Chair person
PD. Dr. Jörg Gengnagel
Jörg Gengnagel has studied Indology and Religious Studies in Tübingen, Varanasi and Oxford. His dissertation deals with the theology of a medieval dualistic Shaiva tradition. As a member of the Varanasi Research Project at the South Asia Institute of Heidelberg University he conducted research and wrote his habilitation on the sacred topography and religious cartography of Banaras. At present he is member of the sub-project “Court Ritual in the Jaipur State” at the Collaborative Research Project “Dynamics of Ritual”. He co-edited volumes on Hindu and Buddhist Rituals in South Asia (2005), Visualizing Space in Banaras (2006) and on Processions (2008).
P 22 - Open Panel
Chair: Jörg Gengnagel joerg.gengnagel@urz.uni-heidelberg.de
Download preliminary daily schedule here (pdf)
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Common activities:
Reception
On Monday, 29 September, we will officially open the conference with a
reception from 19.30 to 22.30
Key Note Lecture
Tuesday, 30 September:
Key Note Speaker Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c.
"Magie und Ritual"
Plenary Discussion
Wednesday, 1 October at 18.00 introductory presentation:
Prof. Dr. Christoph Wulf, Freie Universität Berlin
"The Future of the Science of Ritual in a transcultural Context"
Exchange meeting
Thursday, 2 October from 9:00 - 12:00:
Exchange meeting between scientists from the German Archaeological Institute and the Collaborative Research Center SFB 619
Speakers (synonym for referee, panelist, active participant)
Day 1 – Monday, 29 September 2008
10:30-11:00 Jörg Gengnagel
Research on the Dynamics of Rituals
An Introduction
11:00-11:45 Mario Bührmann
Kultur und Riten in Bewegung.
Zur Konzeption von Kultur und rituellem Handeln bei
Edward Burnett Tylor
11:45:12:30 Ghanshyam S. Lal Devra
Evolution of antagonistic rituals in pre-modern societies -
A case study of Śaka
14:00-14:45 Daniel Graña-Behrens
The Cultural Memory of the Dead in pre-Hispanic and
contemporaneous Mesoamerica
14:45-15:30 Jongmyung Kim
Ancestor Worship Ritual and South Korea’s Modernization:
A Case Study of a Buddhist Ritual
16:00-16:45 Constantinos Macris
The Pythagorean funeral rites and observances revisited
16:45-17:30 Kamal Misra
Ratha Yātrā (car festival) of Lord Jagannath in Puri:
The Spirit of Communitas of a Hindu Ritual
17:30-18:15 Anne Mocko
Rewriting the Ritual: Pageantry, Ethnicity, and a San Francisco
Celebration of American Origins
Day 2 – Tuesday, 30 September 2008
9:00-9:45 Lukasz Oledzki
Herodotus and Scythian funeral ritual –
an attempt to performative interpretation
9:45-10:30 Martin Pehal and Olga Cieslarova
Corporeality as a Key to the Assessment of
the Dynamics of Ritualization
11:00-11:45 Angelo Torre
Ritual and jurisdiction in northern Italy,
XVIIth –XVIIIth century
11:45-12:30 Martina Seifert
Die „versteckte“ Ordnung.
Ikonographie, Ritual und die politische Funktion der Phratrien
14:00-14:45 Philippe Bornet
Rituals of Hospitality:
Shaping a Social Order through Domestic Practices
(Rabbinic Judaism)
14:45-15:30 Antonella Carfora
Rituals and festivals in the greek colonial world
16:00-16:45 Evelyn Yan Zhidan
Ingenious Dance: Women’s Reinvention of a Religious Performance
in Contemporary Rural China. A Case Study of the Flower Basket
Association in Eastern Henan Province
Many of the topics submitted for the conference cannot be conveniently assigned to any one of the planned panels. They focus on highly differing regional issues, subscribe to very heterogeneous research approaches, and represent the many disciplines that are currently generating a wealth of decisive impulses for ritual research. In short, they are of immense importance to ritual studies, and we consider it important that the conference includes precisely these fascinating contributions that resist categorisation. For this reason, SFB 619 has decided to run an open panel, which among other things will document the great potential that is to be found in ritual research.
