Shared Traditions: More than Human Experiences
February 28- March 1, 2025 | The Ohio State University | Columbus, OH
Preliminary Program
Thursday, February 27, 2025 (Pre-conference performance offering)
6:30 - 9:00 pm
Music and Sounds Across Traditions: An Evening of Listening
at the Grange Insurance Audubon Center, 505 W Whittier St, Columbus, OH 43215.
Hosted by the OSU Center for the Study of Religion and co-sponsored by the Melton Center for Jewish Studies, the Humanities Institute and the Interfaith Association of Central Ohio.
Friday, February 28, 2025 - 18th Ave Research Commons (3rd Floor)
8:00 am - 10:00 am: Registration
10:00 am - 10:15 am: Welcome remarks
- Location: Hub
- Brenna Miller
- Merril Kaplan
10:15 am - 11:15 am: Welcome Lecture by Laura Siragusa
- Location: Hub
11:15 am - 12:35 pm
The Stories We Sing
- Location: Hub
- Dr. Abigail Lindo, chair
- Larissa Mulder: Singing the Past, Shaping the Present: Female Voices and the Festival as Archive
- Enes Tastan: SONGS OF HEROES: The Uses of Russian Folk Epic in The Great Patriotic War
- Olivia Phillips: Thistles and Clover in the Laurel Thicket: Manifestations of “Celtic” Identity at Live Music Performances in Southern Appalachia
Humans and Nonhumans Across Realms
- Location: Brainstorm room
- Daisy Ahlstone, chair
- Patrick Dunn: Meeting the gods: eleven close encounter hypotheses
- Karen Aston: Carbuncle Companions: The Resurgence of an Uncommon Myth in Digital Culture
- Stephen Michael Lochetto: Enchis, Zeros and Harlequins, Oh My: What can Reptile Morphs tell us about humans?
12:35 pm -1:35 pm - Lunch; hub, all.
1:35 pm - 2:55 pm
Cultural Landscape: Local Histories
- Location: Hub
- Moderator: Dr. Katey Borland
- Emily Kovacic: Tales, Traditions, and Tides: The Little Logan River and Its Role in Cache Valley's History, Culture, and Conservation
- Blaise M. Reader III: Place-Keeping and Resistance in Appalachian Local History Practices
- Elise Flinders: Mothman and His Impacts on Appalachia and Society
The Body Problem
- Location: Brainstorm Room
- Moderator: İlayda Üstel
- Emoni Harmon: #Tradwives and the Sexual Female Body
- Rhiar Kanouse: “Who Are You Eating?”: Cannibalism in “The Juniper Tree” and Its Variants
- Matthew Herzog: Air & Disease from the Presocratics to the Hippocratic Corpus
2:55 pm - 3:10 pm: Coffee Break; hub; all
3:10 pm - 4:30 pm
Swinging Into Intuition Teaching Pendulum Divination as a Tool for Inner Wisdom
- Location: Hub
- Moderator: Ciara Bernal
- Summer Shigley (Presenter)
A Love Letter to the Land: Exploring and Reflecting on Our Emotional Connection to the Environment
- Location: Brainstorm room
- Moderator: Zahra Abedinezhad
- Keely Fisher (Presenter)
4:30 pm - 5:45 pm
CFMS Jam Session
- Location: Hub
- Moderator: Nick Booker
5:45 pm - 6:30 pm: Dinner; hub; all
6:30 pm -
Trivia/fun games
- Location: Hub
- Liz Rockwell, director
Saturday, March 1, 2025 - Timashev Family Music Building N160/Weigel Hall 108
8:00 am - 9:00 am: Breakfast hour; N160; all
9:00 am - 10:20 am
Materializing Culture
- Location: N160
- Moderator: Dr. Mintzi Auanda Martínez-Rivera
- Niger Sultana: "Zahra Teri Turbat Pay Diya Kon Jalaye?" South Asian Shia Women’s Reenactment of Piety, Strength, and Sacrifice
- Christian James: Himalayan Perspectivism and Critical Regionalism in Naveen Haldoonvi’s Speaking Mountains
- Lorna Americanhorse Jansheski and Dr. Rebecca Schreiber: "Sharing Indigenous Culture with the Music of Redbone"
Exploring Race, Folklore, and Feminist Ethnography
- Location: Weigel 108
- Moderator: Dr. Liliana Gil
- Asia Bender: The Materiality of Black Quilting: The Sew Their Names Project
- Daisy Ahlstone: What is a Quilt About?: Wild Systems Theory, Embodied Context, and Folklore
- Nina Wilson: Reimagining Methods: Towards an Anti-racist, Feminist Ethnography
- Logan Thomas: The Role and Implications of an Open Mic Ecosystem: A Case Study of Columbus, Ohio
10:20 am - 10:35 am: Coffee Break; N160; all
10:35 am - 11:35 am
Lecture Recital: The Sound of Tang by Xiao Liu
- Location: N160
- Moderator: Dr. Hunter Klie
Pranks and Plays
- Location: Weigel 108
- Moderator: Rhiar Kanouse
- Samuel Luke Ponesse: “We Were Best Friends After That": An Analysis of Pranks and Prank Stories as Shared Tradition
- Madison Archer-Morrison: "It’s dangerous to go alone, play this!": How Video Game Music Inspires and Motivates Musicianship
11:45 am - 1:00 pm: Lunch; N160; all
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
A “Theatre of the Ghostly Feminine” Workshop: How to Become a Consciously Haunted Researcher
- Location: N160
- Moderator: Savanna Wooten
- Nikki Kendra Davis (Presenter)
The Poetry and Songs of China
- Location: Weigel 108
- Moderator: Prof. Amy Shuman
- Yaqi Linghu: International Communication Between Chinese Yi Culture and American Indian Culture ——with a Focus on Coyote Traces
- GeJin Wang: World Folk Music and Ecological Conservation: Connection, Integration, and Creative Innovation
2:30 pm - 2:45 pm: Coffee Break; N160; all
2:45 pm - 4:20 pm
Keynote Lecture: “The Intimacy of Bass: An Auto-Ethnographic Survey of Folklore, Space and Black Life in America”
- Location: N160
- Dr. Langston Collin Wilkins
- Moderator: Dr. Ryan Skinner
4:20 pm - 4:35 pm
- Closing remarks
- Location: N160
- Brenna Miller
- Prof. Barry Shank