Scandinavian Section Calendar - Past Events for this Academic Year
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- 12/5/01 (Wed)
CMRS Faculty Roundtable: "Medieval Scandinavia in the Digital Age"
12:00PM until 1:00PM
In Royce Hall 314
Timothy Tangherlini (Scandinavian Section) discusses "Medieval Scandinavia in the Digital Age." Professor Tangherlini will present some tools available in the digital realm for the study of Old Norse, as well as explore current initiatives in Old Norse digitization. CMRS faculty, associates, staff and graduate students are encouraged to attend. Bring your lunch. The Center will provide coffee and soft drinks!-- submitted by Karen Burgess (cmrs@humnet.ucla.edu)
- 12/5/01 (Wed)
Our Nation: A Korean Punk Rock Community (Documentary Screening)
7:00PM until 9:00PM
In Royce Hall 314
All are invited to a screening of the recently completed documentary:Our Nation: A Korean Punk Rock Community
Introduction by Michael Bourdaghs, Department of East Asian Languages and Culture. A roundtable discussion will immediately follow the screening with the filmmakers, Stephen J. Epstein and Timothy Tangherlini. Sponsered by the Center for Korean Studies, World Arts and Culture, The Scandinavian Section and the Center for Digital Humanities.
Refreshments will be served.
-- submitted by (evalyn@humnet.ucla.edu)
For more information, contact tango@humnet.ucla.edu- 1/16/02 (Wed)
Witchcraft and the Law in Medieval Scandinavia
4:30PM
In Royce Hall 314
The nordic provincial and city laws of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries provide us with remarkable opportunities to assess popular and elite constructions of witchcraft beliefs in northern Europe, especially as measured against the subsequent national codifications of these legal traditions and the testimony of the Icelandic sagas. In this lecture, CMRS Visiting Professor Stephen Mitchell (Harvard University) extracts from legal, ecclesiastical, and literary materials the various images of witchcraft in the northern world circa 1300. Advance registration not required. No fee.-- submitted by Karen Burgess (cmrs@humnet.ucla.edu)
- 2/20/02 (Wed)
On Runic Origins
3:00PM
HENRIK WILLIAMS, Professor at Uppsala University in Sweden, will give a lecture "On Runic Origins" on Wedensday February 20 at 3:00 pm in the Scandiavian Section lounge, 332 Royce Hall. There will be a reception to follow.-- submitted by Benay Furtivo (furtivo@humnet.ucla.edu)
- 4/22/02 (Mon)
"Rumor and Contemporary Legend: An Outline of the French Approach"
3:00PM
In 236 Royce Hall
IN A TIME OF STARTLING RUMORS AND MISINFORMATION“RUMOR AND CONTEMPORARY LEGEND: AN OUTLINE OF THE FRENCH APPROACH”
Véronique CAMPION-VINCENT (formerly of Maison des sciences de l'homme, Paris)
Using examples culled from her research on Organ Theft narratives, and cancer causing Cell Phones, Campion- Vincent, one of France's foremost specialists on Urban Legend, will explore the specificities of the French approaches to the study of Rumor and Contemporary Legend.
Véronique Campion Vincent is a writer specialized in sociological approaches of urban rumors and legends, their evolution and reception. Among her many publications are La légende des vols d'organes (Les Belles Lettres, 1997) and Légendes urbaines. Rumeurs d'aujourd'hui (with J.-B. Renard) (Payot, 1992) and the forthcoming De source sûre. Nouvelles légendes urbaines. Paris, Payot (co-authored with Jean-Bruno Renard), 2002. She has also written Images du Dahomey. Un royaume africain lors de sa conquête.
