Wednesday, October 16, 2002

 

1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

DIGITIZATION WORKSHOP
At Visual Studies Workshop.  Transportation will be provided.

Sponsored by: New York Folklore Society with participation by Anna Lomax Chairetakis and staff of the Association for Cultural Equity and Ted McGraw

Chair: Dale Johnson


1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

AFS EXECUTIVE BOARD MEETING WITH ACADEMIC DEPARTMENT CHAIRS AND PROGRAM CHAIRS
Highland E

6:30 PM - 8:00 PM

OPENING CEREMONY AND RECEPTION
Strong Museum: The Museum is only a few blocks� walk from the hotel, but transportation will be provided beginning at 6:00 PM.

 

 

Thursday, October 17, 2002

7:00 AM - 8:15 AM

FOLK NARRATIVE SECTION BREAKFAST MEETING
Loftus Carson

7:15 AM - 8:15 AM

ORIENTATION SESSION FOR FIRST-TIME ATTENDEES, COMMUNITY SCHOLARS, AND INTERNATIONAL SCHOLARS
Highland E

8:30 AM - 12:30 PM

AFS EXECUTIVE BOARD MEETING
Wilmorite

Sessions 8:15 AM - 10:00 AM

#1-1 Panel: PAPERS IN HONOR AND CELEBRATION OF DAVID SHULDINER
Highland A

Sponsored by: Public Programs Section; Politics, Folklore, and Social Justice Section; Folklore and Oral History Section
Chair: Lynne Williamson
8:15     William Westerman, On the Silence of the Doves
8:35     Diana Baird N'Diaye, Applied Folklore, Cultural Policy and the Politics of Identity on the Isles of Rest
8:55     Jessica M. Payne, Agency and Authority in Applied Folklore: Expanding the Conditions of Possibility
9:15     James Francis Abrams, Photography's Verdant Spaces: Seeing Through Gardens in the Coke Region of Pennsylvania

#1-2 Panel: MAPPING NEW TERRITORIES IN CREOLIZATION
Highland B

Chair: Ana Cara
8:15     Ana Cara, Creole Art and Surrealism
8:35     John Szwed, Avant-Folklore and Quotidian Innovation
8:55     Aisha Khan, Creolization: State of the Art or Art of the State?
9:15     Raquel Romberg, Ritual Piracy: Creolization with a Twist
Discussant: Roger Abrahams

#1-3 Panel: CHALLENGING PATHOLOGICAL DISCOURSES OF THE BODY
Highland J

Chair: Lucia Pawlowski
8:15     Kristy L. Grice, Spanking Our Way to Freedom: SM as Political Activism
8:35     Lucia Pawlowski, Revising Anorexia through Feminist Ethnography: Letting Other Readings Besides the "Pathological" Speak
8:55     Anand Prahlad, "Come here baby": Ambivalent Bluesmen, The Guitar Fetish, and the Phallic Woman Lover

#1-4 Forum: FOLKSTREAMS.NET: A VIDEO-STREAMING WEBSITE FOR DOCUMENTARIES ABOUT AMERICAN TRADITIONAL CULTURE
Highland K

Chair: Sharon Sherman and Tom Davenport
Tom Davenport, Sharon Sherman, Rob Roberts, Dan Patterson, Beverly Patterson, Glenn Hinson

#1-5 Panel: PHOTOGRAPHY IN THE FIELD
Highland CH

Chair: Henry Glassie
8:15     Ray Cashman, Places: Evoking Locality in Northern Ireland
8:35     Pravina Shukla, Public Presentations: Photography of Celebration
8:55     Karen Duffy, Artistic Process: Documenting Potters at Acoma Pueblo
9:15     Henry Glassie, The Portrait: A Sign of Ethnographic Integrity

#1-7 Panel: THE CONSTITUTION OF POST-SOCIALISM: PRACTICES FROM EVERYDAY CONTEMPORARY LIFE I
Highland D

Chair: Veronica Aplenc, Kurt Hartwig
8:15     Veronica Aplenc, Shaping Objects of Socialism: An Interdisciplinary Examination of Documentation on State Housing
8:35     Rajko Mur�i�, The Ethnographer as a Medium of Documentation: The Rural Punk Scene around the Slovene Group "CZD" and Its Documented Memories in the Time of Post-Socialist Traditions
8:55     Iveta Todorpova-Pirgova, National Myths and Folklore in the Balkans

 

#1-8 Panel: POSTER SESSION
Highland E

David Stewart, Material Culture and Remembrance in Anglo-American Maritime Communities
Amanda J. Mason and Rosemary Riel and Margay Blackman, Erie Canal Folklore: Documentation and Community Presentation
Alison Clarke, French Ecomuseums

#1-9 Panel: THE FUNCTION OF FOLKLORE IN LITERATURE
Highland F

Chair: James A. Miller
8:15     Jason G. Arthur, Bras-Coupe: The Function of a Black-insurrection Legend in the Late-nineteenth Century Literary Marketplace
8:35     James A. Miller, Folkloric Deformations in the Literary Ghost Story
8:55     Jeremy Reed, Storytelling Performance in Douglas Coupland's �Generation X�
9:15     Timothy H. Evans, H. P. Lovecraft, Heritage Tourism, and the Twentieth Century Horror Story

#1-10 Panel: ISSUES IN HEALTH AND HEALING
Highland G

Chair: Michael Owen Jones
8:15     Michael Owen Jones, L.A.�s "Invisible Hospitals": The Role of Bot�nicas and Indigenous Healers in Ethnic Healthcare
8:35     Claudia Hernandez, Perceptions of Alcoholism Among Latino Healers in Los Angeles
8:55     Wennifer Lin Curry, Medical Cannabis: Raids and Resistance, Life and Death
9:15     Maggi Michel, AA's Vernacular Beliefs: Revelations of Spiritual Anarchy
9:35     Raquel L. Monroe, From Hottentot to HIV: The Fetishizing of the African American Female Body

#1-11 Panel: MATERIAL CULTURE AND RELIGION
Cascade E

Chair: Joseph Sciorra
8:15     Marek Czarnecki, Sacramental and Devotional Art in Immigrant Parishes in the Northeast
8:35     Sean Galvin, Guadalupe in New York City: From Celebration to Veneration
8:55     Molly Lee, Platinum Grass: The Symbolic Dimensions of Beach Grass (Elymus mollis) among the Central Yup'ik Eskimos of Southwestern Alaska
9:15     David C. Estes, The St. Ann Shrine in New Orleans: Popular Catholicism in Local, National, and International Contexts

#1-12 Panel: HOW FOOD MEANS
Cascade F

Chair: Holly Everett
8:15     Holly Everett, Gendered Authenticity: Food and Tourism in Atlantic Canada
8:35     Susan Roach, Food and Power in the Personal Narratives of an African-American Cook
8:55     Nancy Yan, Chinese Restaurant Menus and Negotiating Acculturation
9:15     Bill Mansfield, Looning as a Statement of Down-East Identity
9:35     Marilyn Motz, Tactics of Food Exchange: Narratives of Power, Resistance, and Negotiation in Civil War Civilian Diaries

#1-13 Panel: CULTURAL PERFORMANCE I: FAIR AND FESTIVAL
Aqueduct AB

 

Chair: Carolyn Ware
8:15     Jaynie Rabb, Raising Krsna Consciousness? The Venice Beach Festival of the Chariots
8:35     Kevin Eyster, "Down on Main Street": The (152nd) Bellville Street Fair and Homecoming
8:55     Carolyn E. Ware, "If you Ain't Been Whipped, You Ain't A Mardi Gras": Whipping and the Cajun Mardi Gras
9:15     Augusto Ferraiuolo, Negotiating Identity in Boston's North End

#1-14 Panel: BROADSIDE BALLADS: OBJECT, IMAGE AND DIGITISATION
Aqueduct CD

Chair: Valentina Bold
8:15     James Porter, The Orange, the Green, and the Whiteletter Broadside: Lillibulero Revisited
8:35     Suzanne Gilbert, William Harvey and the Scottish Chapbooks
8:55     Valentina Bold, The David Murray Collection: From Scrapbook to Website

#1-15 Panel: SCAPEGOATS, SYMBOLS AND PERSONAL DEMONS: FOLK DEVILS AND CONTEMPORARY CULTURE
Cascade CD

Chair: Jessica Gillece
8:15     Brian Corra, Hell Ranch Revisited: The Scapegoating of Voodoo in American Culture
8:35     Allen Berres, "The Devil We Blame": Marilyn Manson, the Satanism Panic, and the School Shooting Panic
8:55     Jessica Gillece, Blaming the Beast: Aleister Crowley as Folk Devil

Sessions 10:15 AM - 12:00 PM

#2-1 Forum: IMMEDIACY OR MEDIACY? APPRAISING REPRESENTATIONS OF STORYTELLING IN DIFFERENT MEDIA
Highland A

Sponsored by: Storytelling Section
Chair: Jo Radner
Jo Radner, Lorna MacDonald Czarnota, Lee-Ellen Marvin, Joseph Sobol

