Retelling the Best of Old Stories:

A Folklore Conference Held in Memory of Professor Donald J. Ward of UCLA

Sunday, May 29, 2005, in Royce Hall 314, UCLA Campus

Sponsored by the UCLA Colloquium for Oral and Popular Tradition Studies (COPTS), the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, the Department of English, the Scandinavian Section, and the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Special Thanks to the UCLA Campus Programs Committee.

1:00: Introduction by Hans Wagener (UCLA)

1:15: Wolfgang Mieder (University of Vermont): “American Proverbs: An International, National, and Global Phenomenon”

2:15-2:30: Break

2:30-4:30: Panel

Christine Goldberg (Los Angeles): “Strength in Numbers: The Uses of Comparative Folktale Research”

Timothy R. Tangherlini (UCLA): “Will Work for Food: Legend and Poverty Legislation in Late Nineteenth-Century Jutland”

Peter Tokofsky (J. Paul Getty Museum): “Legends of Carnival”

4:30-4:45: Break

4:45-5:45: Maria Tatar (Harvard University): “Why Fairy Tales Matter: The Transformative and the Performative”

6:00 Reception