Presenters' Bios and Abstracts
Conference Presentations
Abimbola Adunni Adelakaun, The University of Texas, Austin: Healed through the Internet: Pentecostalism and Digital Miracles
Curtis Andrews, University of Alberta: Healing, Song, and Community Development at the Shrine of Torgbui Apetorku
Anna Arabindan-Kesson, Princeton University: Bush Tea and Archived Bodies: Plantation Returns as Forms of Healing
Kyle Brooks, Methodist Theological School in Ohio: “It’s a Homegoing, Not a Funeral” — The Sermonic Selection and Transcendent Possibility
Nia Campinha-Bacote, Sonic Medicine: Healing in the Midst of Death and Dying
Jesse Chevan, Columbia University: “Daddy Bailey Was All in My Room”: The United House of Prayer, Media, and Rejecting the “Zoom Church”
Yvonne Chireau, Swarthmore: Dialogic Keynote I: Stories, Rituals, and Ancestors on the Path to Healing
John Dankwa, Wesleyan University: Mourning the Dead, Healing the Living: Gyil Music in Funeral Ceremonies of the Dagara in Northwestern Ghana
Eric Galm, Trinity College (Hartford): A New Day Will Come: Intersections of Faith, Place, and Space in the Brazilian Congado Mineiro
Stephen Hamilton, Cloth, Medicine, and Material: Examining the History of Textile Arts and Sciences from Ancient Africa to The Americas
Melanie Hill, Yale University: Prayer, Prophecy, and Praise: The Science of Music and the Making of Sacred Space
Yanique Hume, University of the West Indies at Cave Hill, Barbados: Sensing Presence: Kumina and the Embodiment of Ancestral Wisdom
John Hunte, University of the West Indies at Cave Hill, Barbados: When Doption Becomes Language and Makes Road
Richard Jankowsky, Tufts University, discussant
Ireka Jelani, University of the West Indies at Cave Hill, Barbados: Activating the Healing Power of Herbs: Divine Sounds and Incantations
Nyasha Laing, Spirit Nation: Revitalizing Kumina Expressions
Samuel Llano, University of Manchester: Unruly Bodies: Curative Trance Dancing and Resistance in Colonial Morocco
Bárbaro Martínez-Ruiz, University of Oxford : Dialogic Keynote II: Healing Senses: Arts of the Afterlife
Marcela Perdomo, University of Pittsburgh: Repairing the Past through Spirit Possession among the Garifuna of Honduras
Braxton Shelley, Yale University: Dialogic Keynote II: Healing Senses: Arts of the Afterlife
Paul Stoller ,West Chester University (PA): Dialogic Keynote I: Stories, Rituals, and Ancestors on the Path to Healing
Federica Toldo, University of Udine (Italy): The Diacritical Role of Music and Dance within an Angolan Ritual Healing System
Tamara Turner, Max Planck Institute for Human Development (Germany): Moving Towards Painful Feelings: Notions and Suffering and Healing in North African Popular Islam