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Fourth Annual
Conference on Holidays, Ritual,
Festival, Celebration, and Public Display
Center for North American Studies
University of Alcala, Spain
June 8-10, 2000
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Thursday, June 8
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| 9:00 - 10:00 AM
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Registration
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| 10:00 - 11:30 AM
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INAUGURATION:
Saturnino Aguado, Centro de Estudios Norteamericanos, Universidad
de Alcala
Mary
Hufford. (American Folklife Center, Washington,
DC) "Facade Performances, Ecological Crisis, and the Body Politic"
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| 11:30 a.m. - 12:00
p.m. |
Break |
| 9:30 - 11:00 a.m.
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Panel
1: Ritual Adaptied
Chair: Jack Santino
Nathan
Richardson. "The
Mark of the Beast and Other Ritual Spaces in Contemporary Spain"
Marion
Jacobson. "Passover
in Public" |
| 1:30 - 3:30 p.m.
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Lunch
(on your own) |
| 3:30 - 5:00 p.m.
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Panel
2: Ritual Conflicted
Chair: Lucy Long
Wanda
Sisnroy. "What's for Lunch: Ritual and Ethnicity
at the Office Potluck"
Mike
Dubose. "Performances
of Nationalism: The Cold War and Mediated Constructions of Nationalism
in the Boycotted Olympics of the 1980's"
Ana
Cara. "Parading Race in the Buenos Aires Carnival"
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| 5:00 - 5:15 p.m. |
Presentation
of new Spanish society for popular culture: SELICUP |
| 5:15 - 5:45 p.m.
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Break
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| 5:45 - 7:15 p.m.
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Panel
3: Festival
Chair: Carmen Flys
Cory
Thorne. "On the Edge of the World: Revival/Re-Creation
of Community and Tradition at the Brimstone and Burin Folk Festivals
in Newfoundland, Canada"
Lucy
Long. "Dynamics of Meaning in an American Apple
Butter Festival"
Marcia
Ostashewska. "Reclaiming Spaces, Contested Places:
A Ukrainian Cultural Festival in Poland" |
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Friday, June 9
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| 9:00 - 11:00 a.m.
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Workshop
Session |
| 11:00 a.m. - 12:30
p.m. |
Panel
4: Popularizing Ethnicity
Chair: Rosi Garcia-Barroso
Carmen
Valero. "Once upon a time... Top Ten Questions
on Popular Culture, Children's Literature and Multiculturalism"
Luisa
Juarez. "What Does It Mean To Be a Jew In the
World Today? Jewishness and Judaism in Contemporary Jewish-American
Fiction by Women"
Carmen
Flys. "Clarivoyant Detectives? African American
and Chicano Detectives Blanche White and Gloria Damasco" |
| 12:30 - 2:30 p.m.
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Panel
5: Ritual Theorized
Chair: Cristina Sanchez Carretero
Carmen
Ortiz. "Gastronomic, turismo y revitalizacion
de fiestas en España"
Brenda
Bustos. "La fiesta de la boda en el noroeste
de Mexico: La transformacion de una tradition"
Jorge
Ignacio Ibarra. "El deseo en action: Vestuario,
ornamento y sociabilidad en la celebration traditional"
Lidia
Benavides and Pilar Perez. "Inauguraciones en
exposiciones de arte: Un ritual contemporaneo" |
| 2:30 - 4:00 p.m.
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Lunch
(on your own) |
| 4:00 - 6:00 p.m.
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Panel
6: Popular Culture and Its Effects
Chair: Luisa Juarez
Peter
Wessel. "Can American Culture be Anything but
Popular?"
Aida
Marquez. "Rap: The Last Form of African American
Protest Music"
Ruth
Stoner and Francisco Pineda. "The Spanish Appeal
of Ally McBeal"
Heinz
Tschachler. "Ken Burn's 1997 Lewis and Clark Television
Documentary: American History in Detox"
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| 5:30 - 6:00 p.m.
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Break
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| 6:00 - 8:30 p.m.
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Panel
7: Ritual Imagined and Invented
Chair: Jack Santino
Judith
Cohen. "Sephardic Music in Imagined Jewish Festivals
in Spain"
Paul
Rich and Guillermo de los Reyes. "The Ancient
Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine: Ritual Plagiarism"
Stanley
Brandes. "Spirituality, Space, and Ceremony:
Alcoholics Anonymous and Popular Religion in Mexico City"
Mauricio
Parada. "The Youth's Day and the Hour of Independence"
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Saturday, June 10
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| 9:00 - 10:00 a.m. |
Workshop
Session |
| 10:00 - 11:30 a.m.
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Panel
8: Ritual and Public Display
Chair: Julio Canero
Lucas
Marchante. "Evolution of Spanish Royal Festivals
(1461-1700)"
Rachel
Delgado-Simmons. "Trascending Ritual and Sacred
Space: Image and a Maya Demigod in Exhibit, Design, and Cyberspace"
Michael
Murry. "Join Proud Irishmen and Limerick Men:
Rituals of Ethnicity and Protest in the Burn(bash)ing of Angela's
Ashes"
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| 11:30 - 11:45 a.m.
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Break
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| 11:45 a.m. - 1:00
p.m. |
Documentary:
"El Latido del Niger en Cuba".
Directors: Jose Angel Montiel and Damian Munoz Paris. |
| 1:00 - 2:00 p.m.
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KEYNOTE
ADDRESS
Jack
Santino. (Bowling Green State University) - "Reinventing
Ritual"
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| 2:30 p.m. |
Closing
Lunch |
| 5:00 p.m. |
Alcald
Tour |
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