2001 Program Friday, June 1 12:00 - 2:00 PM Registration and Check In 1:45 PM Opening 2:00 - 4:00 PM Panel 1: Festivals, Ethnicity, and Space Anne Pryor (U. of Wisconsin) Praying the Steps: The Ritual That Brought the Queen of Heaven to the Queen City Imani Kai Johnson (NYU) New York Pinkster Celebrations and the Spectral Nature of Slave Life Joseph Sciorra (Queens College) Imagined Places, Fragile Landscapes: Italian American Presepi in New York City 4:15 - 6:15 PM Panel 2: Holidays Cindy Dell Clark (Penn State) Halloween as "Safe Scare"for Children: True or False? Peter A. Stevens (York University) Cross-Border Culture: Holidays, Nationalism, and the Origins of the Canadian Thanksgiving Kim Miller (UCLA) t'il Christmas Do Us Part: Kin Work, Ritual Power, and Identity Formation Within Domestic Holiday Celebrations Nancy Cassell McEntire (Indiana State U.) Purposeful Deceptions of the April Fool 6:15 - 7:30 PM Dinner (on your own) 7:30 - 8:30 PM Japanese Tea Ceremony Reception at Fine Arts Building, Mrs. Akiko Jones, host talker. Jacqui Nathan, Art Museum Followed by a Community Street Dance" Old Time Contras and Squares Mid-Am Parking Lot, South Main Street Bowling Green Saturday, June 2 8:00 - 8:30 AM Coffee 8:30 - 10:00 AM Panel 3: Life Cycle Rituals Charlie McCormick (Cabrini College) From Pranksterism to Criminal Behavior: Ostension and Quasi-Ostension in the Performance of Adolescent Cruising William M. Leons (University of Toledo) Generation and Gender in Wedding Rituals in a Vietnamese American Community Anthony J. Amato (Southwest State University) "Playing Dead:" Community and the Games around the Corpse in the Carpathian Mountains 10:15 AM - 12:30 PM Panel 4: Public Display Events Cynthia D. Livingston Responses to Insider/Outsider Conflict Generated by Public Ritual: The Palio of Sienna, Italy, and Springtime Tallahassee, Florida Melinda Leigh Fogle (BGSU) Joining the Pezzimist Party: Pez Convention as a Rite of Passage and Communal Bonding Carrie Ponder (BGSU) Performativity and NASCAR Racing Julid Lynn Offer (University of Calgary) Challenging Women in the European Circus Hai Ren (BGSU) Celebrations of "Everyday Life" in the Theme Park 12:30 - 1:30 PM Lunch (on your own) 1:30 - 4:00 PM Panel 5: Constructed Rituals Lucy M. Long (BGSU) Video: Stirring up History: An Apple Butter Festival in the American Midwest (27 min) Phyllis Scrocco Zrzavy and Helfried C. Zrzavy (Franklin Pierce College) Reaffirmation and Renewal Through Public Display: The Peterborough Children and the Arts Festival Lisa Gabbert (Indiana University) Festival Production and the Performance of Place: The McCall Winter Carnival Jeremy Hockett (University of New Mexico) Ritual, Counterculture, and Postmodernism: The Shift from Liminal to Liminoid Alf H. Walle (SUNY Geneseo) Building a Diverse Attendance at Culture Festivals: Embracing Oral History/Folklore in Strategic Ways 4:15 - 6:00 PM Panel 6: The Construction of Identity Eric M. Gray (Ball State University) The Mosque and the Midwest: Manifestations of Culture and Ritual Don Conway-Long (St. Louis Comm. College) Masculine Performance in the Eid Al-Kabir, Rabat, Morocco, 1993 Yvonne R. Lockwood (MSU Museum) and William G. Lockwood (University of Michigan) Being American: An Arab American Thanksgiving 6:00 - 8:00 PM Dinner (on your own) 8:00 PM Jacobean Masque Oberon, the Faery Prince, a Masque of Prince Henry (January 1, 1611) Produced and Directed by Christine Williams, and Carrie Ponder Sunday, June 3 8:30 - 9:15 AM Panel 7: Revivals and Reconstructed Rituals Katherine Borland (OSU-Newark) New Wine in Old Bottles: Monimbo's Pilgrimage to Rivas Marinos Pourgouris (Rutgers University) The Delphic Festivals: Reconstructing the Ancient Hellenic Past 9:30 - 10:45 AM Panel 8: Ritual and Festival: The Public and the Personal Anthony J. Amato (Southwest State University) The Doll Displayed: Folklore and Place in a Landscape of Fear Jay R. Stewart (BGSU) Using a Therapeutic Ritual in a Psychiatric Unit to Resolve Inhibited Mourning Peta Bain (N'rACT) The Carnival of Trinidad and Tobago 11:00 AM Keynote Address:Susan G. Davis (University of California at San Diego) The Bridge, the Park, and the Grocery Store: Missing Histories and Counter-Histories in Southern California Followed by a Roundtable Discussion of the Conference