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THE GYPSY LORE SOCIETY

Annual Meeting Information

2003 ANNUAL MEETING IN ANN ARBOR, MI

PRELIMINARY 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.
Suspino: A Cry for Roma (Gillian Darling Kovanic, 2002)

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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