Legends of Landscape, Narratives of Nature
Friday, February 13
& Saturday February 14, 2009
Friday, February 13, 2009
Thompson Room, Barker Center
5:30
Welcome and Introduction
KEYNOTE:
Kimberley Patton,
"'The Sea Can Wash Away All Evils': Iphigenia, Sedna, and the Submarine Mare as Myths of the Cleansing Ocean"
6:30
Buffet Dinner
7:15
Performances
Tomie Hahn
"Masquerading Jellyfish – fluid identities that matter"
John Bear Mitchell
The Wind Bird
The Wabanaki's Mother – Dawn
Kate Chadbourne
Sea Songs
Anna Walters and Reynaldo Gonzales
Yemaya (Orisha dance - at right, images from their performance)
Saturday, February 14, 2009
Thompson Room, Barker Center
9:30
Coffee and Pastries
10:00
PANEL ONE
Nan Hutton, “Revisiting the ‘Tree of Life’”
Maria Cristina Vlassidis, "Visions of Paradise in two Voices: The Significance of Trees, Plants, and Flowers in the Mesoamerican Cosmovision"
Lisa Decesare, “The Folklore of Carnivorous Plants”
11:00
PANEL TWO
Coralynn Davis, “Pond-Women Revelations: Gendered Knowledge and Sacred Geography in Maithil Women’s Expressive Forms”
Nimachia Hernandez, "Naapi's Power, Play, and Place: Making Landscape and Niitsitapiiksi (Blackfoot)."
Julie Duncan, “The Noachian Flood: For Many, More than Myth”
Marcel LaFlamme, “Dreaming Lake Wobegon: nature, nostalgia, and the construction of an American 'folk'"
12:30
LUNCH
1:30
PANEL THREE
Kent Ryden, “Toward an Ecofolkloristics”
David R. Foster, “Reading, Conserving and Mythologizing the New England Landscape”
Ruth Olson, “Struggling for Place: From “Protect the Earth” to “Making It Home”
Liz Carlisle, “ Discourses of Nature: The View from Capitol Hill”
3:00
PANEL FOUR
Amber Rose, “The Dogs of Ancient Ireland”
John Dillon, “Birds of a Feather: Figures of the Artist in Seamus Heaney's 'Sweeney Redivivus' and Buile Shuibhne”
Rachel Storch, “The Solar Mythology of Kume Kunitake”
4:00
WINE, CHEESE, & WIND-DOWN
Image credits:
(top) "Tree of Life: Guadalupe" by Jane LaFazio (used with permission)
Photos of Anna Walters and Reynaldo Gonzalez performing Orisha dances at the event (taken by Deborah Foster)