# 2010: Singers & Tales in the 21st Century ## expand\_more Singers & Tales in the 21st Century: The Legacies of Milman Parry and Albert Lord December 3 - 5, 2010 Further information about the Symposium can be found on the [Milman Parry Collection website](http://chs119.chs.harvard.edu/mpc/), including an email address for registration (free) and information on area hotels. Unless otherwise noted, all events will take place in the Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall. Friday, December 3 9:15-9:30 Registration 9:30-9:45 Opening remarks 9:45-11:15 Formula and Theme Egbert Bakker, “Homeric Formulas and the Intertextuality Continuum” Carl Lindahl, “The Porous House Sequence in Appalachian Folktales” Chao Gejin, “Current Trends in Chinese Folkloristics: A Perspective from the Localized Application of the Oral-Formulaic Theory” 10:30-10:45 Coffee Break Coffee and snacks in Ticknor Lounge, Boylston Hall 11:30-12:30 Homer Minna Skafte Jensen, “Menelaus in the Odyssey: A Study in Patterned Narrative” Françoise Létoublon, “The Trojan Formulaic Theater” 12:30-2:00 Lunch Lunch for conference speakers in Warren House 2:00-4:00 Balkan Epics John Miles Foley, “Oral Epic in Stolac: Collective Tradition and Individual Art” Mirsad Kunić, “The Death of the Hero Mustaj Bey of the Lika in the Songs of the Milman Parry Collection” Ronelle Alexander, “Tracking the Epic Register in South Slavic” Nicola Scaldaferri / Zymer Neziri, “From the Archive to the Field: New Research on Albanian Epic Songs” 4:30-5:30 Reception and Exhibition Amy Lowell Room, Houghton Library, Second Floor 6:00-7:00 Performance by Odhon Bayar Ticknor Lounge, Boylston Hall 7:30 Dinner for Conference Speakers / Performers Harvard Faculty Club Saturday, December 4 9:00-10:30 Comparative Approaches I Nikolay Grintser, “Common Grief: Weeping Over Hector and Rama” Olga Levaniouk, “The Dreams of Barchin and Penelope” Holly Davidson, “The Written Text as a Metaphor for the Integrity of Oral Composition in Iranian Traditions and Beyond” 10:30-10:45 Coffee Break Coffee and snacks in Ticknor Lounge, Boylston Hall 10:45-11:45 Comparative Approaches II Anna Bonifazi / David Elmer, “Visuality in South Slavic and Homeric Epic” Joseph Nagy, “Snakes of the Heart in Serbian and Irish Heroic Tale” 11:45-12:00 Coffee Break Coffee and snacks in the Department of the Classics, Boylston Hall 2nd floor 12:00-1:00 Technologies Peter McMurray, “There Are No Oral Media? Aural and Visual Perceptions of South Slavic Epic Poetry” Casey Dué / Mary Ebbott, “Multitext as an Extension of the Theory and Fieldwork of Parry (and Lord)” 1:00-2:15 Lunch Lunch for conference speakers in Warren House 2:15-3:15 Memory David Bouvier, “Formulaic Expressions and Memory in Homer” Carlo Severi, “Composition in the Mind: Iconography, Orality, and the Anthropology of Memory” 3:15-3:30 Coffee Break Coffee and snacks in the Classics Dept., Boylston Hall 3:30-5:00 Music and Performance John Franklin, “South Slavic Heroic Melody: Towards a New Method of Analysis” Dwight Reynolds, “Composition in Performance Arab Style” Karl Reichl, “The Singing of Tales: The Role of Music in Epic Performance and in the Edited Text” 5:30-6:30 Performance by Âşık Şeref Taşlıova Ticknor Lounge, Boylston Hall 8:00 Dinner for Conference Speakers / Performers Ilex Foundation, 82 Revere St., Boston Sunday, December 5 9:00-10:30 Scandinavian Traditions Lars Lönnroth, “Old Norse Texts as Performance” Gísli Sigurðsson, “The Oral Background of the Eddas and Sagas” Tom DuBois, “Yearning for Multimedia Before Its Time” 10:30-10:45 Coffee Break Coffee and snacks in Ticknor Lounge, Boylston Hall 10:45-12:15 Dialogic Approaches Anna Stavrakopoulou, “Dialogue of the Deaf: Puppeteers vs. Interviewers on Oral History and Historical Data” Aida Vidan, “The Ballad of a Lost Sibling: Oral Sources of Croatian Renaissance Drama” Lotte Tarkka, “Dialogue of Genres in Kalevala Meter Oral Poetry” 12:15-2:00 Lunch Lunch for conference speakers in Warren House 2:00-3:00 Epic and Society Susan Niditch, “Preserving Traditions of ‘Them’ and the Creation of ‘Us’: Formulaic Language, Historiography, Mythology, and Self-Definition” Margaret Beissinger, “Transgression, Shame, and the Upholding of Traditional Society: Incest in Balkan Oral Epic” 3:00-3:30 Closing Remarks