AFS 2011 Annual Meeting: Peace, War, Folklore

Preliminary Program

Tuesday, October 11

All day: Indiana University Alumni Events

Wednesday, October 12

Pre-Meeting Tours

9:00 AM--3:30 PM

Indiana University Folklore Sites and Resources Pre-Meeting Tour

Professional Development Workshops

8:00 AM--12:00 Noon

Professional Development Workshop: Introduction to Digital Audio Field Recording

Sponsored by the Archives and Libraries Section

8:00 AM--5:00 PM

Folklore Studies in a Multicultural World Workshop

Sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the AFS; for invited participants only

9:00 AM--4:00 PM

Professional Development Workshop: Dialogue: Learning Through Meaningful Engagement

Sponsored by the Independent Folklorists Section

Professional Development Workshop: Creative Writing Discussion and Critique with Melissa Tuckey (Split This Rock Poetry Festival)

Sponsored by the Folklore and Creative Writing Section

9:00 AM--5:00 PM

AFS Executive Board Meeting

1:00--5:00 PM

Professional Development Workshop: Preparing and Preserving Digital Folklife Fieldwork Materials

Sponsored by the Archives and Libraries Section

7:00--8:00 PM

Opening Ceremonies

8:00--9:00 PM

Opening Plenary Address: Henry Glassie (Indiana University)

9:00--11:00 PM

Welcome Reception

Thursday, October 13, 7:00--8:00 AM

AFS Executive Board Welcome Breakfast for First-Time Attendees, International Participants, and Stipend Recipients

Thursday, October 13, 8:00--10:00 AM

01-01 Poster Exhibition: Opening Reception and Discussion

Jason BairdJackson (Indiana University), curator

Discussants:

MarshaMacDowell (Michigan State University Museum), JeffToddTiton (Brown University), SteveZeitlin (City Lore, Inc.)

Folklore Studies and the Digital Humanities

Jon Kay (Indiana University/Traditional Arts Indiana), Artisan Ancestors: Podcasting about Research Methods and Material Culture

JohnB.Fenn (University of Oregon), Mimetic Inquiry = (Ethnographic Fieldwork + Creativity in Analysis) x Digital Tools

MarynaChernyavska (University of Alberta), Crowdsourcing Ukrainian Folklore Audio

Thomas A. DuBois, Carrie Roy, and Tim Frandy(University of Wisconsin, Madison), Adapting the ARIS Platform to Create a Situated Ethnography of the Wisconsin Budget Repair Bill Protest

AmberRidington (Independent), Applied Ethnography, Indigenous Representation and Virtual Exhibition: Dane Wajich--Dane-Zaa Stories and Songs: Dreamers and the Land

ChadButerbaugh (Indiana University), Making the Webinar Work for Public Folklore

KathrynAnneLa Barre (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Unearthing Hidden Treasure

JosephineElizabeth JoyceMcRobbie (Indiana University/Traditional Arts Indiana), Traditional Arts Indiana and the Second Servings Podcast: Supporting and Sharing Cultural Heritage through Digital Media

Peace, War, Folklore

KarenE.Miller (University of Maine, Orono), Writing on the Wall: Somali Proverbs as Material Cultural

BernadeneJ.Ryan (Utah State University), Challenge Coins: Agents of Identity in Negotiating Inclusion into Military Communitas

CoryW.Thorne (Memorial University of Newfoundland), Survival/Resistance in a Cuban Queer Community: Creative Reactions to the Embargo/Creative Responses to the Revolution

JanetL.Langlois (Wayne State University), Haunting, Memory and War

Folklore and Folklorists Making a Difference

CallieClare (Indiana University), Preservation through Repurposing: A Visual History of the Rabbit Hash General Store

PaddyBakerBowman (Local Learning), Through the Schoolhouse Door: Folklore, Community, Curriculum

KatharineR.M.Schramm (Indiana University), The Rotating Exhibit Network: Outreach, Awareness, and Cultural Heritage

JodiMcDavid (Cape Breton University), American Eyes in Atlantic Canada: Re-Visioning Early Folklore Fieldwork

CrystalWallis (Carnegie Mellon University), Get a (Folk)life: How Folklorists Can Help Arts Agencies and Grantmakers

JaniceEstherTulk (Memorial University of Newfoundland), Mi'kmaq in Elmastukwek: The Creation of Community-Based Educational Resources

