Popular Culture

 12^TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON HOLIDAYS, RITUAL, FESTIVAL, CELEBRATION, AND PUBLIC DISPLAY
CELEBRATING the 100th anniversary of the publication of Les Rites des Passage, by Arnold Van Gennep!

September 25-27, 2008
201 Bowen-Thompson Student Union
Bowling Green State University

Room 308, Bowen-Thompson Student Union Thursday AM
Room 201, Bowen-Thompson Student Union Thursday PM-Saturday

CONFERENCE PROGRAM 

Thursday, September 25, 2008

10 AM
Registration

11 AM-12:00 PM
Panel I

Immigration, Performance, and Identity

Claire E. Aubrey (Niagara University). Arangetram: The First Solo Performance of a Bharatanatyam Dancer
Sandra Grady (University of Pennsylvania). Notes from the Big Day: An Exploration of Emerging Somali Bantu Wedding Ritual


1:00-2:15 PM
Panel II

Applications of Research

Michael Lange (Champlain College). Teaching with Turnips: Using a Halloween Custom in the Classroom

Christian Pralea (Bowling Green State University), Lubomir Popov (Bowling Green State University). Highjacking the International Labor Day Celebration

Sanae Nakatani (University of Tokyo). Hierarchy in the Temporary Space of a Festival

2:30-4:30 PM
Panel III

Emerging Festival

Karen S. Marcione (Independent Scholar), Lubomir Popov (Bowling Green State University). Conferences and Conventions, Holidays and Celebrations

Matthew A. Donahue (Bowling Green State University). Masters of Metal Tour as Heavy Metal History and Ritual

Lori Van Meter (Sierra College). The Temples of Burning Man

Matthew Joseph Ripley (Western Kentucky University). Follicle Forums: Hockey Playoff Beards and the Fans Who Love Them

Friday, September 26, 2008

9:00-11:00 AM
Panel IV
Case Studies

Helena Simonett (Vanderbilt University). Segua Yoleme—Hombre Flor: A Reevaluation of Indigenous Ceremonialism in Northwestern Mexico

Maria Bareli  (University of Crete). Analyzing the Ikarian Paniyiri: The Social Dynamics of an Institutionalized Exchange System

Paul A. Jackson (Arizona State University). Script as Ritual in the Daoist Numinous Treasure Scriptures

David Harnish (Bowling Green State University). Islamic Sufism in Indonesia: Performance and Meanings


11:15-12:30
Panel V

Public Display

Andreas Luescher (Bowling Green State University). The Travel Machine: The Nineteenth-Century Panorama

John Troyer (University of Bath); Scott Magelssen (Bowling Green State University). Living History with Dead Bodies: Civil War Reenactment Embalming Demonstrations and the Museum of Funeral Customs

1:30-2:45 PM
Panel VI

Ritual in Artistic Expressions

Olga Nechepurenko (York University). Convergence of Folk Tradition and Art Music: Stravinsky’s Les Noces and Russian Village Wedding Ritual

Brian H. Roberts (Clarion University). Reconnecting with the Ancestors in Joe Turner’s Come and Gone

Esther Clinton (Bowling Green State University). Crossing the Fairy Tale Threshold: The Centrality of Rites of passage to the Grimms’ Tales


3:00-4:30PM
Panel VII

Ritual Failure? Theorizing Rites of Passage

Charlie McCormick (Cabrini College). Failure’s Success: Ritual Failure in Rites of Passage

Montana Miller (Bowling Green State University). Rites of Blocked Passage: What Would Van Gennep Do?

Lubomir Popov (Bowling Green State University). Rites of Passage and Social Control


Saturday, September 27, 2008

10:00AM
Panel VIII

Performing Death

Joyce M. Bishop (California State University, Sacramento). Ritual and Politics: Sacramento’s Day of the Dead

Shelley Ashdown (The Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics). The Ceremony of Eldership Among the Ndorobo of Kenya: Notions of Obligation and Time Continuity

Arthur Horowitz (Pomona College). The Dance of Death in Verges: The Community as Agent of Public and Religious Observance

Panel IX

Roundtable: The Future of Ritual Studies?

Jack Santino, BGSU
Lucy M. Long, BGSU
Montana Miller, BGSU
David Harnish, BGSU
Maria Teresa Agozzino, Ohio State University/American Folklore Society
Sandra Grady, University of Pennsylvania

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