Folklore Events for the 2006 -
2007 Academic Year
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events, conference, and CFPs
Thursday, May 24, time TBA
Making Connections with Community Members:
Strategies for Artists and Cultural Organizations
In collaboration with The Conservation Company Group and
with funding from the John S. and
James L. Knight Foundation Community Partners in Arts Access Program
Location:
TBA
Friday, May 11 and Saturday,
May 12, noon-6 p.m.
The Going Digital
Interdisciplinary Used Book Fundraiser
The Folklore
Archive is deaccessioning hundreds of books and journals to raise
money for migrating
the Archive's endangered manuscripts, sound recordings, and moving
images (1930s-1970s) to digital format.
Donations:
Books: $5 for paperbacks, $10 for cloth
Journals: $2 (single issues), $1 (per issue) for complete sets
Location: 3619 Locust Walk (Fiji House),
Philadelphia (Rain location: Moose Room, 3619 Locust Walk)
For a list of books
being deaccessioned, click here.
For more information, contact mhufford@sas.upenn.edu,
or there is a particular book you are interested in, contact lindalee@sas.upenn.edu.
Monday, April 2, 4:30-6 p.m.
Pajubi Phad Performance
A traditional
picture-storytelling performance of India comes to Philadelphia.
Location: South American Room, International
House, 3701 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia
For more information,
contact jcmiller@custom-video.com.
March 22, 4:30 p.m.
Lecture
by
Margaret H. Beissinger, Princeton
University
"Traditional Romani
(Gypsy) Musicians and Oral Epic in the Balkans: A Comparison of
Performance and Performers"
Sponsored by the Graduate Program in Folklore & Folklife, the
Center for Folklore and Ethnography, and the Department of Slavic
Languages and Literature
Location: Moose Room, 3619 Locust Walk (Fiji House)
March 18, 4:30-6 p.m.
Dangdut in
America
An evening of live
DANGDUT music performed by finalists of Philadelphia Auditions and an All American Band
Sponsored by NRS Productions, with the Embassy of Indonesia, New York
Indonesian Consulate, the Center for Folklore and Ethnography, Healthy
Music, Indonesian-American Community, and the Indonesian-American
Association
Location: Calvary Center, 550 Township Line Road, Suite 200,
Blue Bell, PA 19422
Admission is free, but
please RSVP to nsrproductions@att.net
February 22, 5-6:30 p.m.
Keynote Lecture
for Travel:
7th
Annual Graduate Humanities Forum Conference, University of
Pennsylvania
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, University
Professor and Professor of Performance Studies, New York University
"Old Histories, New
Itineraries: Museum of the History of Polish Jews"
Sponsored by the Penn
Humanities Forum and the National
Museum of American Jewish History.
Location: Rainey Auditorium, Penn Museum, 3260 South
Street
Advanced registration
is required: Click here
to register or call 215-573-8280.
January 31, 4:30 p.m.
Lecture by Dr. Guy
Beiner, Ben-Gurion University
"The Mystery of the Chains: Tellling Tales and Making
it Up in the Irish Countryside"
Sponsored by the Graduate Program in Folklore & Folklife, the
Center for Folklore and Ethnography, and the Department of History
Location: Moose Room, 3619 Locust Walk (Fiji House)
January 25, 1 p.m. - 3 p.m.
Workshop on
Mixed Mesophytic Community Forestry
Appalachian Center for Ethnobotanical Studies, West Virginia
University, Morgantown, WV.
January 12, 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.
Mid-Atlantic
Folklore Society Board Meeting
Folklore Archive, 3619 Locust Walk.
September 8, 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.
Mid-Atlantic
Folklore Association Board Meeting
Folklore Archive, 3619 Locust Walk, Room 404
October 6, 9:30 a.m. - 3:00
p.m.
Migrating
the
Folklore Archive to Digital Format
Advisory Board Meeting
Folklore Archive, 3619 Locust Walk, Room 404
November 8, 1:00 - 3:00 p.m.
Lecture by David J. Hufford
"Studying Traditions of the Soul and Supernatural Experience"
Location TBA
November 16, 12:00 - 2:00 p.m.
Community Storytelling Project I
3619 Locust Walk, First Floor
Advance registration required: email mhufford@sas.upenn.edu
December 1, 11:00 a.m. - 1:00
p.m.
Community Storytelling Project II
3619 Locust Walk, First Floor
Advance registration required: email mhufford@sas.upenn.edu
December 6, 4 p.m.
Lecture by
Katharine Young
"Narrative/Memory/Body: The Temporalization of
Experience in a Somatic Therapeutic Practice"
School of Nursing
Location TBA
Related Events and
Upcoming
Conferences
Friday, April 11-Saturday, April 12, 2008
Building
Bridges in the City and Beyond: Languages, Communities, and Cultures
Language, Literacy, and Culture Program,
University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD
Deadline for abstracts: August 31,
2007.
For more information, email mallinson@umbc.edu.
Friday, November 16-Sunday,
November 18, 2007
Fantasy
Matters Conference
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
Deadline for abstracts: June 15,
2007.
For more information, visit the conference website.
Wednesday, October 17-Sunday,
October 21, 2007
American Folklore Society/Folklore Studies
Association of Canada Joint Meeting
“The Politics and Practices of Intangible Cultural Heritage”
Hilton
Québec, Québec, Canada
Deadline for abstracts: March 31,
2007.
For more information, visit the AFS website.
Thursday, September 20-Saturday, September 22, 2007
ISFNR Interim
Conference, "Folk Narrative and Society"
Santa
Rosa, La Pampa, Argentina
Deadline for registration and abstracts: March 15,
2007.
For more information, visit the ISFNR
website.
Friday, September
14-Saturday, September 15, 2007
11th Annual
Conference on Holidays, Ritual, Festival, Celebration, and Public
Display
Bowling
Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio
Deadline for abstracts: July 4,
2007.
For more information, email jacksantino@hotmail.com.
Tuesday, August 28-Friday,
August 31, 2007
Royal
Geographical Society Annual International Conference, Geographies of
Folklore session
Royal Geographical Society with IBG and
Imperial College London
Deadline for abstracts: February 25,
2007.
For more information about this session, email cwlipman@blueyonder.co.uk
or Jude.Hill@exeter.ac.uk.
Thursday,
May 3-Saturday, May 5, 2007
Forging
Folklore: Witches, Pagans and
Neo-Tribal Cultures
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Deadline for abstracts: February 18,
2007.
For more information, email charmingcrafty@aol.com
or visit the conference website.
Friday, March 30-Saturday,
March
31, 2007
Pushing Boundaries:
Extreme Folklore and Ethnomusicology Graduate Student Conference
Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
Deadline for abstracts: January 25,
2007.
For more information, email push.bound@gmail.com.
Friday, March 2-Saturday, March
3, 2007
Voices
of the Chesapeake: OHMAR Conference
Sponsored by OHMAR (Oral History in
the Mid-Atlantic Region) and Washington College
Casey Academic Center, Washington College, Chestertown, Maryland
For more information, email ohmaroha@yahoo.com,
or for registration information, contact cstrickland@navyhistory.org.
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