JodinePerkins (Indiana University), Artistry and Agency in Seminole Tourist Art Held in Museums

TimonKaple (Indiana University), Female Country-Rockabilly Musicians in Nashville, TN

01-02

Media Session: Dances of Turkey: Variations of Turkish Belly Dance

JaynieAydin (European University of Lefke), filmmaker

01-03

Rebozos, Molas and Arboles de la Vida: Transforming Traditions and Latina Empowerment

NormaE.Cantú, chair

MariaHerrera-Sobek (University of Californa, Santa Barbara), The Mexican Rebozo in Caramelo: Textile and Textuality in Sandra Cisneros' Literary Imagination

NadiaD.De Leon (Western Kentucky University), Living Tradition: Molas as Women's Global Folk Art

NormaE.Cantú (University of Texas, San Antonio), Tranforming Tradition: Verónica Castillo's Arbol de la Vida Ceramic Art

BrendaRomero (University of Colorado, Boulder), discussant

01-04

Diamond Session: "The Will to Adorn": Community Centered Reciprocal Research Partnerships in the Age of Social Media

SallyA.Van de Water and Diana N’Diaye, chairs

Diana BairdN'Diaye (Smithsonian Institution), "The Will to Adorn": Collaborative Research and Interactive Presentation

JadeD.Banks (Mind-Builders Creative Arts Center), Teen Intern Folk Culture Programming and Participation in "The Will to Adorn"

HaroldAnderson (Bowie State Universit/Goucher College), Autoethnography, Student Participant-Observation and "The Will to Adorn"

Sally A.Van de Water (Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation), Folk Arts Outreach Projects in the Virgin Islands: Funding Collaborations with Artists and Folklorists

JanuwaMoja (Independent), Preserving Artistic and Cultural Traditions: Januwa Moja and "The Will to Adorn"

BettyL.Mahoney (Virgin Islands Council on the Arts), The Will to Adorn in the U.S. Virgin Islands

DavidM.Dombrosky (Carnegie Mellon University), Opportunities and Challenges for Sharing Fieldwork and Collaborating through Social Media

01-05

Folklore and Community Organizing: Potential and Peculiarity

Sponsored by the Politics, Folklore, and Social Justice Section

WilliamWesterman (Princeton University), chair

BetsyDwyer (Glenmary Home Missioners), BobMcCarl (Boise State University), HerbReid (University of Kentucky), BetsyTaylor (Virginia Tech)

01-07

Folklore, Knowledge and the Internet Age

CaseyR.Schmitt, chair

BarbaraLloyd (The Ohio State University), Fast Information, Slow Knowledge, and the Pace of Tradition

CaseyR.Schmitt (University of Wisconsin, Madison), Bandits Revisited: Outlaw Heroes in the Internet Age

AndrewPeck (The University of Wisconsin, Madison), Birth of a Meme: The Internet Meme as Digital Folklore

01-08

Identity in Crisis: Communication and the (Re)construction of Community

CassieR.Patterson and Kate Parker, chairs

CassieR.Patterson (The Ohio State University), Epistemological Confrontations in Appalachian Contexts

RosemaryHathaway (West Virginia University), "The Thin Veneer of Civilization": Redefining West Virginia University's Mountaineer after WWII

KateParker (The Ohio State University), Sharing and Oversharing: Negotiating Identity in Post-Katrina Interviews

CarlLindahl (University of Houston), "Beloved Communities" Created in Crisis

01-09

Fairy Tale Films and Realities: Four Views

Sponsored by the Folk Narrative Section

PaulineGreenhill, chair

TracieLukasiewicz (University of Miami), Neo-Magical Realism: A Study of Reality and Fantasy in Pan's Labyrinth and Inception

CristinaBacchilega (University of Hawai`i, Mānoa), Double Exposures: Storytelling and Fairy-Tale Traumas

PaulineGreenhill (University of Winnipeg), "This is the North, Where We Do What We Want”: Popular Green Criminology and the Red Riding Trilogy

BrianRay (University of North Carolina, Greensboro), "I Can Recite, Therefore I Am": Reinscriptions of Gender in Alice in Wonderland

01-10

War and Peace

MarilynF.Motz, chair

MarilynF.Motz (Bowling Green State University), Legends of Civil War Insurgency in Western Missouri

