Beliefs and Social Customs
Under Cultural Identity & Ideology - I
TMYS Review June 2022.
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THE DIGITAL CONVERSATIONS
(I) SUPERSTITIONS IN THE TRADITION AND PRACTICES OF COMMUNITIES.
a. Paranormal & Urban legends and related superstitions
Superstitions rooted in Paranormal and urban legends and myths which have influenced social behaviour and hence, community identity.
SPEAKERS: Neil D'Silva Abhirup Dhar Aparajita Hazra
b. Science behind age old superstitions and customs in India
Indian practices contributing to the bag of traditional and cultural knowledge, often originating from observation and life learning.
SPEAKERS: Michael Baltutis Surekha Chukkali
c. Superstitions defining religion, community and individual identity
Superstitions that are personal to self or a family, to a religious sect or geographic zone, binding communities through the common following.
SPEAKERS: Scott Hendrix R.Mahalaxmi Sydney Chinchanachokchai
d. Gender biased superstitions
Women are believed to be more superstitious. Culturally and historically, many social superstitious customs have been forced upon women.
SPEAKERS: Samita Sen Patralekha Chatterjee
e. Superstitions and Modernity
Superstitions vis-a-vis modern practices based on science, reason or logic, relaxing social and religious compulsions .
SPEAKERS: William Earl Burns Sanchaiyata Majumdar Dr. Anway Mukhopadhyay
(II) FESTIVITIES AND RITUALISTIC PRACTICES
a. Marginalized Communities and the Mainstream Festivals.
The discrimination, power politics, and ostracism faced by the minorities and neglected communities.
SPEAKERS: Hindol Sengupta Gaurav Pathania Beth Perry
b. Gender Inequality in Ritualistic Practices.
Difference in the roles of men and women: labour by women but performative roles for men.
SPEAKERS: Nandini Sarkar Piyali Mitra Sharbani Banerjee
Rituals/practices that are violent in nature - causing discomfort, disrupting harmony and/or promoting cruelty, both ethically and legally.
SPEAKERS: Debasish Bandopadhyay Mark Juergensmeyer Xenia Zeiler
d. Festive Rituals and Compulsions.
Associating identity with religious obsession to the point of taking dangerous actions like sacrificing lives, mutilation, honour-killing, black magic, etc.
SPEAKERS: Danielle Boaz Mikel Burley Jo Ann Scurlock
e. Effect of Ritualistic Practices on the Environment.
Festive/religious rituals impacting the environment, adding fuel to the existential crisis.
SPEAKERS: Sarah Pike Bron Taylor Kimberly A Carfore
(III) SPORTS AND RECREATION
a. Culture, Tradition and Sports
The embracing of various social, cultural and traditional differences of communities at large through participation in sports.
SPEAKERS: David Rowe Kausik Bandyopadhyay
b. Importance of Recreational Sports as Mode of Relaxation
Sports activities during leisure and their impact on well-being.
SPEAKERS: Souvik Naha Nikhil Naz Brenda Rossow Kimball
c. Keeping Youth in Play: Sports and Juvenile Delinquency
Addressing various youth issues through sports and enchaining the psycho-social health benefits in adolescents.
SPEAKERS: Dawn Anderson-Butcher June LeDrew Dev Nath Pathak
d. Establishing Community Identity through Sports
Overcoming personal differences, prejudices, stereotypes, ignorance, intolerance, discrimination. Establishing team identity over individual bias.
SPEAKERS: Sourav Banerjee Gerald R. Gems Paul Whitinui
e. Pandemic within a Pandemic- Effects of COVID-19 on Sports
Impact on the global sports ecosystem affecting the mental health of athletes as well as influencing the relationship between the sports personas and the audience.
SPEAKERS: Andrew Edgar Vineet Malhotra Elizabeth Pike
f. Weaving the Magic through Sports in Fiction: Literature and Films
Inter-connection and fraternity-feeling between Creative Arts, Sports and Pop Culture.
SPEAKERS: Coonoor Kripalani Philip Wedge