Monday April 22, 2002 3:00 pm 236 Royce Hall Refreshments will be served
Co-Sponsored by THE SCANDINAVIAN SECTION, DEPARTMENT OF FRENCH & FRANCOPHONE STUDIES, AND THE ORAL TRADITIONS STUDIES PROGRAM
-- submitted by Benay Furtivo (furtivo@humnet.ucla.edu)
- 5/17/02 (Fri) through 5/19/02 (Sun)
Illuminated Folklorist Conference
2:00PM
In Royce 314
The Second Annual UCLA Medieval and Early Modern Interdisciplinary ForumThe Illuminated Folklorist:
Recovering the Folklore of the Past
Royce Hall, Room 314
May 17-19, 2002
Friday, May 17
1:30 Registration
2:00-2:10 Welcome
Andrea Fitzgerald Jones, Conference Co-Chair
2:10-2:30 Opening Remarks
Timothy Tangherlini, UCLA
Session 1 (Robert Alan Gurval, Moderator)
2:30-3:30 Jan Ziolkowski, Harvard University, "The Making of a Märchen from Medieval Matter"
3:30-3:45 Break
Session 2 (H.A. Kelly, Moderator)
3:45-4:15 Carol Branch, Los Angeles, "Searching Through My Mother’s Medicine Cabinet: Lore and Lacunae in African- American Tradition."
4:15-5:15 Juliette Wood, University of Cardiff, "Witches and Warlocks: Early Images of Witchcraft and Magic Working and Modern Welsh Folktales"
5:30 Reception
Saturday, May 18
Session 3 (Muriel C. McClendon, Moderator)
9:00-10:00 Peter Tokofsky, UCLA, "Re-Constructing a Pre- Modern Carnival"
10:00-10:30 Martin Walsh, University of Michigan, "Horned Beasts, Angry Saints, Dead Revelers: Festival Fatalities in Twelfth-Century Scotland"
10:30-10:45 Break
Session 4 (Christine Goldberg, Moderator)
10:45-11:15 Nicole Archambeau, UCLA, "The Influence of Pragmatic Literacy on Early Troubadour Lyric"
11:15-11:45 Maria Teresa Agozzino, University of California- Berkeley, "Winlogee a Wanton Woman?: A Trans-Disciplinary Interpretation of the Modena Archivolt"
11:45-1:00 Lunch
Session 5 (Peter Nabokov, Moderator)
1:00-2:00 Barre Toelken, Utah State University, "Reflections on a Stone Mouse (and Other Icons of Folk Tradition)"
2:00-2:15 Break
Session 6 (Vyacheslav V. Ivanov, Moderator)
2:15-2:45 Laura Wilhelm, West Hollywood, CA, "The Fable as Folklore: Is It or Isn’t It?"
2:45-3:15 Jesse Byock, UCLA, "J.R.R. Tolkien and the Saga of the Volsungs: Modern Bard or Author?"
3:15-3:30 Break
Session 7 (James Massengale, Moderator)
3:30-4:00 Thomas DuBois, University of Wisconsin- Madison, "Ludic or Laudatory? The Role of Illuminations in the Program of Flatyjarbók"
Session 8 (Timothy Tangherlini, Moderator)
4:00-5:00 Recovering Medieval Folklore: Creating an Encyclopedia of Folklore of the Past—A Panel Discussion with John McNamara and John Lindow
Sunday, May 19
Session 9 (Zoe Borovsky, Moderator)
10:30-11:30 John Lindow, University of California- Berkeley, "Giants and Trolls in Myth and in Life"
11:30-11:45 Break
Session 10 (Christopher C. Baswell, Moderator)
11:45-12:15 John McNamara, University of Houston, "Legends of William Wallace, Medieval and Modern"
12:15-12:45 Elena Ivanova, Boston College, "Materializing the Marvelous in Wonder Tales and Miracle Tales: Two Tale Collections from Medieval Spain"
12:45-1:45 Catered Lunch, Royce 306
Session 11 (Hossein Ziai, Moderator)
1:45-2:15 Yona Sabar, UCLA, "The Multiple Faces of Eve: The Characterization of Women in the Folk Literature of a Near Eastern Jewish Community"
2:15-2:30 Break
Session 12 (Joseph F. Nagy, Moderator)
2:30-3:30 Recovering the Folklore of the Past: A Roundtable Retrospective. This panel discussion will include all speakers in a discussion of the conference proceedings.
3:30-3:45 Closing Remarks
Victoria Simmons, Conference Co-Chair
-- submitted by Dorothy Kim (dorothyk@humnet.ucla.edu)
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