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12TH 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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