Third Annual Conference on Holidays, Ritual, Festival, Celebration, and Public Display Bowling Green State University Bowling Green, OH May 21-23, 1999 Friday, May 21 12:00 - 1:00 PM Registration 1:00 - 1:15 PM Welcome 1:30 - 3:05 PM Panel 1: Ritual Efficacy and Communication. Chair: Jennifer Jo Kuhn Thompson (Indiana University) Thomas M Bongiorno. (Indiana University). Danger: A Key to Ritual Efficacy Kathleen Glenister Roberts. (Indiana University). Between Two Worlds: Function and Slippage in Powwow Ritual Exchange Danille Christensen Lindquist. (Indiana University). Identity, Industry, and the American Dream: Fan Participation in Ohio State Football Jennifer Jo Kuhn Thompson. (Indiana University). America's Wilderness Rites of Passage: Ritual Efficacy in Daily Life 1:30 - 3:05 PM Panel 2: Mass Culture. Chair: Michael Robert Newberg (Ohio University) Wesley M Bowman. (Bowling Green State University). The Ideological Strategies of Christmas Films Michael Robert Newberg. (Ohio University). Discursive Magic: Rituals of Televised Home Shopping Debra K Peterson. (Wayne State University). Reinhabiting Tom Sawyer's Island: Designated and Discovered "Free Zones" in Walt Disney World Lakshmi Srinivas. (UCLA). Performative Viewing and Public Spectacle: Experiencing Popular Cinema. 3:15 - 4:30 PM Panel 3: Celebration, Ritual, and Ideology. Chair: Daniel Beams (University of Kentucky) Daniel Beams. (University of Kentucky). The Celebration of "Domingo de Ramos" in Porcon--Cajamarca, Peru: Cultural Solidarity in the Face of Ideological Transition Maury Hutcheson. (State University of New York at Buffalo). Approaching the Bullfight as Art, Ritual, and Performance: Theorizing Death in the Afternoon Phyllis M Correa. (Universidad Autonoma de Queretaro). Halloween Mexican 3:15 - 4:50 PM Panel 4: The Poetics and Politics of Thanksgiving Celebrations. Chair: Lucy Long (Bowling Green State University) Lucy Long. (Bowling Green State University). Family Thanksgiving Dinners: Rituals of Intensification, Idealization, and Inversion Christopher Geist. (Bowling Green State University). Virginia's First Thanksgiving as State Heritage Celebration Colleen Coughlin. (Bowling Green State Univeristy). Turkey and Football, Work and Play: Gender and the Holiday Kitchen Melissa Weinbrenner. (University of Montevallo). The 1621 Harvest Festival: Tracing the Story of a Thanksgiving Myth 3:15 - 4:30 PM Video Screening Gregory Hansen. (Indiana University). Celebrating Iowa Folklife Video Screening and Discussion 5:00 - 6:00 PM Keynote Address Beverly Stoeltje. (Indiana University). The Beauty Pageant: Harnessing or Liberating Female Power 6:00 - 8:00 PM Dinner (on your own) 8:00 - 11:00 PM Carnivalesque Reception Reception at Popular Culture House (located on the corner of College and Wooster Streets across from campus) Saturday, May 22 9:15 - 10:30 AM Panel 5: Personal and Social Dynamics in Ritual Celebrations. Chair: Angela M S Nelson (Bowling Green State University) Anthony J Amato. (Saint Mary's College). Godless Carols: Ritual, Conflict, and Community in the Carpathians, 1880 to 1914 Therese J Boyarsky. (Western Kentucky University). Oplatki and Me: Reflexivity and Identity in Ritual Celebration Angela M S Nelson. (Bowling Green State University). Blowing the Boat Up Out the Water!: Celebration as a Catalyst for Change in the American Protestant Church 10:45 AM - 12:40 PM Panel 6: Between East and West: Identity and (Re)presentation in Cultural Performance. Chair: Mark Bender (The Ohio State University) Jonathan Noble. (The Ohio State University). Street Performances by Beijing Rice-Sprout Dance Troupes: Private and Public Transformations Ying Liu. (The Ohio State University). A Chinese Folk Dance Performance in the United States Helen Hi-Sun Kim. (The Ohio State University). Han and Etiquette in Korean Drinking Eric Shepherd. (The Ohio State University). Shandong Yanxi: Cultural Functions of the Banquet in the Shandong Context Li Yu. (The Ohio State University). Chinese Evening Party as Cultural Performance: Fieldwork in the Chinese Community in Columbus, Ohio 10:45 AM - 12:40 PM Panel 7: Public Display. Chair: Celeste Ray (Sewanee University) Ben Chappell. (University of Texas). Lowriders March with Style: Political Demonstrations as Display Events Sean Galvin. (LaGuardia Community College). The Feast of the Virgin of