Center for Multi-cultural Studie

Time: 2021/6/18-19, 8:30-17:00

What is healing and its definition? Is it a restoration of physical condition, psycologically feeling comfortable, or achieving proper living condition? Why human beings need healings, and how people are healed? How human beings hunderstand pains and traumas, and when facing that how do they adopt cultural habitus to deal with and relieve them? This workshop / course is designed to explore physical, psycological, and spiritual healings in a diverse multi-cultural society from the perspectives of historiography, religious studies, psycology, sociology, theology, and performing art etc. It shall provides students and academics with various apporoaches to investigate the culture of healing, and to reflect on the boundary between Science and Superstition, that shall point out the possibilty of dialogue between the traditional medical treaments and alternative means.

6/18 (Friday)
8: 30-8: 50 Introduction
9:00-9:50 Hung Bin Hsu / Great Physician in Small Clinic: Visiting Doctors, Home Medical Care and the Return of Small Town Doctors
10:00-10:50 Wen-Yao Chang / Heart Healing and Direction
11:00-11:50 Wei-ting Liu / From common people's medicine to physical and mental healing: Research on religious medicine of Han people in Taiwan
13:00-13:50 Yuh-Neu Chen / Therapeutic experience of Ming and Qing Buddhism on body, mind and soul
14:00-14:50 Mei-Rong Lin / The Mystery of Dharma Deep Healing
15:00-15:50 Syuan-Yuan Chiou / Indonesian Muslim Immigrant Workers in Taiwan: The Healing of Online Listening and Chanting
16:00-16:50 Ching-Tai Wu / "Therapy" of Faith Restoration: Exploration of the Life of Syrian Muslim Diaspora Community
6/19 (Saturday)
Video Guide 8: 30-8: 50
9:00-10:30 Mei-Chin Chen & Yi-Ler Yang / Taiwanese folk beliefs and folk healing
10:40-11:30 Chia-Hui Lu / India-Tube Medicine Development Exploration
11:40-13:00 Ren-Chien Lin & Ci-Hui Lan / Practice of Christian spiritual healing
14:00-14:50 Chia-Pin Chen / Dramatic Gameplay: Body and Mind Balance Therapy
15:00-16:30 Wei-Chien Ma + Ying-Ying Ni / Art Action Healing: From Experience to Self-Practice
General discussion 16:30-17: 00