Second Annual Conference on Holidays, Ritual, Festival, Celebration, and Public Display Bowling Green State University Bowling Green, OH May 29-31, 1998 Friday, May 29 12:00 - 1:00 PM Registration and Check In 1:15 - 2:30 PM KEYNOTE SPEAKER Charlotte Heth (National Museum of the American Indian). Music and Healing. 2:45 - 4:00 PM Session 1 Panel 1: Film and Television Chair: Felicity Paxton Michael Robert Newberg (Ohio University). Representations of Meals and Utopian Feast in American Film Felicity Paxton (University of Pennsylvania). Bloody Scenes, Screaming Teens and those Troublesome Queens: When Prom Promises are not Met Lynn Silverstein (Ohio University). Images of the Olympic Festival: How People Perceive the Media's Portrayals of Male and Female Athletes 2:45 - 4:00 PM Session 1 Panel 2: Rites of Passage Chair: Hilary Standish Hande Birkalan (Indiana University). Ceremonies From a Squatter Neighborhood in Istanbul Hilary Standish (Texas A&M University). The Texas Aggie Bonfire:.Construction and Destruction as a Rite of Passage Robert Darcy (University of Wisconsin--Madison). Montaigne, Blanchot, Derrida, and the Politics of Eulogy 2:45 - 4:15 PM Session 1 Panel 3: Holidays Chair: Joseph B. Perry III Susan Charles T. Groth (University of Pennsylvania). Here We Go 'Round the Hanukkah Bush: Holiday Celebration in Mixed Religious Heritage Families Diana Mincyte (Bowling Green State University). The Dead Against the Government? Social and Political Changes in the Celebration of the Day of the Dead in Lithuania Donna Truglio (Cornell University). The Peculiar History of May First in the United States, 1870-1894: The Creation and Re-Formation of an American Holiday Joseph B. Perry III (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign). Celebrating National Community: The Myth of the German "War Christmas" of 1914 4:15 - 5:30 PM Session 2 Panel 4: Political Resistance Chair: Mary Gebhart Mary Gebhart (Michigan State University). Tribe 8, A New Way of "Rubbing Up Against" the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival: Festival as a Discursive Style of Lesbian Community Building Marjorie Estivill (Indiana University). Using Sex to Sell a Rally: An Analysis of Two Public Displays of Resistance [includes video] 4:15 - 5:40 PM Session 2 Panel 5: Competitive Display Chair: Vickie Rutledge Shields Benjamin Stewart (New York University). Mimetic Messengers Vickie Rutledge Shields (Bowling Green State University). An Ethnography of Rodeo Queen Culture: Clandestine Feminism Expressed through Excessive Feminine Masquerade Olga Najera-Ramirez (University of California, Santa Cruz). La Charreada!: Rodeo a la Mexicana [Video] 4:15 - 5:30 PM Session 2 Panel 6: Sensationalism of Subcultures through Dress Chair: Nancy Rudd Nancy Rudd (The Ohio State University). Introduction: Panel Overview. Julianna Belyn (The Ohio State University). The Hare Krishna Believers. Minjeong Kim (The Ohio State University). Power and the Ku Klux Klan. Ji Hye Park (The Ohio State University). Heavy Metal Bands. Tasha Lewis (The Ohio State University). The Zulu Krewe and Mardi Gras. 5:45 - 7:00 PM Dinner (on your own) 7:15 - 8:15 PM INVITED SPEAKER Marcus Amick. The People and their Street Graffiti: Interpretations of Black Socio-Political Images in the Inner City. 8:15 - 9:15 PM A Series of Photographic and Art Exhibits Featuring Irish Displays, Jewish Ritual, and Carnival. 9:30 - 11:00 PM CARNIVALESQUE RECEPTION Saturday, May 30 9:00 - 10:35 AM Session 3 Panel 7: Conventions and Reunions Chair: Joe Austin Stacey L. Hann (Indiana University). Belly Dancing and Ant Dancers: Comraderie and Memory at Veteran's Reunions Irma Ozernoy (UCLA). Public Displays of Ado(o)rnment: Decoration as Liminality at MediaWest Con Joe Austin (Bowling Green State University). Ill Legal Conventions? Graffiti and Hip Hop at the 1997 Scribble Jam Leigh Corrette (Bowling Green State University). "I came for the hotel rates..." Academics on Holiday: An Exploration of How Academics Use and Interpret Conference Culture 9:00 - 10:35 AM Session 3 Panel 8: Media and Festival Chair: Thomas Zimmerman (Bowling Green State University) Michael Robinson (Bowling Green State University). TV Guide and Halloween: A Qualitative Analysis, 1977-1997 Leslie J. Hurley (John Jay College of Criminal Justice). Beauty on Display: Beth Henley's Pageants Anthony Ochuko Adah (University of Papua New Guinea). Festivals as Post-colonial Counter-Discourse 9:00 - 10:35 AM Session 3 Panel 9: Identity Chair: Joe Ruff Joseph Ruff (Bowling Green State University). A Sound As Pure As The Person: Believable Performances of Sincerity In a Country Music Ritual Ferris Werbin Crane (California State Polytechnic University). Seeing in the Dark: Doctoring the Individual and Community through Ceremony and Ritual with Special Emphasis on Visual