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THE GYPSY LORE SOCIETY Annual Meeting InformationPRELIMINARY PROGRAM All events will take place in the Henderson Room, The Michigan League, unless otherwise indicated. Thursday, May 29 5:00 p.m. - Meeting of the Gypsy Lore Society Board of Directors, Room 3058, LS&A Building Friday, May 30, 2003 8:00 a.m. - Registration and coffee Romani Studies: Understanding Roma, Past and Present - Jean Berko Gleason (Boston University), Chair 9:00 a.m - Jane Jameson-Till (University of Abertay Dundee), The Hidden Agenda of Law: The Application of Feminist Legal Theory to the Roma 9:30 a.m. - David "Jim" Nemeth (University of Toledo), Kitcherized Knowledge and "The Egyptian Question" 10:00 a.m. - Trajko Petrovski (Institute for Folklore "Marko Cepenkov"), The Contributions of Tihomir Djordjevic in Romanology 10:30 a.m. - Thomas A. Acton (University of Greenwich), Romani Studies and Romani Politics 11:00 a.m - Coffee Intragroup and Intergroup Conflict and Resolution 11:30 a.m. - Margaret Greenfields, "This is My Land and I'm Doing No Harm": Private Gypsy Sites and the Planning System in England and Wales 12:00 a.m. - Sheila Salo, "They Fought Up and Down the Country": Patterns of Conflict among American Rom in the Early Twentieth Century 12:30 - Lunch, on your own Romani Musical Traditions - Margaret Beissinger (University of Wisconsin), Organizer and Chair 2:00 p.m. - David Malvinni, Django's Children: Gypsy Jazz in Film and CD 2:30 p.m. - Adair Landborn (Wesleyan University), The Flamenco Buleras-An Improvisational Site of Negotiation between Personal Freedoms and Familial Constraints 3:00 p.m. - Margaret H. Beissinger (University of Wisconsin), Occupational Crises among Traditional Romani Musicians in Contemporary Wisconsin 3:30 p.m. - Coffee Gypsy Stereotypes, Romani Realities - Cara De Silva, Chair 4:00 p.m. - Amy Sodaro (New School University), The Gypsy Stereotype: Representations of Romani Women in Gadje Art 4:30 p.m. - Nadine Blumer (University of Toronto), Gypsies, Teens and Thieves: The Social Reaction to Crime 5:00-7:00 p.m. - Dinner, on your own Program of Romani Films - Lecture Room 2, Modern Languages Building 7:00 p.m. - Porrajmos: Gipsy Holocaust (Ágota Varga, 2000) - Filmmaker Ágota Varga will introduce her film and answer questions. Saturday, May 31, 2003 8:30 a.m. - Registration and coffee The Roma of Eastern Europe - Alaina M. Lemon (University of Michigan), Chair 9:00 a.m. - Faika Celik (McGill University), The Limits of Ottoman Tolerance: The Case of the Gypsies 9:30 a.m. - Adriana Helbig (Columbia University), Redefining "Tsyhan" in Ukraine 10:00 a.m. - Stu Burns (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), From the Grave to the Cradle: Masculinity, Motherhood, and the Vampire Motif in Slavo-Romani Folklore 10:30 a.m. - Antonia L. Eliason (University of Michigan), Regional Differences among Roma in Hungary: The Case of Túrkeve and Olaszliszka 11:00 a.m. - Lunch, on your own Gypsies of Spain - Anita Volland (Wagner College), Organizer and Chair 1:00 p.m. - David Mulcahy (Polytechnic University), The Tribulations of Juanero: A Gypsy Comedic Character in 1849 1:30 p.m. - Erika M. Sutherland (Muhlenberg College), New Eyes, Old Stories: The Recuperation of Spain's Gitano History 2:00 p.m. - Film: Queen of the Gypsies (Jocelyn Ajami, 2002), with commentary by Anita Volland (Wagner College) Non-Romani Peripatetic Societies and Cultures - Harry Bryer, Chair 4:00 p.m. - Raka Sharan (Indian Institute of Technology), Crafts and Ethno-Medical Knowledge of Banjaras (Bhils) 4:30 p.m. - Matt T. Salo, Roaders Revisited-Filling in Another Gap of Gypsy History 5:00 p.m. - Plenary Meeting of the Gypsy Lore Society 6:30 p.m. - The Annual Banquet of the Gypsy Lore Society at the Parthenon, 226 Main Street at Liberty Street | |
| Revised: 07/01/2005
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