Conference Schedule
Africana Sacred Healing Arts
Greenberg Conference Center, Yale University
391 Prospect St., New Haven
Monday, May 16, 2022
Afternoon
1:00 – 1:30 | Arrival and Check-in
1:30 - 1:35 | Welcome Martin Jean, director of the ISM
1:35 – 3:05 | Art, Healing, Slavery (Dining Room)
- Anna Arabindan-Kesson, “Bush Tea and Archived Bodies: Plantation Returns as Forms of Healing”
- Stephen Hamilton, “Cloth, Medicine, and Material: Examining the History of Textile Arts and Sciences from Ancient Africa to The Americas”
- Marcela Perdomo, “Repairing the Past through Spirit Possession among the Garifuna of Honduras”
- Bernard Gordillo, chair
3:00 – 3:30 | Coffee Break
3:30 – 4:30 | Pentecostal Healing and Digital Religion (Dining Room)
- Abimbola Adunni Adelakun, “Healed Through the Internet: Pentecostalism and Digital Miracles”
- Jesse Chevan, “’Daddy Bailey Was All In My Room’: The United House of Prayer, Media, and Rejecting the ‘Zoom Church’ ”
- Elizabeth McAlister, chair
4:30 – 5:30 | Opening Reception (Foyer/Patio)
Dinner on your own. There will be a reservation sign-up form to group conference attendees at downtown restaurants.
Tuesday, May 17, 2022
Morning
9:00 – 10:00 | Continental Breakfast (Upper Lobby)
10:00 – 11:00 | Dialogic Keynote I: Stories, Rituals and Ancestors on the Path to Healing (Dining Room)
- Yvonne Chireau
- Paul Stoller
- Kyrah Malika Daniels, moderator
11:00 – 11:15 | Morning Break
11:15 – 12:45 | Mediating Pain: Sufism and Healing in North Africa (Amphitheatre)
- Tamara Turner, “Moving Towards Painful Feelings: Notions and Suffering and Healing in North African Popular Islam”
- Samuel Llano, “Unruly Bodies: Curative Trance Dancing and Resistance in Colonial Morocco”
- Richard Jankowsky, Discussant
- Eben Graves, Chair
Afternoon
12:45 – 1:45 | Lunch (Dining Room)
1:45 – 3:15 | Sacred Space & Ritual Music in Black Atlantic Healing (Amphitheatre)
- Federica Toldo, “The Diacritical Role of Music and Dance Within an Angolan Ritual Healing System”
- Curtis Andrews, “Healing, Song, and Community Development at the Shrine of Torgbui Apetorku”
- Eric Galm, “A New Day Will Come: Intersections of Faith, Place, and Space in the Brazilian Congado Mineiro”
- Nia Campinha-Bacote, chair
3:15 – 3:45 | Coffee Break (Upper Lobby)
3:45 – 4:15 | Standalone Performance-Demonstration (Dining Room)
- Melanie R. Hill, “Prayer, Prophecy, and Praise: The Science of Music and the Making of Sacred Space”
4:15 | Dinner on your own. There will be a reservation sign-up form to group conference attendees at downtown restaurants.
Wednesday, May 18
Morning
9:00 – 10:00 | Continental Breakfast (Upper Lobby)
10:00 – 11:00 | Dialogic Keynote II: Healing Senses: Arts of the Afterlife (Dining Room)
- Bárbaro Martínez-Ruiz
- Braxton Shelley
- Kyrah Malika Daniels, chair
11:00 – 11:15 | Morning Break
11:15 – 12:45 | Death as Initiation: Funerals, Healing, and Expressive Culture (Amphitheatre)
- Kyle Brooks, “It’s a Homegoing, Not a Funeral” – The Sermonic Selection and Transcendent Possibility”
- John Dankwa, “Mourning the Dead, Healing the Living: Gyil Music in Funeral Ceremonies of the Dagara in Northwestern Ghana”
- Nia Campinha-Bacote, “Sonic Medicine: Healing in the Midst of Death and Dying”
- Heba Abdelfattah, chair
Afternoon
12:45 – 1:45 | Lunch (Dining Room)
1:45 – 3:45 | Divine Sounds & Sacred Movements: The Healing Power of Words, Breath, and Dance in Spiritual Baptist and Kumina (Amphitheatre)
- John Hunte, “When Doption Becomes Language and Makes Roads” (Zoom)
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Ireka Jelani, “Activating the Healing Powers of Herbs: Divine Sounds and Incantations” (Zoom)
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Yanique Hume (chair), “Sensing Presence: Kumina and the Embodiment of Ancestral Wisdom”
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Nyasha Laing, “Spirit Nation: Revitalizing Kumina Expressions”
3:45 – 4:00 | Coffee Break (Upper Lobby)
4:00 –5:00 | Concluding Discussions (Amphitheatre)
Dinner on your own. There will be a reservation sign-up form to group conference attendees at downtown restaurants.
Departures