Symbology Marjorie L. McLellan (Miami University). Contesting Gender Roles and Re-scripting Family in Celebration Rosalind Urbach Moss (Mary Baldwin College--Richmond Center). Rescuing May Day: Contemporary Countercultural Festivals and Pageants in Two States 10:45 AM - 12:10 PM Session 4 Panel 10: Films on the Northern Irish Conflict The Last Accordian Band, directed by Kate Radford, 1997 c30 rains. This film is about a family accordian band based on the Protestant Shankill Road. It looks at the role of women and music making in local popular culture. (The director will be present to answer questions). The Thompsons, directed by Andy Lawrence, 1996, c30 mins. This film follows members of the Thompson family from rural County Antrim about 15 miles from Belfast through the buildup and rituals of the marching season. (see the Film Schedule below for more showings) 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM Session 4 Panel 11: Resistance and Display Chair: Cliff Vaughan Mitchell Kachun (Southeast Community College). African American Emancipation Celebrations in Central New York State: Patterns of Regional Networking in the Nineteenth Century Eileen and Seamus Metress (University of Toledo). The Belfast Anti-Internment Parade and its Sociohistorical Context Cliff Vaughn (Bowling Green State University). Wielding the Freedom Song: The Exercise of Power in the Context of Demonstration Lisa Redfield Peattie (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). Politics as Dramatic Performance 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM Session 4 Panel 12: Gender Issues Chair: Rachel Buff Ece Algan (Ohio University). Bathing as a Ritual: Turkish Baths or Hammams Rachel Buff (Bowling Green State University). Casino-Era Powwow Culture: Gender and Generation Down the Red Road Ellen Litwicki (SUNY at Fredonia). Showering the Bride: A Ritual of Gender and Consumption Kristine Peleg (University of Arizona). Silent at the Wall: Women in Israeli Remembrance Day Ceremonies 12:15 - 1:30 PM Lunch (on your own) 1:45 - 3:00 PM Session 5 Panel 13: Ethnographic Approaches to Contemporary Religious Ritual and Festival Chair: Larry Danielson (Western Kentucky University) Brian Gregory (Western Kentucky University). Breakthrough into Ritual: Experiencing St. Mary's of the Barrens Andrea Mericle (Western Kentucky University). Sacred and Secular Festival Celebrations at Holden Village Erin Roth (Western Kentucky University). "If you were there, you'd never seen it": Writing Fiction and the Ethnographer's Attempt to Uncover the Unseen in a Religious Healing Ritual 1:45 - 3:00 PM Session 5 Panel 14: Tourists, Natives, and Issues of Display Chair: Cristina Sanchez Carretero Chris Antonsen (The Ohio State University). The Unwanted Folk Festival: Identity Politics During a Village's Wells Dressing Week Cristina Sanchez Carretero (University of Pennsylvania). Performing and Displaying Rocky Balboa: Popular Uses of Popular Culture Thomas M. Spencer (Northwest Missouri State University). Power on Parade: The Veiled Prophet Parade, Class Conflict, and Civic Instruction in St. Louis, 1877-1880 1:45 - 3:00 PM Session 5 Panel 15: Public Display Chair: John Cash Kevin Callahan (Indiana University). "Performing Inter-Nationalism" in Stuttgart, 1904-1907: French and German Socialist Nationalism and the Political Culture of an International Socialist Congress Felicity Paxton (University of Pennsylvania). Killing Killers: An Examination of Death Penalty Practice and Discourse John Cash (Indiana University). "Heritage Not Hate:" The Confederate Battle Flag as Symbol in Civil War Reenacting 3:15 - 4:30 PM Session 6 Panel 16: Political Resistance Chair: Todd Estes Robin B. Balthrope (California State University). Abortion Foes March on Supreme Court: Roe v. Wade After Twenty-Five Years and a Public Display of Sorrow and Disapproval Philip A. Grant, Jr. (Pace University). American Press Reaction to the 1963 "March on Washington" Todd Estes (Oakland University). Public Display, Political Protest, and the Rights of Citizens: Anti-Jay Treaty Crowds, Conflict, and the Public Sphere in the 1790s 3:15 - 4:30 PM Session 6 Panel 17: Food and Festival Chair: Kerry Lamare Kerry Lamare. St. Joseph's Day Altars in the Catholic and Spiritualist Churches J. Rhett Rushing (Indiana University). Egg Salad and Turkey Soup: American Holiday Food Leftovers and Traditional Expression John Chetro-Szivos (University of Massachusetts). Notre Dame de Saint Rosaire Festival: The Making of Symbol, and Construction of Personhood in Acadian-American Culture 3:15 - 4:30 PM Session 6 Panel 18: Nationalism Chair: Cory Thorne Jim Gelvin (UCLA). (Re)Presenting Nations in Syria at the End of Empire Cory Thorne (Bowling Green State University). "Any Mummers Allowed In?" Nativism, Nationalism, and Revitalization in Newfoundland