In four 2-hour sessions on Fridays from February 9 through March 8, 2024, Scholar-in-Residence Anne Dorothy Harley of Scripps College will lead “The Muscle of the Self: Using the Voice to Map Psyche: Special Voice Workshop” at the CSWR. In a small group setting, the workshop will investigate how the voice and the vibrating body can be employed to reveal to ourselves our constructions of inner self and external world. 

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Scholar of Philippine shamanism, ethnomusicologist and singer Dr. Grace Nono who currently serves as Research Associate of the Women's Studies in Religion Program and HDS Visiting Lecturer in Women and Shamanism, delivered a performance-lecture for the World Religions Café on Wednesday, March 23.

Grace spoke about the mutual imbrication of precolonial Philippine oral songs and indigenous (pre-Christian and pre-Islamic) religious traditions, and how these came under the silencing regimes of the Spanish and American colonial forces because of the role they played in reinforcing...