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2006 Calendar of Events

Spring Quarter or Summer Quarter

The Center always has plenty to offer, so bookmark these pages and check back frequently. If you would like your event listed here, or if you have suggestions for possible Center events, please email us at cfls@osu.edu.

Please note that the Calendar is updated on a regular basis and that some events do not yet have a specific date, place, or time.

Spring Quarter

March 31 (Friday)

DEADLINE for submitting proposals for American Folklore Society Annual Meeting 2006.
AFS's 2006 annual meeting will be held October 18-22 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. For information about the meeting and its theme of "Homelands and Diasporas" (on which presentations are encouraged but not required), and on the types of and rules for submitting meeting proposals of all kinds, please go to www.afsnet.org/annualmeet/index.cfm

Professionalization workshop #6. Introduction to Publishing. Judith McCulloh from the University of Illinois Press will present this special workshop.

10:00 am-12:00 noon, Dulles 250

Final Fridays Lunch

10:00 am-12:00 noon + lunch, Dulles 308, Center for Folklore Studies, 308 Dulles Hall
The topic of the workshop will be "Introduction to Publishing," presented by Dr. Judith McCulloh, Assistant Director, University of Illinois Press. As usual, following the workshop, there will be a Final Fridays lunch.

April 11 (Tuesday)

Folklore Dinner/Lecture.
Anne Bower, Associate Professor, Department of English, Marion Campus.
6:30-8:30 pm, Mershon Center 120, 1501 Neil Avenue. Please RSVP to Nancy Yan at: yan.49@osu.edu

April 28 (Friday)

Professionalization workshop #7. Topic, Ethnographic Archiving and the Work of the American Folklife Center
Michael Taft, Head of the Archive of Folk Culture at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress and David Taylor, Head of the Folklife Projects and Programsat the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress speak on archives, the Folklife Center, and working for the federal government.
10:00 am-12:00 noon, Dulles 308

Final Fridays Lunch

12:00-1:30 pm, Dulles 308

May 1 (Monday)

Ethnomusicology and Folklore: A Conversation on Disciplinary Situations with Ruth Stone and Bill Ivey
Ruth Stone is Laura Boulton Professor of Ethnomusicology at Indiana University. Bill Ivey, chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, 1998-2001, is currently Director, Curb Center for Art, Enterprise, and Public Policy, Vanderbilt University, and President, The American Folklore Society.
Lunch will be provided to students and faculty who RSVP before April 10 to Daniel at avorgbedor.1@osu.edu

12:00 noon-1:30 pm, Room 110, The Mershon Center, 1501 Neil Avenue

Mullen Prize Submissions Deadline, 2:00 pm, Dulles 308

May 11 (Thursday)

Come enjoy informal chat and coffee with folklorist Roger Abrahams.
Folklore Center, Dulles 308, 3:30-5:00 p.m.

May 12 (Friday)

Colonization and Narrative Migrations: Legends of Occupation from the Mediterranean to the Americas Spring Colloquium of the Center for Folklore Studies
9:00 am-4:00 pm, George Wells Knight House, 104 East 15th Avenue

To reserve a place for lunch, send an email to Nancy Yan at yan.49@osu.edu. Make certain the subject line on your email specifies "Colonization Narratives Conference."

For a description and program outline, see Special Events.

May 19-20 (Friday-Saturday)

Folklore Student Association, Mershon Center
This event combines the undergraduate symposium, the graduate symposium, and the Folklore Center's Spring Barbecue.

May 26 (Friday)

Professionalization workshop #8. Topic: The Job Search.
Dorothy Noyes, Director of the Center for Folklore Studies and Brent Bjorkman, Associate Director of the American Folklore Society, discuss job search strategies for academic and public folklorists.
10:00 am-12:00 noon, Dulles 250

Final Fridays Lunch

12:00-1:30 pm, Dulles 308

Summer Quarter

June 19-23

(Tentative)
Arab American Family Immigration Sagas: Teachers Institutes in the Humanities
Contact: Sabra Webber, webber.1@osu.edu.