Workshop of the Visegrad Fund project “Assessing the study of religious change in Central- Eastern Europe”
New fields in the study of religious change in Central-Eastern Europe
23-24 March 2023
Comenius University in Bratislava
Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences
Mlynské luhy 4
821 05 Bratislava
The connection link for online participants will be communicated shortly
Program
Thursday – 23 March (room A103)
9:30 – 10:00 Welcome of participants
10:00 – 10:30 Opening and introduction:
Danijela Jerotijević, Director of the Department of Social Anthropology, Comenius University in Bratislava,
The Visegrad office representative,
The Visegrad project coordinators: Zuzana Bártová, Agata Ładykowska, Viola Teisenhoffer,
Daša Bombjaková, Slovak Association of Social Anthropology
10:30 – 11:30 Narrative compatibility as a prerequisite for the acculturation of Zen Buddhism in Europe – Adam Viskup (Department of Comparative Religion, Faculty of Arts, Comenius University in Bratislava)
11:30 – 12:30 Right-wing ideologies in spirituality before and after the regime change in Hungary – Endre Kovács (Interdisciplinary Social Research Ph.D. program, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest)
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch at Brewer (Osvetová 2881/2, 821 05 Bratislava)
14:00 – 15:00 Church of Scientology in Hungary, the first three decades – Attila Miklovicz (Doctoral School of Philosophy, University of Pécs)
15:00 – 16:00 New developments and perspectives for the Hungarian Church of Scientology in the past decade – Márk Nemes (Málnási Bartók György Doctoral School of Philosophy, University of Szeged)
16:00 – 16:15 Coffee break
16:15 – 17:15 Religion at a secular site of memorialization: Chapel of Reconciliation and the Berlin Wall Memorial – Piotr Winiarczyk (Instytut Archeologii i Etnologii, Polish Academy of Sciences / Instytut Etnologii i Antropologii Kulturowej, University of Warsaw)
17:15 – 17:45 Coffee break
17:45 – 19:00 Roundtable discussion – Approaches to the ethnographic study of religion: Between observation and participation
19:00 – 21:00 Dinner (TBA)
Friday – 24 March (room B122)
9:30 – 10:00 Reception of participants
10:00 – 11:00 Family Constellation work and virtual space: lessons of fieldwork during the Covid-19 pandemic – Andjela Djuric (Cultural Anthropology MA program, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest)
11:00 – 12:00 Alternative Spirituality in Times of Pandemic – Viktória Kováčová (Institute of Social Anthropology, Faculty of Social and Economical Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava)
12:00 – 13:30 Lunch at Brewer (Osvetová 2881/2, 821 05 Bratislava)
13:30 – 14:30 Challenging the binary principle: contemporary LGBTQ+ Wiccan practice in the Berkano Wicca Tradition in Hungary – Muhammad Amirul Haqqi (György Málnási Bartók Doctoral School of Philosophy, University of Szeged, Hungary)
14:30 – 15:30 Brazil-Hungary immigration flows and new religious practices in Hungary: the case of an Umbanda Temple in Budapest – Lais Trajano Mendes (Cultural Anthropology MA program, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest)
15:30 – 15:45 Coffee break
15:45 – 17:00 Tips and advice session on publishing, conferences and valorizing one’s research
The mentoring sessions will be convened by:
Kamila Baraniecka-Olszewska (Polish Academy of Sciences), Zuzana Bártová (Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University), Daša Bombjaková (Slovak Association of Social Anthropology), Helena Dyndová (Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, University of Pardubice), Agata Ładykowska (Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University), Peter Maňo (Institute of Ethnology and Social Anthropology, Slovak Academy of Sciences), Kinga Povedák (MTASZTE Convivence Religious Pluralism Research Group), István Povedák (Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University), Viola Teisenhoffer (Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University), Michal Uhrin (Department of Ethnology, Faculty of Arts of the Comenius University)