Center for Folklore Studies

Collaborations

The Center provides financial and/or organizational support to a wide range of research and outreach activities relating to folklore and involving Center participants. To discuss a possible collaboration, please write to Barbara Lloyd (lloyd.123@osu.edu) or Dorothy Noyes (noyes.10@osu.edu); see also under Funding Opportunities.

Past Collaborations

Project Title: 2006 Qualia: “Ohana: We Are Family”
Contact: Mick Weems, mickeyweems@yahoo.com.
Description: Starting in 2004, the OSU Center for Folklore Studies has given support to Qualia: Festival of Gay Folklife. Founded in 2002, Qualia is an organization established to promote and celebrate LGBT folklife. Qualia's mission is to educate people about LGBT culture through scholarship and celebration. Each year the Qualia organization holds lectures and events on timely topics. Qualia 2006: "Ohana: We Are Family" will focus on issues of family and kinship in the GLBT community. April 15 and 16, 2006.

Project Title: “How is This Folklore?: Negotiating the Boundaries of Folklore Theory and Practice.”
Contact: Ann Ferrell, ferrell.98@osu.edu or Norita Dobyns, dobyns.6@osu.edu.
Description: The OSU Folklore Student Association conference to be held on May 19-20, 2006, at the Mershon Center at the Ohio State University. This conference addresses the question of whether there is a fundamental "grand theory" that defines the folklore discipline. Is folklore an object or a lens or both? Presentations for this conference are expected to contribute to a broader discussion of the role of folklore in public, applied, and academics spheres.

Project Title: 2006 Summer Institute: Arab American Family Immigration Sagas: Teachers Institutes in the Humanities
Contact: Sabra Webber, webber.1@osu.edu.
Description: This project, "Arab American Family Immigration Sagas" aims to convene a summer institute of Ohio high school teachers that will help to open up a dialogue to assist concerned teachers in understanding the challenges their new (or newly noticed) student populations face and in teaching more effectively about the Arab world to non-Arab students, but also to help teachers find ways to involve Arab and Muslim students in the dialogue. The purpose of the course is not to share information about Arabs or Muslims "over there," but here in our midst, their experience, in all its complexity, of being American.