Performing Folklore
Friday, February 10
& Saturday February 11, 2006
Friday, February 10, 2006
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
Saturday, February 11, 2006
Thompson Room, Barker Center
9:30 am - 10:00 am
COFFEE & MUFFINS
10:00 am - 11:00 am
PERFORMING COMMUNITY
"Introduction"
(Lisa Brooks, Folklore & Mythology, and History & Literature)
"Peter Kalifornsky: Working Dena'ina Country with Words"
(Jenny Davis, '06 History & Literature)
"The Experience of the Sacred in Louise Erdrich's Poetry"
(Merritt Baer, '06 Social Studies)
"His Stories Live: The Storytelling Work of Joseph Bruchac"
(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
"Synge's Translations from Folklore to Stage"
(Aoife Spillane-Hinks, '06 Folklore & Mythology)
"Performing the Folklore of Genealogy: Rituals of the
Chinese Nation"
(Michael Puett, East Asian Languages & Civilizations)
"Lithic Legacies: Museums and Lithuanian National Identity"
(Katherine Olson, '06 Folklore & Mythology)
"Cuckolds and Faithful Wives: The Genesis of the Gaelic Ballad of Peadar is Peigin"
(Barbara Hillers, Celtic Languages & Literatures)
12:30pm - 1:30pm
LUNCH
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
PERFORMING RELIGION
"Voices of the ‘Azādār (mourner) in Iran and South Asia"
(Richard K. Wolf, Music)
"¡Abren Paso!: Orisha Dance as a Symbolic System"
(Anna Walters, '06 Folklore & Mythology)
"(En)Gendering Spiritual Power: Batá Performance in
Afro-Cuban Santería"
(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)
"A Pretense of Performance: Film Production and the Manufactured Folk Narrative for the Mass Audience"
(Winnie Li, Folklore & Mythology class of 2000)
"Flight Plans and Flight Paths: Tradition and Creativity in Trapeze Artist Careers"
(Montana Miller, Folklore & Mythology class of 1996)
"Tashelhit Folk Tales for the World!"
(Hannah Sarvasy, Folklore & Mythology class of 2003)
"Storytelling in Multiple Media"
(Sara Berliner, Folklore & Mythology class of 1998)
4:00 pm - 5:00pm
WINE, CHEESE, & WIND-DOWN