CherryP.Levin (Louisiana State University), “I Don't Care if the Yankees are Coming! We Have a Wedding Dress to Make!”: Southern Women's Folklore and the Changing Nature of Wedding Ritual during the American Civil War

BrittanyWarman (George Mason University), Fairy Tales at War: Retelling Fairy Tales as War Narratives in Young Adult Literature

GaryHicks (Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library), Antonio Gramsci's Concept of "Common Sense" as Applied to Issues of War and Peace

01-11

Belief, Magic and Divination

StephenD.Winick, chair

MargaretLyngdoh (University of Tartu), The Secret Name: Jhare Magic and the Khasis

SvitlanaKukharenko (University of Alberta), Magic Beliefs among Canadian Ukrainians

Frog (University of Helsinki), Conceptualizing Chaos as Conflict: Finno-Karelian Magic, Ritual and Reality in Long-Term Perspective

StephenD.Winick (American Folklife Center), Folk Religion, Cartomancy, and War: Interpreting "The Soldier's Deck of Cards"

01-12

Wars over Cultural Heritage I

Sponsored by the Eastern Asia Folklore Section

(See also 02-12)

WillieSmyth (Washington State Arts Commission), chair

KyoimYun (University of Kansas), UNESCO Recognition and Local Realities: A Shamanic Ritual on Cheju Island, South Korea

ZiyingYou (The Ohio State University), War between Two Sisters: An Ethnographical Research about Local Fights over Chinese National Intangible Cultural Heritage

JonathanX.L.Lee (San Francisco State University), Guangong: The Chinese God of War and Literature in America--From Celestial Stranger to Common Culture (1850-2011 C.E.)

Jessica AndersonTurner (Virginia Intermont College), Competing Ideologies: Tourism, Intangible Cultural Heritage, and Southwest China's Ethnic and Ecological Resources

01-13

Narratives

PhillipMcArthur, chair

TheresaA.Vaughan (University of Central Oklahoma), Folklore and Medieval Women's Sexuality: An Analysis of the Distaff Gospels

JulieKoehler (Wayne State University), If the Shoe Fits: A Search for Cinderella's Oral Tradition

PhillipMcArthur (Brigham Young University, Hawai`i), Narrative Battles in the Post-Independent Marshall Islands State

JohnD.Galuska (Indiana University), Creative Process Narratives and Individualized Workscapes in the Jamaican Dub Poetry Context

01-14

Victimized by Folklore: Martinsville, Indiana, Seeks Your Help

Sponsored by the Hoosier Folklore Society

JoanneStuttgen (Independent), chair

JonKay (Traditional Arts Indiana/Indiana University), TBA(Martinsville, Indiana)

Thursday, October 13, 10:15 AM—12:15 PM

02-01

IU Folklore: Cores, Cohorts, Canons, and Crossings

JohnH. McDowell (Indian University), chair

BarryJeanAncelet (University of Louisiana, Lafayette), ReginaBendix (University of Göttingen), WilliamHansen (Indiana University, retired), ElissaR.Henken (University of Georgia), ElliotOring (California State University, retired), SharonR.Sherman (University of Oregon)

02-02

Enabling Constraints: Improvised Poetry Duels in Trinidad, Brazil, Puerto Rico, and Nigeria

Sponsored by City Lore, Inc.

SteveZeitlin, chair

SteveZeitlin (City Lore, Inc.), "You Can't Buy an Extempo”

AmandaDargan (City Lore, Inc.), Creativity and Constraints in the Brazilian Embolada

ElenaMartinez (City Lore, Inc.), Improvisations for Everyone: "Seis con Bomba"

J. Akuma-KaluNjoku (Western Kentucky University), Satirical Invectives in Igbo Women Songs (Ojojo and Ohuwa) in Nigeria

02-03

Folk Music Research and Representation

StephenStuempfle, chair

JeanR.Freedman (Montgomery College), What Is American Folk Song? The Vision of Charles and Ruth Crawford Seeger

StephenStuempfle (Society for Ethnomusicology/Indiana University), The Folkloristics of Calypso in Colonial Trinidad

DeirdreNi Chonghaile (National University of Ireland, Galway), “The Yank with the Box”: Sidney Robertson Cowell Collects Music in Ireland in 1955-56

LynnM.Hooker (Indiana University), Hungarian or Gypsy? Ethnicity, Popular Music, and the Public Sphere in Hungary

