Conference: Tales of Tricker and Endurance: Gender, Performance, and Politics in the Islamic World and Beyond

Tales of Tricker and Endurance audience members
May 18 - May 19, 2012
8:00AM - 5:00PM
Mershon Center 1501 Neil Avenue

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2012-05-18 08:00:00 2012-05-19 17:00:00 Conference: Tales of Tricker and Endurance: Gender, Performance, and Politics in the Islamic World and Beyond Conference Program [pdf]  |  Conference Poster [pdf]Organized by the Center for Folklore Studies with generous support from the Division of the Arts and Humanities and the Mershon Center for International Security Studies, with additional support from the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures; the Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; the Center for the Study of Religion; and the Middle East Studies Center.Professor Margaret Mills, retiring in June 2012 from the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, has made major contributions to the study of women in contemporary Afghanistan, the folklore of the Persian-speaking world and South Asia, women’s oral traditions, and traditional pedagogies. She has helped us to think about the rhetorical dimension of oral traditions; the gendering of religious experience; the partitioning of the traditional public sphere into gendered and performative situations; how literacies and pedagogies are mobilized to form political identities; how individual and collective expressive repertoires respond to war and displacement.This conference assembles some of her former students and longterm colleagues to discuss new developments in these lines of research. Participants include:Joyce Burkhalter-Flueckiger (Religon, Emory)Cati Coe (Anthropology, Rutgers-Camden)Yücel Demirer (Political Science, Kocaeli U, Turkey)Ben Gatling (Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, OSU)Deborah Kapchan (Performance Studies, NYU)Derya Keskin (Labor Economics, Kocaeli U, Turkey)Frank Korom (Religion and Anthropology, Boston U)Ulrich Marzolph (Enzyklopädie des Märchens, Göttingen)Susan Niditch (Religious Studies, Amherst)Ruth Olson (Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures, UWMadison)Arzu Öztürkmen (History, Boğaziçi U, Turkey)Leela Prasad (Ethics and Religious Studies, Duke)Dwight Reynolds (Religious Studies, UC-Santa Barbara)Susan Slyomovics (Anthropology and Near Eastern, UCLA)Meltem Türkoz (Humanities and Social Sciences, Işık U, Turkey)Susan Wadley (South Asian Studies, Syracuse)Bill Westerman (American Folklife Center Green Fellow)For further information contact organizer Dorothy Noyes or Acting CFS Director Ray Cashman.[pdf] - Some links on this page are to .pdf files. If you need these files in a more accessible format, please contact patterson.493@osu.edu. PDF files require the use of Adobe Acrobat Reader software to open them. If you do not have Reader, you may use the following link to Adobe to download it for free at: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Mershon Center 1501 Neil Avenue Center for Folklore Studies cfs@osu.edu America/New_York public

Conference Program [pdf]  |  Conference Poster [pdf]

Organized by the Center for Folklore Studies with generous support from the Division of the Arts and Humanities and the Mershon Center for International Security Studies, with additional support from the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures; the Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; the Center for the Study of Religion; and the Middle East Studies Center.

Margaret Mills
Professor Margaret Mills, retiring in June 2012 from the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, has made major contributions to the study of women in contemporary Afghanistan, the folklore of the Persian-speaking world and South Asia, women’s oral traditions, and traditional pedagogies. She has helped us to think about the rhetorical dimension of oral traditions; the gendering of religious experience; the partitioning of the traditional public sphere into gendered and performative situations; how literacies and pedagogies are mobilized to form political identities; how individual and collective expressive repertoires respond to war and displacement.

This conference assembles some of her former students and longterm colleagues to discuss new developments in these lines of research. Participants include:

Joyce Burkhalter-Flueckiger (Religon, Emory)
Cati Coe (Anthropology, Rutgers-Camden)
Yücel Demirer (Political Science, Kocaeli U, Turkey)
Ben Gatling (Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, OSU)
Deborah Kapchan (Performance Studies, NYU)
Derya Keskin (Labor Economics, Kocaeli U, Turkey)
Frank Korom (Religion and Anthropology, Boston U)
Ulrich Marzolph (Enzyklopädie des Märchens, Göttingen)
Susan Niditch (Religious Studies, Amherst)
Ruth Olson (Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures, UWMadison)
Arzu Öztürkmen (History, Boğaziçi U, Turkey)
Leela Prasad (Ethics and Religious Studies, Duke)
Dwight Reynolds (Religious Studies, UC-Santa Barbara)
Susan Slyomovics (Anthropology and Near Eastern, UCLA)
Meltem Türkoz (Humanities and Social Sciences, Işık U, Turkey)
Susan Wadley (South Asian Studies, Syracuse)
Bill Westerman (American Folklife Center Green Fellow)

For further information contact organizer Dorothy Noyes or Acting CFS Director Ray Cashman.

[pdf] - Some links on this page are to .pdf files. If you need these files in a more accessible format, please contact patterson.493@osu.edu. PDF files require the use of Adobe Acrobat Reader software to open them. If you do not have Reader, you may use the following link to Adobe to download it for free at: Adobe Acrobat Reader.