Legends of Landscape, Narratives of Nature

Friday, February 13

& Saturday February 14, 2009

Friday, February 13, 2009

Thompson Room, Barker Center

5:30
Welcome and Introduction

KEYNOTE:

Kimberley Patton,
"'The Sea Can Wash Away All Evils': Iphigenia, Sedna, and the Submarine Mare as Myths of the Cleansing Ocean"

6:30                       
Buffet Dinner

7:15                       
Performances

Tomie Hahn
"Masquerading Jellyfish – fluid identities that matter"

John Bear Mitchell
The Wind Bird
The Wabanaki's Mother – Dawn

Kate Chadbourne
Sea Songs

Anna Walters and Reynaldo Gonzales
Yemaya (Orisha dance - at right, images from their performance)

Saturday, February 14, 2009

Thompson Room, Barker Center

9:30                       
Coffee and Pastries

10:00                      
PANEL ONE

Nan Hutton, “Revisiting the ‘Tree of Life’”     

Maria Cristina Vlassidis, "Visions of Paradise in two Voices: The Significance of Trees, Plants, and Flowers in the Mesoamerican Cosmovision"

Lisa Decesare, “The Folklore of Carnivorous Plants”

 

11:00     
PANEL TWO

Coralynn Davis, “Pond-Women Revelations: Gendered Knowledge and Sacred Geography in Maithil Women’s Expressive Forms”

Nimachia Hernandez, "Naapi's Power, Play, and Place: Making Landscape and Niitsitapiiksi (Blackfoot)."

Julie Duncan, “The Noachian Flood: For Many, More than Myth”

Marcel LaFlamme, “Dreaming Lake Wobegon: nature, nostalgia, and the construction of an American 'folk'"

 

12:30     
LUNCH

 

1:30     
PANEL THREE

Kent Ryden, “Toward an Ecofolkloristics”

David R. Foster, “Reading, Conserving and Mythologizing the New England Landscape”

Ruth Olson, “Struggling for Place: From “Protect the Earth” to “Making It Home”

Liz Carlisle, “ Discourses of Nature: The View from Capitol Hill”

 

3:00     
PANEL FOUR

Amber Rose, “The Dogs of Ancient Ireland”

John Dillon, “Birds of a Feather: Figures of the Artist in Seamus Heaney's 'Sweeney Redivivus' and Buile Shuibhne”

Rachel Storch, “The Solar Mythology of Kume Kunitake”

 

4:00 

WINE, CHEESE, & WIND-DOWN

Image credits:

(top) "Tree of Life: Guadalupe" by Jane LaFazio (used with permission)

Photos of Anna Walters and Reynaldo Gonzalez performing Orisha dances at the event (taken by Deborah Foster)