Western States Folklore Society Board John Lindow Erik Aasland President (O) Treasurer (E) Michele Goldwasser Administrative VP (O) Lynne McNeill Margaret Magat Administrative VP (E) Secretary (O) Other Members of the Executive Committee Kristiana Willsey Carl Schottmiller Executive VP (O) Student VP (O) Rosalynn Rothstein Anna Creagh Executive VP (E) Student VP (E) Ex-Officio Members of the Board Paul Jordan-Smith Tok Thompson Business Manager Journal Editor Meeting Organizers WSFS 2016 Organizing Committee Ronelle Alexander Charles Briggs Elizabeth Gilbert Rebecca Lomnicky Stein Mathisen Alison O’Connor-Korb Luke Patterson Samuel Puliafico Support The University of California Berkeley Folklore Graduate Program The Alan Dundes Distinguished Chair in Folklore and The Departments of Anthropology; German; Music; Scandinavian; Slavic Languages and Literatures; and Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies 1 Schedule Thursday, April 7th 3:30pm ­ 5:00pm Workshop: Publishing an Article Elliott Oring in an Academic Journal Berkeley Folklore Archive 110 Kroeber Hall 5:00pm ­ 7:00pm Registration Berkeley Folklore Archive 110 Kroeber Hall ​ Reception The Gifford Room 221 Kroeber Hall ​ Friday, April 8th 8:00am ­ 5:00pm Registration Berkeley Folklore Archive 110 Kroeber Hall ​ 8:30am ­ 10:15am Session 1 125 Morrison Hall ​ 221 Kroeber Hall 10:15am ­ 10:30am BREAK 10:30am ­ 12:15pm Session 2 370 Dwinelle Hall ​ 221 Kroeber Hall 125 Morrison Hall 12:15pm ­ 1:30pm LUNCH on your own WSFS Board Lunch 1:30pm ­ 3:15pm Session 3 370 Dwinelle Hall ​ 221 Kroeber Hall 125 Morrison Hall 3:15pm ­ 3:30pm BREAK 3:30pm ­ 5:15pm Session 4 370 Dwinelle Hall ​ 221 Kroeber Hall 125 Morrison Hall 5:15pm ­ 5:30pm BREAK 5:30pm ­ 6:45pm Archer Taylor Lecture 160 Kroeber Hall ​ Galit Hasan­Rokem 6:45pm ­ 8:30pm Archer­Taylor Reception The Gifford Room 221 Kroeber Hall ​ 2 Saturday, April 9th 9:00am ­ 4:00pm Registration Berkeley Folklore Archive 110 Kroeber Hall ​ 9:15am ­ 11:00am Session 5 370 Dwinelle Hall ​ 223 Dwinelle Hall 219 Morrison Hall 11:00am ­ 11:15am BREAK 11:15am ­ 1:00pm Session 2 370 Dwinelle Hall ​ 223 Dwinelle Hall 219 Morrison Hall 1:00pm ­ 2:15pm LUNCH on your own 2:15pm ­ 4:00pm Session 5 370 Dwinelle Hall ​ 223 Dwinelle Hall 219 Morrison Hall 4:00pm ­ 4:15pm BREAK 4:15pm ­ 5:00pm WSFS Business Meeting 370 Dwinelle Hall ​ 3 FRIDAY 1: 1 1:2 Session 1 Environments, Identity, and Narratives of Memory Folklore and Identity in Practice 8:30 ­ 10:15 AM Chair: Candace Slater Chair: Paul Jordan­Smith 125 Morrison Hall Gifford Room, Kroeber Hall Slater, Candace (University of California, Berkeley). Zhang, Juwen (Willamette University). Folkloric Identity Storied Natures: Rubber and Ayahuasca in in Practice, Perspective and Paradigm 8:30 AM Contemporary Narratives from the Amazon Gilbert, Elizabeth (University of California, Magat, Margaret (Independent). Competitive Berkeley). Fionnuala and the Flare: Myth and Oil in Balut­Eating Contests and the Making of a Folkloric 8:50 AM the Irish Landscape Event Feng, Xiangjun (University of California, Berkeley). Xun, Xiong (Sun Yat­sen University). Folklore in ​ ​ Rescuing Folklore from the Nation: Performance and Nationalism under Masks: The Visual 9:10 AM Pre­national and Transnational Accounts of Representation System in a China Village Chinese Folklore Levin, Sarah (University of California, Berkeley). Jordan­Smith, Paul (Western States Folklore Society). 9:30 AM Ambivalent Laughter among Muslims and Jews in Real Men Don’t: Parsing Through Significance Morocco’s Atlas Mountains 4 FRIDAY 2:1 2:2 2:3 Roger Abrahams: On The Ritual Beliefs: Finding Belonging Feasting and Finery: Culinary Tourism, Session 2 Disciplinary Crossroads Through Folk Group Practices Symbolism, and Identity in Foodways 10:30 ­ Chair: Dan Ben­ Amos Chair: Stein Mathisen Chair: Michael Owen Jones 12:15PM 370 Dwinelle Hall Gifford Room, Kroeber Hall 125 Morrison Hall 10:30 AM Brenneis, Don (University of Schiffman, Bethany (University of Harline, Geneva (Utah State University). California). A Trickster at the California, Los Angeles). Bubbling Feast Customs of Artemisia (Interdisciplinary) Crossroads Beneath the Surface: A Folkloric Analysis Illuminating the Unspoken Tensions in Pierre De Lancre’s Tableau de l’inconstance des mauvais anges et démons 10:50 AM Haring, Lee (Brooklyn College, Levin, Cherry (Independent). Toward a Schroeder, Kylie (Utah State City University of New York). Structural Morphology of “The University). Comparative Case Studies Reviving the Definition Game Traditional White Wedding” of Culinary Heritage Tourism in Gozo, Malta 11:10 AM Green, Thomas A (Texas A&M Miller, Montana (Bowling Green State Wiley, Sophia (California State University). “The Play’s the University). Beyond Earth and Sky: