Conference Speakers!

Svetlana Adonyeva St-Petersburg State University AND Olga Levitski Independent Scholar	Magic in the mundane-ritual speech register and magical communication in the Russian North
Caroline Batten University of Oxford	The One Who Can Speak This Charm’: The Poetics of the Old English Metrical Charms
Jaqueline Borsje University of Amsterdam	Expelling Nightmares
Laura Bruno Ghent University	Seven Old High German demons in a twelfth-century epilepsy charm
Marilina Cesario Queen’s University Belfast	A Man who hath fortune of the wedder in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Digby 88’: Between Physiognomy and Charms
Eleonora Cianci University of Chieti-Pescara	Say it, sing it. Verbal and visual instructions for Medieval German charms
Maria Pia Ester Cristaldi Marmara University of Istanbul	“The Greek alphabet, magic and horses: an analysis on the charms used in Greek horse medicine and in curse tablets related to the context of horse races.”
Giuseppe De Bonis University “L’Orientale” Napoli	Whispering, speaking and writing: diamesic variation in the Germanic tradition of charms
Vita Džekčioriūtė-Medeišienė Vilnius University	Tooth Formula: Practices and Verbal Charms of the First Shed Tooth in Traditional Lithuanian Culture
Bat-Zion Eraqi Klorman The Open University of Israel (OUI)	Kabbalist Charms, Torah Scrolls, and Magic among Jews and Muslims in Yemen
Liudmila V. Fadeyeva State Institute for Art Studies, Moscow	The Word as the Gesture: Allusions on the Christian Iconography in Russian Charms and Magic Formulas
Beatrice Fedi University of Chieti-Pescara	French love charms from anonyme Secrets magiques pour l’amour (1868): manuscript sources, typology, motives
Karel Fraaije UCL, London	“To Have and to Hold”: Early Germanic Legalese and the Old English Metrical Charm For Theft of Cattle
Lia Giancristofaro University of Chieti-Pescara	Deleting with words the “evil eye”: a folk documentation collected in the Abruzzi (1965-1970)
Sanda Golopentia Brown University, Providence, USA	Vague Terms Referring to Magical Practices in Romanian
Lubov Golubeva and Sofia Kupriyanova St. Petersburg, Russia	Taboo Words and Secret Language as Verbal Remedies in Childhood (Russian North)
Sarah Harlan-Haughey University of Maine, USA	Charms, changelings, and chatter—sonic magic in the Second Shepherds Play
Barbara Hillers Indiana University, Bloomington, USA	The Irish Fortunes of the Super Petram Charm
Katherine Storm Hindley Nanyang Technological University Singapore	Written in Blood and Written on Butter: The Materiality of Textual Charms in Late Medieval England
Erica C.D. Hunter SOAS University, London	Crossing the bridge: Christian formulae in Syriac incantation bowls and amulets
Henni Ilomäki Finnish Literature Society in Helsinki	On arguments of authority
Laura Jiga Iliescu The Romanian Academy-Institute of Ethnography and Folklore. Bucharest Romania	The Dream of the Mother of God in the postmodern Romania, between emic, etic and journalistic categories
Tuukka Karlsson University of Helsinki	Voices in Kalevala-meter Incantations: A New Methodological Approach
Dorit Kedar Freie University Berlin	A Magical Linguistic Style Spiraling within Incantation Bowls
Siria Kohonen University of Helsinki	Communication with supernatural agents in incantation texts – looking behind the scenes
Mare Kõiva Estonian Literary Museum, Tartu, Estonia	From silence to replacement names. The fringe areas of incantations and verbal charms
Katherine Leach University of Harvard, USA	The in principio as a (semi)vernacular charm text in late medieval Wales
Maria Cristina Lombardi University L’Orientale Napoli	A late Medieval charm on a Norwegian runic amulet
Francesco Malaguti Independent scholar	The magic of God and the divine names in the doctrine of Ibn Arabi
Pedro Monteiro University of Porto- Portugal	Narrative representations of charms in Portuguese 16th cent. Romances of Chivalry
Jack Montgomery Western Kentucky University, USA	Using charms for Sympathy: the verbal Powwow tradition in the American south
Maurizio Negro Presidente nazionale dell’Unione Folklorica Italiana (Gorizia)	Slavic Research in Resia Valley and in Friuli Venezia Giulia in the Nineteenth Century “the uniqueness of traditions in Resia Valley Italy
Sophia Nikolaou Sociologist	Survivals of the magic spells of Hecate, goddess of the moon and Medea her priestess’s into the myths of elves
Davor Nikolić University of Zagreb	The magic of sound: phonostylistic approach to verbal charms
Markéta Preininger Svobodová Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg	Between the word and the body: Tantalus amulets
Tiziana Quadrio Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg	Formulas of love-motivated rituals in the Greek magical papyri and curse tablets – A speech-act theoretical perspective
Elisa Ramazzina Queen's University Belfast	The Magic Colours of the Rainbow in Medieval English Charms
Theresa Roth Philipps-Universität, Marburg	What’s magic about therapeutic rituals?
Michael Schneider Bar Ilan University, Tel Aviv	Magical letters and the body of God
Aliaksandra Shrubok Belarus, Minsk and Tatsiana Valodzina Belarus, Minsk	A Historiola in Belarusian Charms: Priorities and Regional Specifics
Irene Tenchini Queen's University Belfast	The Lorica of Lodgen: “gescyld alne mic mid fif ongeotum”, a prayer seeking charm-powers
Senni Timonen Finnish Literature Society. Helsinky	How to edit charm texts from the seventeeth-century trials
Andrei Toporkov University of Moscow	Structure and Genesis of the Slavic Charms against Insomnia in Children
Svetlana Tsonkova independent scholar PhD	Last Angel Standing: Archangel Michael in Verbal Charms, Apocrypha and Popular Beliefs
Ilona Tuomi University College Cork	Urine for a Treat! or How to Cure Urinary Disease in Medieval Europe?
Daiva Vaitkevičienė Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore Vilnius	Maldelės, ‘Little Prayersʾ, or Kind Words in Lithuanian Incantations
Inna Veselova St-Petersburg State University	Feminine Magic as Arguments of Power and Weapons of the Weak: Russian Epic Heroines
Letizia Vezzosi University of Firenze	For and against sleep: an overview in Middle English and Middle Dutch healing charms
Nicholas Wolf New York University, USA	Restrain, Liberate, Kill: Parsing the Language of Blocking Sickness in Irish Charms