Thompson Room, Barker Center
9:30 – 10:00 am – Coffee, muffins
10:00 am – PANEL ONE
Performance: "Waulking the Cloth: Women's Work Songs from Gaelic Scotland"
(intro: Barbara Hillers & Maggie Harrison)
Women's Folklore in Ireland
-- Maggie Harrison (F&M '07), "Màiri Nighean Alasdair: One Woman's Voice in Scottish Gaelic Waulking Songs"
-- Matthieu Boyd (GSAS), "The Repertoire of Marc'harit Fulup (1837-1909)"
-- Sarah Zeiser (GSAS), "Fairy Abduction in Legend and Life: Tales and Their Function as Entertainment, Education, and Explanation"
-- Grace Wilentz ('07), "Crossdressing in Scottish Balladry"
11:00 am – PANEL TWO
-- Aida Vidan, "Singing Life, Singing Myth: South Slavic Oral Poetry in the Milman Parry Collection"
-- Merrill Kaplan (F&M '94), "How to insult a giantess (and how to taunt Thor)" (gender and insult in Old Norse)
-- Amber Rose (F&M '04), "Making Men in Myth from Táin Bó Cúailnge to Sin City"
-- Rebecca Chase ('07), "Ká síijil t'an: Continuity and Regeneration in the Contemporary Mayan Poetry of Briceida Cuevas Cob"
12:00 pm – LUNCH
1:00pm – PANEL THREE
-- Louis Monoyudis (F&M '98), "Constructions of masculinity in men's fashion"
-- Jonah Kanin (F&M '08), "Superstars and Divas: Gender in the WWE"
-- Marcel LaFlamme (F&M '05), "Baxter's Blunders, or, Corrective Narratives of Gender and The Construction of Masculine Identity at South Kent School"
1:45 pm – PERFORMANCE
Marge Bruchac, "Maligeet (the Abenaki doctress)" (intro: Lisa Brooks)
2:30pm – PANEL FOUR
-- Ana Vollmar ('08), "From Lydia Pinkham to Michele Olson: Patent Medicine, Blogging, and Black Cohosh"
-- Rebecca Nesson (F&M '98), "My Professor is a Penguin: Gender, Power and Beauty in Second Life"
-- Montana Miller (F&M '96), "The Wireless Wise Women of Urbanbaby.com"
3:30 pm - WINE, CHEESE, & WIND-DOWN
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