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UF Synergies: Power in Mobility and Ritual
January 23, 2019 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Free
Wednesday, January 23, 2019 @ 4:00pm, Walker 200B
Power in Mobility and Ritual
- Luc Houle (History, Tedder Doctoral Fellow) “On the Margins of Medieval Power: Ramon Berenguer V and Mobility”
Luc Houle’s presentation will address the connection between mobility and power in the medieval world. He focuses in particular on Ramon Berenguer V, Count of Provence, and vassal of the Emperor Frederick II and their conflict in the years of 1232-33. Mr. Houle proposes that for Ramon Berenguer, control of territory was only a means toward more mobile forms of power, such as money, military service, marriage, and hospitality. Mr. Houle argues that mobility itself should be a category of historical analysis in order to understand how power was exercised in medieval Europe.
- Jodi Shaw (Religion, Tedder Doctoral Fellow) “The Goddess and Dancing Śiva in the Multiple Ritual Worlds of Chidambaram”
Jodi Shaw attends to the contemporary ritual life of two interrelated Hindu temples in Chidambaram. Broadly, her work focuses on two forms of the Goddess in order to explore embodied experience of place and story, and to offer a more holistic vision of the temples than those which focus primarily on royal dynasties, Śiva lore (the presiding male deity), and orthodox philosophy. Ms. Shaw contends the Goddess (in story, worship, and material presence) along with the voices and practices of women are integral to understanding the temples, the town, and Dancing Śiva. In her presentation, Ms. Shaw will share her findings from her study of traditional and non-traditional sources culled during her visits in archives and interviews with women and men in the temples.