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DESCRIPTION:\nWhen and Where: \nThursday, June 12, 2025 8:00 am to 9:30 a
 m \n Online \n\nSpeakers \nAustin Simoes-Gomes (Department for the Study o
 f Religion) \n\nDescription: \n  Presented by the 2025 Toronto Newar Summe
 r SchoolWhat does it mean to try to follow possession, healing, and divi
 nations events as they unfold in Newar? In this talk, I reflect on the ho
 w learning Newar shaped my fieldwork in the living rooms of several dyaḥmā
 ṃ, Newar Buddhist women who become possessed by the goddess Hāratī and pe
 r-form divinations and healings for their devotees. Focusing on conversati
 ons between deities, dyaḥmāṃ, and de-votees during these office hours, 
 I consider how the living room emerged as a key site of ritual labor, de-
 votional practice, and hea-ling care. What unique challenges and possibil
 ities for language learning emerge in such a space?  Drawing on moments of
  clarity and confusion, I ask what it means to take language seriously as
  method, not only as a tool for access, but as a condition for cohabitin
 g ritual worlds.Austin Simoes-Gomes is a PhD Candidate at the Department f
 or the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto and Research Affilia
 te at the Rangjung Yeshe Institute. His dissertation, In the Living Rooms
  of the dyaḥmāṃ: Coming, Divining, Healing, and Doing dharma explores p
 ossession among Newar Buddhist women known as dyaḥmāṃ, who get possessed 
 by the Buddhist goddess Hāratī and perform healings and divinations. His d
 issertation brings these female experiences from beyond male-dominated spa
 ces to the centre of Newar religious life, concentrating on what Newar wo
 men do, and demonstrating that women are central, not peripheral, parti
 cipants in the making of religious experience. utoronto.zoom.us/j/85262773
 838  / Passcode: 615305For all enquiries, please write to Christoph Emmri
 ch at christoph.emmrich@utoronto.ca \n\nCategories \n Lecture \n\nAudience
 s \n GeneralU of T CommunityGraduate StudentsUndergraduate Students
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SUMMARY:'Office Hours with the Hāratī and her dyaḥmāṃ: Possession, Healing
 , and Listening'
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