Feminist Folklore & Masculine Myths
Friday, February 9
& Saturday February 10, 2007
Friday, February 9, 2007
Thompson Room, Barker Center
5:15 pm - 6:15 pm
Keynote: Jo Radner & Susan Lanser
"Dropping Bobby Pins: Gender, Sexuality,
and Complicit Coding"
6:15 pm - 7:00 pm
Buffet Dinner
7:00 pm - onward
Performances
Irish Music & Dance
(Molly Hester '08, Max Newman '07, Cailin O'Connor '06)
Scottish & Breton Song
(Maggie Harrison F&M '07 & Matthieu Boyd, GSAS)
Nordic folk music & halling dance
(Amy Parker & Scot Applegate)
Blues
(Jess Tardy, F&M '99)
Georgian Folk Singing
(Iveria)
Saturday, February 10, 2007
Thompson Room, Barker Center
9:30 – 10:00 am – Coffee, muffins
10:00 am – PANEL ONE
Performance:
"Waulking the Cloth: Women's Work Songs from
Gaelic Scotland"
(intro: Barbara Hillers & Maggie Harrison)
Women's Folklore in Ireland
"Màiri Nighean Alasdair: One Woman's Voice in Scottish
Gaelic Waulking Songs"
Maggie Harrison (F&M '07)
"The Repertoire of Marc'harit Fulup (1837-1909)"
Matthieu Boyd (GSAS)
"Fairy Abduction in Legend and Life: Tales and Their
Function as Entertainment, Education, and Explanation"
Sarah Zeiser (GSAS)
"Crossdressing in Scottish Balladry"
Grace Wilentz ('07)
11:00 am – PANEL TWO
"Singing Life, Singing Myth: South Slavic Oral Poetry
in the Milman Parry Collection"
Aida Vidan,
"How to insult a giantess (and how to taunt Thor)"
(gender and insult in Old Norse)
Merrill Kaplan (F&M '94)
"Making Men in Myth from Táin Bó Cúailnge to Sin City"
Amber Rose (F&M '04)
"Ká síijil t'an: Continuity and Regeneration in the
Contemporary Mayan Poetry of Briceida Cuevas Cob"
Rebecca Chase ('07)
12:00 pm – LUNCH
1:00pm – PANEL THREE
"Constructions of masculinity in men's fashion"
Louis Monoyudis (F&M '98)
"Superstars and Divas: Gender in the WWE"
Jonah Kanin (F&M '08)
"Baxter's Blunders, or, Corrective Narratives of Gender and
The Construction of Masculine Identity at South Kent
School"
Marcel LaFlamme (F&M '05)
1:45 pm – PERFORMANCE
Marge Bruchac
"Maligeet (the Abenaki doctress)"
(intro: Lisa Brooks)
2:30pm – PANEL FOUR
"From Lydia Pinkham to Michele Olson: Patent Medicine,
Blogging, and Black Cohosh"
Ana Vollmar ('08)
"My Professor is a Penguin: Gender, Power and Beauty
in Second Life"
Rebecca Nesson (F&M '98)
"The Wireless Wise Women of Urbanbaby.com"
Montana Miller (F&M '96)
3:30 pm - WINE, CHEESE, & WIND-DOWN