02-04

Diamond Session: Material Cuture: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives

Suzanne Ingalsbe (Indiana University), chair

JamesB.Seaver (Indiana University), Eva Braun's Lipstick: Relic Culture and Historical Celebrity in the World War II Antiquities Marketplace

Teri (Teresa), C.Klassen (Indiana University), Quiltmaking as a Lens on Race Relations in Mid-1900s West Tennessee

IanB.Brodie (Cape Breton University), Painting the Trestle: Adolescent Negotiation of Space and Place in Post-Industrial Cape Breton

ZiliaClaraEstrada (Indiana University), The Aesthetic of Community in Bloomington's Community Orchard

PeterG.Harle (University of Minnesota), Retail Warriors: Gods of War and Peace in Store Shrines

02-05

Comida Mexicana: Resistencia y Apropiación (Mexican Food: Cultural Resistance and Appropriation)

Sponsored by the Chicano and Chicana Section

MarioMontaño, chair

CarmenMorales (Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia), Resistance and Appropriation of Food: The Mayan Cultural Case

RonLoewe (California State University, Long Beach), Alimentary Resistance through Gesture, Ritual and Song

Mintzi Martinez-Rivera (Indiana University), Food for Decoration: Semana Santa in the P'urhépecha Community of Santo Santiago de Angahuan

MarioMontaño (Colorado College), Mexican Food and the Politics of Cultural Resistance: Questions, Contradictions, and the Location of Cultural Appropriation

02-06

A Second Look at the Folklore Forum Issue on Public Folklore: Where Are We Now?

Sponsored by the Public Programs Section

BettyJ.Belanus (Smithsonian Institution), chair

PeggyBulger (American Folklife Center), KristinaG.Downs (Indiana University), SusanEleuterio (Grants Incorporated), TimothyH. Evans (Western Kentucky University), GregoryHansen (Arkansas State University), PhyllisMay-Machunda (Minnesota State University, Moorhead)

02-07

Life Narrative, Subjectivity and the Collective

EerikaKoskinen-Koivisto, chair

AmyShuman (The Ohio State University), Life History Narratives and the Romanticization of Labor

EerikaKoskinen-Koivisto (University of Jyväskylä), Travelling Self: (In)dependence, Communality and Different Selves in Life Narrative of a Female Laborer

Patrick Mullen (The Ohio State University), The Fisherman and the Folklorists: Romanticizing an Occupational Life Narrative

02-08

Affect and Embodiment

MontanaC.Miller, chair

LynneS.McNeill (Utah State University), "It Isn't So Much Magic as Psychology": Adolescent Hypnosis Games as Vernacular Psychotherapy

K. BrandonBarker (University of Louisiana, Lafayette), Folk Illusions: A Category of Children's Folklore

EstherAnnClinton (Bowling Green State University), The Gothic Menace, Then and Now: Gothic Literature, Heavy Metal Music, and Moral Panics

MontanaC.Miller (Bowling Green State University), "Blue Skies, Black Death": The Practice of Ritual and Belief among Skydivers

02-09

Fantasies of War: Cross-Dressing and Identity in the Fairy Tale

Sponsored by the Folk Narrative Section

DonaldHaase (Wayne State University), chair

ChristineA.Jones (University of Utah), G.I. Jeanne: Hero(in)ism and War in the French Fairy Tale

AnneE.Duggan (Wayne State University), The Revolutionary Undoing of the Maiden Warrior in Riyoko Ikeda's The Rose of Versailles and Jacques Demy's Lady Oscar

JenniferSchacker (University of Guelph), Slaying Blunderboer: Cross-Dressed Heroes, National Identities and Wartime Pantomime

02-10

Folklore and Conflict

OzanSay, chair

SimonKeithLichman (Centre for Creativity in Education and Cultural Heritage), Seeing Complexity in Conflict: Moving beyond Stereotyping and Dehumanization

KristianaWillsey (Indiana University), Conflicted Narratives, Narratives of Conflict

TriciaT.Ferdinand (Indiana University), Symbolic Ethnic Conflict and the Role of Artistic Creation in Mediation in Trinidad and Tobago

OzanSay (Indiana University), Horseless Cowboys: Conflict and Harmony at Sheep Shearing Events

