Hello,
I've attached information re: the 'Winter festivals and traditions' conference, which will be held through the Anthropology department at Oxford University on Saturday 25 March. Feel free to circulate the information widely.
Many thanks,
Dr Ann Wand
Post-doctoral associate
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, ISCA
Oxford University
www.explorationthrougheducation.com
Tickets are now available for the 'Winter festivals and traditions' conference at Oxford University to be held on Saturday 25 March. Seating is limited and tickets will be sold on a first-come, first-serve basis.
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/392174
‘Winter Festivals and Traditions’ Conference
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Oxford University
9.15-9.45- Registration (Coffee, tea and biscuits will be provided)- Make sure to bring your tickets with you when registering
9.45-10.00 - Opening remarks: Dr Ann Wand, Oxford University
10.00-11.15 – Panel I: Festivals through history
Chair: Johana Musalkova, Oxford University
Presenters:
Dr Brigid Burke, Montclair State University (USA)
The Lenaia: The winter festival of Dionysus in the context of Greek beliefs about death and the afterlife
Dr Joy Fraser, George Mason University (USA)
“Some fiends disguised as mummers”: The Isaac Mercer murder case and the politics of sectarianism in nineteenth century Newfoundland
Dr Richard Irvine, Cambridge University (UK)
Following the bear: the revival of East Anglian Straw Bear traditions
11.15-11.30- Break
11.30-12.30 – Keynote speaker
Convenor: Dr Ann Wand, Oxford University
Dr Cesare Poppi, La Scuola Universitaria Professionale della Svizzera Italiana (Switzerland)
Sex and the Afterweb: rethinking tradition and cultural continuity
12.30-13.30 - Lunch (Coffee, tea and snacks will be provided)
13.30-14.45 - Panel II: Krampus and Christmas
Chair: Dr Ann Wand, Oxford University
Presenters:
Gertraud Seiser and Dr Matthäus Rest, University of Vienna and University of Munich (Austria and Germany)
Wild and beautiful: the Krampus in Salzburg
Amber Dorko Stopper, co-founder of Parade of Spirits, Liberty Lands (USA)
Spectres and spectra: building self-sustaining folklore and neurodiversity inclusion into processional arts
Lucinda Murphy, Durham University (UK)
The nostalgia of Christmas worship: a resource for re-collection, re-flection and re-newal
14.45-15.15 = Coffee and tea break (biscuits included)
15.15-16.30- Panel III: Carnival, museums and department stores
Chair: Dr Nicolette Makovicky, Oxford University
Prof. Adrian Franklin, University of Tasmania (Australia)
Where ‘art meets life’: the making of Australia’s most successful mid-winter festival [Dark MOFO] in Hobart, Tasmania
Dr Gareth Hamilton and Dita Vinovska, University of Latvia
Losing ‘track’ of inverted time and space: the ‘Crazy Days’ in and outside a Finnish-owned department store in Riga
Dr Giovanni Kezich, Museo degli Usi e Costumi della Gente Trentina (Italy)
Carnival king of Europe: European winter masquerades in ethnographic perspective
16.30-16.45 – Break
16.45-17.45- Panel IV: Food and animals in festivals
Chair: Robin Smith, Oxford University
Dr Francesco Della Costa, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Be’er Sheva (Israel)
The venerable pig: ritual food sharing within a traditional festival in Abruzzo, Italy
Pawel Sendyka, Jagiellonian University (Poland)
The bacas and the priests: how the old adversaries came together to revive and reinterpret tradition
17.45-18.00- Closing remarks: Dr Robert Parkin, Oxford University
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