Conference Papers

 

2020     An Ethnographic Encounter with 'Transreligiosity': Embodying Spirituality, Resisting Epistemology. 16th EASA Biennial Conference, 20-24 July 2020, Virtual Lisbon conference, Lisbon, Portugal.

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2019     Anthropology of Religion ‘at home’: ethnographic and epistemological challenges of studying contemporary spirituality in southern Europe. 7th APA Congress, 4-7 June 2019, Lisbon, Portugal.

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2019    ‘Transnational’ spirituality and the ‘sacred self’: an ethnographic account of ‘alternative’ healing in southern Europe.’ 14th SIEF Congress, 14-17 April 2019, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.

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2016      Spirituality and Healing in Portugal and Greece: a comparative approach of alternative therapeutics. 12th International Conference of the SIEF Working Group Ethnology of Religion, 22-24 September 2016, Amsterdam, Holland.

 

2016     Contesting Religious Authority Through Alternative Healing in Portugal and Greece. EASR 2016 conference, 28 June-1 July 2016, Helsinki, Finland.

 

2015     Shamanism as/in ‘New Age’: transforming religious tradition in southern Europe. 12th International Conference of the International Society for Academic Study on Shamanism (ISARS). European Cultural Centre of Delphi (ECCD), 9-13 October 2015, Delphi, Greece.

 

2015      Reflecting upon religious heritage and spiritual utopia in Portugal and Greece. SIEF 12th Congress, 21-25 June 2015, Zagreb, Croatia.

 

2015      Portuguese Religiosity in Transformation: an anthropological discussion of ‘New Spirituality’ in Lisbon of crisis. I Congress Lusophone of the Science of Religions. Universidade Lusófona, 9 -13 May 2015, Lisbon, Portugal (in portuguese).

 

2014      Making Sense of contemporary Portuguese religiosity: perception, ritual performance, and spiritual healing in Lisbon. 11th Conference of the SIEF Working Group on Ethnology of Religion, CRIA-NAR e FCSH-UNL, 22-23 May 2014, Lisbon, Portugal.

 

2014      Spiritual movements in times of crisis: an anthropological account of esotericism in Portugal and Greece. Inform Anniversary Conference, 31 January-2 February 2014, London, United Kingdom.

 

2013      An ethnographer’s dilemma: investigating religious creativity in Lisbon. V Conference of the Portuguese Association of Anthropology (APA), 8-11 September 2013, Vila Real, Portugal.

 

2013      The transformation of ‘medical expertise’ in Lisbon, Portugal: reinventing the healer-patient relationship through complementary healing. Conference ‘Encounters and Engagements: Creating New Agendas for Medical Anthropology’. EASA-Medical Anthropology Network, AAA-Society for Medical Anthropology and URV, 12-14 June 2013, Tarragona, Spain.

 

2012      Beyond secularism, past religion: a new beginning for Portuguese religiosity. EASR 2012 conference, 23-26 Auguest 2012, Stockholm, Sweden.

 

2012      Creating certainty within European uncertainty: practising spirituality in present-day Lisbon. 12th Biennial EASA conference, 10-13 July 2012, Paris, France.

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2010     Spirituality within Religion: Gendered Responses to a Greek Spiritual Revolution. 11th Biennial EASA Conference, 24-27 August 2010, Maynooth, Ireland.

 

2009      Orthodoxy at the Crossroads: Religious Pluralism in the Greek ‘evil eye’. Second scientific workshop of the EASA Mediterraneanists Network, 5-7 November 2009, Athens, Greece.

 

2008     Anxious bodies, performing selves: Greek Orthodoxy in inter/action. 10th Biennial EASA Conference, 26-30 August 2008, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

 

2006   A sensory route of healing: triggering embodiment in the Greek ‘evil eye’. 9th Biennial EASA Conference, 18-21 September 2006, Bristol, United Kingdom.

 

 

Conference Organization

 

2021      4rth International Conference of the International Society for Academic Study on Shamanism (ISARS). Member of organizing and scientific committee, Sarawak, Borneo, Malaysia, August 2021 (postponed to 2022).

