OBS! OBS! OBS! Se her folkens .. dette seje seminar ligger jo bekvemt lige i sammenhæng med næste Chaos Symposium, der afholdes samme sted .. og med synkroniseret tema! Blood Rituals ♒ Past and Present A One-Day Workshop Section for the History of Religions ERG, Stockholm University, Sweden May 21, 2015 Blood is attested worldwide as a suggestive and emotionally charged substance, either in its physical form or in the form of different substitutes, for instance wine and red colorants, such as ochre. The cross-cultural contexts of blood symbolism are typically linked to notions of kinship, life force, pollution, and sacri%&cial communion, but there are numerous other and arguably less obvious aspects of its application. Taken together, these notions and practices provide important assets to our understanding of human symbolic behavior in general. We hereby invite scholars from di$ferent branches of the humanities and the social sciences to participate in a one-day workshop devoted to the presentation of 6-7 original papers on ritual blood symbolism and the “meaning of blood”. The workshop will be run under the auspices of Paul Bouissac, a leading semiotician and Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto (Victoria College), Canada. Bouissac has promised to consider the contributions for publication in a book series he is currently editing for Bloomsbury Publishing in London. Since we are only able to accommodate a small group of participants, we need to apply strict principles of selectivity. We especially welcome paper proposals with a solid empirical grounding and a broad theoretical scope. Please submit your abstract and a short CV by March 1st, 2015, at the latest. If you wish to attend the workshop without presenting a paper, we need a few words about your academic interests and a$%&liations before we can add you to the list of participants. Submit your queries and proposals to: Peter Jackson ([email protected]) and Per Faxneld ([email protected])
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