(Please note: this schedule is largely final, but some adjustments and updates may still be made.)
Thursday March 2
5.00 Welcome & opening remarks (Stephen Mitchell, chair)
5.15 Keynote: "Fifty Years in Folklore" — Robert Teske '70
6.15 Dinner
7.15 Performance — Kate Chadbourne (harp)
7.30 David Lerner ’88 — MD, Medical Officer at FDA
7.45 Albert Lord / F&M tribute (Gregory Nagy & Joseph Nagy ‘74)
Friday March 3
8.45 Coffee
9.00 Welcome — Stephen Mitchell
9.05 The Milman Parry Collection - David Elmer
9.30 Roundtable — Folklore & Our Lives
• Moderator: Deborah Foster
• Katherine Griffis ‘78 — Rev., United Presbyterian Church, Hornell, NY
• Winnie Li ’00 — Author, activist, PhD cand. London School of Economics
• Montana Miller ’96 — Assoc. Prof. of Popular Culture, Bowling Green State University
• Devi Lockwood ’14 — youth delegate with SustainUS to U.N. climate talks in Morocco
• William Westerman '81 — New Jersey City University
• Louis Monoyudis ’98 — COO, Supply Pod
• discussion
11.30 Performance — Montana Miller ’96 — storytelling, performance
12.00 Lunch
1:00 Performance — Devi Lockwood ’14 — storytelling
1.15 Roundtable — Folklore & the World
• Moderator: Joseph Nagy '74
• Maja Groff ’01 — Senior Legal Officer at the Permanent Bureau, Hague Conference on Private International Law
• Susan E. Keller ’83 — Assoc. Dean of Academic Affairs, Western State College of Law
• Terrell McSweeny ’97 — Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
• Ruth Goldstein — Harvard College Fellow and F&M Cttee Member
• Lowell Brower — PhD Cand. in Harvard AAAS and Asst. Head Tutor, F&M
• discussion
3.30 Performance — Becca Nesson ’98 — Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard Law School
3.45 Coffee
4.00 Roundtable — Folklore & the Future
• Moderator: Lowell Brower
• William Moore ‘85 — Assoc. Professor of American Material Culture, Boston Univ., & Director, American & New England Studies Program
• Merrill Kaplan ‘94 — Assoc. Prof. of Scandinavian Studies and Folklore, Ohio State Univ.
• Lowell Brower — PhD Cand. in Harvard AAAS and Asst. Head Tutor, F&M
• current students — all juniors and seniors
• discussion
6.00 Performances — Brendan Bulger ’96 (video); Maggie Harrison ’07 (singing)
6.30 Roundtable: current & former chairs & head tutors (Greg Nagy, Joe Harris, Maria Tatar, Steve Mitchell, Hugh Flick, Deborah Foster)
Reception to follow