#  2017: Folklore and Mythology In and Beyond Harvard: F&M at 50 

 



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(Please note: this schedule is largely final, but some adjustments and updates may still be made.)

**Thursday March 2**

5.00 Welcome & opening remarks (Stephen Mitchell, chair)

5.15 Keynote: "Fifty Years in Folklore" — Robert Teske '70

6.15 Dinner

7.15 Performance — Kate Chadbourne (harp)

7.30 David Lerner ’88 — MD, Medical Officer at FDA

7.45 Albert Lord / F&M tribute (Gregory Nagy & Joseph Nagy ‘74)

**Friday March 3**

8.45 Coffee

9.00 Welcome — Stephen Mitchell

9.05 The Milman Parry Collection - David Elmer

9.30 Roundtable — Folklore & Our Lives

 • Moderator: Deborah Foster

• Katherine Griffis ‘78 — Rev., United Presbyterian Church, Hornell, NY

• Winnie Li ’00 — Author, activist, PhD cand. London School of Economics

• Montana Miller ’96 — Assoc. Prof. of Popular Culture, Bowling Green State University

• Devi Lockwood ’14 — youth delegate with SustainUS to U.N. climate talks in Morocco

• William Westerman '81 — New Jersey City University

• Louis Monoyudis ’98 — COO, Supply Pod

• discussion

11.30 Performance — Montana Miller ’96 — storytelling, performance

12.00 Lunch

1:00 Performance — Devi Lockwood ’14 — storytelling

1.15 Roundtable — Folklore & the World

 • Moderator: Joseph Nagy '74

• Maja Groff ’01 — Senior Legal Officer at the Permanent Bureau, Hague Conference on Private International Law

• Susan E. Keller ’83 — Assoc. Dean of Academic Affairs, Western State College of Law

• Terrell McSweeny ’97 — Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission

• Ruth Goldstein — Harvard College Fellow and F&M Cttee Member

• Lowell Brower — PhD Cand. in Harvard AAAS and Asst. Head Tutor, F&M

• discussion

3.30 Performance — Becca Nesson ’98 — Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard Law School

3.45 Coffee

4.00 Roundtable — Folklore & the Future

 • Moderator: Lowell Brower

• William Moore ‘85 — Assoc. Professor of American Material Culture, Boston Univ., & Director, American & New England Studies Program

• Merrill Kaplan ‘94 — Assoc. Prof. of Scandinavian Studies and Folklore, Ohio State Univ.

• Lowell Brower — PhD Cand. in Harvard AAAS and Asst. Head Tutor, F&M

• current students — all juniors and seniors

• discussion

6.00 Performances — Brendan Bulger ’96 (video); Maggie Harrison ’07 (singing)

6.30 Roundtable: current & former chairs & head tutors (Greg Nagy, Joe Harris, Maria Tatar, Steve Mitchell, Hugh Flick, Deborah Foster)

 Reception to follow