[Bilimsel Haber] WORKSHOP- Understanding Illness and Healing in Islamic Societies, March 31-April 1, Halle, Germany

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Kimden: Ildiko Beller-Hann <ildiko.beller-hann at owz.uni-halle.de>

WORKSHOP- Understanding Illness & Healing in Islamic Societies, March 
1-April 1

International Workshop

Orientwissenschaftliches Zentrum

Martin-Luther-Universitaet
Halle-Wittenberg, Germany

31 March-1 April 2006

The Social Dimensions of Understanding Illness and Healing: Islamic
Societies from Africa to Central Asia

Funded by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation

Program:

Friday, 31st March 2006

09.00 Registration

09.45 Welcome Address - Stefan Leder (director of the Centre for Oriental
Studies), Ildiko Beller-Hann

10.00 Section 1: Africa (chair: Hanne Schonig)

Sara Randall (UK: University College London, Anthropology)
Women's Health as a Justification for Contraceptive Use: Wolof in Senegal

Marja Tiilikainen (Finland: University of Helsinki, Department of Sociology)
Witches, Spirits and Human Worlds: Ethnographic Notes from Northern Somalia

Gerda Sengers (The Netherlands: free-lance consultant, Amsterdam)
Are Zar-Ceremonies Indeed Unislamic and is Koran Healing Fully in 
Accordance
with the Islamic Faith? An Anthropological View

11.30 Section 2: Arabian Peninsula (chair: Hanne Schonig)

Anne Regourd (France: Sorbonne, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes)
'Unclean Blood' (al-dam al-fasid): The Practice of Wet Cupping and the
Representation of Blood in the Highlands of Yemen

12.00 Discussion

12.15 Lunch

14.00 Section 3: Iran (chair: Hanne Schonig)

Ekaterina Rodionova (Russia: Saint Petersburg State University, Faculty of
Oriental and African Studies, Middle East History Dept.)
Traditional Ways to Take Care of Mother and Child in Iran

14.30 Section 4: Turkey & Central Asia (I) (chair: Mona Schrempf)

Sylvia Onder (USA: Georgetown University, Washington D.C., Division of
Eastern Mediterranean Languages)
Nazar in Context: Contemporary Turkish Manifestations of a Traditional
Islamic Concept

15.00 Tea and coffee break

15.15 Annette Kramer (Germany: Humboldt Universitaet Berlin, Institut fuer
Asien- und Afrikawissenschaften, Zentralasien-Seminar)
Pluralism of Medical Systems and Health-Seeking Behaviour in Central 
Asia: a
New Field of Research

Habiba Fathi (Uzbekistan: French Institute for Central Asian Studies, 
Tashkent)
The Traditional Curative Practices of the Body among Muslim Believers of 
the
Newly Independent States of Central Asia

16.15 Discussion

Saturday, 1st April 2006


09.00 Section 4: Central Asia (II) (chair: Mona Schrempf)

Paula Michaels (USA: University of Iowa, Department of History):
Kazakh Ethnomedicine and Soviet Biomedicine under Stalin

Danuta Penkala-Gawecka (Polen: Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan, Institute
of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology)
Complementary Medicine in Post-Soviet Kazakhstan: Doctors and Healers

Pawel Jessa (Polen: Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan, Institute of
Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology)
Ak Jol - Spiritual Healers. New Dimensions of Spiritual Healing in 
Kazakhstan

10.30 Tea and coffee break

10.45 Krisztina Kehl (Germany: Max-Planck Institute for Social 
Anthropology,
Halle/S.)
Controlling the Spirits - Women Healing Specialists in Post-Soviet 
Uzbekistan

Mathijs Pelkmans (Germany: Max-Planck Institute for Social Anthropology,
Halle/S.)
Establishing Credibility: Secular Legacies and New Spiritual Realities in
Post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan

11.45 Discussion

12.00 Closing session with general discussion on the perspectives for 
future
interdisciplinary cooperation

Discussant
Mona Schrempf (Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin, Institut fuer Asien- und
Afrikawissenschaften, Zentralasien-Seminar)

Venue:

Hallischer Saal, Burse zur Tulpe
Universitaetsring 5
06108 Halle
Germany

Convenors:
Ildiko Beller-Hann
Hanne Schonig

Dr Ildiko Beller-Hann
Orientwissenschaftliches Zentrum
Martin-Luther-Universitaet
Muehlweg 15
Halle/Saale
D-06114
Germany



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