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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
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Session 1 1:00-2:30 pm
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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
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Session 2 3:00-4:30 pm
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Learning the Vernacular: Penn's Tradition in Public Folklore Moderated by Nick Spitzer, with Robert Baron, Peggy Bulger, Steve Zeitlin. Discussant: Debora Kodish
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Keynote 5:00 pm
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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
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Reception 6:00-8:00 pm |
Main Gallery & Tombs of Ur Gallery, Museum of Anthropology
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Saturday, April 3 |
Terrace Room, Logan Hall |
9:00 am |
Registration and Continental Breakfast |
Session 3 9:30-11:00 am
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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
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Session 4 11:30-1:00 pm
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"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
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1:00-2:30 pm |
Lunch on own |
Session 5 2:30-4:00 pm
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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
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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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