Sixth Annual Conference on Holidays, Ritual,
Festival, Celebration, and Public Display
2002

Thursday, May 30
8:00 - 9:00 AM Registration
9:15 - 9:15 AM Welcome
9:15 - 10:30 AM Session 1
  • Thomas Spencer (Northwest Missouri State University). "A Bit of Mardi Gras in Kansas City: The Priests of Pallas Celebration, 1887-1922"

  • Stephen Heathorn (McMaster University). "The Story Was Well Invented: Contesting Alfred's Image at the 1901 Alfred the Great National Millenary Commemoration"
  • Maureen Porter and Jennifer Tomal (University of Pittsburgh). "Masculinities on Parade"
10:45 AM- 12:40 PM Session 2
  • Joan Cashin (Ohio State University). Chair William Caleb McDaniel (Johns Hopkins University). "The Fourth and the First: Abolitionist Holidays, Respectability and Race"
  • Stephanie Kermes (Boston College). "The Hero of Liberty: Celebrations of General Lafayette during his Visit to New England in 1824-1825"
  • Edward Rugemer (Boston College). "Rejoice with Them That Do Rejoice: African-American First of August Celebrations"
12:40-1:45 PM Lunch (on your own)
2:00-3:15 PM Session 3
  • Yucel Demirer (Ohio State University). "Popular Culture and Political Protest: The Newroz/Nevruz Festival in Turkey"
  • Lisa Gilman (University of Toledo). "Ritual, Politics, and Gender: Malawi's Second Multiparty Elections"
  • Viet Le (University of California at Irvine). "Westward Ho (Chi Minh)! Toward Reconciling the Politics of Identity and Representation in Little Saigon"
3:15-4:30 PM Session 4
  • Michelle Dent (New York University). "Partying Like it's 1999: The Millennium Countdown as World's Fair Par Excellence"
  • Josh Dubler (Princeton University). "The Snow Day as Holiday"
4:30-5:30 PM Roundtable Discussion
5:30 - 8:00 PM Dinner (on your own)
8:00 - 10:00 PM Carnivalesque Reception
Friday, May 31
9:15 - 10:30 AM Session 5
  • Brian Gregory (University of Pennsylvania). "I'm So Anxious to See Renfro Valley: Modern Architecture, Country Music, and the Semiotics of Tourist Display"
  • Sharon Hochhauser (Kent State University). "Contrafact and Science Fiction: Meaning, Ritual, and Negotiation of Self in Canadian Filksong Performance"
10:45 AM - 12:00 PM Session 6
  • Samuel Kinser and Janet Afary (Purdue University). "Uses of Muharrom During Iran's Revolutionary Period"
  • Helene Bellour "From Stickfighting Bands to Steel Bands, The Combative Core of Trinidad's Carnival"
  • Martin Walsh (University of Michigan). "The Fighting Mystique of the Couva, Trinidad, "Jab-Jab" Maskers"
12:00 - 1:15 PM Lunch (on your own)
1:15 - 2:30 PM Session 7
  • Mark Aldrich (Dickinson College). "Las Fallas as a Ritual of Self-Reflection"
  • Christopher Antonsen (Western Kentucky University). "Overcoming the Stigma: Fieldwork and Insider Joking as a Festival Event"
  • Cynthia Livingston "What Makes a Public Ritual or Drama Central to a People's or Community's Identity? Criteria Suggested by the Palio of Siena, Italy"
2:45 - 4:00 PM Session 8
  • Cory Thorne (University of Pennsylvania). "A Newfoundland-Virginian St. Paddy's Day: Theories of Difference in Newfoundland-American Association"
  • Lisa Urkevich (Boston University). "The `Ardha : National Folk Dance of Saudi Arabia"
  • David Harnish (Bowling Green State University). "The Lingsar Festival: A Socioreligious and Aesthetic Event in Lombok, Indonesia"
  • Muhammad Subhi Kudaimi (Kyoto Institute of Technology). "The Mahamal as Celebration of Hajj on the Road to Mecca"
4:15 - 5:30 PM Session 9
  • Adriana Greci Green (Wayne State University). "Celebrating the Fourth of July: The Performance of Lakota Collective Identity"

  • Cucu-Oancea Ozana Marina (Bucharest University). "Valentine's Day in Romania: Fashion or Necessity?"

  • Anthony Adah (University of Toronto). "Ashes and Agency: Death and Identity Construction in Aboriginal Cinema"
6:15 - 8:00 PM Dinner (on your own)
8:00 PM Medieval Pageant
Saturday, June 1
9:15 - 10:50 AM Session 10
  • Ayala Emmett (University of Rochester). "The Dead, The Living and the Soul: What Are Jewish Mourning Rituals Really About?"
  • James Fitzsimmons (Harvard University). "Feasts, Funerals, and Reliquaries: The Archaeology of Classic Maya Death Rites"
  • 011ivier Hubert (University of Montreal). "Ritual Performance and Parish Sociability: French-Canadian Catholic Families at Mass from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century"
11:00 - 12:15 PM Session 11
  • Kerry Wynn (University of illinois at Urbana-Champ'aign). "The Marriage of Miss Indian Territory and Mr. Oklahoma Territory: The Importance of Symbolic Nuptials to the Re-Imagining of Society"
  • Karen A.J Miller (Oakland University). "Worshipping St. Republican: The McKinley Birthplace Memorial and Republican Politics"

  • Regina Marchi (University of California at San Diego). "El Dia de los Muertos and the Moral Economy: US Day of the Dead Rituals as Political Protest"
12:15 - 2:00 PM Lunch (on your own)
2:00 - 3:15 PM Session 12
  • Arieh Bruce Saposnik (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee). "Exorcising the `Angel of National Death'-- National and Individual Death (and Rebirth) in Zionist National Liturgy in Palestine, 1903-1914"
  • Rebecca Bennette (Harvard University). "For Whom the Bell Tolls: Funerary Culture and Religious Conflict in Nineteenth-Century Germany"
  • Will Wilson (Mount Allison University). "Last Rites: Ceremonial Death and the Demise of the Nazi Celebration"
3:30 - 5:30 PM Session 13
  • Montana Miller (University of California-Los Angeles). "`Every Fifteen Minutes Someone Dies': How People Play, in a Staged Drunk Driving Tragedy"
  • Jeffrey Gordon (Bowling Green State University). "A Classification of Secular Landscapes and Icons Portrayed on Gravestones"
  • Julia Hirsch (Brooklyn College). "The Shrines of 9/11"
  • Jeannie Thomas (Utah State University). "Commemorative Communication and Graveside Shrines: Princess Diana, Jim Morrison, Our Son Max, and Boogs the Cat"
  • Maida Owens (Louisiana State University). "Louisiana Roadside Memorials: Patterns, Influences, and Distribution"
5:30 - 8:00 PM Dinner (on your own)
8:00 PM Contra Dance