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Women as Folklorists, Ethnomusicologists & Fieldworkers
Schedule
Thursday, September 26, 2019
9:30 am -5:00 pm
Mary Pickford Theater, James Madison Building, Library of Congress
Request ADA accommodations five days in advance at 202-707-6362 or [email protected]
| 9:30 | Coffee |
| View the webcast of the morning session Running time 2:44:40 | |
| 10:00 AM | Welcome: Elizabeth Peterson, Director, American Folklife Center [biography] Orientation: Nancy Groce, Folklife Specialist, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress [biography] |
| 10:15 | Panel 1: Documentation and Archival Collections Moderator: Catherine Hiebert Kerst, American Folklife Center (retired) [biography] "'A Corps of Trained Workers': Schoolteachers as Ballad Collectors in Virginia, 1914-1929," Aldona Dye, University of Virginia [biography] "Government Song Women: Margaret Valiant, Sidney Robertson and New Deal Collecting," Sheryl Kaskowitz, Independent Scholar, Berkeley, California [biography] "Women and the American Folklife Center Archive," Ann Hoog, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress [biography] Discussion |
12:15 |
Archive Highlights: "Latinas in the Archive: From Lydia Cabrera and Josefina Tarafa’s Música de los cultos Africanos en Cuba to Recent Acquisitions," Allina Migoni, American Folklife Center [biography] |
| 12:45 | Lunch |
| View the webcast of the afternoon session Running time 2:46:18 | |
| 2:00 | Afternoon Greeting: Elizabeth Peterson and Nancy Groce |
| 2:15 | "Curating American Women's Music at the Smithsonian," Meredith Holmgren, Curator, American Women's Music, Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, Smithsonian Institution [biography] |
| 2:30 | Panel 2: Contemporary Documentation
Moderator: Lisa Gilman, George Mason University [biography] "Documenting The Green Book," Candacy Taylor, Taylor Made Culture, New York, New York [biography] "Woman among Women: Sisterhood and Ethnographic Fieldwork in Muslim Indonesia," Anne Rasmussen, The College of William & Mary [biography] Discussion |
| 4:00 | Archive Highlight: Bess Lomax, Ruby Lomax, and the Lomax Circle, Todd Harvey, American Folklife Center [biography] |
| 4:15 | Open Mic Discussion: Women Documenting the World |
| 5:00 | Reception |
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