SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY
PRESENTS
The Seventh Annual International
Association for the Study of
Environment, Space, and Place
Conference
The Spacing of Festive Enactments
Program Schedule
April 29 - May 1, 2011
Clarion Hotel & Suites
Southern CT State University
Program Schedule
April 29 - May 1, 2011
Friday April 29
Clarion Hotel & Suites, Hamden, CT
8am-7pm Registration and Refreshments
8:30-9:00 Welcoming Remarks
John Murungi, Co-Founder, IASESP
Towson University
Welcoming remarks from SCSU Administration
Gary Backhaus, Co-Founder, IASESP
Towson University
Session 1: The Festive: American Style
Chair: Gary Backhaus, Towson University
9:00-9:30 Andrew Seal, Yale University
The Community of Marietta, Ohio
9:30-10:00 Shari Rabin, Yale University
Merry Purim: American Jews and Public Religious Festivals in the 19th Century
10:00-10:30 Todd F. Carney, Southern Oregon University
The Trans-Mississippi Commercial Congress and the Celebration of American Development
10:30-10:45 Refreshment Break
Session 2: The Festive & Creating a Local Identity
Chair: Charlie Hailey, University of Florida
10:45-11:15 Xenia Srebrianski Harwell, U.S. Military Academy at West Point
Celebrating the Russian Past: Émigré Festivities in 1950s & 1960s New York
11:15-11:45 Evert Vandeweghe, Ghent University Belgium
Staging Urban History: Urban Festivities and the Creation of Historic Townscapes in Belgium (1860-1958)
11:45-12:15 Jeffrey Debies-Carl, University of New Haven
Celebrating the Local: Place, Identity, and Beer
12:30-2:00 Lunch: Buffet at the Clarion,
Keynote Speaker
Gary Backhaus, Towson University
"Festive Poetics: Yeats-Sligo and the Question of Rootedness"
Session 3: Celebrating Consumerism
Chair: Troy Paddock, Southern Connecticut State University
2:15-2:45 Dennis Wood, Edith Cowan University
The Enclave Estates and the Malls: A Counterfeit Celebration of Community?
2:45-3:15 Charlie Hailey, University of Florida
Festive and Ruderal: Spoil Islands of Southern Florida
3:15-3:45 Richard L. Wilson, University of Maryland at Baltimore County
The Festivity of Consumption: Celebrating Garbage
3:45-4:00 Refreshment Break
Session 4: Celebratory Maps and Borders
Chair: Stephen Sandbank, Independent Scholar
4:00-4:30 Christine Petto, Southern Connecticut State University
Celebratory Maps: Rhetoric and Reality
4:30-5:00 Peter Nekola, Pratt Institute
Why Celebrate Borders?
5:00-5:10 Refreshment Break
Session 5: Celebrating Animals & the Hunt
Chair: Nikolaos Chrissidis, Southern Connecticut State University
5:10-5:40 C. Michele Thompson, Southern Connecticut State University
The Totemic Saola
5:40-6:10 David A. Bello, Washington & Lee University
The Hunt for Inner Asian Identity: 1681-1821
7:00pm Group Dinner—TBD
Saturday April 30, 2011
Southern CT State University
Engleman Hall Room C107 and C117
(All “A” Sessions will be in Room EN C107 and all “B” will be in Room EN C117)
8:15-9:30 Coffee
Session 6a: Pilgrimages & Rituals
Chair: Christine Petto, Southern Connecticut State University
9:00-9:30 Kip Redick, Christopher Newport University
Old and New World Festive Enactments Accompanying Spiritual Journeys: Damascus, Virginia on the Road to Santiago de Compostela
9:30-10:00 Skye Doney, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Passing Through 19th-century Catholic Religiosity: The Trier Pilgrimages of 1844 and 1891
10:00-10:30 Nikolaos Chrissidis, Southern Connecticut State University
Hierarchies of Protection: Space, Power and Ritual Drinking in Early Modern Russia
Session 6b: Festive Art and Space
Chair: Elizabeth A. Hoppe, Lewis University
9:00-9:30 Catherine Baumgartner, John F. Kennedy University
The Poet Tree House
9:30-10:00 David Pettigrew, Southern Connecticut State University
Inceptual Dimensions of Art and Space
10:00-10:30 Aida Salketic, University of Oregon, Fulbright Scholar
Alternative Galleries and the Social Construction of Space
10:30-10:40 Refreshment Break
Session 7a: The Festive and Authority I
Chair: Alex Zukas, National University
10:40-11:10 Steve Amerman, Southern Connecticut State University
A Place to be Native in Connecticut: The Mohegan Wigwam Festival, From Ancient Times to the Present Day
11:10-11:40 Lorna Lueker Zukas, National University
