Malgorzata Stelmaszyk (Manchester): Living the Dream: Nanai shamanic experiments and porous engagements in the Siberian Far East
| Dates: | 14 October 2024 |
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| Times: | 15:00 - 17:00 |
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| What is it: | Seminar |
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| Organiser: | School of Social Sciences |
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| Who is it for: | University staff, External researchers, Current University students |
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| Speaker: | Malgorzata Stelmaszyk |
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This presentation is about the ways in which shamanic practice is engaged in navigating and responding to the current climatic and geopolitical crisis in Far East Siberia through proposing experimental multiversal projects. It traces the manner in which a Nanai shaman brings together diverse techniques, such as shamanic dreams, storytelling, Christian prayers and game playing to materialise fragile moments of porosity between different systems of noticing-knowing-doing. Focusing on the tensions that this process implies, the presentation offers reflections on the notions of protest movements and resistance in areas of enforced silence and neglect. The insights provide further an opportunity to think about conceptual models addressing cross-disciplinary commitments in relation to climate change and the place of shamanic thought and practice within them.
Speaker
Malgorzata Stelmaszyk
Organisation: University of Manchester
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Hanson Room
Humanities Bridgeford Street
Manchester
