two Seasons: multispecies medicine in Mongolia Natasha Fijn, 2018, 62 minutes, Mongolia.

Synopsis

This multispecies-based observational film engages with Mongolian herders medicinal knowledge and perceptions in relation to other species. The documentary was filmed within three separate homelands (or nutag) in spring and again in autumn. The film follows different protagonists: Ganbaa travels with the filmmaker to reconnect with his extended family and friends, Nara lives in a herding encampment during the warmer months, while herding couple Bor and Bombog remain herding in the valley they grew up in. The film conveys how medicinal knowledge is actively passed on through forms of mentorship and everyday application within their extended kinship networks. In spring the herders focus is on the birth of newborn animals and boosting immunity. In autumn the focus is on collecting medicinal herbs from the mountainsides, while preparing hay for the long winter months.

After the film, a debate with the presence of the filmmaker.

A link will be provided to all participants after the introduction debates to watch the film online or via screen sharing through the moderators screen.

This webinar will be held on Zoom.

Time

September 19, 2020 10:00 AM London

Registration https://uws.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_EYp8aMrITau_eme38ksEJw

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Dr. Pedram Khosronejad | Adjunct Professor

Religion and Society Research Cluster | School of Social Sciences

E: P.Khosronejad@westernsydney.edu.au

Fellow | Department of Anthropology | Harvard University

| Chief Editor, Anthropology of the Contemporary MiddleEast and Central Eurasia, SeanKingston.

| Series Editor, The Anthropology of Persianate Societies, SeanKingston.

| Series Editor, Iranian and Persian Gulf Studies, LIT Verlag.

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