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FRIDAY,
FEBRUARY 10, 2006
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Thompson Room, Barker Center
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Keynote: Carl Lindahl (Univ. of Houston)
"The Performance of Chaos & the Drama of the Head"
(Narratives of New Orleans and Hurricane Katrina)
6:15 pm - 7:00 pm
Buffet Dinner
7:00 pm - onward
Performances
Kate Chadbourne (Celtic Languages & Literatures) - Celtic ballad
Brendan Bulger (Folklore & Mythology class of 1998) - Celtic fiddle
Harvard Pan-African Dance & Music Ensemble
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SATURDAY,
FEBRUARY 11, 2006
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Thompson Room, Barker Center
9:30 am - 10:00 am
COFFEE & MUFFINS
10:00 am - 11:00 am
PERFORMING COMMUNITY
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"Introduction" |
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(Lisa Brooks, Folklore & Mytholgy, and History & Literature) |
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"Peter Kalifornsky: Working Dena'ina Country with Words" |
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(Jenny Davis '06 History & Literature) |
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"The Experience of the Sacred in Louise Erdrich's Poetry" |
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(Merritt Baer '06 Social Studies) |
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"His Stories Live: The Storytelling Work of Joseph Bruchac" |
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(Matthew Granoff '07 Folklore & Mythology) |
11:00 am - 11:30 am
Performance
Cheryl Savageau, Abenaki storyteller
11:30 am - 12:30 pm
PERFORMING THE NATION
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"Synge's Translations from Folklore to Stage" |
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(Aoife Spillane-Hinks '06 Folklore & Mythology) |
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"Performing the Folklore of Geneaology: Rituals of the Chinese Nation" |
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(Michael Puett, East Asian Languages & Civilizations) |
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"Lithic Legacies: Museums and Lithuanian National Identity" |
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(Katherine Olson '06 Folklore & Mythology) |
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"Cuckolds and Faithful Wives: The Genesis of the Gaelic Ballad of Peadar is Peigin" |
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(Barbara Hillers, Celtic Languages & Literatures) |
12:30pm - 1:30pm
LUNCH
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
PERFORMING RELIGION
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"Manufacturing Authenticity: Ideals of Purity in Transatlantic African Religion" |
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(Grete Viddal, Anthropology and African-American Studies) |
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"Voices of the
‘Azādār (mourner) in Iran and South Asia" |
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(Richard K. Wolf, Music) |
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"¡Abren Paso!: Orisha Dance as a Symbolic System" |
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(Anna Walters '06 Folklore & Mythology) |
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"(En)Gendering Spiritual Power: Batá Performance in Afro-Cuban Santería" |
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(Katherine Hagedorn, Pomona College) |
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Performance:
Afro-Cuban Dance (Reynaldo Gonzalez & Co.)
3:00 pm - 4:00pm
THEN WHAT, NOW WHAT?
(Folklore & Mythology Alumnae)
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"Flight Plans and Flight Paths: Tradition and Creativity in Trapeze Artist Careers" |
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(Montana Miller, Folklore & Mythology class of 1996) |
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"Tashelhit Folk Tales for the World!" |
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(Hannah Sarvasy, Folklore & Mythology class of 2003) |
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"Storytelling in Multiple Media" |
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(Sara Berliner, Folklore & Mythology class of 1998) |
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"A Pretense of Performance: Film Production and the Manufactured Folk
Narrative for the Mass Audience" |
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(Winnie Li, Folklore & Mythology class of 2000) |
4:00 pm - 5:00pm
WINE, CHEESE, & WIND-DOWN
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