This was posted today in the Publore listserve, and I thought it worth passing along! Congrats to Joy!
The Folklore Studies Program at George Mason University is very pleased to announce that Ms. Joy Fraser will be joining the faculty in August 2011.
A doctoral candidate in the Department of Folklore at Memorial University of Newfoundland in St. John’s, Ms. Fraser received her M.A. in Folklore at Memorial and her M.A. in Scottish Ethnology and Scottish Literature at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. A specialist in heritage studies and cultural tourism especially in the Scottish diaspora, her dissertation explores representations and contestations of Scottishness in folklore, popular culture and tourism, through a case study of expressive culture about haggis as food and legend. Her MA folklore thesis analyzes the discourses of three ghost tour companies in Edinburgh.
Ms. Fraser has published on foodways, legends, folktales, mummers plays, and more. Editor of the journal “Culture & Tradition,” she also serves as co-editor of “Contemporary Legend.” With Dr. Paul Smith, Ms. Fraser is building the Database of Traditional Drama in Newfoundland as part of the Digital Archive Initiative. A performer of Scottish traditions, Ms. Fraser is a fiddler, singer, and step dancer.
We would like to thank everyone who took part in our search: our folklore colleagues who recommended their colleagues and students for our position; our GMU colleagues who served on the search committee and met our candidates; and, most of all, our folklore colleagues who applied for our position. We have been very impressed with the many excellent folklorists we met, with their projects and plans, and with their enthusiasm for our discipline. We are in your debt.
Thank you once again.
Margaret R. Yocom
Debra Lattanzi Shutika
http://folklore.gmu.edu
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
M&M Makeup and Mashed Potato Mountain
Department of Folklore Lunchtime Seminar Series
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
12:30 p.m.-1:30 p.m.
Room ED-4036, Education Building, MUN
Kate Butler (PhD student, Folklore) presents "M&M Makeup and Mashed Potato Mountains: An Exploration of the Uses of Food Play"
For some adults, food play gives a sense of pride while for others, it's a source of embarrassment. Most creative eaters enjoy food play as a "guilty pleasure," which is in keeping with the mixed messages society and the media send us about these sorts of activities. This presentation will explore the wide variety of foods that we eat creatively and the purposes that this play serves, including allowing us to recapture the past and giving us a sense of control over our hectic lives.
Colleagues and friends from Memorial University and beyond are welcome to attend. Please feel free to bring your lunch. For more information, visit http://www.mun.ca/folklore/about/seminar.php.
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
12:30 p.m.-1:30 p.m.
Room ED-4036, Education Building, MUN
Kate Butler (PhD student, Folklore) presents "M&M Makeup and Mashed Potato Mountains: An Exploration of the Uses of Food Play"
For some adults, food play gives a sense of pride while for others, it's a source of embarrassment. Most creative eaters enjoy food play as a "guilty pleasure," which is in keeping with the mixed messages society and the media send us about these sorts of activities. This presentation will explore the wide variety of foods that we eat creatively and the purposes that this play serves, including allowing us to recapture the past and giving us a sense of control over our hectic lives.
Colleagues and friends from Memorial University and beyond are welcome to attend. Please feel free to bring your lunch. For more information, visit http://www.mun.ca/folklore/about/seminar.php.
Friday, January 21, 2011
Say what!? Folklore and oral history interviewing workshop next week
We are getting very close to our "Introduction to Folklore and Oral History Interviews" workshop, which will take place next week, Thursday, January 27th, in Cupids.
The workshop is open to anyone with an interest in local history, culture and folklore. If you are thinking of doing any sort of interview-based research in your community, this is the workshop for you! It is intended to give a background on how to conduct research interviews in the field, and will give people a chance to try their hand at creating interview questions and conducting an interview.
The workshop will provide an overview of the methodology and explore the practical matters of creating, designing, and executing effective oral history research projects. Topics that the workshop will address include project planning, ethical issues, and recording equipment.
The workshop will be taught by folklorist Dale Jarvis with the Intangible Cultural Heritage office, Heritage Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador (yours truly), AND you get lunch. How sweet is that? If you want in, you need to book ahead.