Music Jose A. Quiles (Kean University). Some Psycho-Social Observations of Rites and Ceremonials in the End of the Coffee Harvest Fiesta of Maricao, Puerto Rico 4:45 - 6:15 PM Session 7 Panel 19: Commemorations Chair: Madeline Duntley Gari-Anne Patzwald (Lexington Theological Seminary). Shepherds in the Field: The Megiddo Mission and the Celebration of True Christmas Judith B. Sobre (The University of Texas at San Antonio). Enter the Ladies. The Early Years of the Battle of Flowers Parade in San Antonio, Texas Cathy M. Jackson (University of Missouri). Commemoration: The Unbroken Circle of Jesse James' Life Madeline Duntley (College of Wooster). Hopeful Anniversaries: Commemoration and Diversity in Seattle's Japanese American Protestant Churches 4:45 - 6:00 PM Session 7 Panel 20: Mardi Gras Chair: Carolyn Ware Carolyn Ware (The University of Southern Mississippi). "Anything to Scare the Children": Cajun Women and Mardi Gras Masking William Jankowiak and Todd White (UNLV). The Spectator and Performer in Four New Orleans Celebrations: An Exercise Guarded Fellowship Larry Griffin (Dyersburg State Community College). Masking and Racial Passing at Mardi Gras 4:45 - 6:00 PM Session 7 Panel 21: Roundtable: The Invention of Heritage in Festival "Contact Zones" Amy Shuman (The Ohio State University) Kathryn Kelley (The Ohio State University) Georgios Anagnostu (The Ohio State University) Dorothy Noyes (The Ohio State University) 6:15 - 8:00 PM Dinner (on your own) 8:30 - 10:00 PM Contra Dance Sunday, May 31 9:00 - 10:40 AM Session 8 Panel 22: Festival and Theory Chair: Juwen Zhang Juwen Zhang (University of Pennsylvania). Toward a New Concept of Ethnic Culture Johnston A. K. Njoku (Western Kentucky University). The Recontextualization of "Iri Ji Ohuu" Nigerian Agricultural Village Ritual in the American Industrial City of Houston, Texas: The Problem of Proper Interpretation Esther S. Kim (The Ohio State University). Playful Ritual and Ritualistic Play in Traditional Korean Mask Dance-Drama, Talch'um R. Keith Sawyer (Washington University). Riffing on the Text: The Improvisational Element in Performance 9:00 - 10:40 AM Session 8 Panel 23: Carnival Chair: Barry Ancelet Marcia Gaudet (University of Southwestern Louisiana). Carnival on 12th Street: Reasserting Creole Identity Through Festive Play Barry Ancelet (University of Southwestern Louisiana). The Unbearable Lightness of Begging: Carnivalesque Laughter in the South Louisiana Mardi Gras Larry Griffin (Dyersburg State Community College). Slide Presentation: Costumes of Carnival 9:00 - 10:40 AM Session 8 Panel 24: Constructed Festivals Chair: Timothy K. Winkle Scott Magelssen (University of Minnesota). The Staging of History: Theatrical, Temporal, and Economic Borders of "Historyland" Timothy K. Winkle (Bowling Green State University). Jersey Devil Time: The Construction of Celebration in New Jersey's Pinelands Gregory Hansen (Indiana University). Iowa Folklife Montage 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM Keynote Speaker Neil Jarman (Community Development Centre, North Belfast). Parading and Painting: Claiming Space and Defining Place, Symbolic Dimensions to the Northern Ireland Troubles. 12:15 - 1:45 PM Lunch (on your own) 2:00 - 3:00 PM The Holidays Conference and its Future 2:45 - 3:00 PM Break Film/Video Schedule 5/29 4:55 PM 5/30 4:45 PM La Charreada!: Rodeo a la Mexicana. Written, produced, and directed by Olga Najera-Ramirez. This half-hour video examines the Mexican charreada (or Mexican rodeo event) as practiced in the United States. Based on five seasons of ethnographic field work centered in Sunol, California and extending to other parts of the United States and Mexico, this video provides an intimate view of the charreada as described by mexicanos living on both sides of the United States-Mexico border. In particular, it focuses on the charreada as means through which notions of Mexican identity are articulated, negotiated, and disseminated. Produced in English and Spanish (English subtitles are provided for Spanish). 5/30 1:45 PM Twelve Days in July, directed by Margo Harkin, and broadcast on Channel 4 television in July 1997 c55 minutes. This film records the buildup and events around the Drumcree Parade in Portadown (the most controversial parade in recent years) from within both Protestant and Catholic communities. 5/30 10:45 AM 3:15 AM The Last Accordian Band, directed by Kate Radford, 1997 c30 mins. This is about a family accordion band based on the Protestant Shankill Road. It looks at the role of women and music making in local popular culture. 5/30 11:30 AM 4:00 PM The Thompsons, directed by Andy Lawrence, 1996, c30 rains. This film follows members of the Thompson family from rural County Antrim about 15 miles from Belfast through the build up and rituals of the marching season.