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Center for Research in Festive Culture Seminars, Fall 2008: Religion and Festivity April, 2008 Dear Colleagues: The schedule for next year’s Center for Research in Festive Culture (CRFC) seminars at the Newberry Library, Chicago, IL, is now complete. In each case two papers will be discussed, having been circulated to correspondents of the Center one month in advance. In the case of the second date below, however, application for a seminar presentation by a junior scholar remains open. In fact, since time is getting short, and your summer research plans are probably taking shape, the Center will welcome work on any festive-cultural subject, not just on religion and festivity. I also look forward to hearing from anyone who may have in mind a beginning professor or doctoral student who has finished her or his research whom I might contact about this opening. This problem has arisen partly because, while some scholars wrote about their intention to submit papers, they have not yet sent their one-page curriculum vitae and one-page synopsis of the intended paper. These two items remain indispensable for an invitation from the Center. Limited funds for travel to Chicago will be available, as is help with lodging and meals. Here is the schedule at present: FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2:00-5:00 P.M. Hélène Bellour, Private Scholar: From East Indian to Black Indian: The Life and Works of a Twentieth-Century Carnival Performer in Trinidad Katherine Wright, Northern Illinois University, De Kalb, IL: Greek Orthodox Easter in Present-Day Greece: Rituals and Fireworks FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2:00-5:00 P.M. Martin Walsh, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor: Martinje: Mock Bishops, New Wine, and Liturgical Parody in Contemporary Zagreb FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2:00-5:00 P.M. Kenneth Bilby, Columbia College, Chicago: Conjuring the Ghost of John Canoe: Re-imagining a “Slave Festival” in the New South and the Caribbean Gillian Weiss, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland: Freedom March: Barbary Slave Processions in Early Modern Europe A reminder notice of the upcoming seminars will be sent in early September. Copies of the papers to be discussed will be available about one month before the date of each seminar. 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 Molly Schultz, secretary for 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 Molly Schultz, 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 Ms. Schultz at 312.255.3666 for further information. Or email her at [log in to unmask] -- Abigail Ann Young (Dr), Associate Editor/ Records of Early English Drama/ Victoria College/ 150 Charles Street W/ Toronto Ontario Canada Phone (416) 585-4504/ FAX (416) 813-4093/ [log in to unmask] List-owner of REED-L <http://www.reed.utoronto.ca/reed-l.html> http://www.reed.utoronto.ca/ => REED's home page http://www.reed.utoronto.ca/stage.html => our Web guide http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~young => my home page