02-11

Vernacular Religion

JeanmarieRouhier-Willoughby, chair

JonathanDavid (Independent), The Singing and Praying Bands, Folk Religion, Official Religion, Dualism, and the Unconstructed

LioraRivkaSarfati (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem/Tel Aviv University), War and Dislocation of Religion: Journeys of Shamanic Practices from North Korea

MiyukiHirayama (Ritsumeikan University), Pilgrimage to Seimei Shrine: A New Tradition of the Youth in Japan

JeanmarieRouhier-Willoughby (University of Kentucky), Matrona Moskovskaia: The Development of an Unofficial "Soviet" Saint

02-12

The War over Intangible Cultural Heritage II

Sponsored by the Eastern Asia Folklore Section

(See also 01-02)

JuwenZhang, chair

LiXing (Central Nationality University of China), The Genghis Khan War and the Legacy of the Sacrifice Ritual Today

LihuiYang (Beijing Normal University), A War without Gunsmoke: The Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage Movement in Contemporary China

DemingAn (China Academy of Social Sciences), The Emergence of a New Cultural Hegemony: Reflecting on the Ongoing Movement of Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection

JuwenZhang (Willamette University), The War over Intangible Cultural Heritage: Localized Global Ideological Conflicts

02-13

Contemporary Cultural Performances

SaraL.Thompson, chair

SuzanneM.Barber (Indiana University)and Matthew Hale (Western Kentucky University),Embodying War at Dragon*con: Referentiality and the Fracturing of Fandoms

JenniferDare (University of Oregon), The Working Dead: Zombiewalks and the Great Recession

DanielleQuales (Indiana University), Investigating the Secular Ritual of the Game of Bingo

SaraL.Thompson (York University), "Go Ahead, Ignore Me--I'm Fictional Anyway": Humor, Subversion and Meta-Text at the Renaissance Faire

02-14

Star Informants: The Place of Biography in Folklore Fieldwork

RosinaS.Miller (The Philadelphia Center), chair

RuthOlson (University of Wisconsin, Madison), "A Good Time Was Had by All": Searching for a Meaningful Family Story

NancyL.Watterson (Cabrini College), "Returning to the Circle": Kun-Yang Lin, the KYL/Dancers, and the Practice of Creative and Contemplative Inquiry

MichaelL.Murray (Mercy College), The Man with a "360-Degree Eye": Collecting, Curating and Inventing 20th-Century Folk Art

Thursday, October 13, 12:15-1:30 PM

AFS Cultural Diversity Task Force Open Meeting

AFS Section Business Meetings:

Children’s Folklore

Folklore and Creative Writing

Independent Folklorists

Jewish Folklore and Ethnology

Mediterranean Studies

Nordic-Baltic

Politics, Folklore, and Social Justice

Space, Place, and Landscapes

PACT (Preserving America’s Cultural Traditions) Business Meeting

Thursday, October 13, 1:30--3:30 PM

04-01

Public Programs Idea Fair

Sponsored by the Public Programs Section

StephenG.Kidd (Smithsonian Institution), chair

NeldaAult (America West Heritage Center), BettyBelanus (Smithsonian Institution), JamesDeutsch (Smithsonian Institution), Marjorie Hunt (Smithsonian Institution), Rachel ReynoldsLuster (Coalition for Ozarks Living Traditions), MeredithMartin-Moats (Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History), Rachel M.Miller (Arkansas State University), JasonMorris (George Mason University), RoryTurner (Goucher College)

04-02

Mexican American Border Songs: Américo Paredes, George Pickow and the Visualization of Performance

GuhaShankar (American Folklife Center), chair

RichardBauman (Indiana University, retired), John H. McDowell (Indiana University), Olga Nájera-Ramirez (University of California, Santa Cruz), RussellRodriguez (University of California, Santa Cruz), BeverlyStoeltje (Indiana University), Kay Turner (Brooklyn Arts Council)

04-03

Philosophical Foundations of Folkloristics: Aesthetic Ideology I

(See also 05-03)

LeeHaring (Brooklyn College, retired), chair

MarshaMacDowell (Michigan State University Museum), Is it Art? Is it Craft? Is it Traditional Culture? Meditations on Quilts and Aesthetics

JohnLaudun (University of Louisiana, Lafayette), Mama Lou and Her Coterie of Experts

KatharineYoung (University of California, Berkeley), Aesthetic Ecologies, Affective Ecologies, Somaesthetics