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Conference Schedule: Shared Traditions: More than Human Experiences

Shared Traditions: More than Human Experiences

February 28- March 1, 2025 | The Ohio State University | Columbus, OH

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
  • Zahra Abedinezhad, 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • Patrick Dunn: Meeting the gods: eleven close encounter hypotheses (rescheduled from Friday's "Humans and Nonhumans Across Realms" session)

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