Date: Thursday, January 27th, 2011
Time: 9:30am – 3pm
Workshop fee: $30 (including lunch, preregistration required)
Location: Cupids Legacy Centre, Cupids
To register call Melissa at 1-888-739-1892 ext 3, ichprograms@gmail.com
Time: 9:30am – 3pm
Workshop fee: $30 (including lunch, preregistration required)
Location: Cupids Legacy Centre, Cupids
To register call Melissa at 1-888-739-1892 ext 3, ichprograms@gmail.com
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Hey Rosetta! vs The Mummers Parade!
The new video for Yer Spring by Hey Rosetta! is out, and it includes a bunch of footage taken during the 2010 Mummers Parade. Check it out, and watch close for the handsome Fool in the Ship Hat with the sparkler at around 4:15 in...
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
ICH Update for January 2010 - Folklore and Footwear
Happy New Year from the Intangible Cultural Heritage office of the Heritage Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador!
In this edition of the ICH Update, news of an introductory workshop on folklore and oral history interviewing, the announcement of the 2011 Folklife Festival theme, a review of the 2010 Mummers Festival, a Google Maps workshop in Trepassey, a local cobbler puts a new sole in an old tradition, and the launch of our new Tradition Bearers Spotlight program.
Google My Maps Tutorial Video
People have been asking if we are going to be offering the Google My Maps workshop in other regions of the province. We don't have plans to take the show on the road, but that shouldn't stop you from creating your own maps. The basics are shown in this youtube video. You'll need a free Google Account to set up your own map.
Two Workshops: Folklore and Oral History Interviews and More Google Maps
Introduction to Folklore and Oral History Interviews Workshop
This workshop is open to anyone with an interest in local history, culture and folklore. It is intended to give a background on how to conduct research interviews in the field, and will give people a chance to try their hand at creating interview questions and conducting an interview. It will provide an overview of the methodology and explore the practical matters of creating, designing, and executing effective oral history and folklore research projects. Topics that the workshop will address include project planning, ethical issues, and recording equipment. The workshop will be taught by folklorist Dale Jarvis with the Intangible Cultural Heritage office, Heritage Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador.
Date: Thursday, January 27th, 2011
Time: 9:30am – 3pm
Workshop fee: $30 (including lunch, preregistration required)
Location: Cupids Legacy Centre, Cupids
This workshop is open to anyone with an interest in local history, culture and folklore. It is intended to give a background on how to conduct research interviews in the field, and will give people a chance to try their hand at creating interview questions and conducting an interview. It will provide an overview of the methodology and explore the practical matters of creating, designing, and executing effective oral history and folklore research projects. Topics that the workshop will address include project planning, ethical issues, and recording equipment. The workshop will be taught by folklorist Dale Jarvis with the Intangible Cultural Heritage office, Heritage Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador.
Date: Thursday, January 27th, 2011
Time: 9:30am – 3pm
Workshop fee: $30 (including lunch, preregistration required)
Location: Cupids Legacy Centre, Cupids
To register call Melissa at 1-888-739-1892 ext 3, ichprograms@gmail.com
Finding your way to Trepassey : A Google Map Workshop
On February 1st, 2011 at 1pm, Dale Jarvis and Mel Squarey with the Heritage Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador are hosting a two hour workshop at the Opportunities Complex, on how community groups can use Google Maps to help share local folklore and oral history. If you’ve looked for directions online, chances are you’ve come across Google Maps. Google’s “My Maps” function is a free online tool where local points of interest can be showcased in an accessible manner. We’ll show you how you can create your own map of your town or region that highlights photos, video, and audio clips about local heritage and culture. Participants of the workshop are invited to bring along their own wi-fi enabled laptop.
Date: Tuesday, February 1st, 2011
Time: 1pm – 3pm
Workshop fee: $15
Location: Opportunities Complex, Trepassey
To register call Melissa at 1-888-739-1892 ext 3, ichprograms@gmail.com
Finding your way to Trepassey : A Google Map Workshop
On February 1st, 2011 at 1pm, Dale Jarvis and Mel Squarey with the Heritage Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador are hosting a two hour workshop at the Opportunities Complex, on how community groups can use Google Maps to help share local folklore and oral history. If you’ve looked for directions online, chances are you’ve come across Google Maps. Google’s “My Maps” function is a free online tool where local points of interest can be showcased in an accessible manner. We’ll show you how you can create your own map of your town or region that highlights photos, video, and audio clips about local heritage and culture. Participants of the workshop are invited to bring along their own wi-fi enabled laptop.
