ArgO-EMR Seminar - Oxford Talks

ArgO-EMR Seminar

The Anthropology Research Group at Oxford on Eastern Medicines and Religions (ArgO-EMR)

Michaelmas Term 2024 theme: Healing as Awakening: Mendrub Rituals in Perspective.

Wednesdays 17:00-18:30, unless otherwise stated, at the Pauling Centre, 58a Banbury Road and on Microsoft Teams.

To register to receive the Teams link, please contact one of the convenors: mailto:annasehnalova@cuhk.edu.hk or mailto:elisabeth.hsu@anthro.ox.ac.uk

Type: Seminar Series
Series organisers: Anna Sehnalova , Elisabeth Hsu
Timing: Wednesdays 17:00-18:30, Weeks 3, 5, 7, & 8, unless otherwise stated
Web Address: https://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/latest-news
Organising department: School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography

Wednesday 25 October 2023 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

12:00 - Female Body Parts as Drugs in Ming China
Chen Hsiu-fen (National Chengchi University)

Wednesday 22 November 2023 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

17:00 - The Art of Giving Birth in Chinese Medical Texts
Margaret Ng (College of Wooster)

Wednesday 30 October 2024 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

17:00 - Healing as awakening: the Mendrub ritual of the global Tibetan Bonpo community
Anna Sehnalova (Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Wednesday 13 November 2024 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

17:00 - Mendrub - A Bonpo ritual for the empowerment of medicine performed in Phoksumdo, Dolpo
Marietta Kind (Independent Scholar)

Wednesday 27 November 2024 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

17:00 - Medicinal Accomplishment and related rituals in the Nyingma Dudjom tradition
Cathy Cantwell (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 4 December 2024 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

17:00 - Singularity and multiplicity in Ladakhi mendrub practices
Calum Blaikie (Austrian Academy of Sciences)

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Editors: Laura Spence, Belinda Clark

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