All Night Long: Pungwe as Revolutionary Festive Space
11:40-12:10 Jeanette Barbieri, Hollins University
Shooting a Leveled Landscape: Documentary Film on the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake
Session 7b: Festive Tourism
Chair: Kip Redick, Christopher Newport University
10:40-11:10 Chloe Taft, Yale University
Follow the Star: Christmas Tourism and Community Identity in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
11:10-11:40 Kristen A. Williams, Miami University of Ohio
Magic is Expensive: Marketing the Domestic Leisurescapes of Gilded Age Newport
11:40-12:10 Laura Menatti, University of Pavia
Disneyland Paris: From Non-place to Rhizomatic Place
12:10-1:15 Lunch Connecticut Hall
Session 8a: Creating a Festive Religious Space
Chair: Linda Ardito, Dowling College
1:15-1:45 Nancy Alexander, Independent Scholar
Women Celebrating the Sacred, Transforming Sacred Space
1:45-2:15 Rosalyn Amenta, Southern Connecticut State University
Ritual Transformation of Space: Circumambulation and the Location of the Sacred
2:15-2:45 Stephen Sandbank, Independent Scholar
The Transformation of the Street to Sacred Space
Session 8b: The Festive at Work and Leisure in Germany
Chair: Lorna Lueker Zukas, National University
1:15-1:45 Claudia Bosch, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
The Festzelt as Place of Cultural Performance
1:45-2:15 Will Wilson, Mount Allison University
Enacting Fascist Festivity: ‘A Nation at Work’ Exhibition Dusseldorf, 1937
2:15-2:45 Alex Zukas, National University
Workers’ Festive Spaces in the Weimar Republic: May Day and Other Celebrations
2:45-3:00 Refreshment Break
Session 9a: The Festive and Authority II
Chair: Peter Nekola, Pratt Institute
3:00-3:30 Elizabeth A. Hoppe, Lewis University
The Festival of Omelas and the Problem of Utility
3:30-4:00 Nick Rutter, Yale University
The Western Wall?: The Iron Curtain at the 1951 World Youth Festival
4:00-4:30 Thomas Chen, UCLA
Without Jurisdiction: the Circulating Festival in Yan Lianke’s Happy
Session 9b: Theorizing the Festive
Chair: John Murungi, Towson University
3:00-3:30 Christopher Ely, Florida Atlantic University
Festival in History and Anthropology
3:30-4:00 Remington Robertson, Independent Scholar
The Spacing of Festive Enactments
4:00-4:30 Steve Larocco, Southern Connecticut State University
The Festive, Emotional Energy and Shame: the Social Economy of Exuberance
4:30-4:45 Refreshment Break
Session 10a: Festive Connections
Chair: Troy Paddock, Southern Connecticut State University
4:45-5:15 Catherine Shortell, Independent Scholar
The Festive and Dance: Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake
5:15-5:45 Linda Ardito, Dowling College
The Ancient Oracle Chamber: A Space of Connectedness with the Other
Session 10b: Festive and the Self
Chair: David Pettigrew, Southern Connecticut State University
4:45-5:15 John Murungi
Nightclub and the Formation of Self
5:15-5:45 Christos C. Evangeliou, Towson University
Zorbas's Report to Kazantzakis: Onthe Lady, the Fiesta, andthe Existential Question
5:45-6:45 IASESP Business Meeting
Sunday May 1, 2011
Southern CT State University
Engleman Hall
Al Sessions will be in Room EN C117
8:30-9:30 Coffee
Session 11: Festive Processions
Chair: Nikolaos Chrissidis, Southern Connecticut State University
9:00-9:30 Bharain Mac An Bhreithiun, Middlesex University, London
Celebrating Canada at the Olympics: The Stadium as Stage for the Performance of Place
9:30-10:00 Byron Nakamura, Southern Connecticut State University
Elgaba’al’s Parade: Roman Triumph or Festival of Religious Imperialism?
10:00-10:30 Rafael Hernandez, Southern Connecticut State University
Mexico on Parade: Performing Identity and the Celebration of Indepedence
10:30-10:40 Refreshment Break
Session 12: Festive Modeling and Gardens
Chair: Gary Backhaus, Towson University
10:40-11:10 Luis Arata, Quinnipiac University
Modeling Festive Space
11:10-11:40 Pina Palma, Southern Connecticut State University
Gardens and Orchards in the Renaissance
11:40-12:10 Abigail Agresta, Yale University
Meaning and Social Use of an Urban Garden: The Wedding Feast of Lorenzo de’ Medici
12:15-1:30 Lunch Connecticut Hall
THANK YOU FOR A GREAT CONFERENCE!