University, Northridge). Identity, Thing”: The Impact of Roger Layers of Belief About Death at the Belonging and Representation: The Abraham’s Folk Drama Drop Zone Symbolic Roles of Food in Second Generation Filipino Americans Scholarship 11:30 AM Scher, Philip W. (University of Domingo­Kirk, Maria Carmen Discussion ​ Oregon). Landship, Citizenship, (University of the Philippines Baguio). Entrepreneurship and the Ship An Introductory Study of Kabunian: of State in Barbados Supreme Deity of the Ibaloy Northern Luzon Philippines 12:15pm ­ 1:30pm: LUNCH on your own. List of lunch locations available at Registration Desk in front of 110 Kroeber 5 FRIDAY 3:1 3:2 3:3 Roger Abrahams: In The Generic New Mobilities: Folklore Fat Fairies, Mash­Ups, and Session 3 Network Across Media Advertisements: The Hypnotic Effect of 1:30­ 3:15 Chair: Dan Ben­Amos Chair: Charles L. Briggs TV Fairy Tales PM 370 Dwinelle Hall Gifford Room, Kroeber Hall Chair: Sabina Magliocco 125 Morrison Hall 1:30 PM Noyes, Dorothy (Ohio State Summerville, Raymond Peterson, Ariel (Brigham Young University). Roger Runs Amok: (University of University). Fat Fairies: The Mule and the Folk Missouri­Columbia). Dueling Stereotype, Body Type, and as Folk Ritual in Personality of TV Godmothers African­American Film 1:50 PM Lau, Kimberly (University of Oliver, Keisha (Fresno City Redding, Lauren (Brigham Young California, Santa Cruz). Snow College). A New Era of Folk University). Fairy Tale Mash­Ups in White and the Trickster: Race Craft: 3D Printing as Folk Craft Children’s TV and the Prevalence and Genre in Helen Oyeymi’s, & Art of Gender­Based Patterns Snow, Bird 2:10 PM Mieder, Wolfgang (University of Giles, David (Utah State Wittwer, Preston (Brigham Young Vermont). “The Dynamic University). The Fossilized Fan University). Don Draper Thinks Qualities of Proverbs in Culture of Twilight Sparkle’s Your Ad is Cliché: Fairy Tales in ​ Performance”: Roger Abraham’s Secret Shipfic Folder Advertising Pioneering Contributions to Paremiology 2:30 PM Ben­Amos, Dan (University of Schottmiller, Carl (University Shaterian, Larisa (University of Pennsylvania). A Road Not of California, Los Angeles). California, Berkeley). Hanna’s Grimm Taken and Other Local Legends “The T­Word Debate”: Camp Human Heart: Fairy Tale and Cyborg About Roger Abrahams Humor and Trans Genealogy in Hanna (2011) Subjectivities in the Age of RuPaul’s Drag Race 6 FRIDAY 4:1 4:2 Session 4 Race and Ethnicity in the Virtual World Playing the Legend: A Negotiation of Folk Imaginaries 3:30­5:15 Chair: Anthony Buccitelli Chair: Don Brenneis PM 370 Dwinelle Hall Gifford Room, Kroeber Hall 3:30 PM Buccitelli, Anthony (The Patterson, Luke (University of California, Berkeley). Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg). Original Ceremony: Salutations in Aboriginal Australia “Ethnicity Tag” and the Poetics of Sharing Ethnicity 3:50 PM Thompson, Tok (University of Southern Avetyan, Madlen (California State University, California). Green­Skinned Troublemakers versus Northridge). Hayk Nahapet: Origin Myth of Armenians the Humans: Trolls, Aliens, and other Others in a Globalizing World 4:10 PM O’Brien, Annmarie (The Pennsylvania State Beltrán, Héctor (University of California, Berkeley). University, Harrisburg). Keep Calm and Love Your Chapo Imaginaries: Re­working Migrant Hierarchies in Dark Skin: Racial Identity and Embodiment in Oakland, CA Black Thinspiration 4:30 PM Turner, Patricia. (University of California, Los Gipson, Jennifer (University of Wisconsin—Madison). Angeles). Unladylike Lore: Rumors, Legends, and Avoiding Another Ossian? The Politics of Authenticity in Conspiracy Theories About Michelle Obama Post Revolutionary France 7 SATURDAY 5:1 5:2 5:3 History of Folklore Material Culture and the Singing and Fiddling: Multiculturalism, Session 5 Programs in the United Complexities of Identity Narrative, and Historiography in 9:15­ States I Chair: Margaretta Lovell Music­Making Practices 11:00 AM Chair: Anthony Buccitelli 223 Dwinelle Hall Chair: Bonnie C. Wade 370 Dwinelle Hall 219 Dwinelle Hall 9:15 AM Sawin, Patricia (University of Del Giudice, Luisa (Independent). “I Daria, James (University of Oregon). North Carolina). Studying the Build the Tower, People Like, Convivial Multiculture and Musical South from within the South: Everybody Come”: Sabato Rodia’s Practice:The Negotiation of Difference in Folklore at the University of Towers in Watts as UNESCO World the Fandango of Southern Veracruz, North Carolina Heritage Mexico 9:35 AM Zumwalt, Rosemary Lévy Yau, Elaine Y. (University of Suh, Youngsook (Hannam University). The (Agnes Scott College). “The California, Berkeley). Unraveling Impossible Conditions in Korean Narrative Great Team” of American Creoleness in Clementine Hunter’s Songs and Anglo­American Ballads