 

2019      3rd International Conference of the International Society for Academic Study on Shamanism (ISARS): 'Relations, connections, cosmologies: shamanism and spirit possession under the ethnographic lens'. Member of the organizing and scientific committee. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, November 17-30 2019, Santiago, Chile (cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances).

 

2015      1st International Conference of the International Society for Academic Study on Shamanism (ISARS): ‘Sacred Landscapes and Conflict Transformation. History, Space, Place and Power in Shamanism’. Member of the conference organizing committee. European Cultural Centre of Delphi (ECCD), 9-13 October 2015, Delphi, Greece.

 

2014      11th Conference of the SIEF Working Group on Ethnology of Religion: ‘Making Sense of Religion Performance, Art and Experience. Conference organization (with Clara Saraiva and Diana Espírito Santo). CRIA (NAR) e FCSH-UNL, 22-23 May 2014, Lisbon, Portugal.

 

 

Panel Organization

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2019     Anthropology of Religion in the contemporary world: contemplating upon the new challenges in the study of religiosity, spirituality and the sacred. Panel organized (with Anastasios Panagiotopoulos) at the 7th APA Congress, 4-7 June 2019, Lisbon, Portugal.

 

2019       Fluidity and transformation in contemporary religiosity: re-tracking the sacred in a changing world. Panel organized (with Denise Lombardi) at the 14th SIEF Congress, 14-17 April 2019, Theme: Track Changes: Reflecting on a Transforming World. Santiago de Compostela, Spain.

 

2015     From religious heritages to spiritual utopias: reflecting upon religiosity of the 21st century. Panel Organized (with Ana Clot Garrell) at the SIEF 12th Congress, 21-25 June 2015, Zagreb, Croatia.

 

2013     Creativity and Improvisation in contemporary Religious Experience. Panel organized (with Clara Saraiva) at the V Conference of the Portuguese Association of Anthropology, 8-11 September 2013, Vila Real, Portugal.

 

2012     Beyond Secularism: emerging religiosities in Europe. Panel organized in the 2012 EASR conference, 23-26 Auguest 2012, Stockholm, Sweden.

 

2012      Challenging religiosity in an uncertain Europe: the role of ‘New Spirituality’. Panel organized (with Katerina Ferkov) at the 12th EASA biennial conference, 10-13 July 2012, Paris, France.

 

 

Invited Lectures

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2017     The individualization of religious identity in southern Europe: pluralism, creativity and spiritual therapies in Portugal and Greece. Department of Anthropology, Panteion University of Athens, 29 November 2017, Athens, Greece.

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2017     From the ‘evil eye’ to energetic therapies: an ethnographic approach of alternative medicine in Greece. Institute of Mediterranean Studies, 23 November 2017, Rethymno, Crete, Greece.

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2017     Public Presentation of the book Orthodox Christianity in the 21st century, edited by Victor Roudometof and Vasilis Makrides, Thessaloniki: Epikentro. 25 May 2017, Athens, Greece.

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2016     Religious Syncretism and alternative therapies in Portugal and Greece: the ‘New Age’ phenomenon under an ethnographic gaze. Departmental Seminar, Department of History, Archaeology and Social Anthropology, University of Thessaly, 21 December 2016, Volos, Greece (in greek).

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2014      Searching for the ‘supernatural’ through the senses: a comparative ethnographic approach of alternative practices in Portugal and Greece.’ Seminar Series ‘Anthropological and interdisciplinary approaches of the senses and emotions’, organized by the Greek Society of Ethnology, 28 April 2014, Athens, Greece (in greek).

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2014      Religious pluralism and new forms of spirituality in Southern Europe. Department of Social and Political Sciences, University of Cyprus, 6 November 2014, Nicosia, Cyprus (in greek).

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2010      From Magic to New Age: mysticism and contemporary religiosity in northern Greece and Crete. Seminar Series ‘Anthropological and Historical Approaches to Magic’, organized by the Greek Society of Ethnology, 26 April 2010, Athens, Greece (in greek).