#2-2 Panel: DANCE AND DANCE MUSIC
Highland B

Chair: Laurel Horton
10:15   Laurel Horton, Dress Codes I: Marking Identity on the Dance Floor
10:35   Paul Jordan-Smith, Dress Codes II: The Semiofolkloristics of the Teeshirt
10:55   Andrea Kitta, From the Hip: A Middle Eastern Dancer's Perspective of Dance and Worldview
11:15   Mary Lee, Dancing to the Bhangra Beat

#2-4 Panel: LEGEND I
Highland K

Chair: Elissa Henken
10:15   Keagan LeJeune, Leather Britches Smith and the Grabow War: A Community's Outlaw Legend and Its Function
10:35   Elissa R. Henken, Women Against the Devil: Georgia's Civil War Legendry
10:55   Maria Teresa Agozzino, The Caged Countess: Locating the Life and Legend of Isabel of Buchan

#2-5 Forum: VERNACULAR PHOTOGRAPHY: ISSUES AND CONTEXT
Highland CH

Chair: Alan Govenar
Luc Sante, Nathan Lyons, Anthony Bannon, Alan Govenar, Margaret Yocom

#2-7 Panel: THE CONSTITUTION OF POST-SOCIALISM: PRACTICES FROM EVERYDAY CONTEMPORARY LIFE II
Highland D

Chair: Veronica Aplenc, Kurt Hartwig
10:15   Nina Vodopivec, The Shape Of Memory: Slovenian Textile Workers' Narratives And The Process Of Documentation
10:35   Kurt Hartwig, Balancing Power and Everyday Life
10:55   Mojca Ramsak, On Illegitimate Children and Their Parents in Carinthia in the 19th Century and the First Half of the 20th Century

 

#2-8 Panel: ETHNOGRAPHY AND EDUCATION: PERSPECTIVES ON THE TEACHING OF ETHNOGRAPHY
Highland E

Chair: Michael Robert Evans

10:15   Hilary E. Kahn, Imagery and the Senses in the Production and Sharing of Ethnographic Knowledge

10:35   Sam Schrager, America Documented: Folklore in the Renewal of Interdisciplinary Studies

10:55   Michael Robert Evans, Ethnographic Tasks: The Ultimate Problem-Based Learning

#2-9 Panel: THE FUNCTIONS OF FOLKLORE IN NOVELS BY WOMEN OF THE AMERICAN SOUTH
Highland F

Chair: Sarah Catlin Barnhart
10:15   Christine Tobar-Dupres, The Silver Apples of the Moon: Considerations of Eudora Welty's Golden Apples and the Redemptive Uses of a Female Vernacular
10:35   Brock L. Fisher, The Robber Bridegroom: Twice Adapted and Disney-fied for the Stage
10:55   Sarah Catlin Barnhart, "The Secret's in the Sauce": Southern Women Writer's Alternative Kitchen Traditions

#2-10 Panel: MEMORY, IDENTITY, AND COMMUNITY
Highland G

Chair: Maurie Sacks
10:15   Marcia Gaudet, Voicing the Unspeakable Trauma: Memory, Identity, and Survival at Carville
10:35   Donald Braid and Margaret Brabant, Storytelling, Civic Memory, and Community
10:55   Fariha I. Khan, Memory's Role in the Construction of Ethnic Identity

#2-11 Panel: CHANGE AND ADAPTATION IN RELIGION
Cascade E

Chair: Deborah Bailey
10:15   Keiko Wells, How Do You Leave "Ego" Behind?: Pure Land Buddhist Songs and Activities in Los Angeles
10:35   Thomas E. Gallagher, The Old Order Amish: Coping with Diversity While Striving for Homogenity
10:55   Kent R. Bean, Brown Like Me: Traversing Racial Categories in the Mormon Miracle Pageant
11:15   Jason Baird Jackson, Between Everyday Practice and Memory Culture: The Yuchi Naming Ceremony and its Liminal Status

#2-12 Video: SCREENING OF "FOLKLORE IN ARMENIA" AND "ALIEN IMAGES"
Cascade F

Chair:   Mary Zwolinski
10:15  Vergine Gulbenkian, �Folklore in Armenia�: What is Transmitted Through Video Recording?

11:00  Heather Joseph-Witham, �Alien Images�

 

#2-13 Panel: CULTURAL PERFORMANCE II
Aqueduct AB

Chair: Ellen McHale
10:15   Ellen McHale, Artful Work and Serious Play: Folklore and Folklife at the Thoroughbred Racetrack in New York State
10:35   Montana Miller, Scaring Them to Death: Contemporary Folk Dramas for the American Adolescent Audience
10:55   Jennifer Michael, The Global Circus in Miniature
11:15   Ian Russell, Shifting Images and Self-Representation in the Flute Band Traditions of North-East Scotland
11:35   Christie Fox, Making a Macnas Parade: Collaboration and Multivocality as an Alternative to the "Star Performer" Model

#2-14 Panel: BALLADS
Aqueduct CD

Chair: Roger deV. Renwick
10:15   William Bernard McCarthy, Mattie Groves and Lady B.: Commonplaces and the Emotional Core of a Ballad
10:35   Martin Lovelace, West Country Sources for Newfoundland Folksong
10:55   James Moreira, "Thoughts of Home": Distance and Absence in Northeast Balladry
11:15   Roger deV. Renwick, Emma Overd's Ballad Repertoire
11:35   John H. McDowell, The Ballad in a Time of Crisis: 9/11 Corridos

#2-15 Panel: HISTORY OF FOLKLORE STUDIES
Cascade CD

Chair: Rosemary Zumwalt
10:15   Juliette Wood, Giants in the Earth: Geoffrey of Monmouth, Strange Burials and Ancient Monuments in Welsh Folk Studies
10:35   Leila Kristiina Virtanen, Elli K�ng�s Maranda's Roots in Finnish Folklore Studies
10:55   Arzu Ozturkmen, Folklore in the time of Young Turks: Ottoman Intellectuals and Their Approach to Folklore
11:15   Mary Manning, The Ambivalence of the Amateur Folklorist and the Paratexts of the Ohio Valley Folk Research Project


12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

MUSIC AND SONG SECTION MEETING
Aqueduct CD

12:00 PM � 1:30 PM

MEDITERRANEAN SECTION MEETING
Cascade F

 

 

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

DANCE AND MOVEMENT ANALYSIS SECTION MEETING
Highland G

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

GAY AND LESBIAN SECTION MEETING
Highland F

12:30 PM - 1:15 PM

MUSIC FROM THE EMPIRE STATE

Traditional Finnish Folk Music by Richard Koski, accordion and Carl Rahkonen, mandolin and fiddle

Highland B

 

12:00 PM � 1:30 PM

FOLKLORE AND EDUCATION SECTION MEETING
Highland D

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

STORYTELLING SECTION MEETING
Highland A

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

MAFA AT AFS ANNUAL BROWNBAG
Highland E

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

POLITICS, FOLKLORE, AND SOCIAL JUSTICE SECTION MEETING
Aqueduct AB

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

JEWISH FOLKLORE AND ETHNOLOGY SECTION MEETING
Cascade E

 

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

JOINT MEETING, AFS@MLA PLANNING COMMITTEE/FOLKLORE AND LITERATURE SECTION
Cascade CD

Sessions 1:30 PM - 3:15 PM

 

#3-1 Video: SCREENING OF "LANDS OF OUR ANCESTORS" AND "NO HOME BUT THE HEART"
Highland A

Chair: Beverly Butcher

1:30 Michele "Midge" Dean Stock, �Lands of Our Ancestors�, with Joy Bilharz (discussant)

2:20 Daystar/Rosalie Jones, �No Home but the Heart� (includes performance)

 

 

#3-2 Forum: SQUARE DANCE CALLING: AN AMERICAN ART FORM
Highland B

Sponsored by: Music and Song Section and Dance and Movement Analysis Section
Chair: Craig Mishler and Mike Leach
Dudley Laufman, Jacqueline Laufman, Richard Castner, Randy Wilson
Discussant: Jim Kimball

#3-3 Panel: THE BODY IN NARRATIVE AND PLACE
Highland J

Chair: Debra Lattanzi Shutika
1:30     Kelly L. Michels, The Body in Narrative and Place
1:50     Susan Wambsganss, Warning: You May Encounter Nudity Beyond This Point
2:10     Chaim Noy, Narratives of Body Hiking: Israeli Backpackers' Construction of Body/Space
2:30     Rachel Delgado, Bodies in Space and Place in a National Festival's "MarketPlace"
2:50     Gary Matthews, Homosexuals and the Church: Growing up Gay
Discussant: Mary Hufford

#3-4 Video: SCREENING OF "I KNOW WHY THE COWBOY SINGS"
Highland K

Chair: Hal Cannon

Hal Cannon  �I Know Why the Cowboy Sings�

#3-5 Forum: MEMORY MATTERS - RESPONSES TO SEPTEMBER 11: IMAGES, ARTIFACTS, WORDS I
Highland CH

Chair: Kay Turner
Kay Turner, Martha Cooper, Nathan Lyons, Steve Zeitlin, Ilana Harlow

