CALL FOR PAPERS
The Illuminated Folklorist: Working With the Folk Cultures of the Past
The planning committee for the second annual UCLA Medieval and Early
Modern Interdisciplinary Forum, "The Illuminated Folklorist: Working with
the Folk Cultures of the Past," invites submissions of graduate student
papers. The conference is scheduled for the weekend of May 17-19, 2002 on
the UCLA campus in Los Angeles.
There is a compelling need for cross-disciplinary dialogue about what
scholars can know about the folklore of the past, how that knowledge
enriches our understanding of cultures, and how we may use information
about pre-industrial folk cultures responsibly. The committee seeks
student papers that actively engage these questions as they pertain to the
world's folk cultures from the sixth through the eighteenth centuries.
We hope to publish the proceedings of the conference in a major folklore
journal, such as Folklore, Journal of American Folklore, or Western
Folklore.
The event's sponsors include the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance
Studies, the UCLA Graduate Students' Association, the UCLA Campus
Programming Committee, and the UCLA Departments of Classics, Comparative
Literature, and English, as well as the Scandinavian Section of the
Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures.
Likely participants include Mark Amodio of the Vassar College English
Department, Jesse Byock of the UCLA Germanic Languages Department, Thomas
DuBois of the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Scandinavian Department,
Eric Jager of UCLA's English Department, Joseph Harris of Harvard
University's English Department, Carl Lindahl of the University of
Texas-Houston English Department, John Lindow of UC-Berkeley's
Scandinavian Department, John McNamara of the University of Texas-Houston
English Department, Muriel McClendon of UCLA's History Department, Joseph
Nagy of UCLA's English Department, Herbert Plutschow of UCLA's East Asian
Department, Shalom Sabar of Hebrew University's Art History Department,
Yona Sabar of UCLA's Near Eastern Department, Timothy Tangherlini of
UCLA's Scandinavian Department, Barre Toelken of the University of
Utah-Logan English Department, Martin Walsh of the University of
Michigan's Theater Department, Juliette Wood of Cardiff University's Welsh
Department, Olga Yokoyama of UCLA's Slavic Department, and Jan
Ziolkowski of Harvard's Classics Department.
One-page (double-spaced) abstracts, with title and specification of
audio-visual needs if any, for papers twenty minutes in length should be
submitted to Nicole Horejsi, c/o UCLA English Department, 2225 Rolfe Hall,
345 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095 or via email to nhorejsi@ucla.edu
by March 1.
For further information, please contact Andrea Jones and Victoria Simmons
at andrear@ucla.edu.
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