30 minutes per paper followed by 30 minutes discussion.
Re-imagining Self and Personhood in Contemporary Pagan, Neo-Shamanic and New Age Spiritualities (view abstract)
Kathryn Rountree (Massey)
Becoming a Ney: Pedagogies of Self-Alteration in Sufi Music (view abstract)
Banu Senay (Macquarie)
The Birth of Scientific Beauty: Changing Modes of Plastic Surgery in South Korea (view abstract)
So Yeon Leem (Sookmyung)
Beautiful bodies, moral bodies, functional bodies. An analysis of self-alteration in an Italian Residential Centre for Eating Disorders (view abstract)
Gisella Orsini (Malta)
Reifying the Individual Self through Social Cohesion: a Study of Extracurricular Programmes for Self-improvement in Urban China (view abstract)
Gil Hizi (Koeln)
30 minutes per paper followed by 30 minutes discussion.
Transcendental Terrorists: Zen self-transformation and white supremacist atrocity, from Nazi Germany to Utøya and Christchurch (view abstract)
Max Harwood (Macquarie)
Self-Alteration Through Leftist Revolutionary Militancy in 1970s Istanbul (view abstract)
Christopher Houston (Macquarie)
Self-alterations of mind, body and senses of relation in Confinement (view abstract)
Tamara Kohn (Melbourne)
Self-Alteration as Innate Human Capacity and as Individual Human Right (view abstract)
Nigel Rapport (St Andrews)
Self Alterations in Psychoanalysis: An anthropological encounter (view abstract)
Jean Paul Baldacchino (Malta)
The Lion from Judah is the Only Star: Between individual self-alteration and impersonal forces in a New-Israelite movement in Solomon Islands (view abstract)
Jaap Timmer (Macquarie)
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