Guadalupe in New York City: A Multi-Layered Analysis Susan Applegate Krouse. (Michigan State University). Circling Conflict: Traditional Iroquois Socials in an Urban Indian Community Eugene T Murphy. (Fairfield University). Invented Tradition and Socialist Transformations: Analysis of a Funeral Rite in Contemporary Rural China Celeste Ray. (Sewanee University). Clansmen of the New South: Masculinity and Public Display in Scottish Heritage Celebration 12:40 - 1:45 PM Lunch (on your own) 2:00 - 3:15 PM Panel 8: Organized Festivals. Chair: Neilish Bose (University of Chicago) Neilesh Bose. (University of Chicago). Cultural Representation in Post-Apartheid South Africa Through the 1998 Grahamstown National Arts Festival Bruno Giberti. (Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo). The Vista and the Accent: Competing Constructions of Vision at the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia Joe Goldblatt. (George Washington University). Modern Event Management: Teaching Ancient Traditions in a Contemporary Context 2:00 - 3:15 PM Panel 9: Theoretical Approaches. Chair: Linda Marie Small Alexander Flynt. (Center for the Study of Ideas and Culture). Four Faces of Public Expressive Display: Conventionalized, Cataclysmic, Propagandistic, and Evolutionary Linda Marie Small. Coloring and Celebrating Display: Ritual Resistance to the Disabled Body as Cultural Text for Discrimination Chad Ryan Thomas. (Arizona State University). The Logic of Inducing Belief 3:30 - 4:45 PM Panel 10: Traditions of Youth. Chair: Luise van Keuren (Green Mountain College) Deborah Bjarnason. (Brigham Young University). Get Out and Swim: An Analysis of the Themes of LDS Girls Camp Songs Maureen K Porter. (University of Pittsburgh). The Quest for the Blue Ribbon: Youth Journeys at the County Fair Luise van Keuren. (Green Mountain College). Growing Up Dutch in Early America: The Festival of Childhood Ritual 3:30 - 4:45 PM Panel 11: Performance. Chair: Cory Thorne David Allen Harvey. (Princeton University). Carnivals, Cabarets, and Charivaris: The Transformation of Popular Culture in Nineteenth Century Alsace Tina K Ramnarine. (Queens University, Belfast). Creative Innovations and Cultural Politics in Finnish Folk Music Festivals Cory Thorne. (Bowling Green State University). Damn Right We're Mad!" Political Debating in Newfoundland Country Music 5:00 - 6:00 PM Keynote Address Susanne Greenhalgh. (Roehampton Institute, London). Our Lady of Flowers: The Ambiguous Politics of Diana's Floral Revolution. 6:00 - 8:00 PM Dinner (on your own) 8:15 - 10:00 PM Contra Dance Sunday, May 23 9:15 - 10:50 AM Panel 12: Creation, Re-Creation, and Recreation. Chair: Victoria Newsom (Bowling Green State University) Jeremy Hockett. (University of New Mexico). Men of Fire, Three Burning Rituals of Renewal: Questions of Authenticity Victoria Newsom. (Bowling Green State University). Recreating Beltaine: The Creation of a New, Ancient Festival David Vaughn. (Air Force Institute of Technology). The Air Show as Ritual Festival Phyllis Watts and Miriam Fankhauser. (Tiffin University). Tecumseh, Blue Jacket, and Unto These Hills: Sociocultural Analysis of Three Outdoor Dramas 9:15 - 10:50 AM Panel 13: Issues and Politics. Chair: Joseph B Perry III (University of Illinois) Baqie Badawi Muhammad. (Indiana University). Female Circumcision: A Ritual of Initiation to Womanhood or a Reflection of Human Brutality: A Question of Moral and Methodological Approach Joseph B Perry III. (University of Illinois). Scripting a National Holiday: Christmas in Imperial Germany, 1870-1914 Stuart Towns. (University of West Florida). Rituals and Rhetoric of the Lost Cause: Remembering the Old Confederacy in the New South Cliff Vaughn. (Bowling Green State University). Crossing the Pettus Bridge: Transformation, Confirmation, Commemoration 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM Panel 14: Holidays. Chair: Grant Jewell Rich (University of Chicago) Mark Bendall. (Southampton Institute). Summer Rights Grant Jewell Rich. (University of Chicago). Santa and His Merry Selfs: Impression Management at Work and Play Joanne Raetz Stuttgen. (Indiana University). Candy Canes at the Martinsville Candy Kitchen 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Video Screening Lucy M Long. (Bowling Green State University). To Dance Irish Video Screening and Discussion