Seminars
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2:00-5:00 P.M.
Shelley Salamensky, University of California at Los Angeles:
Diaspora Disney? “Jewfaces”, “Jewfaçade”, and “Jewish” festivals in Poland and the Russian Federation.
Emily Winerock, University of Toronto:
Sacred or Sacrilegious? Conflicted Attitudes Towards Festive Dancing in Early 17th Century England.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2:00-5:00 P.M.
Samuel Kinser, Northern Illinois University:
Paradigm and Street: Formative Contexts of black Indian Festive Ritual in New Orleans.
Karen Richman, University of Notre Dame, Indiana:
Congregating By Cassette: Migration and Transnational Ritual Spaces.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2:00-5:00 P.M.
John Marino, University of California at San Diego:
The Festival of San Giovanni in Renaissance Florence and Naples.
Matt Sakakeeny, Tulane University, New Orleans:
Instruments of Violence: Brass Bands, Jazz Funerals, and the Death of Young Black Men.
2009