#3-7 Panel: RELIGIOUS OBJECTS AND RELIGIOUS SUBJECTS
Highland D

Sponsored by: Folk Belief and Religious Folklife Section
Chair: Erika Brady
1:30     Mary Ann Bucklin, "Holy Mother Wisdom's Doves Have Come with a Blessing for Us": The Shakers' Subjective Spiritual Experiences of Objective Spiritual Gifts
1:50     Deborah Ann Bailey, Eucharist as Sacred Object and Embodied Subject in a Community of Women Religious
2:10     Margaret Kruesi, Objectifying the Catholic Exotic: Media Representations of Sex Scandals in the Catholic Church
2:30     Leonard Norman Primiano, Encountering the Female Divine...Literally: Ethnographic Writing about Mother Divine and Father Divine's Peace Mission Movement

#3-8 Forum: SILENCED VOICES: THE INDESTRUCTIBLE VEIL: A DISCUSSION ON RACE, CLASS, AND CULTURE
Highland E

Sponsored by: Politics, Folklore, and Social Justice Section
Chair: Eleanor Walden and Gary Hicks
Gary Hicks, Horace Campbell, R. Jan Gates, Eleanor Walden

#3-9 Forum: THE POWER IN THE VACUUM: TECHNOLOGIES OF VOICE AND VISIBILITY IN THE EVERYDAY
Highland F

Chair: JoAnn Conrad
JoAnn Conrad, Margaret Mills, Dorothy Noyes, Yucel Demirer, Ganesh Devi, Mbugua Wa-Mungai, Augusto Ferraiulo, Nina Vodopivec, Sabir Badalkhan

#3-10 Panel: VISUAL REPRESENTATIONS: VIRTUAL AND PHOTOGRAPHIC
Highland G

Chair: Russell Frank
1:30     Russell Frank, When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Go Photoshopping
1:50     Robert Glenn Howard, Visual Vernacular: Web-Page Design and the Rhetoric of Amateurism in the Case for Pet-Cloning
2:10     Andy Kolovos, Belief in Photographs: Spirit Portraiture and the Extraordinary Return of the Familiar.
2:30     Anne Pryor, The Door to Heaven: Miraculous Photography at Marian Apparitions

#3-11 Panel: FOLKLORE IN THE LITERATURE OF PLACE AND PEOPLE
Cascade E

Sponsored by: Folklore and Literature Section
Chair: Karen E. Beardslee
1:30     James W. Kirkland, "Signs First Forgotten or Misread": The Poetics of Place in Ron Rash's Appalachian Poems
1:50     Resa Crane Bizzaro, Folkloric Elements in Native American Story and Poetry
2:10     Cathy Preston, Second Hoeing: German-Russian Immigrants in the Sugarbeet Fields of Northern Colorado
2:30     Surekha Devi, Painted Words: The Literature of Indian Tribals and Denotified Communities

#3-12 Panel: CONTEMPORARY LEGEND I
Cascade F

Chair: William McCarthy
1:30     Lydia Brauer, "A Heck of a Guy": Tall Tales and Social Drama at a Midwest Summer Camp
1:50     Eric A. Eliason, U2's Spiritual Journey and Steve Martin's CTR Ring: Counter-legends Take on Urban Legends in Mormon Skeptical Responses to Stories of Celebrity Conversions
2:10     John F. Moe, Racism, Legend, and Contemporary Problems: Rumors and Reality of the Klan in Indiana in the 21st Century

 

#3-13 Forum: THE VETERANS HISTORY PROJECT AND THE AMERICAN FOLKLORE SOCIETY
Aqueduct AB

Chair: Peter Bartis
Ellen Lovell, Peter Bartis, Tim Lloyd

#3-14 Forum: CULTURAL EXPRESSION AND NEW MEDIA
Aqueduct CD

Chair: Christine Zinni
Daniel Ward, Barry White, Andrew Golembioski, Christine Zinni, Karen Park-Canning

#3-15 Forum: PUBLIC PROGRAMS FORUM: FIELDWORK AND APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAMS
Cascade CD

Sponsored by: Public Programs Section
Chair: Kathleen Mundell
Kathleen Mundell, Lynne Williamson, Maggie Holtzberg, Winnie Lambrecht, Lynn Martin Graton, Greg Sharrow



Sessions 3:30 PM - 5:15 PM

#4-1 Panel: SILENCED VOICES: NOT JUST BUSINESS AS USUAL: BUILDING NETWORKS AND NEW MEETING PLACES FOR SOCIAL ACTIVISM
Highland A

Sponsored by: Politics, Folklore, and Social Justice Section
Chair: Nancy L. Watterson
3:30     Nancy Watterson, Getting Savvy: Mediating Reciprocal Roles in Changing Work Places
3:50     Zachary Warren, From Hierarchical Vision to Community Reality: Negotiating the Journey of a Cathedral Community
4:10     Herman Graham, Biography and the Search for a "Usable Past": Lessons for Contemporary Activists from Aaron Henry and the Civil Rights Movement"
4:30     Kathryn Wilson, Process and Politics: Reciprocity and Emergence in Applied Ethnography

#4-2 Panel: FIDDLE CULTURES
Highland B

Chair: Burt Feintuch
3:30     Joyce Cauthen, African-American Old-time Fiddling: Factors in the Disappearance of a Southern Tradition
3:50     Alan Jabbour, Cascading Tunes: On the Descending Contour in Appalachian Fiddle Tunes
4:10     Jeff Todd Titon, Imagined Musical Communities: Ole Bull Meets Old-Time Kentucky Fiddlers
4:30     Burt Feintuch, The Conditions for Cape Breton Fiddle Music

#4-3 Panel: CONTEMPORARY LEGEND II
Highland J

Chair: Karen Balwin
3:30     Nancy Cassell McEntire, "Don't Look Back": Examining the Role of Women in Urban Legends
3:50     Jeannie B. Thomas, G. I. Joe vs. Barbie in the Oral Tradition
4:10     Karen Baldwin, Contemporary Legend in Birder Culture: Revising Extinction in Quest of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker

#4-5 Forum: MEMORY MATTERS--RESPONSES TO SEPTEMBER 11: IMAGES, ARTIFACTS, WORDS II
Highland CH

Chair: Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Barbie Zelizer, Julia Hirsch
Discussant: Robert Baron

#4-7 Panel: REINFORCING, IMAGINING, AND CONSTRUCTING IDENTITY I
Highland D

Chair: Stephen Criswell
3:30     Tierza Rose Draper, Life Histories of an American Family
3:50     Daniel Lee, Printing Racial Identity: Family House Magazines in the 19th Century
4:10     Stephen Criswell, "The Idea of Ancestry": The Role of Family Reunions in Establishing African American Identity

#4-8 Forum: INNOVATIONS IN STATE CULTURAL POLICY: A PEW CHARITABLE TRUSTS INITIATIVE - THE ROLE OF FOLKLORISTS
Highland E

Chair: Peggy A. Bulger
Peggy Bulger, Shelley Feist, Ellen Lovell, Kitty Higgins

#4-9 Panel: LITERATURE AND FOLKLORE
Highland F

Chair: Lee Haring
3:30     Lee Haring, Impersonality of Poetic Language
3:50     Stephen Winick, Pulling Our "Larboard Leg": James Norman Hall�s Dr. Dogbody�s Leg and the American Tall Tale
4:10     C.W. Sullivan III, Traditional Foodways in Kenneth Grahame's �The Wind in the Willows�
4:30     Elizabeth Marie Melchionna, Folkloristics and the Negotiation of Ethnic Identity: Critical Hybridity in the work of Sherman Alexie and Sandra Cisneros
4:50     Ipek Celik, A Criticism of the State Monopoly: An Alternative Documentation of Folklore in Turkish Literature

#4-10 Panel: INSIDERS, BELIEVERS, AND FORMER BELIEVERS: NARRATIVES OF RELIGIOUS LIFE AND EXPERIENCE
Highland G

Chair: Reinhold R. Hill
3:30     Catherine S. Quick, Going Home Again: An Ex-Baptist Attends Her Church Youth Group Reunion
3:50     Kenn DeShane, "What Will the Church People Think?": The Public Lives of PK's (Preachers' Kids)
4:10     Ruth M. Mirtz, Stories from the Parsonage: Lutheran Pastors' Wives as Outsiders and Insiders
4:30     Reinhold R. Hill, "I Felt Like [What] you were Doing is from a Nonmember's Perspective": The Problem of Difference in Rooted Research
Discussant: Elaine Lawless

#4-11 Panel: TWO MISUNDERSTOOD MEDIEVAL "COUSINS": MAGIC AND HUMOR IN THE MIDDLE AGES
Cascade E

Sponsored by: Medieval Folklore Section
Chair: Judith Mara Kish
3:30     Josepha Sherman, Vol'ka: Magician-Prince and Shaman of Medieval Russia: A Look at a Hero of the Kiev Cycle
3:50     Stephanie L. Volf, Medieval Magic Lamaze: Birthing Girdles, Mothers, and the Church
4:10     Judith Mara Kish, Humorous Magic in Le Miracle de Theophile
4:30     Thomas A. Bredehoft, Laughing at Margery Kemp

