Survey: Symposium Feedback
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How would you rate your overall experience at the Symposium? *
What MOST influenced your desision to attend the Symposium? *
Would you be interested in participating in a Symposium like this again? *
What is the most you would be willing to pay for a Symposium such as this? *
Would you be willing to travel to a Symposium such as this? *
Would you have been able to attend had the Symposium been more than 1 day? *
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Opening Plenary by Tracey Hucks *
Keynote Address by Luisah Teish *
Panel 1 (Resonance, Sight, and Movement: Art and Performance in the Healing Sphere) *
Lisa Osunleti Beckley-Roberts Professor of Music, Tallahassee Community College; PhD Candidate, Florida State University “‘Standing on Holy Ground’: The Creation of Sacred Space through Music in the African-American Lucumí Religion”  Kyrah M. Daniels, Harvard University, “Healing Rites of Haiti & Home: Unraveling Layers of a Pakèt Kongo”  Karyna Do Monte, Boston University, “Earth Healing: Candomble Meets Ecology in the Rio de Janeiro Carnival”  Peter Hoesing, Florida State University, “History and Ethnography from the Healers’ Songs: Kinship and Kingdom in Buganda”  Kwame Ross, Independent Scholar, “Transformation through the Movement of Orisha”
Panel 2 (Embodied Restorations: Healing through Shamanism, Possession, Mediumship & Knowing) *
Frédérique Apffel-Marglin Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, Smith College “Peruvian High Amazonian Shamanism: An Experiential Report”  Meredith Coleman-Tobias, Emory University, “Spiritual Care and Embodiment in Malidoma Somé’s Healing Community”  Adam McGee, Harvard University, “Healing Dreams in Haitian Vodou: Toward a Methodology for the Study of Dreaming in Sevis Ginen”  Oludamini Ogunnaike, Harvard University, “Knowledge as Healing: Ahmadu Bamba’s Epistemology and Pedagogy”
Panel 3 (Medical Meddlings: Articulations of “Modern” Medicine and “Traditional” Healing) *
Suzanne Henderson Asst. Dean & Professor of African American Studies, St. John’s University “The Yoruba Religious Tradition of Orisha Worship as a Model for Healing for African-Americans”  Chelsea Shields Strayer, Boston University, “The Placebo Effect in Asante Indigenous Ritual Healing Ceremonies”  Sonia Hart, University of California at Berkeley & Leo Suarez, New York University, “Ifa Divination as Mental Health Practice”  Onaje Woodbine, Boston University & Dr. Robert Woodbine, San Bao Holistic Care, “The Ase of Black Men: Castration, the Burden of Prostate Cancer, and Retrieval”
Discussion of themes from the forthcoming film “Across the King’s River” with James Weeks *
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What was your favorite part of the Symposium? *
What keynote speakers or special guests would you be interested in seeing at a Symposium such as this?
What was MOST successful about the Symposium? *
What did you like the most? Favorite panel or speaker? What should we make sure to do again?
What was LEAST successful about the Symposium? *
What did you like the least? Least favorite panel or speaker? What could we do better in the future?
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