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Center for Research in Festive Culture Seminars, Fall 2009: Religion and Festivity -------- Original Message -------- Subject: CRFC Fall 2009 Seminars - Reminder Notice Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 12:09:22 -0500 From: Leslie Kan <[log in to unmask]> Organisation: Newberry Library Dear Colleagues: This is a reminder of the dates and speakers for our fall seminars. The first one will be held Friday, September 18, at 2 pm at the Newberry Library and includes a change. Professor Gourley will not be able to attend, so I will present instead the introductory chapter of a book that I am currently finishing, entitled The Chanting Art of the Mardi Gras Indians in New Orleans. As usual, a page with paragraph synopses of the two papers to be discussed will be emailed to all of you about three weeks before the date of each seminar, with an invitation to contact Leslie Kan, secretary of the seminar (see below), for copies of the paper. See you soon! FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2:00-5:00 P.M. Samuel Kinser, Northern Illinois University: Paradigm and Street: Formative Contexts of black-Indian Festive Ritual in New Orleans. Karen Richman, University of Notre Dame, Indiana: Congregating By Cassette: Migration and Transnational Ritual Spaces FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2:00-5:00 P.M. John Marino, University of California at San Diego: The Festival of San Giovanni in Renaissance Florence and Naples Matt Sakakeeny, Tulane University, New Orleans: Instruments of Violence: Brass Bands, Jazz Funerals, and the Death of Young Black Men FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2:00-5:00 P.M. Shelley Salamensky, University of California at Los Angeles: Diaspora Disney? “Jewface”, “Jewfaçade”, and “Jewish” festivals in Poland and the Russian Federation Emily Winerock, University of Toronto: Sacred or Sacrilegious? Conflicted Attitudes Towards Festive Dancing in Early 17th Century England 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 Leslie Kan, 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 Leslie Kan, 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 Leslie Kan for further information (312-255-3666) or you may also call Judy Hendrickson, Secretary, History Department, NIU (815-753-6820), 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