“Immersed in the Storyworld: The Supernatural, the Vernacular, and Lived Realities”
Past Presenters
2024
2023
“So Many Traditions, So Little Time: Reflections of a State Folklorist”
2022
“The Meaning of the Mamuthones”
2020
“Choreography of Career: A Folklorist’s Evolving Perspective on Folklore, Heritage, and Museums”
2019
Tom Mould
“Welfare, Politics, and Folklore”
2018
Dorothy Noyes
“Whatever Happened to Convivència? Collective Performance From the Spanish Transition to the Catalan Crisis”
2017
Dan Ben-Amos
“Dorson’s Science of Folklore: Into the Woods and the Political Arena”
2016
Regina Bendix
“Value, Ownership, and Cultural Goods”
2015
Patricia Turner
“Snapshots from Katrina to Ebola: Rumor and Race in the 21st Century”
2014
Charles Briggs
“The Poetics of Preparedness: A Folkloristic Perspective on the Making of Medical Panics”
2013
Carl Lindahl
“The Fieldwork Contract, the Involuntary Frame, and the Voice beyond Me”
2012
Margaret Mills
“Speaking About and Speaking for: Representing an Afghan Family in Peace and War”
2011
Roger Abrahams
“The Zoot Suit Kid Goes Global: From Tango to Hip Hop”