Conference Schedule



Wednesday 22nd May 2019

AULA 31
9-10
Registration
10-10,30
Conference openings: Welcome and greetings
Prorettore alle Relazioni Culturali dell’Università degli Studi “G.d’Annunzio” Chieti-Pescara: Prof. Stefano TRINCHESE
Direttore del Dipartimento Lingue, Letterature e Culture Moderne: Prof. Carlo MARTINEZ

10,30-12
CHAIR: Jonathan ROPER (University of Tartu)
Katherine HINDLEY (Nanyang Technological University Singapore), Written in Blood and Written on Butter: The Materiality of Textual Charms in Late Medieval England
Karel FRAAIJE (UCL, London), “To Have and to Hold”: Early Germanic Legalese and the Old English Metrical Charm For Theft of Cattle
Ilona TUOMI (University College Cork), Urine for a Treat! or How to Cure Urinary Disease in Medieval Europe?
12-12,30
COFFEE BREAK

12-1,30


CHAIR: Jonathan ROPER (University of Tartu)
Eleonora CIANCI (University of Chieti-Pescara), Say it, sing it. Verbal and visual instructions for Medieval German charms
Davor NIKOLIĆ (University of Zagreb), The magic of sound: phonostylistic approach to verbal charms
Giuseppe DE BONIS (University “L’Orientale” Napoli), Whispering, speaking and writing: diamesic variation in the Germanic tradition of charms
1,30-2,30
LUNCH

2,30-4


CHAIR: Jacqueline BORSJE (University of Amsterdam)
Barbara HILLERS (Indiana University, Bloomington), The Irish Fortunes of the Super Petram Charm
Katherine LEACH  (University of Harvard), The in principio as a (semi)vernacular charm text in late medieval Wales
Nicholas WOLF (New York University), Restrain, Liberate, Kill: Parsing the Language of Blocking Sickness in Irish Charms
4-4,30
COFFEE BREAK

4,30- 6


CHAIR: Paola PARTENZA (University of Chieti-Pescara)
Bat-Zion ERAQI KLORMAN (The Open University of Israel), Kabbalist Charms, Torah Scrolls, and Magic among Jews and Muslims in Yemen
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

6-7,30

Committee on CCC- meeting



Thursday 23rd May 2019

AULA 31
AULA 29


10-11,30


CHAIR: Nicholas WOLF (New York University)
Andrei TOPORKOV (A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature, Russian Academy of Sciences), Structure and Genesis of the Slavic Charms against Insomnia in Children
Jaqueline BORSJE (University of Amsterdam), Expelling Nightmares
Letizia VEZZOSI (University of Firenze), For and against sleep: an overview in Middle English and Middle Dutch healing charms
CHAIR: Mare KÕIVA(Estonian Literary Museum, Tartu)
Inna VESELOVA (St-Petersburg State University), Feminine Magic as Arguments of Power and Weapons of the Weak: Russian Epic Heroines
Svetlana ADONYEVA and Olga LEVITSKI (St-Petersburg State University), Magic in the mundane-ritual speech register and magical communication in the Russian North
Maurizio NEGRO (Unione Gruppi Folklorici del Friuli Venezia Giulia), Slavic Research in Resia Valley and in Friuli Venezia Giulia in the Nineteenth Century “the uniqueness of traditions in Resia Valley Italy
11,30-12
COFFEE BREAK

12-1,30
CHAIR: Marco FORLIVESI (University of Chieti-Pescara)
Dorit KEDAR (Freie University Berlin), The Magical Language of the Female Authors of the Incantation Bowls
Tuukka KARLSSON (University of Helsinki), Voices in Kalevala-meter Incantations: A New Methodological Approach
Maria Cristina LOMBARDI (University L’Orientale Napoli), A late Medieval charm on a Norwegian runic amulet
CHAIR: Mare KÕIVA(Estonian Literary Museum, Tartu)
Daiva VAITKEVIČIENĖ (Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore Vilnius), Maldelės, ‘Little Prayersʾ, or Kind Words in Lithuanian Incantations
Vita DŽEKČIORIŪTĖ-MEDEIŠIENĖ (Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore), Tooth Formula: Practices and Verbal Charms of the First Shed Tooth in Traditional Lithuanian Culture
Senni TIMONEN (Finnish Literature Society,Helsinky), How to edit charm texts from the seventeeth-century trials
1,30-3
LUNCH

3-4,30
CHAIR: Umberto BULTRIGHINI (University of Chieti-Pescara)
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.
Markéta PREININGER SVOBODOVÁ (J-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg), Between the word and the body: Tantalus amulets
Siria KOHONEN (University of Helsinki), Communication with supernatural agents in incantation texts – looking behind the scenes
CHAIR: Svetlana TSONKOVA (Independent scholar -Budapest)
Laura JIGA ILIESCU (The Romanian Academy Bucharest), The Dream of the Mother of God in the postmodern Romania, between emic, etic and journalistic categories
Lubov GOLUBEVA and Sofia KUPRIYANOVA (St. Petersburg), Taboo Words and Secret Language as Verbal Remedies in Childhood (Russian North)
Sanda GOLOPENTIA (Brown University, Providence), Vague Terms Referring to Magical Practices in Romanian

4,30-5
COFFEE BREAK

5-6,30



CHAIR: Mariaconcetta COSTANTINI (University of Chieti-Pescara)
Caroline BATTEN (University of Oxford), The One Who Can Speak This Charm’: The Poetics of the Old English Metrical Charms
Irene TENCHINI (Queen's University Belfast), The Lorica of Lodgen: “gescyld alne mic mid fif ongeotum”, a prayer seeking charm-powers
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
CHAIR: Svetlana TSONKOVA (Independent scholar -Budapest)
Lia GIANCRISTOFARO (University of Chieti-Pescara), Deleting the evil eye with words: a folk documentation collected in the Abruzzi (1965-1970)
Henni ILOMÄKI (Finnish Literature Society
Helsinki), On arguments of authority
Jack MONTGOMERY (Western Kentucky University), Using charms for Sympathy: the verbal Powwow tradition in the American south
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CONFERENCE DINNER
Ristorante La Playa, Piazza Le Laudi 2, 65129 Pescara




Friday 24th May 2019


AULA 29
10,30-12
CHAIR: Lea OLSAN (Cambridge)
Elisa RAMAZZINA (Queen's University Belfast), The Magic Colours of the Rainbow in Medieval English Charms
Sarah HARLAN-HAUGHEY (University of Maine), Charms, changelings, and chatter—sonic magic in the Second Shepherds Play
Pedro MONTEIRO (University of Porto), Narrative representations of charms in Portuguese 16th cent. Romances of Chivalry
12-12,30
COFFEE BREAK
12,30-1,30
CHAIR: Davor NIKOLIĆ  (University of Zagreb)
Mare KÕIVA (Estonian Literary Museum, Tartu), From silence to replacement names. The fringe areas of incantations and verbal charms
Sophia NIKOLAOU (Sociologist) Survivals of the magic spells of Hecate, goddess of the moon and Medea her priestess’s into the myths of elves
1,30-2,30
LUNCH
2,30-4,30
CHAIR:  Andrei TOPORKOV (A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature, Russian Academy of Sciences)
Aliaksandra SHRUBOK and Tatsiana VALODZINA (Minsk), A Historiola in Belarusian Charms: Priorities and Regional Specifics
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
Svetlana TSONKOVA (Independent scholar PhD), Last Angel Standing: Archangel Michael in Verbal Charms, Apocrypha and Popular Beliefs

-Closing remarks and acknowledgments-
4,30-5
APERITIVO
5 -7,30
Ud’A band in CONCERT




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