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The workshop focuses on causal concepts in illness and health. Researchers from psychology, philosophy, health sciences and anthropology will investigate how lay people and experts explain illness, conceptualize healing and select interventions. The workshop takes place in the context of the ZiF-Research Group “The Cultural Constitution of Causal Cognition.
Convenors: York Hagmayer (London), Hans Markowitsch (Bielefeld), Thomas Widlok (Nijmegen)
Venue: Center for Interdisciplinary Research, Bielefeld University, Wellenberg 1, 33615 Bielefeld, Germany, December 12-13, 2011.
Program:
12th December 2011
9:30 Introduction
York Hagmayer, Hans Markowitsch and Thomas Widlok
(workshop convenors)
10:15 Magic in Medicine? Causal Beliefs in Healing Rituals
Bernd-Christian Otto (Erfurt University)
11:15 Coffee break
11:45 Scientific Knowledge versus Analogy Ideas in Cognitive Models of Causation.
Examples from Pre-Scientific Medicine in Melanesia and Europe
Wulf Schiefenhövel (Max Planck Institute for Ornithology)
12:45 Lunch
14:15 Disease, Dislocation and Healing in the 'Great Society of the World'
Don Gardner (Luzern and Canberra Universities)
15:15 Evidence from the Supernatural: Evaluating Ritual Efficacy
Cristine Legare (University of Texas, Austin)
16:15 Coffee break
16:45 Causes and Probabilities for Health
Federica Russo (Kent University and Free University Brussels)
18:00 Dinner at ZiF
13th December 2011
9:30 Shamanism (Meditation, Yoga, Non-Dual Mindfulness):
A Magical or a Deep Ecological Healing Consciousness?
Renaud van Quekelberghe (Koblenz University, Landau)
10:30 How different Indian Medical Practitioners explain Rising Rates of Depression
Stefan Ecks (Edinburgh University)
11:30 Coffee break
12:00 Clinical Causal Reasoning in Mental Health Care
Cilia Witteman (Nijmegen University)
13:00 Lunch
14:30 Tracing Topoi: Causality in Witch Construction, Divination and Sukuma Magic
Koen Stroeken (Gent University)
15:30 Magical Moments and Pathological Aspects of Body Modification
Aglaja Stirn and Johanna Möller (Westklinikum Hamburg)
16:30 Coffee break
17:00 Conclusions and Way Forward
York Hagmayer, Hans Markowitsch and Thomas Widlok
The conference will be held in English.
For further information please visit our website: http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/(en)/ZIF/FG/2011Cognition/events/12-12-Hagmayer.html
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