#4-12 Panel: HISTORICAL CONSTRUCTION AND FOLKLORE
Cascade F

Chair: Ray Allen
3:30     J. Joseph Edgette, Floaters From 'Titanic': Anatomy of Their Recovery and Documentation Process
3:50     Michaela K. Fenske, Biased Interests and Preconceived Perceptions: How to Reconstruct Early Modern Market Culture in the Face of Fragmentary Documentation
4:10     Ray Allen, An American Folk Opera? Reconsidering Gershwin's Porgy and Bess
4:30     Phil Hoebing, Folklore of the Rivermen

#4-13 Panel: EMERGENT URBANISMS: FURTHER PERSPECTIVES ON PLACE
Aqueduct AB

Chair: Michael Ann Williams
3:30     Michael L. Murray, Cities within the City: B.A. Botkin and the Mapping of Place in New York City Folklore
3:50     Brian D. Gregory, From Pop-up Town to Post-Industrial Landscape: Re-inhabiting the "Akron House"
4:10     Christopher Antonsen, Fabricating Place and Mapping Locality: Commercial Territory and the Creation of a Cultural Landscape in Easton Town Centre Mall
4:30     Debra Lattanzi Shutika, Mind/Body/Place: Toward an Integrated Theory of Locality
Discussant: Kent C. Ryden

#4-14 Panel: REDISCOVERING THE JAMES MADISON CARPENTER COLLECTION IN THE 21ST CENTURY
Aqueduct CD

Sponsored by: Archives and Libraries Section
Chair: Michael Taft
3:30     Julia C. Bishop, Negotiating a Byzantine Assemblage: Producing a Descriptive Catalogue of the James M. Carpenter Collection
3:50     Robert Young Walser, Coloring Outside the Lines: The James Madison Carpenter Collection in XML
4:10     Elaine Bradtke, Teetering on the Cutting Edge: Exploiting the Potential of Encoded Archival Description
4:30     Marcia K. Segal, Processing the Carpenter Collection for the Save Our Sounds Project

#4-15 Panel: FOLKLIFE AND DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY: A CONVERSATION BETWEEN DISCIPLINES
Cascade CD

Chair: Tom Rankin
3:30     Rob Amberg, Sodom Laurel Album
3:50     Cedric N. Chatterley, Looking Down the Road: The Intersection of Documentary Photography, Folklore, and History
4:10     Tom Rankin, The Lure of the Picture and the Nature of the Tradition


5:45 PM - 6:15 PM

PRESIDENTIAL PLENARY ADDRESS:

Peggy A. Bulger (American Folklife Center, Library of Congress)

�LOOKING BACK, MOVING FORWARD: THE DEVELOPMENT OF FOLKLORE AS A PUBLIC PROFESSION�
Highland AKBJ

 

6:30 PM - 7:30 PM

NEW YORK FOLKLORE SOCIETY RECEPTION

FOLLOWING PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS

Performance by the Trinidad and Tobago Steel Band
Highland E

7:00 PM - 1:00 AM

INFORMAL MUSIC SESSIONS
Aqueduct CD

Sponsored by: Music and Song Section


7:00 PM - 8:00 PM

WOMEN'S SECTION MEETING
Highland G

8:00 PM - 11:00 PM

SQUARE DANCE
Coventry United Methodist Church

Sponsored by: Music and Song Section, Dance and Movement Analysis Section, and Country Dancers of Rochester


8:00 PM - 9:30 PM

PUBLIC PROGRAMS SECTION MEETING
Highland AJBK

8:00 PM - 10:00 PM

INDIANA FOLKLORE AND ETHNOMUSICOLOGY ALUMNI RECEPTION
Highland D

9:30 PM - 12:00 AM

PUBLIC PROGRAMS SECTION AUCTION
Highland AJBK

Sponsored by: Public Programs Section

Friday, October 18, 2002

7:00 AM - 8:15 AM

CHILDREN'S FOLKLORE SECTION BREAKFAST MEETING
Wilmorite

7:00 AM - 8:15 AM

AFS EXECUTIVE BOARD BREAKFAST MEETING WITH SECTION CONVENERS
Cascade CD

7:00 AM - 8:15 AM

JOURNAL OF APPLIED FOLKLORE PLANNING MEETING BROWNBAG
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Sessions 8:15 AM - 10:15 AM

#5-1 Panel: JEWISH FOLKLORE AND CULTURE: RECENT WORK
Highland ABJK

Sponsored by: Jewish Folklore and Ethnology
Chair: Joel Rubin
8:15     Maurie Sacks, Re-imagining Self and Place: Catskill Jews and the Borsht Circuit
8:35     Joel Rubin, Violins, Golems and the Holocaust: The American Klezmer Movement as a Response to Crisis
8:55     Rosemary Levy Zumwalt and Isaac Jack Levy, "Everything Will Be for the Good": Interpretation of Dreams among the Sephardim
9:15     Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Holocaust Hijinks: Mirroring Evil and the Agency of Display
Discussant: Dan Ben-Amos

#5-5 Panel: SLEEPERS, SECRETS, SACRIFICES
Highland C

Chair: Regina Bendix
8:15     Ulrich Marzolph, Posters, People, Politics: Mural Art in Contemporary Iran
8:35     Dorothy Noyes, Neighbors and Sleepers: Sociability, Solidarity, and Surveillance in Urban Spain
9:15     Sabina Magliocco, The Opposite of Right Society: Witches, Terrorists, and the Discourse of Evil
9:35     Regina Bendix, Sleepers' Secrets, Actor's Revelations
Discussant: Barbro Klein

#5-6 Panel: FOLKLORE AND PEDAGOGY
Highland H

Chair: John McDowell
8:15     Jan Rosenberg, Considering the Source: Connections Between Folklore and Education and the History of Education

8:35     Simon Lichman, Alternative Repertories of Imagery: Uses of Documentation in the Traditional and Jewish School-Communities Project, Israel

8:55     Suzanne Waldenberger, Folklore and Folklorists in the Community College

9:15     Rick Hill, Oral History in the Classroom: A Native American Model

9:35     Michael Hoberman, Made-to-Order Oral Traditions: Using Story Circles as a Method of Introductory Folklore Instruction

 

#5-7 Panel: CRITICAL REGIONALISM AND THE PRODUCTION OF LOCALITY: THEORIZING COMMUNITY ACTION AND SCHOLARLY PRACTICE
Highland D

Chair: Rosina S. Miller
8:15     Cory W. Thorne, A Virtual Kitchen Party and a Virginian St. Paddy's Day: Critical Regionalism and the Development of Newfoundland-American Community
8:35     Steven F. Reynolds, 'Out' but Not Bound: A Critical Regionalist View of Philadelphia's GAYborhood
8:55     Rosina S. Miller, Unhaunting the Village: Critical Regionalist Practice and "Luminous Place" at the Village of Arts and Humanities
9:15     Kwali Farbes, Past Potter�s Field to Cemeteries in the "Dens and Shanties of the Suburbs": Critical Regionalism, Community, and 19th Century Philadelphia
9:35     Mary Hufford, Folklore, Ethnography, and Critical Regionalism in a Time of Negative Reciprocity

#5-8 Forum: RESEARCH USING VERNACULAR IMAGERY IN ROCHESTER
Highland E

Chair: Chris Burnett
Chris Burnett, William Johnson, Therese Mulligan, Roger Bruce, CarolineYeager, Michael Taft

#5-9 Panel: REPRESENTING CULTURE I
Highland F

 

Chair: Stephanie Smith
8:15     Kristen Harmon, History Through Whose Eyes?: Deaf Identity Politics and the Un-Making of a Smithsonian Institution Exhibition
8:35     Alison Clarke, Ecomuseology in France: Coming of Age or Over the Hill?
8:55     John B. Wolford, Exhibiting Bosnians in St. Louis

#5-10 Panel: SPACE AND PLACE
Highland G

Chair: Stephen C. Winnick
8:15     Krishnendu Ray, Kitchen Gardens from Kolkata to Kansas: Migrant Imagery of Place
8:35     Solimar Otero, Dreaming the Barrio: Latino Spirituality and the Shaping of Public Space
8:55     Susan Hanson, The Production and Performance of Place in the Suburbs
9:15     Janelle Walker, Cleanliness is Next to Godliness: The Discourse of Dirt and the Morality of Development at Chicago's Maxwell Street
9:35     Donna McGee Onebane, Sense of Place: The Intersection of History, Geography, and Culture in a Cajun Community

#5-11 Panel: FOLK BELIEF
Cascade E

Chair: Tom Mould
8:15     Jonathan Roper, English Charms: Organic Variation?
8:35     Larry Ellis, The Mediative Role of the Tie Snake in Creek Indian Folklore
8:55     Tok Thompson, The Absence of Color: The Symbolism of Whiteness in Irish Folklore
9:15     Lynne S. McNeill, Crazy Cat Ladies and Kitten Killing Men: Gendered Cultural Scripts and Cats in Folklore

