AFS Women’s Section Guide to the 2022 Annual Meeting

The AFS Women’s 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.

Thursday, Oct. 13

01-05 Women, Belief, and Everyday Religious Experiences in Contemporary Multi-ethnic China

• 8:00 am: Freeing Her from Representational Violence: Autoethnography of Writing Women in Contemporary Chinese Lineages, Wei Liu
• 8:30 am: The Transmission of Buddhism among Lay Women in Rural Northern China, Ziying You (The College of Wooster)
• 9:00 am: Revolutionary Woman, Song Queen, and Passionate Sister: Contextualizing Three Enactments of She Xiang’s Marriage and Love Life [virtual], Wenyuan Shao (Shanghai University)
• 9:30 am: discussant, Megan Bryson (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)

01-03 Song and Movement

• 8:30 am: Affective Investments in a Rite of Passage: A Study of Marriage Songs, Rites, and Rituals in Haryanavi Culture, Ojaswini Hooda (University of Delhi)
• 9:00 am: Bodily Responses to Everyday Life in A Black Sea Town: A Historical Ethnography of Women’s Ways of Moving [virtual], Arzu  Öztürkmen (Boğaziçi University)

02-12 Folklore and the Environment

• 11:30 am: Women at the Helm: Storm Stories and Environmental Sustainability, Amy E. Skillman (Goucher College)

Oklahoma Politics and Women’s Rights

• Forum: 12:30–1:30 pm
• Participants: Autumn Brown (Oklahoma Oral History Research Program), Sam Robertson, Rachel E. Watson (Citizen Potawatomi Nation)

03-08 On Becoming More Differentiated: Diversification of Craft Practices in Southwest China

• 2:30 pm: Refashioning Dress in Dong and Baiku Yao Communities of Southwest China, Carrie Hertz (Museum of International Folk Art)

03-04 Memes, Humor, and Identity

• 3:30 pm: Queering Memes: Making Space for Instagram Lesbian Meme Pages, Emma Carey Cobb (The Ohio State University)

03-06 Aspirations for a Better Life

• 3:00 pm: Love Magic among the Mormons: The Legacy of the Logan Peepstone Woman, Millie Tullis (Utah State University)

The Croning

• 8:00–10:30pm
• Sponsored by the Women’s Section

Friday, Oct. 14

Founding a Black-Centered Newspaper and Folk Reporters Program, a Brainstorming Session with Crystal Good

• 8:30–9:30 am
• Chair: Emily Hilliard (Mid Atlantic Arts)
• Crystal D. Good (Independent)

04-07 Dynamic Re-Centerings and Reconsiderations of Gender and Folklore

• 8:30 am: Engaging Women’s Power in a Nishnaabe Context, Mary J. Magoulick (Georgia College)
• 9:00 am: “We Celebrate Our Girls”: Creativity and Competency in Performing Femininity at an Irish Traveller Hen Night, Caroline H. Miller (Indiana University Bloomington)
• 9:30 am: A Trans Cinderella?: Tradition as Resource in Transgender Fairy-Tale Retellings
  Jeana Jorgensen (Butler University)

05-05 Media: Threads and Borders: Documenting the Textile Collections of Rural Women in Bulgaria

• 10:30 am: Film: Chergi Weavers (28 min.)
• Forum participants: Sarah Craycraft (The Ohio State University), Kathryn Mitchell (Independent), Sonya Pencheva (Independent), Elena Stoycheva (Independent)

05-08 Sounding Board I

• 10:30 am: The Fat Lady’s Lament: Cushings’ Survivors’ Stories of Navigating Implicit Bias around Obesity, Cecelia A. Ottenweller (Independent Folklorist)

05-14 Death, Legend, and Belief

• 11:00 am: Through the Eyes of Mourners: Feelings and Beliefs of Iranian Women in Practices of the Month of Muharram, Zahra Abedinezhad (The Ohio State University)

06-03 Children’s Folklore

• 2:30 pm: American Girl, the Business of Self-Expression, and the Future of Nostalgia, Justine Orlovsky-Schnitzler (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)

06-08 The Politics of Citation: On Not Citing the Usual Subjects

• 2:30-4:30pm
• Moira Marsh (Indiana University), Allison B Chaplin (Indiana University Press), Willa L. Liburd Tavernier (Indiana University), Mary Margaret Manning (University of Houston)

Saturday, Oct. 15

07-08 Women, Legend, and Ballad in Greater Mexico

• 8:00 am: Feminine-Voiced Balladry of the U.S. Southwest Borderlands: Poetics of “La Indita de Juliana Ortega”, Carmella Scorcia Pacheco (University of Arizona)
• 8:30 am: Sonic Testimonios: Centering Embodied Listening and Place-Making Narratives, Cecilia A. Valenzuela (University of San Diego)
• 9:00 am: La Llorona: Roots, Branches, and a Missing Link from Spain
  Stephen Winick (American Folklife Center)
• 9:30 am: La Llorona, Picante Pero Sabroso: The Mexican Horror Legend as a Story of Survival and a Reclamation of the Monster, Camille Maria Acosta (Independent, New Mexico Arts Folk Arts Program)

07-03 Sacred Spaces

• 8:30 am: African-American Camp Meeting Traditions through the Lens of Women, Minuette Floyd (University of South Carolina)

09-06 Exploring Folklore and Literature

• 2:30 pm: Scheherazade Comes to Town: Representations of Arab and Arab American Women in Alia Yunis’ The Night Counter , Ghassan  Abou-Zeineddine (University of Michigan, Dearborn)
• 3:00 pm: Sofia Aleksandrovna Will Certainly See: Images of the “Folk” in War and Peace, Isabella Palange (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
• 3:30 pm: “Do not mention gravy!” Food in the Writing of Okie Poet Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel, Karen Neurohr (Oklahoma State University)
• 4:00 pm: Arabian Nights Tales: Written, Read, Told, and Re-Told by Hannā Diyāb, Ruth B. Bottigheimer (Stony Brook University)

09-09 Gender and Belief

• 2:30 pm: Queering Age: Gender Assignment through Beliefs and Age in Ukrainian Folklore, Alina Oprelianska (University of Tartu)
• 3:00 pm: #Witchtok and Womanhood: Navigating Post-Christian Spirituality and Gender in Digital Spaces, Maygan Barker (Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador)
• 3:30 pm: Heavenly Mother and the LDS Faith: Online Discourse and Derision, Jared S. Rife (Central Penn College)