Date: Tuesday, February 1st, 2011
Time: 1pm – 3pm
Workshop fee: $15
Location: Opportunities Complex, Trepassey
To register call Melissa at 1-888-739-1892 ext 3, ichprograms@gmail.com
Monday, January 17, 2011
A Tasty Lunchtime Lecture on Cannibalism and Haggis.
Department of Folklore Lunchtime Seminar Series
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
12:30 p.m.-1:30 p.m.
Room ED-4036, Education Building, MUN
In anticipation of Robert Burns Night, Joy Fraser (PhD student, Folklore) presents "Cannibalism, Contamination and the Carnivalesque: Haggises and Haggis-Eaters as Grotesque Bodies."
This presentation explores the motif of the grotesque body in expressive cultural depictions of Scotland's national dish and its supposed physiological effects on its consumers. Illustrations are drawn from both English and Scottish culture. Among the most prominent metaphors featured in portrayals of haggises are those of the foreign body, the diseased or contaminated body, and the cadaver. Consuming the dish thus becomes an act of cannibalism, through which the bodies of its consumers are themselves contaminated and rendered grotesque. The carnivalesque imagery of the nauseated haggis-eating body with its uncontrollable fluids is mirrored, in turn, in depictions of overflowing and exploding haggises, the food assuming the characteristics of the eater.
Colleagues and friends from Memorial University and beyond are welcome to attend. Please feel free to bring your lunch. For more information, visit http://www.mun.ca/folklore/about/seminar.php.
Thursday, January 6, 2011
Merry Old Christmas and Happy Nalujuk Night!
This is it, the last day of the Christmas season in Newfoundland and Labrador. After today you can take down your tree and stop mummering. But chances are there is still one big party left to go to tonight, somewhere (I'll be at one!)
One of my favourite Old Christmas Day customs is from the north coast of Labrador, where today is the day the Nalujuit come out to see who has been good, and punish those who haven't. For those of you who don't know what a Nalujuk is, they are related to mummers and janneys, but slightly more bad-ass! Like mummering on the island, the tradition seems to be enjoying something of a revival. You can learn a bit more about nalujuit below:
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Finding your way on the Baccalieu Trail: A Google Map Workshop
The Intangible Cultural Heritage Office is hosting a Google Maps Workshop.
On January 11th, 2011 at 7pm, Dale Jarvis and Mel Squarey with the Heritage Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador are hosting a two hour workshop at the Bay Roberts Pavilion (Visitor Information Centre), on how community groups can use Google Maps to help share local folklore and oral history.
If you’ve looked for directions online, chances are you’ve come across Google Maps. Google’s “My Maps” function is a free online tool where local points of interest can be showcased in an accessible manner. We’ll show you how you can create your own map of your town or region that highlights photos, video, and audio clips about local heritage and culture.
Those individuals or groups interested in partaking in the workshop MUST pre-register by telephone at 1-888-739-1892, ext. 3. The workshop has a limit of 10 spaces, so register quickly. ALL participants of the workshop MUST bring along their own wi-fi enabled laptop.
For more information please contact:
Mel Squarey
ICH Programs Assistant
Hertiage Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador
P.O.Box 5171
1st Floor, 1 Springdale St. St. John’s, NL
A1C 5V5
Telephone: 1-888-739-1892 ext. 3 1-709-739-1892 ext. 3
Fax: 1-709-739-5413
Email: ichprograms@gmail.com
On January 11th, 2011 at 7pm, Dale Jarvis and Mel Squarey with the Heritage Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador are hosting a two hour workshop at the Bay Roberts Pavilion (Visitor Information Centre), on how community groups can use Google Maps to help share local folklore and oral history.
If you’ve looked for directions online, chances are you’ve come across Google Maps. Google’s “My Maps” function is a free online tool where local points of interest can be showcased in an accessible manner. We’ll show you how you can create your own map of your town or region that highlights photos, video, and audio clips about local heritage and culture.
Those individuals or groups interested in partaking in the workshop MUST pre-register by telephone at 1-888-739-1892, ext. 3. The workshop has a limit of 10 spaces, so register quickly. ALL participants of the workshop MUST bring along their own wi-fi enabled laptop.
For more information please contact:
Mel Squarey
ICH Programs Assistant
Hertiage Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador
P.O.Box 5171
1st Floor, 1 Springdale St. St. John’s, NL
A1C 5V5
Telephone: 1-888-739-1892 ext. 3 1-709-739-1892 ext. 3
Fax: 1-709-739-5413
Email: ichprograms@gmail.com
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