For REED-Lers who may be in the Chicago area during the Winter term
2005, this may be of interest:
Center for Research in Festive Culture
Seminar
Spring 2005
Dear Colleagues:
Just as a reminder, here is another copy of next year's Center seminar
at the Newberry. In addition to the seminars, Professors MacLean and
Afary will be presenting their topic in lecture form on the Northern
Illinois University campus on the day preceding the seminar (for further
information about that, contact R. Kerwin at the address below). The
theme is the same as that pursued in the spring, 2004, seminar: How
have festive customs been influenced by the politically motivated
interventions of individuals, interest groups, or institutions—including
those making and acting in a given festivity themselves—in the times and
places that you are investigating? In each case two papers will be
discussed, having been circulated to correspondents of the Center one
month in advance. In each case also the first named of the two
discussants will be speaking in lecture format on the same subject on
the Thursday preceding the Friday seminar at Northern Illinois University.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2:00-5:00 P.M.:
Sally-Beth MacLean, University of Toronto: Lord Strange’s Men:
Performance and Patronage in Elizabethan England.
James Riddle, University of Wisconsin, Madison: Playing at the King’s
Commandment: The 1487 Performance of York’s Corpus Christi Play.
FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 2:00-5:00 P.M.:
Samuel Kinser, Northern Illinois University: Halloween, Mardi Gras,
Pancake Tuesday: Can an American Carnivalesque Style Resist Political
Correctness?
Mitch Kachun, University of Western Michigan: Politicized Images of
Festive Culture: Visual Representations of African-American Freedom
Festivals, 1865-1895
FRIDAY, APRIL 22, 2:00-5:00 P.M.:
Janet Afary, Purdue University: Turning a Trickster Figure from
Performance to Politics: Newspaper Uses of Mullah Nasreddin in Early
Twentieth-Century Iran.
Hakki Gurkas, Purdue University: The Nasreddin Hodja Festival in
Aksehir, Turkey, Since 1959: The Trickster Becomes a Sage.
Please send your request for a copy of the paper to be discussed about
one month before the date of the seminar in question. Send requests to
Erin Lucido, Secretary of the Seminar, at the Newberry Library
([log in to unmask]). Requested papers will be sent to your e-mail
address. If you do not have an e-mail address, send your mailing
address to Erin Lucido, Newberry Library, 60 West Walton Street,
Chicago, IL, 60610, or to me: Samuel Kinser, History Department,
Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL, 60115 ([log in to unmask]).
Please call Renee Kerwin, Secretary, History Department, NIU, for
further information (815-753-6820).
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