#  2013: Upside Down & Inside Out (Festivals as Transgressive Performance) 

 



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### Saturday, April 13, 2013

**Thompson Room, Barker Center**  
**Harvard University**  
**12 Quincy Street, Cambridge MA**

**performances \* papers \* discussions \* refreshments**

**free and open to the public**

**Sponsored by:** the Office of the Provost, the Committee on Degrees in Folklore & Mythology, the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, the Committee on Dramatics, the Mahindra Humanities Center, the Department of Music, and the Department of Anthropology at Tufts University

**Schedule:**

9:15 am – Coffee & Welcome: Deborah Foster & David Guss

**9:30 - 10:45 am - PERFORMANCE, PILGRIMAGE & TRANSGRESSION**

Panagiotis Roilos (Harvard), “Festive Byzantines: Holy Days and Profane Rituals in the Greek Middle Ages”

Brenna McDuffie (Harvard), “Performance and Pilgrimage: Performative Displays of Faith at the Kumbh Mela”

Bruce Owens (Wheaton), “Transgressing Transgression: Inappropriately Behaving at Buṃgayāḥ in the Kathmandu Valley”

 (read by William F. Fisher, Clark University)

Michael Witzel (Harvard), “Two Nepalese Carnivals”

**10:45 - 11:00 am - COFFEE BREAK**

**11:00 - 12:00 pm - FESTIVE IDENTITIES FOR A HYBRID WORLD**

Maria Cristina Vlassidis Burgoa (Harvard), “Santos y Locas: The African Spirits of Loiza Aldea”

Grete Viddal (Harvard), “Vodú Chic: Haitians and the Folkloric Imaginary in Socialist Cuba”

Kera Washington (Tufts) “Adaptation and Identity: Haitian Vodou in Folkloric Performance”

**12:00 - 1:00 pm - LUNCH**

**1:00 - 2:00 pm - KEYNOTE**

introduction by Doris Sommer (Harvard)

Diana Taylor (NYU)

“Saving the ‘Live’: Performance and Intangible Cultural Heritage”

**2:00 - 2:15 pm - COFFEE BREAK**

**2:15 - 3:15 pm - NEIGHBORHOOD SAINTS**

Augusto Ferraiuolo (BU), “Orthodoxy and Orthopraxy: Religious Festive Practice in Boston’s North End”

Henry Cataldo (Mass Art), “Boston’s North End Religious Feasts: Songs, Cries, and Prayers”

Kay Turner (NYU), “Saints Alive in Brooklyn: Gender and Performance in Traditional Italian-American Feste”

**3:15 - 4:30 pm - FESTIVALS FOR A SECULAR SOCIETY**

Reebee Garafalo (UMass Boston), “HONK!: The New Ground Game of Musical Activism”

Erminio Pinque (RISD, BIG NAZO LAB), “Transformative Creature Invasions & Festival Jump-Starting”

Joy Fairfield (Stanford), “‘Burning Man was Better Next Year’: Performing Utopian Nostalgia at a Post-Modern Secular Festival”

Charles Keil (SUNY/Buffalo), “Peace & Joy Unlimited: Returning the Festive to Everyday Life”

**4:30 - PERFORMANCE**

BIG NAZO Intergalactic Creature Invasion Party