Center for Folklore Studies

Past Activities

Ethnicity, Migration, and Heritage Interdisciplinary Seminar

Seminar Topics and Invited Guest Dates

• Theories and research methods for studying ethnicity, migration, heritage, and creolization
• Ethnic museums, festivals, and other displays of self-conscious ethnicity
• Language diversity and language pedagogy within ethnic communities
• Nationalism and the politics of ethnic affiliation
• European constructions of ethnic and heritage identity
• The self-conscious promotion of ethnicity: The Greek american community in Columbus
• New immigrants/refugees, social resources and cultural/language/legal obstacles
• Conflict Management and Constructions of Identity among Ethnic Groups

Lecture Schedule

Friday, April 6, 11:30 am Dr. Georgios Anagnostu
The Ohio State University
"Defining Diaspora as Home: Three Generations of Greek Americans"

Wednesday, April 11, 11:30 am
Dr. Carol Bohmer
The Ohio State University
"Immigration Law"

Wednesday, April 11, 12:30 pm
Dr. Dorothy Noyes
The Ohio State University
"Network and Imagined Community in Italian-American Ethnicity"

Friday, April 13, 11:30 am
Dr. Barre Toelken
Utah State University
"'We've Always Been Here:' Native Americans' Perspectives on Migration"

Friday, April 13, 12:30 pm
Dr. Bonnie O'Connor
Education Coordinator, Brown University
Faculty Development in Pediatrics (BUFDIP)
Division of Pediatrics, Ambulatory Medicine
Rhode Island Hospital
"Being and Feeling Hmong in American Hospitals"

Dr. Pat Mullen, respondent
Dr. Tim Lloyd, respondent

Wednesday, April 18, 11:30 am
Dr. Melinda Kanner
Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio
"Italian-American Ethnicity and The Sopranos"

Wednesday, April 25, 11:30 am
Dr. Lucy Long
Bowling Green State University, Ohio
"Teaching Heritage or Ethnicity?: Korean Language schools and Irish Dance Schools"

Friday, April 27, 11:30am
Dr. Robert Barsky
University of Western Ontario, Quebec, Canada
"The Hypocrisy and Illegality of Contemporary Refugee Policy in the First World"

Friday, April 27, 12:30 pm
Dr. Ana Cara
Oberlin College, Ohio
"Creolization as a Lay Theory of Socio-Cultural Accord"

Wednesday, May 2, 11:30 am
Dr. Margaret Mills
The Ohio State University
"Afghan Narratives of Flight and Return"

Wednesday, May 2, 12:30 pm
Dr. Valerie Lee
The Ohio State University
"Theorizing African American Women's Experiences and Lives Through Folklore and Literature"

Wednesday, May 9, 11:30 am
Dr. Gregory Jusdanis
The Ohio State University
"The End of Identities"

Friday, May 11, 11:30 am
Dr. Judy Wu
The Ohio State University
"Mom Chung of the Fair-headed Bastards: Maternalism, Nationalism, and Sexuality"

Friday, May 11, 12:30 pm
Dr. Galey Modan
The Ohio State University
"Fear/lessness in Place: Urban Ideologies and Jewish Identity in Talk of a Multi-ethnic Community"

Wednesday, May 16, 11:30 am
Dr. Norma Mendoza-Denton
The University of Arizona
"Homegirls Remembered: Memory, Artifacts, and the Maintenance of the Subaltern Ethnic Identity"

Friday, May 18, 11:30 am
Dr. Mary Hufford
University of Pennsylvania
American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington D.C.
"Voices from the Overburden: Discourses of Exile and Retrieval in West Virginia's Coal River Valley"

Friday, May 18, 12:30 pm
Dr. Richard Moore
The Ohio State University
"Watersheds, Pollution, and Heritage"

Wednesday, May 23, 11:30 am
Dr. Nancy Campbell
Department of Science and Technology Studies
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York
"Constituting Women"

Wednesday, May 25, 11:30 am
Dr. Amy Horowitz
Smithsonian Institution
"Mediterranean Israeli Music: Cultural Resistance and Reformations in Disputed Territory"

Friday, May 30, 11:30 am
Dr. Chan Park
The Ohio State University
"Oral Narrative Tradition: Another Time, Another Place"