#  2015: NETLORE: Globalizing Folklore in a Digital World 

 



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Folklore and Mythology Symposium  
  
Friday, April 3, 2015  
Thompson Room Barker Center

**9:30 Coffee and Pastries**

**9:45 Welcome and Introduction**

**10:00 Panel I:** **On-line Communities**

Will Harrington: "The Hunt for Satoshi Nakamoto: is Bitcoin's founder Santa Claus?"

Maggie Vo: "Online Collaborative Storytelling: Liberation through Anonymity and Global Community"

Kareli Osorio: "U.S./U.K. Relations, A Revolution: Gender and Its Role(s) in Male Same-Sex Relationships in Hetalia Fanfiction"

Natalie Chew: “Ace Online: The Asexual Virtual Community”

Monica Marion: "'Still Boy Play': An Analysis of Gender Inequality in ESports"

**11:15 Coffee Break**

**11:30 Panel II:** **Globalization and Expressive Culture**

Leah Lowthorp: "Performing Politics: UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage in India"

Heike Currie: “West African Dance across the Waters and Web”

Frank Korom: "Global Citizens, Local Bards: Bengali Responses to Globalization."

Khytie Brown: "‘Drilling the Bands’ from ‘Yaad’ to Abroad”: Revival Zion, Social Media and Translocalism"

**12:45 Lunch**

**1:45 Keynote: Trevor Blank**

"The World at Our Fingertips: Folklore, Digital Culture, and the Pursuit of Meaning in Contemporary Vernacular Discourse."

**2:45 Coffee Break**

**3:00 Panel III:** **Digital Preservation and Cultural Reproduction**

David Elmer: “The Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature in the Digital Age.”

Felicity Lufkin: "American Quilts in a Globalized Context: The Smithsonian Quilt Controversy"

Finnian Gerrety: "Digital Guru: the Embodied Archive, Digitization, and Authenticity in the Transmission of Vedic Knowledge"

Sara Berliner: "Peekaboo Barn and the Commercialization of Culture"

**4:15 Panel IV:** **Netlore/Techlore**

Anthony Buccitelli: "The Embodied Performance of Folklore (enhanced): Tradition Memory, Poetic Sharing, and Digital Technology"

 Kerey Luis: “We Are All Moon Moon: Negotiating Identity, and Insider/Outsider Status, Through Fanlore in Online Communities”

Hannah Sarvasy: "The Woman Who Gave Birth to a Snake: Twenty-First Century Rumor and Reality in a New Guinea Community"

**5:30** **STORYTELLING PERFORMANCE BY REBECCA NESSON**