Gathering/Place: Folklore, Aesthetic Ecologies,
and the Public Domain

40th Anniversary Conference and Reunion

April 2-3, 2004, University of Pennsylvania Campus, Logan Hall

Sponsored by the Center for Folklore and Ethnography, the Graduate Program in
Folklore and Folklife and the Graduate Students in Folklore and Folklife

Schedule

To reach abstracts of the sessions, click on the session titles below. Click on presenter names and paper titles for biographies and abbreviated papers. To post a response to items on the conference website, follow the Guest Book link below.
Friday, April 2	Room 402, Logan Hall
12 pm	Registration
12:45 pm	Introduction: Dan Ben-Amos Welcome: Joseph Farrell, Associate Dean, School of Arts & Sciences
Session 1 1:00-2:30 pm	Moving Folklore Chairs: Dana Hercbergs and Steve Reynolds Presenters: Ana Cara: Tourism and Exile: Mounting the Tango Show "For Export" Amy Horowitz: Protest/Music in the Shadows of Home/Land/and Security Raquel Romberg: Glocal Spirituality: Consumerism and Heritage in Puerto Rican Brujería Amy Shuman: Place, Sentimentality, and the Dispossessed Discussant: John Szwed
Session 2 3:00-4:30 pm	Learning the Vernacular: Penn's Tradition in Public Folklore Moderated by Nick Spitzer, with Robert Baron, Peggy Bulger, Steve Zeitlin. Discussant: Debora Kodish
Keynote 5:00 pm	Cultural Memory, Constructs of History, and Moments of Being Presenter: M. D. Muthukumaraswamy: Cultural Memory, Constructs of History and Moments of Being Introduction: Roger Abrahams Discussants: Dorry Noyes and Bill Westerman
Reception 6:00-8:00 pm	Main Gallery & Tombs of Ur Gallery, Museum of Anthropology
Saturday, April 3	Terrace Room, Logan Hall
9:00 am	Registration and Continental Breakfast
Session 3 9:30-11:00 am	Aesthetic Ecologies Chairs: Rosina Miller and Mu Peng Presenters: Joann Bromberg: Social Aspects of Story Exchange: Abstract Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett: Messages in a Bottle Katharine Young: The Aesthetic Ecology of a Gesture Discussant: Lee Haring
Session 4 11:30-1:00 pm	"The Environment is the Composition": Sites, Artifacts, and Structures of Feeling (Or, Folklore as Applied Kandinsky) Chairs: Veronica Aplenc and Sandra Grady Presenters: Anna Beresin: Culture Shifts, Playground Moves: Abstractions from the Concrete Suzanne MacAulay: Field Aesthetics Leslie Prosterman: "Subtle, intangible, and non-quantifiable": Aesthetics, Law, and Speech in Public Space Mary Hufford: Knowing Ginseng: Toward an Aesthetic Ecology of Public Intelligence Knowing Ginseng: part 1 Knowing Ginseng: part 2 Discussant: Bob St. George
1:00-2:30 pm	Lunch on own
Session 5 2:30-4:00 pm	The Mother of Grace Club: Women, Vows, and Italian American Catholicism in Twenty-First-Century America Chairs: Linda Lee and Anika Wilson Presenters: Leonard Norman Primiano, Joseph Sciorra, Kay Turner Discussants: Joan Saverino and Maggie Kruesi
Session 6 4:30-6:00 pm	International Observers Speak Regina Bendix, Simon Lichman, Wend Wendland
Celebration 6:00-9:00 pm	Gift of the Gods Gallery, Folklore Archive, and Lounge, Logan Hall Third Floor

To register, please download the Registration Form

Guest Book

Call for Participation

Places to stay

Directions to Penn

Map of campus

 
For updates on the conference,
please visit our website early and often:
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/folklore/

Resources

For more information on the focus of this conference, please see the Working List of resources in aesthetic ecologies.

Mary Hufford, Director
Center for Folklore and Ethnography
University of Pennsylvania
313 Logan Hall
249 South 36th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6304
Phone: 215-898-7352
Fax: 215-573-2231

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