Seminars
FRIDAY, MARCH 10.
Carl Lindahl (English), University of Houston (TX):
Charity with a Vengeance: The Politics of Marti Gras in Cajun Louisiana.
Timothy Draper (History), Waubonsee College (IL):
Celebrating the Rock Springs Community: 1914-1929
FRIDAY, MARCH 31.
Rosalind Hays (English), Dominican University (IL):
Festive Culture and Social Conflict in Tudor-Stuart Wiltshire.
Erika Lin (English), University of Louisville (KY):
Performing Festivity: Seasonal Entertainments and the English Professional Stage.

2006
FRIDAY, APRIL 14.
Edward Muir (History), Northwestern University (IL): Festive Traditions Transformed: Early Opera in Seventeenth-Century Venice.
John Hill (History), University of Michigan (MI): The Imaginary World of Russian Mummery.


