New York Field Trip Schedule

New York Field Trip 2011: Legends and Tales

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NEW YORK FIELD TRIP 2011
NY Folklore Society Graduate Student Conference
Legends and Tales
November 12, 2011
Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY

Tenative CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
(Subject to Change)

8:00-9:00 a.m.	NYFS Board Meeting
9:00-9:45 a.m.	Registration Coffee and Light Refreshments will be available
9:45-10:00 a.m.	Welcome by the New York Folklore Society
10:00 a.m.-11:30 a.m.	Session I: The Fabled and the Fabulous Dawn Saliba (Binghamton University) Shakespeare, Three Sisters and a Scottish King: The Witchlore of Macbeth as Influenced by King James’s Demonology Daniel Irving (Binghamton University) You Can’t Lose What You Ain’t Never Had: Southern Mythology and the Precariousness of Performance Trish Cowen (Binghamton University) A New Perspective on Happily Ever After: Children Dying to Close the Portal Between Worlds
11:45 a.m.-1:15 p.m.	Session II: Legendary Transformations Chris Mackowski (Binghamton University) The Legend of Stonewall Jackson’s Arm Nick Hilbourn (Binghamton University) The Stranger Upstairs: Disability Representation in Urban Horror Legends Bambi Lobdell (SUNY At Oneonta) Mythic Elements in the Life and Legend of Lucy Ann/Joseph Israel Lobdell
1:15-2:00 p.m.	Complimentary Lunch by Binghamton University
2:00-2:45 p.m.	Keynote Address: Dr. Elizabeth Tucker Haunted Halls, Mansions, and Riverbanks: Legends of the Southern Tier
3:00-4:00 p.m.	A Reading by Novelist Jaimee Wriston Colbert from her work “Shark Girls”
4:00-5:00 p.m.	Folklore in Practice: Collecting Narratives after Disaster Strikes with an esteemed panel of folklore professionals. Dr. Kay Turner of the Brooklyn County Arts Council and Dr. Constance Sullivan-Blum of the Arts Council of the Southern Finger Lakes will discuss their research and the human impact of major disasters such as 9/11 (Turner) and with victims of the flood of 1972 (Sullivan-Blum).
5:15-6:00 p.m.	Reception Sponsored by the New York Folklore Society preceded by a short business meeting of the New York Folklore Society
6:00-7:30 p.m.	Storytelling in Performance: Milbre Burch, Changing Skins: Folktales about Gender, Identity and Humanity Milbre Burch is a grammy-nominated and internationally known storyteller. She is currently a graduate student in theater and folklore at the University of Missouri. Her performance, “Changing Skins” is informed by research on the wealth and persistence of gender-bending folktales and cultural expressions around the world. The tales—adapted from print collections by folklorists, anthropologists, linguists and literary scholars—are interwoven with personal observations of the social construction of gender, and notes on historical and contemporary thinking about the diversity of gender expressions.