Torino: Convegno di studi “Women, Religions and Gender Relations” (9-11 novembre 2016)

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Women, Religions and Gender Relations
Turin, 9-11 November 2016
University of Turin – Campus Luigi Einaudi – Lungo Dora Siena 100

Languages:
On the 9th the language of the conference will be Italian. On the 10th and 11th it will be English.

9 NOVEMBRE
MATTINO: 9.30-13.00

9.30 – 10.30: Saluti delle istituzioni e apertura lavori
– Stefania Palmisano (Università di Torino)
– Alberta Giorgi (Università di Coimbra)

10.30 -11.00: Coffee break

11.0 – 12.45: Tavola Rotonda – Donne, Religioni e Relazioni di Genere
Elisabetta Ruspini (Università di Milano-Bicocca): Genere e Religioni in Italia. Prove di istituzionalizzazione.
– Luigi Berzano (Università di Torino): Ministeri indisponibili per le donne nella Chiesa cattolica
– Franco Garelli (Università di Torino): La Religiosità dei giovani: differenze di genere
– Ilaria Zuanazzi (Università di Torino): L'anima femminile della Chiesa
– Paola Donadi (Università di Urbino): Il femminile tra funzione materna o virginale
12.45 -14.00 Buffet lunch POMERIGGIO: 14.00 – 18.00 14.00 -16.00:
Panel 1
Per una religiosità (al) femminile: esperienza spirituale, immaginari alternativi ed empowerment
Chair: Roberta Pibiri (Università di Torino)
– Emily Pierini (Università Americana di Roma): The Glastonbury Experience: Gender and Embodiment in the GoddessTemple
– Erika Bernacchi (Università di Firenze): Beyond God the Father: Goddess spirituality as a new form of women’s empowerment?
– Eleonora Graziani (Università di Coimbra): Chi è Maria Maddalena? Riflessioni sul Vangelo secondo Maria
– Marta Scaratti (University di Genova): Il pianto rituale nell'area mediterranea: le figure femminili del cordoglio

16.00-16.30: break

16.30 -18.30:
Panel 2
Identità religiosa e cambiamenti di status

Chair: Nicola Pannofino (Università di Torino)

– Carla Bertolo (Università di Padova): Spiritualità del corpo e percorsi di soggettivizzazione
– Maria Alessandra Bianchi (Università di Aix-en-Provence): Questioni di genere nel percorso di conversione di alcuni attori “occidentali” al buddismo dzogcen
– Monica Chilese (Osservatorio Socio-Religioso Triveneto): Modelli di coniugalità diaconale della Chiesa cattolica. Riflessioni da un’indagine sul diaconato permanente
– Mara Tognetti Bordogna (Università Milano-Bicocca) e Alberto Mascena (Università di Bergamo): Unioni miste e radicalizzazione religiosa delle donne

10 NOVEMBER
MORNING: 9.30-13:00

9.00 – 10.30
Keynote Speech: Kristin Aune (Coventry University): Representations of Religion on a British feminist webzine
Introduced by Maria Chiara Giorda (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento)

10.30-11.00: Coffee Break

11.0 – 13.00 | Parallel Sessions Panel 3
Mysticism, Spiritualism, Politheism
Chair: Marianna Zanetta (Università di Torino)
– William Pawlett (University of Wolverhampton): The Threat of Mysticism: Angela of Foligno, Teresa of Avila and Georges Bataille
– Daniela Calvo (Università di Rio de Janeiro): Women’s role in Candomblé’s history and
ritual
– Florence Pasche Guignard (University of Fribourg) and Giulia Pedrucci (University of Bologna): Motherhood/s and Polytheisms: Epistemological and Methodological. Reflections on the Study of Religions, Gender, and Women
– Jemelka Martin and ŠTOFANÍK Jakub (Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences): Silesian folk spiritualism across gender, class and nationalities: the case of Terézie Černá

Panel 4
Gender and Islam
Chair: Chiara Maritato (Università di Torino)
– Caterina Peroni (University of Padua) and Elisa Rapetti (University of Milan): To ban or not to ban? The feminist dilemma regarding Burkini
– Lieke Schrijvers (Utrecht University): Being Dutch, become other. Representing women’s conversion to Islam in the Netherlands in van Hagelslag naar Halal
– Johanna Lems (University of Madrid): In search of authority. Young Muslim women and religious knowledge in Madrid
– Laura Ferrero (University of Turin): Gendering Islam, gendering Migration. Egyptian women and their role in a local mosque.