#5-12 Panel: STORIES AND STORYTELLING
Cascade F

Chair: Elisabeth A. Nixon
8:15     Elisabeth A. Nixon, "Live from Behind Bars� Ya Smelling Us?": Rewarding Remorse Narratives in a Midwest Correctional Facility
8:35     Cynthia Cox, Documenting the Past/Transforming the Present: Narrated Events and Narrative Events in the Storytelling of a Senior Citizens� Writing Group
8:55     Debbie A. Hanson, Up Close and Impersonal: The Marketing of Personal Experience Narratives at the 2002 Winter Olympic Games
9:15     Sally Pomme Clayton, Telling the Images - Experiences of Visualization in Storytelling Performances
9:35     Meltem Turkoz, Wordtrade, Name Transaction: Language Talk in Turkish Surname Stories

#5-13 Panel: SILENCED VOICES: THE ROLE OF FOLKLORISTS/ETHNOGRAPHERS AS LISTENERS
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Sponsored by: Politics, Folklore, and Social Justice Section
Chair: Diane E. Goldstein
8:15     Yucel Demirer, Power, Politics and Silence: Being an Ethnographer in Turkey
8:35     Mark Klempner, Speaking What Cannot be Spoken; Listening to What Cannot be Heard: Personal Experience Narratives of Holocaust Survivors
8:55     Jill Hemming, Learning to Listen: Oral History as Community Development
9:15     Sally A. Van de Water, "One Day"
9:35     Diane E. Goldstein, The Sounds of Silence: Foreknowledge, Miracles, Suppressed Narratives and Terrorism - What Not Telling Might Tell Us

#5-14 Panel: DOCUMENTING PROCESSES AND INTERACTIONS
Aqueduct CD

Chair: Marilyn M. White
8:15     Rosemary V. Hathaway, The Challenges and Complexities of Electronic Documentation: Creating a 9/11 "E-lore" Archive
8:35     James Scarff, My High Episcopal Con
8:55     Phillip McArthur, To Laugh and Cry with the "Natives": On Liminal Figures Such as the Marshallese Trickster and a Folklorist
9:15     Marilyn M. White, Folklorists' Roles and Responsibilities and the Process of Documentation
9:35     Christine Garlough, Rethinking Silence in Ethnographic Encounters: Techniques and Implications for Folklore Research and Documentation


Sessions 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

#6-1:  AFS FELLOWS' INVITED PLENARY ADDRESS:

Barre Toelken (Utah State University)

Beauty Behind Me: A Penitential Look at 45 Years among the Navajo
Highland AKBJ

 

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

BRITISH FOLK STUDIES SECTION MEETING
Highland F

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

HISTORY AND FOLKLORE SECTION MEETING
Highland E

 

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

NEWFOLK@AFS SECTION MEETING
Highland G

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Roundtable: GRADUATE STUDENT TEACHING PRACTICES IN INTRODUCTION TO FOLKLORE STUDIES: A DISCUSSION
Highland D

Sponsored by: Graduate Student Section
Chair: Jackie McGrath and Ronda Walker Knudsen
Co-facilitators: David Allred and Brian D. Gregory, Panel Presenter: David Todd Lawrence


12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

AFRICAN FOLKLORE SECTION MEETING
Cascade CD

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

ARCHIVES AND LIBRARIES SECTION MEETING
Aqueduct CD

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

FOLK ART SECTION MEETING
Aqueduct AB

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

INDEPENDENT FOLKLORIST SECTION MEETING
Cascade EF

 

 

12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

FELLOWS LUNCHEON

Grand Ballroom C (Hyatt)

 

 

12:30 PM - 1:15 PM

MUSIC FROM THE EMPIRE STATE:

Old Time Fiddling with Jackie Hobbs, accompanied by Jesse Gauthen, Piano

 Highland A

 

Sessions 1:30 PM - 4:45 PM

#7-1 Forum: PRESENT STATE AND FUTURE OF THE CONTEMPORARY LEGEND AND ITS RESEARCH
Highland A

Chair: Linda Degh
Frank de Caro, Joe Goodwin, Janet Langlois, Donald Bird, Jim Leary, John Gutowski, Elizabeth Tucker, Linda Spetter, Sylvia Grider, Sandra Dolby, Carl Lindahl, Barry Ancelet, Sabina Magliocco, Ronald Baker

#7-2 Panel: THEMES OF FOLKLORE IN THE AMERICAN DEAF COMMUNITY
Highland CH

 

Chair: Simon J. Carmel
1:30     Simon Carmel, An Introductory Survey of Genres of the Esoteric Folklore in the American Deaf Community
1:50     Deirdre Schlehofer and Ted Suppala, The Past in the Present: Shaping Images of the Deaf Community in Rochester
2:10     Rebecca Edwards, History as Folklore: Deaf History as Explained by Nineteenth-Century Deaf Students
2:30     Vicki Norquist, Using Concepts of American Sign Language in Deaf Storytelling Techniques

2:50     Brenda Schertz, Deaf Art: Visualizing Deaf Culture

3:10     Grace Ann Netti, Deaf Villages as People Geography

#7-5 Forum: JOHN COHEN: THE ARTIST AS FOLKLORE DOCUMENTARIAN (Screening of "High Lonesome Sound," with presentation of John Cohen's photographs and recordings)
Highland CH

Chair: Robert Baron
John Cohen, Tom Rankin, Robert Baron
Discussant: Tom Rankin

 

#7-9 Workshop: GOOD SOUND, GOOD GEAR: SELECTING AND USING AUDIO RECORDING EQUIPMENT
Highland F

Sponsored by: Public Programs Section
Chair: Barbara Lau
Flawn Williams

 

Sessions 1:30 PM � 3:00 PM

 

#7-3 Panel: REINFORCING, IMAGINING, AND CONSTRUCTING IDENTITY II
Highland J

Chair: David Stanley
1:30     David Stanley, Gauchos and Gauchescos at the Rural/Urban Boundary
1:50     Mbugua Wa-Mungai, "What does that Slogan Mean?": Folklore on 'Wheels' in Nairobi
2:10     Steve Poizat-Newcomb, New Ta�no Survival Strategies: The Continuation, Recasting, and Creation of Caribbean Indigenous Folklore

#7-4 Forum: A CONVERSATION WITH INTERNATIONAL NOVELIST AND APPALACHIAN POET ROBERT MORGAN
Highland K

Chair: Cece Conway
Cece Conway (Appalachian State University) Introduction and �The Lucid Poetry of Robert Morgan� (Video)

Robert Morgan (Cornell University) reading from his work, �Gap Creek,� (novel) and �This Rock,� (novel) discussing �The Ritual of Work on the Journey From Pole Beans to Oprah�

 

#7-7 Forum: ISSUES IN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND THE PROTECTION OF FOLKLORE AND TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE
Highland D

Chair: Sandy Rikoon
Valdimar Tr. Hafstein, Michael Taft, Peggy Bulger, David Taylor, Barry Bergey, Willie Smyth, Sandy Rikoon

#7-8 Panel: TRAVEL AND TOURISM I
Highland E

Chair: John Ashton
1:30     David Bowes, Shipwrecks and Dive Tourism in the Eastern Great Lakes
1:50     Johanna M. Jacobsen, "Malerische Reisen" and Oriental Fantasies: Pondering the Relationship Between Folklore and Travel (Ogues) in a Globalizing World
2:10     John Ashton, Looking for a Man in the Mountain: Cultural Tourism and the Re-Invention of Tradition in Western Newfoundland

 

#7-10 Panel: COUNTERPARTS OF FOLKLORE AND RHETORIC: GENRE, NARRATIVE, PUBLIC DISPLAY
Highland G

Chair: Jill Terry Rudy
1:30     Jill Terry Rudy, Revisiting Genre as a Literary and Social Act
1:50     Kathleen Glenister Roberts, The Narrative Paradigm: Rhetoric, Folklore, and the Metaphor of Story
2:10     Gregory Hansen, Dramatism and the Development of Performance-Centered Approaches to Public Display

#7-11 Panel: GENDER AND FOLKLORE
Cascade EF

Chair: Nancy Forand
1:30     Janferie Stone, The Shapeshifting Wife: Symbolic Orderings of Gendered Violence in Guatemala
1:50     Pam McGrath, A Woman's Hair Is Her Crown And Glory
2:10     Nancy Forand, Performing Authority: Engendered Evangelical Practices Among the Maya

#7-13 Panel: REGIONAL CHARACTERISTICS OBSERVED THROUGH THE FOLKSONG COLLECTIONS OF NEW ENGLANDERS: HELEN HARTNESS FLANDERS, FANNY HARDY ECKSTORM AND MARY WINSLOW SMYTH
Aqueduct AB

Chair: Joe Hickerson
1:30     Pauleena MacDougall, "Every Man a Poet": the Folk Song collecting of Fanny Hardy Eckstorm and Mary Winslow Smyth 1925-1937.
1:50     Nancy-Jean Seigel, What's in Between the Lines?�Songs from the Flanders Ballad Collection Describe Old New England and its People

