SESSIONS
Thursday, November 8
2:30-3:45
Session A: Memories of the Riverside
Chair: Dave Para
Meredith Ludwig, Cathy Barton Para, and Dave Para
Meredith Ludwig will present an overview of the Missouri River Folkhistory Project and how the musical "Gumbo Bottoms" came to be. Cathy will discuss the musical and Dave and Cathy will perform some of the songs Cathy composed.
Session B:
Chair: Betsy Delmonico
Slammers Delight
Michael Bono
CILF (Corpse I'd Like to ****): The You Tube Response to the Deaths of Anna Nicole and Croc Hunter
Meredith Heist and Andrew Warner
4:00-5:15
Session A: On Women Writing About Women (Panel Discussion)
Sharon Kinney Hanson
Margot McMillen
6:30 Dinner
Welcome
Guest Speaker: Dr. Carolyn R. Mahoney
President, Lincoln University
Friday, November 9
8:30-9:45
Session A:
Chair:
Limited Access: A Unified Structural Motif and its Context Dependent Meanings
Adam Brooke Davis
An Ever-Growing Torrent: Finding More Folk Songs on the Web
Lyn Wolz
Session B: Folklore as Mystery and History
Chair: Debra Greene
The Spook Light
Thomas Minihan
Folk or Fiction: African American Cultural Idioms
Keith Ware
Bulgarian and Thracian Folk Ballads'
Michael Fichter
Session C:
Chair:
Vance Randolph's Years in Southeast Kansas
Randy Roberts
The Sound of a Fiddle: Hearing the Music in Thomas Hart Benton's Folksong Depictions
Annett Richter
10:00-11:15
Session A:Regionalism and Re-regionalization in Italian
American Folklore
Francis M. Malpezzi
William M. Clements
(Friday continued)
Session B:The Uses of Folklore: Applications of Authentic Regional Folklore
Chair: John Schleppenbach
Human Use of Plants for Medicinal Purposes
Alfred F. Pogge
Can Folklore Stand Alone
Fr. Phil Hoebing
Authentic Folklore and Storytelling
Rev./Dr. Paul Schwartzkopf
Session C:
Chair:
Crockett's Shotgun: A Black House on the Banks of the Missouri
Brett Rogers
“Mrs. Amber’s Story” (A Reading)
Gladys Coggswell
11:30-1:00Lunch
Guest Speaker, Mark Schreiber
1:15 Departure for Tours
1:30-2:45
Session A: Missouri's Folk History in Women's Lives
Chair: Rebecca B. Schroeder
Ruth Wilson Banks Perry, Inspiration for Arrow Rock: The Story of a Missouri Village
Authorene Phillips
Jesse Benton Fremont's Missouri
Ilene Stone
The Owen’s Sisters of St. Joseph
Doris Mueller
(Friday continued)
Session B:Tempted by the Fruit of an Other: Culinary
Tourism in Columbia (Part I)
Chair: LuAnne Roth
Culinary Tourism at Formosa: A Case of Cultural Confusion
Caitlin Garing
China Kitchen: What Does Authenticity Mean to You?
John Morse
An Analysis of Osaka Japanese Restaurant
Kath Athanassiou
Session C: Black Missourians in the Old West
Chair: Michael Patrick
Black Missourians in the Old West
Michael Patrick
Songs About Black Missourians
Cecil Williams
Drawings of Black Missourians
Keith Conaway
3:00-4:15
Session A:
Chair:
The Verbal Art of the Auctioneer: A Performance Tradition in Ethnographic and Historical Perspective
Gary Buxton
Mary Kennedy McCord, Queen of the Ozarks
Judy Domeny Bowen
(Friday continued)
Session B:Tempted by the Fruit of an Other: Culinary Tourism in Columbia (Part II)
Chair: LuAnne Roth
Que Fiesta!: Celebrating Cinco de Mayo in El Sombrero, a 100% Authentic Mexican Restaurant
Connie Blackwell
"Fresh-Mex" as Negotiation of the Border Culture "Other"
Courtney Peetz
"If Our Walls Could Talk:" The Paradoxes and Complexities of the Cracker Barrel Restaurant
Session C:
Chair:
Three Islamic Heroines
Betsy Delmonico
Herstory: Stories of African American Women and the Journey from Slavery to Freedom
Elizabeth Brisco Wilson
6:30Dinner
Guest Speaker
8:30 Auction
Saturday, November 10
Lincoln University Campus: Inman E. Page Library
8:45-10:00
Session A: French Traditions in Missouri
Chair:
Food and Customary Traditions of the French Ozarks
Rachel Gholson
Musican and other French Traditions in Missouri: The Carriere Collection
Kent Beaulne dit Bone
Session B: Blind Boone
Chair:
The Story and Music of Blind Boone
Lucille Salerno
Antonio F. Holland
10:15-11:30
Session A:
Chair:
A Genre of Humor That May be Unique to the U.S.A.
Peter Ward Nichols
A Descriptive Method for Preserving Regional Folk Sayings
Bob Bohlken
Session B:
Chair:
Geronimo in St. Louis, 1904
William M. Clements
Ever Toward the Setting Sun They Push Us: American Indian Identity in the Work of Mary Alicia Owen
Greg Olson
11:30
Business Meeting Teleconference Center
Lunch Room//// Page Library
12:30 Tour of Lincoln University Hilltop Historic Campus and
Soldiers Memorial
1:30 Tour of Munichburg