2003 Program Thursday, May 29 8:00 - 9:00 am Registration and Check In 9:00 - 9:30 a.m. Welcome and Opening Remarks Dr. Jack Santino (Bowling Green State University), Conference Director 9:30 - 11:00 a.m. Session 1: Seasonal Festivals Lisa Kuly (Cornell University) - "The Production of Meaning in the Hanamatsuri" Suzanne Michele Schadl (Roanoke College) - "Favela dos Meus Amores: The Masquerade (Re)veiled" Luc Guglielmi (University of Louisiana at Lafayette) - "Le Mardi Gras à Basile: Du Sacré dans du Profane" Emily Mieras (Stetson University) - "The Dogs of Mardi Gras: Civic Identity and Invented Traditions in DeLand, Florida" 11:00 a.m. - 1:15 p.m. Lunch (on your own) 1:15 - 2:30 p.m. Session 2: Creolization and Syncretization Thelma Foote (University of California, Irvine) - "Beyond Accommodation and Resistance: The New York City Slave Revolt of 1712 and Black Pinkster Celebrations" Alison McLetchie (University of South Carolina) - "Incidents of Douglazation: The Worship of la Divina Pastora in Trinidad" Magdiel Castillo Barquero (University of Texas at Austin) - "On Christ’s Martyrdom at Indian Communities" 2:30 - 2:45 p.m. Break 2:45 - 4:00 p.m. Session 3: Festivals and Literature Martin W. Walsh (University of Michigan) - "Ominous Festivals in Contemporary Irish Drama: Tradition, Invention, and Ambivalent Nostalgia in Friel’s Lughnasa and Roche’s St. Martin’s Eve" Glen Sheldon (University of Toledo) - "Robert Hayden’s Mexican Journey in ‘Day of the Dead (Tehuantepec)’" Hank Hancock - "Last Seen Wearing" (Fiction) 4:00 - 4:15 p.m. Break 4:15 - 5:00 p.m. Session 4: Popular Culture Jeffrey Gordon (Bowling Green State University) - "Annual Snow Sculpture Competition in Potsdam, New York" Stuart Lenig (Columbia State Community College/Tulane University) - "Seeking the Primitive: Rituals of the Primitive in Animation Culture" 5:00 - 8:00 p.m. Dinner (on your own) 8:00 - 10:00 p.m. Carnivalesque Reception (443 Buttonwood) Friday, May 30 9:00 - 10:30 a.m. Session 5: Approaches to Ritual Manuel Yang (University of Toledo) - "Reading Popular Rituals and Festivals from Below: Common Methodological Principles and Themes in the Works of E.P. Thompson and Yoshimoto Taka’aki" Dale J. Young (Bowling Green State University) - "Renegotiating Games: Examining Macaloon’s Model of Olympic Spectacle Through the Powwow Experience" Jay R. Stewart (Bowling Green State University) and Elizabeth I. Prestin Nitz (CorVel Corporation)- "Rituals in Madness: Mental Disorders and Self-Mutilation" 10:30 - 10:45 a.m. Break 10:45 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Session 6: Festival Drama Klevor Abo (Bowling Green State University) - "The Hogbetsotso Festival of the Anlo-Ewe People of Ghana: Preliminary Questions About Function of Festivals in the Construction of Post-Colonial Ethnic Identities" Michael L. Hughes (Wake Forest University) - "Funerals as Political Theater: Interring Kaiser Wilhelm I and Wilhelm Liebknecht" David Harnish (Bowling Green State University) - "Ritual and Re-creation in Wayang Sasak, the Shadowplay of Lombok, Indonesia" 12:00 - 1:30 p.m. Lunch (on your own) 1:30 - 2:45 p.m. Session 7: Politics and Festivals William Westerman (Historical Society of Plainfield) - "‘Got Oil?’: Morphology of the Protest Sign" Ayala Emmett (University of Rochester) - "War in the Name of God" 2:45 - 3:00 p.m. Break 3:00 - 4:15 p.m. Session 8: Uses of Catholic Ritual Margaret Kruesi (University of Pennsylvania) - "The Media and the Slick Ducks: Parades and Public Presentations of the Sex Scandal in the Roman Catholic Church" Matthew J. Dowling (Providence College) - "Lisieux and the Canonization of St. Therese: Religious or Republican Celebrations?" Andrew J. Kellett (University College Dublin) - "The Priest-King: Éamon de Valera’s Use of Catholic Ritual and Nationalist Myth in Irish Public Ceremonies, 1932-1948" 4:15 - 7:30 p.m. Dinner (on your own) 7:30 - 8:00 p.m. Reception 8:00 - 10:00 p.m. Keynote Address Barbara Ehrenreich - "Ecstatic Rituals" Saturday, May 31 9:00 - 10:15 a.m. Session 9: Festival Practice Maurice N. Amutabi (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) - "The Decline of Arusi (Traditional Marriage Ceremonies) and Globalization of Weddings in Kenya" Anthony Amato (Southwest State University) - "It’s All Over But the Splashing: Ritual and Play in a Water Holiday" Shana Walton (Tulane University) and Helen Regis (Louisiana State University) - "Producing the Folk at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival" 10:15 - 10:30 a.m. Break 10:30 - 11:15 a.m. Session 10: Holiday Dan Shope (Bowling Green State University) - "Tie a Red and Green Ribbon ‘Round the Old Bar Stool: The Sleepy Hollow Inn’s Folk Assemblage Celebrates Christmas Year ‘Round to Honor America’s Troops" 11:15 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. Lunch (on your own) 1:30 - 2:45 p.m. Session 11: Festivals Organized from Above Philip F. Xie and David Groves (Bowling Green State University) - "Cultural Iconography in Festival Tourism: A Case Study of Canadian-American Festival" Gyula Virág - "The 1949 World Youth Festival: Potemkin Village of the Stalinist World" Heather Diamond (University of Hawai‘i at M_noa) - "‘To the Nation of Nations from the Community of Communities’: Hawai‘i Pluralism On-Stage at the 1989 Smithsonian Folklife Festival" 2:45 - 3:00 p.m. Break 3:00 - 4:30 p.m. Session 12: Celebration and Education Alexander Sidorkin (Bowling Green State University) - "Pedagogy of Relation and Carnival" Kristin Olson Rao (University of Maryland) - "Music in Indian School Assemblies: An Ethnographic Approach to Understanding a Ritual-Like Event" Lubomir Popov (Bowling Green State University) - "The Proud All-Nighter: Rituals and Celebration of the Everyday Life in the Architectural Student Studio" Dan Mendelsohn Aviv (United Synagogue Day Schools) - "Reading, Regaling, and Remembering: The Passover Seder as Teaching Ritual" 4:30 - 5:00 p.m. Remarks Dr. Jack Santino (Bowling Green State University), Conference Director 5:00 - 8:00 p.m. Dinner (on your own) 8:00 - 10:00 p.m. Live Music/Dance Party