13.00-14:00 Buffet lunch

AFTERNOON: 14.00 – 18.30

14.0 -16.00 | Parallel Sessions Panel 5
Gender, Religion and Migration
Chair: Alessandro Gusman (Università di Torino)
– Francesca Scrinzi (University of Glasgow): Women and gender in a Latin American migrant Evangelical church (Italy)
– Alison Halford (Coventry University): Does the movement ‘Ordain Women' represent the voice of Mormon Women? American exceptionalism and contested territory in European Mormon Feminism.
– Carlo Nardella (University of Milan): The sacralization of differences. Gender and Sexuality in a Filippino Catholic celebration
– Line Nyhagen (University of Loughborough): Gender Equality, Women’s Movements
and Feminism as Contested Categories: A Case Study of Christian and Muslim women in Europe
Panel 6 – Roundtable
Mā: exploring and expanding (the multifarious aspects of) an archetypal role C

lineages
– Romina Rossi (University of Rome Sapienza): A Psychoanalytical Perspective on the Institutionalization of Maternity in Hindu India
– Paolo E. Rosati (University of Rome Sapienza): The mother Goddess Kāmākhyā: matrilinear tribes' influences on a tantric Cutl
– Letizia Trinco, (University of Rome Sapienza): On “failure-at-motherhood”, vengeful spirits and shrines: some folk Hinduism strategies to cope with inauspiciousness
– Consuelo Pintus (University of Milan): Silence or struggle? A new interpretation of Dalit
women’s identity through the role of the mother.
16.00 -16.30 Coffee break

16.30 -18.30 | IARG meeting

11 NOVEMBER
MORNING: 9.00 – 13.30

9.0 – 11.00 | Parallel Sessions Panel 7
Womanhood and Manhood in Religions Chair: Luca Ozzano (University of Turin)
– Maria Caterina Mortillaro (University of Milano-Bicocca) Women and the Sacred Dance. Hindu and Christian Perspectives on the female dancing body

– Daan Oostven (University of Amsterdam): Multiple religious belonging and hybrid religiosity from the perspective of gender and post-colonial studies
– Darai Saddik (Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University) and Mohamed Bouazzi (University of Casablanca): The impact of cultural factors on men’s and women’s religiosity: Moroccan university students as a case study
– Katarzyna Leszczyńska (AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow): Womanhood as a normative ideal and womanhood as social practice. Strategies of being women in the Roman Catholic Church organizations in various cultural and institutional contexts

Panel 8
Changing roles of women in religious organizations Chair: Alberta Giorgi (University of Coimbra)
– Fran Handrik (University of Birmingham): The Changing role of Amish Women
– Stefanie Sinclair (The Open University): Gender, religion and historiography: Regina Jonas, ‘almost-forgotten’ first female rabbi
– Dominika Gruziel (The European University Institute): The alteration of the XIX century Catholic female laity’s religious expression – an investigation of laywomen’s involvement in pious associations
– Sara Bonfanti (University of Bergamo): Jostling a priestly office? The ambivalence of religious ministry for South Asian diaspora women in Italy

11:00-11:30 Break

11.30 – 13.00
Panel 9
Religion and Female Sexuality Chair: Lia Zola (University of Turin)
– Nella Van der Brandt (Utrecht University) Rethinking Emancipation and Religious Traditions
– Sylwia Urbańska (University of Warsaw): The forgotten connection: Religion, women’s global migration, and gender revolution
– Jelle Wiereng (University of Groningen): There is a Sexular Body: Introducing a Material Approach to The Secular
– An Van Raemdonck (Ghent University): Egyptian women making sense of Female Genital Cutting (FGC): an Islamicate practice

13:00-13:30
Concluding remarks and publication plans Chair: Alberta Giorgi (University of Coimbra)