AFS Folklore and Museums Section Guide to the 2022 Annual Meeting
The Folklore and Museums Section has prepared this guide to sessions and events at the 2022 AFS Annual Meeting. See the program on the online program for more information on the conference and details on individual papers and presentations.
This list was prepared by John F. Moe and Audun Kjus, Co-Conveners.
Wednesday, Oct. 12
1:30-3:00 Native American Collections and Community Connections, Philbrook Museum Tour
2:30 Greenwood Historical District Tour
Thursday, Oct. 13
01-13 Public Folklore, Historic Preservation, and Heritage Studies
- 8:30 am: Integrating Public Folklore with Historic Preservation into Heritage Initiatives
Gregory Hansen (Arkansas State University) - 8:45 am: Public Folklore, Historic Preservation, and Community Activism
Tina Bucuvalas (Florida Cultural Resources, Inc.) - 9:00 am: Why Fishtown Still Matters: Lessons from the Field
Laurie K. Sommers - 9:15 am: Public Folklore, Historic Preservation, and the Traditional Building Crafts
Marjorie Hunt (Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage)
02-03 The War in Ukraine, Nationalism and Folklore’s Future
2-07 Folklore and the Transformation of Museum Collection Practices
- 10:30 am: Material Culture and Indigenous Knowledge: Community Engagement and the Southern Plains Beadwork Collection at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science
Michael Jordan (Texas Tech University) - 11:00 am: Best Practices: Engaging Community and Changing the Narrative
Christina Burke (Philbrook Museum of Art) - 11:30 am: Reciprocity and Community Engagement in Building and Using Museum Collections Representing Ethnic Communities of Southwest China and Mainland Southeast Asia
C. Kurt Dewhurst (Michigan State University) and Marsha L. MacDowell (Michigan State University) - 12:00 pm: Optional discussion time
3-05 Festivals and Celebrations
- 2:30 pm: Curating Community: Comics Festival Organizing in India [virtual]
Jeremy Stoll (Columbus College of Art and Design) - 3:00 pm: “I had a dream last night we drove out to see Las Vegas”: Elder Emos and the When We Were Young Festival
Anelise Farris (College of Coastal Georgia) - 3:30 pm: Performing the Rancho: Procession, A Miraculous Figurine, and the Quotidien
David Sandell (Texas Christian University ) - 4:00 pm: “It’s A Proud Thing”: Reclaiming and Representing Gullah Geechee Identity at the Original Gullah Festival SC
Douglas Peach (Sandy Spring Museum)
3-11 Folklore and Educational Advocacy
- 2:30 pm: Nothing About Us, Without Us: A Folkloristic Approach to Creating Neurodivergent-Friendly Pedagogies for Secondary Classrooms
Brittney Hatchett (Brigham Young University) - 3:00 pm: Putting the Periphery at the Heart
Thomas McKean (Elphinstone Institute, University of Aberdeen) - 3:30 pm: Re-Centering the Student as the Center of FYE by Building Community through Folklore
Jenn Horn (University of Southern Indiana) - 4:00 pm: FYC Meets Folklore: Exploring Identity and Rhetoric through Definition
Mary L. Sellers (Penn State University)
Friday, Oct. 14
5-03 New Engagements with Museums and Monuments
- 10:30 am: The Cryptic Mayan Jaguar: Embodiment as Costume, Regalia, Uniform, and Traje in the MUREM Folklore Museum’s Educative Curation
Maureen K. Porter (University of Pittsburgh) - 11:00 am: Music in Museums
Meredith Holmgren (Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage) - 11:15 am: Indigenous Art, Pop Mythologies
Todd Richardson (University of Nebraska, Omaha) - 11:30 am: Optional discussion time
Folklore and Museums Business Meeting
Saturday, Oct. 15
7-13 Native American Expressive Cultures
- 8:30 am: The Art of the Igloo: The Vernacular Architecture of the Arctic
Michael Evans (Peru State College) - 9:00 am: Murals, Countermurals, and Visual Sovereignty in Juneau, Alaska’s Public Art
Ben Bridges (Indiana University) - 9:30 am: Filming a Native Ceremonial with Permission
Brenda M. Romero (University of Colorado, Boulder, emerita)
9-01 Perspectives on Material Culture
- 2:30 pm: Talking Jars: David Drake, Antebellum Potter-Poet
John A. Burrison (Georgia State University) - 3:00 pm: From Deification to Decoration: A Study of the Mohra Idols of Himachal Pradesh State in India [virtual]
Avani Solanki (University of Chicago) - 3:30 pm: The Aslak Lie House: An “Impossible Project”
Terri M. Van Orman (Folklore Village, Dodgeville, WI) - 4:00 pm: Optional discussion time
Greenwood Historical District Tour
Conference Book Exhibitions Online
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