#7-14 Panel: NEWFOLK@AFS: ON-LINE COMMUNITIES
Aqueduct CD

Sponsored by: Newfolk@AFS
Chair: Carol Burke
1:30     Carol Burke, Jane Fonda as the Subject of Cyber Legends
1:50     Lydia Fish, FAC-ing Around on the Web: Sharing Folklore in Cyberspace
2:10     Letisha Rae Kamlay, The Wizard Homemaker and the Warrior Student: Avatars, Players, and the Negotiation of Identity in �The Realm�
2:30     Robbin Zeff, Now They're Claiming They Discovered Community: Confessions of a Folklorist from the Early Days of Online Advertising

#7-15 Forum: A WINDOW INTO THE PAST: REVISITING THE DOCUMENTARY WORK OF PIONEER HABS PHOTOGRAPHER JOHN O. BROSTRUP--A PERSONAL CONVERSATION
Cascade CD

Chair: Andrew Wallace
John Vlach, John O. Brostrup

Sessions 3:15 PM - 4:45 PM

 

#8-3 Forum: EXHIBITING CHILDREN: MATERIAL AND VISUAL REPRESENTATION OF CHILDREN'S TRADITIONS
Highland J

Sponsored by: Children's Folklore Section
Chair: Simon Bronner
Jon-Paul Dyson, Charles Sullivan, Jeannie Thomas, Peter Tokofsky, JoAnn Conrad

#8-4 Forum: SISTER CITIES: LOCAL IMAGINARIES AND VERNACULAR INTERNATIONALISM
Highland K

Sponsored by: Program Committee and the AFS Fellows
Chair: Dorothy Noyes
Dorothy Noyes, Michael Leach, Alison Clarke, Olga Berdyaeva, Krzysztof Kowalski, Nancy M. Huppert, Lee Johnson,

#8-7 Panel: ETHNOAESTHETICS, TRANSFORMATION, AND SPACE IN PERFORMANCE MODALITIES
Highland D

Chair: Christine R. Marasigan
3:15     JoAnn Staten, The Women Speak: Verbal Arts and the Promise of Transformation
3:35     Adriana Cruz, Dancing as Promesa: Religious Performances and the Sacred Dimension of the Zapotec Fiesta in Los Angeles
3:55     Kim Miller, "Come On, It's Your Religion!": Gender Roles in the Making of Jewish/Christian Interfaith Holidays.
4:15     Christine R. Marasigan, Filipinos Performing Prayer: Block Rosaries and Pilgrim Statues in Los Angeles

#8-8 Panel: TRAVEL AND TOURISM II
Highland E

Chair: Beverly Stoeltje
3:15     Adele Anderson, Experiencing the Authentic in Small Periodic Market Attractions, Upstate NY
3:35     Siriporn Phakdeephasook, An Event for Whom?: Documenting a Riddling Event in a Tourist Fair in Pattaya, Chonburi, Thailand
3:55     Jing Li, Playing Upon Fantasy: Women, Ethnic Tourism, and the Politics of Identity Constructing in a Dai Minority Village in Contemporary Xishuang Banna, China

#8-10 Video: SCREENING OF "SACRED STEEL: THE STEEL GUITAR TRADITION OF THE HOUSE OF GOD CHURCHES"
Highland G

Chair:Robert Stone

Robert Stone, �Sacred Steel: The Steel Guitar Tradition of the House of God Churches�

#8-11 Panel: PUBLIC WORKS IN PROGRESS -- POSTER SESSION
Cascade EF

Sponsored by: Public Programs Section, Independent Folklorist Section
Chair: Terry Liu and Andrea Graham
Elaine Thatcher and Andrea Graham, How Folklorists Are Influencing the Development of Cultural Tourism in the Bear River Heritage Area
Lisa L. Higgins, Partnership in Progress
Deeksha Nagar, Communicating Cultures: Across Cultures

#8-13 Panel: REPRESENTING CULTURE II
Aqueduct AB

Chair: Mary Magoulick
Mary Magoulick, Messages in the Media: The Frustrations of Women Superheroes
Jack Shortlidge and John Fuyuume, The Seabrook Educational and Cultural Center: Presenting One's Story to the Surrounding Community

#8-14 Forum: FOLKLORE IN EDUCATION AND NEW MEDIA
Aqueduct CD

Sponsored by: Folklore and Education
Chair: Maida Owens
Paddy Bowman, Jamie Yuenger, Maida Owens

#8-15 Panel: RESISTANCE THROUGH FOLKLORE
Cascade CD

Chair: Mary Ellen Cohane
3:15     Matthew Kerchner, Singing about your Scrotum: Symbolic Inversion as Resistance in the Summer Camp Subculture
3:35     Mark Allen Jackson, Angola Blues: Lyric and Meaning in the Prison Songs of Robert Pete Williams
3:55     Mary Ellen Cohane, Developing Methods in Ecofolklore: An Application in Alaska


5:30 PM - 7:00 PM

2002 PROGRAM COMMITTEE INVITED PLENARY ADDRESS:

Geoffrey Batchen (Graduate Center, City University of New York)

Ere the Substance Fade: Photography and Memory
George Eastman House: Transportation will be provided beginning at 4:45 PM.

 

Respondents: Kay Turner and John Vlach

7:00 PM - 8:00 PM

RECEPTION

Following Plenary Address

With Performance of Puerto Rican Jibaro Music by Marcos Santiago

and Trio Los Arpegios
George Eastman House

7:00 PM - 1:00 AM

INFORMAL MUSIC SESSIONS
Aqueduct CD

Sponsored by: Music and Song Section



8:00 PM - 10:00 PM

RECEPTION FOR THE JOURNAL OF AMERICAN FOLKLORE
Aqueduct AB

8:00 PM - 10:00 PM

UCLA RECEPTION
Highland G

8:00 PM - 10:30 PM

DAN CROWLEY MEMORIAL STORYTELLING CONCERT
Highland AB

 

Sponsored by: Storytelling Section


8:30 PM - 10:30 PM

WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY RECEPTION
Highland H

8:30 PM - 10:00 PM

PHILLIPS BARRY MEMORIAL LECTURE: James Kimball, Old-Time Dance Music in Western New York: Bringing it Together
Highland JK

Sponsored by: Music and Song Section
Discussant: Richard Blaustein


9:00PM - 11:00 PM

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA GRADUATE PROGRAM IN FOLKLORE AND FOLKLIFE RECEPTION

Highland E

 

9:00 PM -10:00 PM

AFS BOARD QUESTION AND ANSWER SESSION

Highland CD

 

 

Saturday, October 19, 2002

Sessions 8:15 AM � 12:00 PM

#9-9 Workshop: DEVELOPING A SENSE OF PLACE: A K-12 WORKSHOP
Highland F

Sponsored by: Folklore and Education Section
Chair: Paddy Bowman, Ruth Olson
Paddy Bowman, Ruth Olson, Anne Pryor, Mark Wagler, Richard Hill

Sessions 8:15 AM - 10:00 AM

#9-1 Panel: EMBODIED TRADITIONS: FOLKLORE, RELIGION, AND THE PERFORMANCE OF HEALING
Highland A

Chair: Eoghan Ballard
8:15     Shannon Geary, Hearts and Hands: The Birth Doula�s Delivery of Embodied Subjectivity
8:35     Eoghan C. Ballard, Weeds, Wraiths, and Wizards: The Body of and in Afro-Cuban Medicine and Religion
8:55     Tonya M. Kearley, "Breastfeeding Friendly" or Breastfeeding Frenzy? A Case Study of Contemporary Newfoundland Mothers and the Agenda to make Breastfeeding the Cultural Norm
9:15     Seran Schug, Performances of Healing: The Construction of Body Images in Authentic Movement

#9-2 Forum: BEADWORK IN IROQUOIS LIFE
Highland B

Chair: Kate Koperski
Jolene Rickard, Marlene Printup, Rosemary Hill, Lena Rickard

#9-3 Panel: MATERIAL CULTURE I: CRAFT
Highland J

Chair: Theresa Lloyd
8:15     Theresa Lloyd, A Tale of Two Coverlets: Gypsy Hollingsworth and Authenticity in the Northwest North Carolina Crafts Revival
8:35     Cynthia G. Falk, Documenting American Redware: The Case of Sarah Bixler's Plates and Flowerpots
8:55     Natalie Kononenko, Ukrainian Ritual Towels: Digital Analysis of Variation
9:15     Judith Sacks, "Blackface and Bottle Ovens: Minstrel Imagery and the Pottery Industry in Victorian Britain, 1830-1915"

#9-4 Panel: FOODWAYS IN INSTITUTIONAL SETTINGS
Highland K

Sponsored by: Foodways Section
Chair: Richard Burns
8:15     Eve Jochnowitz, Feeding the Hungry Heart: Performing Food and Faith in the Urban Soup Kitchen
8:35     Charles Camp, Among the Ladies of Lunch
8:55     LuAnne K. Roth, Where's the Beef?: Meat Eaters, Vegetarians, and the Negotiation of Familial Relationships
9:15     Richard Burns, Foodways in the Military
Discussant: Lucy Long

