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
