Book of Abstracts: Here
Program:
Friday 3 June 2016
9:00-9:45 | Registration and Refreshment |
9:45-10:00 | Workshop Opening |
10:00-11:00 | Keynote Lecture I: Michael Strmiska“Pagan Politics in the 21st Century: 'Peace and Love' or 'Blood and Soil” |
11:00-11:30 | Coffee Break |
11:30-12:00 | Giuseppe Maiello “How much was important for Czech contemporary Pagans and Native Faith believers to have their own particular funeral” |
12:00-12:30 | Jennifer Uzzel “Walking the Crow Road: An investigation into funeral practices among contemporary Pagans in the UK” |
12:30-14:30 | Lunch Break |
14:30-15:00 | Scott Simpson “Do Politics and Religion Mix in 21st Century Rodzimowierstwo?” |
15:00-15:30 | Jan Merička “Relation and Trends of Pagans to ‘extremism’” |
15:30-16:00 | Coffee Break |
16:00-16:30 | Matouš Vencálek “Religious, Socio-cultural and Political Worldviews of Contemporary Czech Pagans” |
16:30-17:00 | Miroslav Vrzal “Pagan terrorism? Pagan motives for church burnings in the early 90s Norwegian black metal subculture” |
17:00-19:00 | Conference Dinner |
19:30-??:?? | Social Event (KRYT): Private concert of the band Barbar punk |
Saturday 4 June 2016
9:00-10:00 | Keynote Lecture II: Agita Misāne“Are the gods back? Consideration on the political promise of the contemporary paganism” |
10:00-10:30 | Coffee Break |
10:30-11:00 | Eglė Aleknaitė “Participation of contemporary Pagans in heritagization and history politics: struggles of Pagans and Catholics in Lithuania at the end of the 20th- the beginning of 21st century” |
11:00-11:30 | László Kövecses “Un-national Estonian and Russian pagan identity?” |
11:30-13:30 | Lunch Break |
13:30-14:00 | Adam Anczyk “Science and/vs Mythopoeia: some remarks in the margins of M. A. Murray’s “The Witch Cult in Western Europe” |
14:00-14:30 | Jan Reichstäter “The decline of Celtic neopaganism in the Czech Republic?: Towards the factors of growth and erosion of the Czech celtophilia” |
14:30-15:00 | Coffee Break |
15:00-16:30 | General Discussion |
16:30-16:45 | Closing Words |
17:00-??:?? | Unofficial Social Event |
Keynote speakers
Michael Strmiska
Michael Strmiska is Assistant Professor of World History in the Global Studies Department at SUNY-Orange in New York State in the USA and has also taught courses in Modern Paganism and New Religious Movements at Hampshire College in Massachusetts. He was the editor and a co-author of Modern Paganism in World Cultures: Comparative Perspectives. His research on Baltic and Norse-Germanic Paganism has been featured in a number of journals including Nova Religio, The Pomegranate and the Journal of Baltic Studies. In the fall of 2015, he was a visiting lecturer at Masaryk University. Dr. Strmiska is currently at work on a book entitled Unchristian Eastern Europe: Pagans, Jews and Gypsies. His research interests involve the political dimensions of modern Pagan and Native Faith movements in Scandinavia, Eastern Europe, and the United States, the interaction between popular culture and Paganism, and developing ethnically rooted but non-racist forms of Paganism.
Agita Misāne
Agita Misāne is a researcher at the Advanced Social and Political Research Institute, University of Latvia and also teaches sociology of religion and sociological theory at the Department of Sociology at the University of Latvia. Her research interests and publications deal with the history of religious ideas, and current religious developments and contemporary spirituality in the Baltic States. She has been interested in the relationship of neo-paganism and nationalism since late 1990s. She has published numerous articles in English and Latvian on the Dievturi Pagan movement in Latvia, is a frequent media commentator on Latvian-Russian ethno-politics and from 2004 to 2008 she served as an adviser to the Special Assignments Minister for Social Integration of the Republic of Latvia. Currently, she is working on a book entitled "Religion and Latvian Nationalism in the History of Ideas in Latvia." Her keynote lecture is expected to explore the ethnic identity constructions of contemporary Latvian and Russian Paganism and their political and social implications.