#9-7 Panel: ZOOMING IN: CULTURAL REPRESENTATIONS AT THE INTERFACE OF TEXT AND IMAGE: I
Highland D

Chair: Kim Lau
8:15     Jennifer Schacker, Ethnographic Fantasies: Orientalism & the Picturesque in the Illustration of the Arabian Nights
8:35     Cristina Bacchilega, Out of Place Stories and the Legendary Imaging of Hawai'i
8:55     Joanna Hearne, Edward Curtis's "Art Science": Image and Melodrama in the Silent Documentary
Discussant: Sharon Sherman

#9-8 Forum: FOLKLORE AND FEDERAL PROGRAMS: POLICY, PRACTICE, AND OPPORTUNITIES
Highland E

Chair: Bill Ivey
Peggy Bulger, Richard Kurin, Robert Sayers, and Barry Bergey
Discussant: Bill Ivey

 

#9-10 Video: SCREENING OF "STRANGER WITH A CAMERA"
Highland G

Chair:Elizabeth Barret

Elizabeth Barret, �Stranger With A Camera�
Discussants: Hank Willett, Tom Rankin

#9-13 Panel: VIEWING SILENCE: THE IMAGES OF SILENCED VOICES
Aqueduct AB

Sponsored by: Politics, Folklore, and Social Justice Section
Chair: Ann Ferrell
8:15     Fahriye Dincer, An Exceptional Case of Muslim Women's Appearance on the Stage: Afife Jale and Her Life in Art
8:35     JoAnn Conrad, The Power in the Vacuum: Technologies of Voice and Visibility in the Everyday
8:55     Ann Ferrell, The Power of Silence: Images of the Virgin Mary in Folk Narrative
9:15     Eniko Farkas, Political Resistance as Disguised in Textiles

#9-14 Forum: LESSONS FROM THE DELMARVA FOLKLIFE PROJECT
Aqueduct CD

Chair: Rory P.B. Turner
Amy Skilman, Tom Walker, Kelly Feltault, Elaine Eff, James Lane, Rory P.B. Turner

#9-15 Forum: A CONVERSATION WITH BILL NICOLAISEN, AFS LIFETIME SCHOLARLY ACHIEVEMENT AWARDEE
Cascade CD

Chair: Simon Bronner
Ronald Baker, W.K. McNeil, Mary Ellen Brown

Sessions 10:15 AM - 12:00 PM

#10-1 Panel: LEGEND II
Highland A

Chair: Deirdre Evans-Pritchard
10:15   Deirdre Evans-Pritchard, Sword in Hand: St. Elias in Lebanon
10:35   Xiaoxiu Tian, The Folklore of "Crying Bride" among the Minority Ethnic of Gelaozu in Daozhen County in Southwest of China
10:55   Tom Mould, Prophecy as Verbal Genre

#10-2 Forum: BASKETMAKERS OF AKWESASNE
Highland B

Chair: Sue Ellen Herne
Sue Ellen Herne, Henry Arquette, Kevin Lazore, Irene McDonald, Robin Lazore

#10-3 Panel: FOLKLORE AND FILM
Highland J

Chair: Linda Pershing
10:15   Roslyn Blyn-LaDrew, The Noble Savage as Ethnographer: Colman "Tiger" King Meets Nanook Via Mici Mac Grabhann's Observations of Alaska in the 1890's
10:35   Linda Pershing, Is It a Small World After All?: The Politics of Representation in Disney�s Newest Animated Film, �Lilo and Stitch�
10:55   Pille Runnel, The Representation of Finno-Ugric Groups in Russia in the Estonian Documentaries of the 1990s
11:15   John Bealle, Authenticity Under Siege in �Limbo� and �American Beauty�

#10-4 Panel: MAKING FOLK NARRATIVE REAL: THE INFLUENCE OF STORYTELLING ON LIFE
Highland K

Sponsored by: Folk Narrative Section
Chair: Bill Ellis
10:15   Jacqueline S. Thursby, St. Anne's Retreat: Legend Tripping in Logan Canyon, Utah
10:35   Bill Ellis, The Japanese Kimodameshi as Ostensive Narration
10:55   Katherine Borland, Spooks, Nostalgia, and Community Enactment in Masaya, Nicaragua
11:15   Nathan E. Bender, Romantic Stories of Frontier Scouts and Their Impact on American Society

#10-5 Forum: EXCHANGING VIEWS: A CONVERSATION WITH ROGER ABRAHAMS
Highland CH

Chair: Betty J. Belanus
Betty Belanus, Roger Abrahams, Hanna Griff, Michael Murray

#10-7 Panel: ZOOMING IN: CULTURAL REPRESENTATIONS AT THE INTERFACE OF TEXT AND IMAGE: II
Highland D

Chair: Cristina Bacchilega
10:15   Diane Tye, Othering and Owning: Newfoundland Mummers and the Transformatio of Difference
10:35   Ku`ualoha Ho`omanawanui, Politics and Poly-Texts: Contemporary Ima(in)ing of the Pele Literature
10:55   Kimberly J. Lau, Sexing the Text: Embodying Women's Voices in Experimental Ethnography
Discussant: Dorothy Noyes

#10-8 Forum: FOLKLORE AND FEDERAL PROGRAMS: POLICY, PRACTICE, AND OPPORTUNITIES
Highland E

Barry Bergey (NEA) and Robert Sayers (NEH) will be available for individual discussion of potential projects

#10-10 Panel: SILENCED VOICES: LOOKING AT AND LISTENING TO FOLKLORE AND/IN LITERATURE
Highland G

Sponsored by: Politics, Folklore, and Social Justice Section
Chair: Elizabeth E. Rathje Taylor
10:15   Jacqueline L. McGrath, "Peter was Hard to Listen To": Social Justice Practices and Religious Folklife Represented in Texts of the Catholic Worker Movement
10:35   Elizabeth E. Rathje Taylor, A Woman is Hollering, but Who Listens? The Ethics of Reading Sandra Cisneros
10:55   Elaine J. Lawless, Performing Witchery: Cartography and Power in Ethnographic Fiction
Discussant: Mary Ellen Brown

#10-11 Panel: TRADITIONAL MEDICINE AND HEALING
Cascade E

Chair: Camilla Mortensen
10:15   Camilla Mortensen, At the Effect of my Body: Personal Narrative, Healing, and the Loss of Agency
10:35   Ekaterina Belooussova, Ritual And Psychology In Russian Homebirth Movement
10:55   David J. Hufford, The Triumph of Folk Medicine
11:15   Dana David, From Superstition to Speech Act: Documenting the Vernacular Medicine of Cadien Treaters

#10-12 Panel: COLLECTING AND COLLECTORS
Cascade F

Chair: Carl Rahkonen
10:15   Nancy Piatkowski, Archives and the Telling of the Community Story
10:35   John M. Schleppenbach, Folklore of Adams County Illinois
10:55   Carl Rahkonen, The Folk Music Research of Samuel P. Bayard

11:15   Olga Berdyaeva, Folklore Culture of the Novgorod Region

 

 

#10-13 Forum: TEXT AND COMMUNITY
Aqueduct AB

Chair: Margaret R. Yocom and Polly Stewart
Margaret R. Yocom, Polly Stewart, Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett

#10-14 Panel: PROVIDING ACCESS TO FOLK MUSIC INFORMATION
Aqueduct CD

Sponsored by: Archives and Libraries Section
Chair: Lyn Wolz
10:15   Simon Furey, Referencing the Source Material: Toward an Improved Method of Indexing Folk Songs
10:35   Paul J. Stamler and Robert Waltz, The Traditional Ballad Index: History, Choices and Constraints
10:55   David G. Engle, The Traditional Ballad Index: Theory And Practice
11:15   Stephanie Smith, Out of the Archive: Folkways Records and the Scottish Ding Dong Dollar Songs

#10-15 Panel: COMMUNITY CONTEXTS FOR MUSIC MAKING
Cascade CD

Chair: Barry Jean Ancelet
10:15   Barry Jean Ancelet, �T�en as Eu, T�en Auras Plus:� The Effects of Changing Context on Cajun Music

10:35   Lucy Long, Can�t We Medley This?: Repetition, Native Genres, and Community Contexts in Ohio Fiddle Traditions

10:55   Erika Brady, Halfway to Heaven: Muhlenberg County, KY, and the Prine Perplex

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Roundtable: EUROPEAN RESEARCH ROUNDTABLE
Cascade E

Chair: Terri Brewer


12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

FOLKLORE AND ORAL HISTORY SECTION MEETING
Highland G

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

FOODWAYS SECTION MEETING
Highland F

12:30 PM - 1:15 PM

MUSIC FROM THE EMPIRE STATE: STERL VAN ARSDALE, HAMMERED DULCIMER

Highland A

 

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

FOLK BELIEF AND RELIGIOUS FOLKLIFE SECTION MEETING
Aquaduct CD

 

