Louisiana Folklore Society Annual Meeting, March 9 – 10th, 2007
“Community, Culture, and Carnival: Emerging and Lasting Traditions”
All events take place at the Grand Salon of the French House, Louisiana State University,
Baton Rouge, LA.
Program Schedule:
Friday, March 9, 2007
5:30 p.m.
Annual dinner for LFS Executive Committee, held at The Chimes Restaurant
7:00 p.m.
Keynote Address: Roger Abrahams and Nick Spitzer
Carnival Traditions and New Orleans
Co-authors of Blues for New Orleans, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006.
Saturday March 10, 2007
9:00 – 10:00 a.m.
Panel: Louisiana Traditions: Emerging Populations and Art Forms
Chair: Keagan LeJeune, McNeese State University, Lake Charles, Louisiana
Denise Tullier-Holly, Artist/Art Educator, Southeastern University, Hammond, Louisiana
Peggy DesJardins Schoen, Artist/Art Educator, St. Tammany Public School, Covington
Emerging Divas: The Divine Protectors of Endangered Pleasures
Keagan LeJeune, McNeese State University, Lake Charles, Louisiana
Reviving the Outlaw in The Merryville Heritage Days Festival
Jocelyn Hazlewood Donlon, Center for Cultural Resources, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Louisiana Division of the Arts’ New Population Project: Report on Muslims of Baton
Rouge
10:00 – 11:00 a.m.
Panel: Mardi Gras on Film: Two Filmmakers and Their Views
Filmmaker Rebecca Snedeker, writer & producer, New Orleans, Louisiana
By Invitation Only
Filmmaker Royce Osborn, writer & producer, New Orleans, Louisiana
All On a Mardi Gras Day
11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Panel: Folk Artists Documenting Their Traditions
Chair: Maida Owens, Louisiana Folklife Program Director
Elaine Bourque, Artist, Lafayette, Louisiana
A Weaver Researches Acadian Spinning and Weaving
Ron Yule, Artist, DeRidder, Louisiana
The Old Country Dance: A Bygone Early 20th Century Tradition
Jim Delahoussaye, Artist, Butte La Rose, Louisiana
Edward Couvillier: Documenting and Blogging A Boatbuilding Apprenticeship
Rebecca Henry, Artist, Opelousas, Louisiana
An Herbalist Documents Creole Herbal Medicine
12:30 – 1:30 p.m. Lunch
LFS Business Lunch Meeting
1:30- 2:45 p.m.
Panel: The Art of Making Home: Diaspora, Folklore and Community
Chair: Solimar Otero, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Jon Donlon, Tokai University of Hadano, Kanagawa, Japan
Looking at Leisure and Sport narratives: Diaspora and Community Emergence through
Transmission of Expressive Culture
Joyce M. Bishop, California State University, Sacramento, California
El Corazon del Pueblo: The Instrumentality of Ceremonial Behavior in a Mexican Town
Joyce Jackson, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Sustaining Stories, Transforming Rhymes, and Creating New Songs: New Orleans
Mardi Gras Indian Musical Performance
2:45 – 4:00 p.m.
* Special Community Panel: Mardi Gras Indians *
Panel: After the Flood: A New Orleans Mardi Gras Indian Tradition Status Report
*This multigenerational panel discussion will illuminate the challenges faced by community
based artists in the aftermath of the post Hurricane Katrina flooding.
Chair: Cherice Harrison-Nelson - Guardians of the Flame Mardi Gras Indians
Third Generation Mardi Gras Indian, Curator of the Mardi Gras Indian Hall of Fame
University of New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana
Panelists:
Littdell S. Batiste - Queen Creole Wild West
Clarence Dalcour - Big Chief Creole Osceolas
Eugene Thomas - Big Chief White Eagles
Markeith Tero - Big Chief Trouble Nation
Nadia Robinson - Queen Young Guardians of the Flame
Kevin Cooley, Jr. - Big Chief Young Guardians of the Flame
4:00 – 4:45 p.m.
Panel: Folk Culture and Post-Hurricane Emergency Pet Shelters
Chair: Carolyn Ware, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Beth Tomlinson, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana
An Ethnography of an Emergency Animal Shelter: Preparedness and Convergent
Volunteerism
Carolyn Ware, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Personal Experience Narratives from Pet Shelter Workers
5:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Closing Reception and Special Screening of Films
By Invitation Only and All On a Mardi Gras Day
For more information contact Solimar Otero at solimar@lsu.edu.
Funded by The Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, The Department of English, and
The Program in Louisiana and Caribbean Studies, Louisiana State University.