#  2006: Performing Folklore 

 



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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](http://www.hanksville.org/storytellers/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