Saturday, April 13, 2013
Thompson Room, Barker Center
Harvard University
12 Quincy Street, Cambridge MA
performances * papers * discussions * refreshments
free and open to the public
Sponsored by: the Office of the Provost, the Committee on Degrees in Folklore & Mythology, the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, the Committee on Dramatics, the Mahindra Humanities Center, the Department of Music, and the Department of Anthropology at Tufts University
Schedule:
9:15 am – Coffee & Welcome: Deborah Foster & David Guss
9:30 - 10:45 am - PERFORMANCE, PILGRIMAGE & TRANSGRESSION
Panagiotis Roilos (Harvard), “Festive Byzantines: Holy Days and Profane Rituals in the Greek Middle Ages”
Brenna McDuffie (Harvard), “Performance and Pilgrimage: Performative Displays of Faith at the Kumbh Mela”
Bruce Owens (Wheaton), “Transgressing Transgression: Inappropriately Behaving at Buṃgayāḥ in the Kathmandu Valley”
(read by William F. Fisher, Clark University)
Michael Witzel (Harvard), “Two Nepalese Carnivals”
10:45 - 11:00 am - COFFEE BREAK
11:00 - 12:00 pm - FESTIVE IDENTITIES FOR A HYBRID WORLD
Maria Cristina Vlassidis Burgoa (Harvard), “Santos y Locas: The African Spirits of Loiza Aldea”
Grete Viddal (Harvard), “Vodú Chic: Haitians and the Folkloric Imaginary in Socialist Cuba”
Kera Washington (Tufts) “Adaptation and Identity: Haitian Vodou in Folkloric Performance”
12:00 - 1:00 pm - LUNCH
1:00 - 2:00 pm - KEYNOTE
introduction by Doris Sommer (Harvard)
Diana Taylor (NYU)
“Saving the ‘Live’: Performance and Intangible Cultural Heritage”
2:00 - 2:15 pm - COFFEE BREAK
2:15 - 3:15 pm - NEIGHBORHOOD SAINTS
Augusto Ferraiuolo (BU), “Orthodoxy and Orthopraxy: Religious Festive Practice in Boston’s North End”
Henry Cataldo (Mass Art), “Boston’s North End Religious Feasts: Songs, Cries, and Prayers”
Kay Turner (NYU), “Saints Alive in Brooklyn: Gender and Performance in Traditional Italian-American Feste”
3:15 - 4:30 pm - FESTIVALS FOR A SECULAR SOCIETY
Reebee Garafalo (UMass Boston), “HONK!: The New Ground Game of Musical Activism”
Erminio Pinque (RISD, BIG NAZO LAB), “Transformative Creature Invasions & Festival Jump-Starting”
Joy Fairfield (Stanford), “‘Burning Man was Better Next Year’: Performing Utopian Nostalgia at a Post-Modern Secular Festival”
Charles Keil (SUNY/Buffalo), “Peace & Joy Unlimited: Returning the Festive to Everyday Life”
4:30 - PERFORMANCE
BIG NAZO Intergalactic Creature Invasion Party