A workshop takes place at the Max Weber Kolleg on 'Sounds of Protest and Resonance'

Workshop: Sounds of Protest and Resonance
November 13, 2018, Max-Weber-Kolleg, Erfurt

 Next, Tuesday, November 13, a workshop takes place at the Max-Weber-Kolleg in the framework of the International Graduate School on "Sounds of Protest and Resonance". Fouad G. Marei and Stefan Donath present their ongoing research on rituals and the emotive effect of sounds in protest and conflict contexts in two guest lectures. Participants are welcome.

 
Workshop: Sounds of Protest and Resonance
November 13, 2018, Max-Weber-Kolleg, Erfurt

 PROGRAMME
14.15–14.30 | Andreas Pettenkofer (Max-Weber-Kolleg)
Introduction
14.30–15.15 | Stefan Donath (Freie Universität Berlin,
Research Centre “Interweaving Performance Cultures”)
Choruses of Protest: Towards a New Aesthetics of Resistance
15.15–15.25 | Marcus Döller (Max-Weber-Kolleg)
Comment to the paper
15.25–16.00 | Chair: Juhi Tyagi (Max-Weber-Kolleg)
Discussion
16.30–17.15 | Fouad Marei (Max-Weber-Kolleg)
Feeling Sectarian? Shi’i Ritual Practice, Affective Relations,
and Holy War in the Middle East
17.15–17.25 | Anita Neudorfer (Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz)
Comment to the paper
17.25–18.00 | Chair: Andreas Pettenkofer
Discussion

 For more infomation:

https://www.uni-erfurt.de/fileadmin/public-docs/Max-Weber-Kolleg/6_PDFs/Tagungen/2018/Aushang_Workshop_Sounds_of_Protest_and_Resonance_2018.pdf

Marialilia Cavallaro presents a working paper on 'The Shapes of Spartan Identities in the Traditions of Ritual Practices for Apollo'

The paper reprises one of the main points of my research in Greek history, aiming to underline the plurality of identities in the Greek societies. It is a kind of discussion that tries to show the very contemporary aspects of the research on ancient History, through an anthropological reflection on social behaviors which involves the relationship between religion and politics. Focusing the attention on religious aspects, I intend to analyze a kind of identity that is not necessarily connected with a principle of territoriality, pertaining to the modern so-called “liquid identities”, but that is no less founded on a strong roots of cultural belonging and social identification. 

The discourse on the forms of reception of the divine figure of Apollo, within cults and Greek festivals, finds in celebrations of the Dorian area a fundamental reference to understand the most archaic phases of the cults for the god. The study of the so-called "Dorian area" allows us to investigate a cultural dimension that is not spatially circumscribed but rather composite, specially on social level. If plural dimensions that cross the boundaries of territoriality were recognized from the Greeks by the time of the first colonization (VIIIth century), in the case of the Dorian Migrants, however, the original divergence of the relationship between ethnos and territory assigned to the identity's discussion a central importance: both within the formation of the individual Dorian communities of the archaic age, and, subsequently, with the establishment of the balance of power among the Greek poleis. 

The Spartan festivals preserved very ancient traces of this process of construction and acquisition of identity, that, conveyed by means of religious practices, intended to obtain the fundamental response through the participation of the politai, true agents of the identity. 

At the center of the narrative on the invention of a Spartan tradition it is possible to observe the figure of Dorian Apollo, as a god on which were founded the roots of the Dorian-Spartan community, both on a politic dimension and on a religious agency.