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Roundtable: SPEAKING ENGLISH: A ROUNDTABLE ON FOLKLORISTS IN ENGLISH DEPARTMENTS
Highland CH

Chair: Jill Terry Rudy and Greg Kelley
Jill Terry Rudy, Greg Kelley


12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

GRADUATE STUDENT SECTION MEETING
Aquaduct AB

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

LATINO/CHICANO/CARIBBEAN FOLKLORE SECTION MEETING
Cascade CD

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Roundtable: TRANSGRESSIVE TALES: INTERPRETING THE EROTIC, THE TABOOED, THE PERVERSE, AND THE WOMEN-CENTRED IN THE GRIMM COLLECTION
Highland D

Chair: Kay Turner
Kay Turner, Joeseph Goodwin, Cristina Bacchilega, Margaret Yocom, Polly Stewart

Sessions 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM

#11-1 Forum: GOING PUBLIC: IMPLICATIONS FOR FOLK ARTISTS AND FOLKLORISTS
Highland A

Sponsored by: Public Programs Section
Chair: Varick Chittenden
Joey Brackner, Varick Chitttenden, Douglas Manger, Rachelle Saltzman, John Vlach, Mary Zwolinski

#11-2 Panel: NARRATIVE, IMAGE, AND OBJECTS OF MEMORY: LEGACIES OF ITALIAN AND ITALIAN AMERICAN FAMILY AND COMMUNITY
Highland B

Sponsored by: Mediterranean Section
Chair: Joan Saverino
1:30     Luisa del Giudice, Interpreting Treasure: Oral tradition, Archaeology and Horace's Villa in Licenza, Italy
1:50     Elizabeth Mathias, "Once Upon a Time": Saints' Legends and Marchen in an Italian Village
2:10     Richard Raspa, Folk Painting in the Italian Alps: Visual Narrative and Sacralized Space
2:30     Joseph Sciorra, Imagined Places, Fragile Landscapes: Italian American Presepi (Nativity Cr�ches) In New York City
2:50     Joan Saverino, Embroidery as Inscription: Memory, Meaning, and Life Integration

#11-3 Panel: THEORY
Highland J

Chair: Peter Norvaez
1:30     Peter Narvaez, The Continuing Significance of the Folk Society Model
1:50     Merrill Kaplan, Augustine in the Audience: Modern Concerns at Medieval Performance Sites
2:10     Gregory Schrempp, Documenting Human Insignificance: The Copernican Revolution in Folkloric Perspective
2:30     John Laudun, The Discipline Which Is Not One
2:50     Harris M. Berger, The Problem of the Self in Folklore Performance

#11-4 Panel: FOLKTALE
Highland K

Chair: Cory Thorne
1:30     Christine Goldberg, "Show Me How": The Strategy of Feigned Ignorance in Folktales
1:50     Mark Bender, Ashima to Zhige'alu Trends in the Textualization of Yi Epic and Oral Narrative in Southwest China
2:10     Anne Lafferty, Messages about Domestic Violence in Two Marchen
2:30     Miyuki Hirayama, The Japanese Folklore in Animated Film

#11-5 Video: SCREENING OF "DOWN AN OLD ROAD: THE POETIC LIFE OF WILMA ELIZABETH MCDANIEL" AND "CROSSTOWN"
Highland CH

Chair: Miriam Camitta
1:30 Chris Simon, �Down an Old Road: The Poetic Life of Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel�

2:25 Miriam Camitta, �Crosstown�

Sponsored by the Public Programs Section

 

#11-7 Panel: HISTORICAL MOMENTS, POWER SHIFTS, AND IDENTITY POLITICS IN FESTIVAL
Highland D

Chair: Beverly Stoeltje
1:30     Beverly Stoeltje, The Performance of Culture (and Politics)
1:50     Giovanna Del Negro, Conflict and Contest in a Central Italian Town: Ritual Games and the Performance of Modernity
2:10     Lisa Gilman, Politics and the Transformation of Malawi Dance Forms
2:30     Hande A. Birkalan, Dancing with Memory: Migration, Remembering, and Landscape
Discussant: Jack Santino

#11-8 Panel: MATERIAL CULTURE II: ADORNMENT AND ARCHITECTURE
Highland E

Chair: Suzanne Seriff
1:30     Madeline C. Yurtseven, Design Discourse: Ornamental Ironwork - Aegean Turkey
1:50     Suzanne Seriff, Sacred Objects; Profaned Spaces: Synagogue Architecture ina Post-Modern Age
2:10     Doreen Klassen, They Told me What to Paint: Artist-Sponsor Negotiation in Wall Mural Production
2:30     Suheyla Cavuser, The Influence of Home Decoration in a Turkish Village
2:50     Louise Ackley, Barns and Churches: Symbols of Security

#11-9 Forum: RE-IMAGINING HOME AT SCHOOL: THE NEW ENGLAND CULTURAL HERITAGE PROJECT IN PROCESS
Highland F

Chair: Bonnie S. Sunstein
Bonnie S. Sunstein, Arthur W. Hunsicker, Michael Hoberman, Sarah H. Townsend

#11-10 Forum: TOWARDS A RE-EVALUATION OF THE STATEMENT OF ETHICS FOR THE AMERICAN FOLKLORE SOCIETY
Highland G

Sponsored by: Public Programs Section
Chair: Jill Linzee
Jill Linzee, Chair, Amy Craver, Janet Gilmore, G. Peter Jemison, John Mohawk, Irving Powless, Jr.

#11-11 Panel: COMMUNICATING WITH THE SPIRIT WORLD
Cascade E

Chair: Lesley Y. Williams
1:30     Lesley Y. Williams, Second Sight, Second Life: Coming to Terms with a Traditional Gift
1:50     Sara Webb-Sunderhaus, I Will Remember You: Death Narratives in an Urban Appalachian Family
2:10     �lo Valk, Songs of the Dead: on the Forms of Poetic Possession in Estonian Folklore

#11-12 Panel: PRINCIPLES IN PRACTICE: FORGING RELIGIOUS IDENTITIES
Cascade F

Chair: Kristi A. Bell
1:30     Kristi A. Bell, Four Weddings and a Mortuary: A Look at Material Culture Documenting Mormon Wedding Receptions
1:50     Ronda Walker Knudsen, Mothers, Sons, and Separation: LDS Missionaries and Their Mothers
2:10     Randy Williams, Belief in a Bottle: The Performance of Mormon Worldview
2:30     D. Glenn Ostlund II, From Missionary to Ethnographer: A Reflective Look at the Ethics of Fieldwork in a Religious Landscape
2:50     David A. Allred, Magical Prophets: The Politics of Mormon (Folk) Belief in Orson Scott Card's Seventh Son
Discussant: William A. Wilson

#11-14 Forum: ACCESS TO FOLKLORE MATERIALS AND COLLECTIONS: RECENT PROJECTS IN INDEXING, DIGITIZING, AND CATALOGING
Aqueduct CD

Sponsored by: Archives and Libraries Section
Chair: Catherine Hiebert Kerst
Catherine Kerst, Michael Taft, Jennifer Post, Michael Murray, Susan Golden, Steve Roud, Jane Keefer, Dick Greenhaus, Donald Duncan

#11-15 Panel: MUSIC DIASPORAS AND RECONTEXTUALIZATIONS
Cascade CD

Chair: Felicia McMahon
1:30     David A. Samper, "African is Still our Mama:" Kenyan Rap and the Revitalization of Tradition.
1:50     Felicia Faye McMahon, Contours of Shared Identity: Documenting 'Novelty' Among the Lost Boys of the Sudan in Syracuse, NY
2:10     Frederick Danker, The Case of "Milk Cow Blues": Variation and Stability in Texts
2:30     Hakan Yilmaz, Music in the Time of Politics: Leftist Popular Music in Turkey since the 1960s
2:50     Martha C. Sims, Everything Old is New Again: DJ's Create Aural Patchworks

4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

AFS ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING AND CANDIDATES' FORUM
Highland AJBK

 

6:00 PM � 6:45 PM

AFS COCKTAIL PARTY

Performance by COMHALTAS COELTOIRI EIREANN with TED MC GRAW, Traditional Irish Music

Highland AJBK


6:00 PM - 7:00 PM

PRESENTATION OF THE WILLIAM STILL CITATION
Highland D

 

Sponsored by the Politics, Folklore, and Social Justice Section

 

 

7:00 PM - 1:00 AM

DINNER/DANCE
St. Dimitria Macedonian Orthodox Church: Transportation will be provided beginning at 6:15 PM.

7:00 PM - 1:00 AM

INFORMAL MUSIC SESSIONS
Highland E

Sponsored by: Music and Song Section


10:00 PM - 11:00 PM

AA MEETING

Sunday, October 20, 2002

8:00 AM - 10:00 AM

NEW YORK FOLKLORE SOCIETY ANNUAL BREAKFAST MEETING
Highland CH

8:30 AM - 12:30 PM

AFS EXECUTIVE BOARD MEETING BREAKFAST
Wilmorite