A Conference on Chinese Daily Ritual Practice

in Conjunction with

The Tenth Annual Conference on Holidays, Ritual, Festival, Celebration, and Public Display

Conference Program

Events:

June 2 (Friday) 6:30-8:30: Welcome Banquet (Montag Center)
7:30-8:30: Chinese Rod Puppet Show (Montag Center)

June 3 (Saturday) 6:30-8:30: Keynote Speeches at the Dinner (Montag Center)

Registration: (Lobby of Smullin Hall)

June 1: 2:00 - 5:00 pm (If you need accommodation before this day, please let us know.)
June 2 and 3: 8:30 am - 5:00 pm

Meals:

Breakfast and lunch will be in Goudy Commons.

Campus Rooms:

Dorm Rooms will be in Belknap Hall
Apartment Rooms will be in University Apartments (corner of Winter and Bellevue St.)

General Schedule:
(All presentations and coffee breaks will be in B17 Smullin):

June 2 (Friday)
7:30-9:00 Breakfast
9:00-10:30 Presentation
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:30 Presentation
12:30-1:30 Lunch
1:30-3:30 Presentation
3:30-4:00 Coffee Break
4:00-5:30 Presentation
6:30-8:30 Welcome Banquet and Puppet Show

June 3 (Saturday)

7:30-9:00 Breakfast
9:00-10:30 Presentation
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:30 Presentation
12:30-1:30 Lunch
1:30-3:30 Presentation
3:30-4:00 Coffee Break
4:00-5:30 Presentation
6:30-8:30 Dinner and Keynote Speeches

June 4 (Sunday)
7:30-9:00 Breakfast
9:00-11:00 Presentation
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-1:00 Presentation
12:30-1:30 Lunch and Departure

Transportation:

Arrival and departure arrangement: transportation from and to the Salem HUT Shuttle station (Red Lion Hotel) is provided. Transportation from and to Portland Int'l Airport (PDX) can be arranged if needed.

Exhibitions (June 1 - June 4):
Artifacts and Artifices in Chinese Folklife: An Exhibition.
Second Floor, Hatfield Library
Hallie Ford Museum of Arts, Willamette University.

To view and print out the campus map, please go to http://www.willamette.edu/map/

Presentations:

Friday, June 2

9:30-10:30 Authentic Food
Karen Lau, Foodways from East to West: The Arrival of Kaiseki in the US
Kate Ristau, Lo Mai gai or General Tso's Chicken: Commercialization, the Midwest, and the Ritual Meal

11-12:30 Space
Alysia McLain, Chasing The Wicker Clan: Ceremony in Hot Air Ballooning (film)
Lisa Gabbert, Ritualizing the Landscape: Legend Tripping, Personal Experience, and Performance
Leslie Plaza Johnson, Architecture of Spirituality: The Ritual Ties that Bind, Dissolve, and Recreate

Lunch

1:30-3:30 Ritual and Ethnicity
Xijuan Zhou, Shamanism and Sufi Rituals in Xinjiang
Bairong Qin, "Stealing" a Relationship: The Dragon Boat Festival in Hunan's Miluo, Central China, (1911-1949)
Fan Yuzhou, The Origin of the Worship Cultus to the Curule of Heaven in the Lantern Festival at Liuin of China
Tieliang Liu, The Significance of Initiation During the Celebration of the Qixi Festival in a Ruoshan Fishing Village

4-5:30 Time
Mark Stevenson, Socio-Temporal Dimensions of Tibetan Ritual Craft Production: Butter-sculpture and the "Offering of the Fifteenth Day
Rachel Bowditch, Temple of tears: Revitalizing and Inventing Ritual in the Burning Man Community in Black Rock Desert, Nevada
Fang Xiao, Traditional Chinese Concept of Time and the Morphology of Festivals

Saturday, June 3

9-10:30 Pacific Rim Funerary Rituals and Burial Practices
Chair: Priscilla Wegars
Terry Abraham, Markers and Monuments: Material Objects of Chinese Funerary Practice
Linda Sun Crowder, Being American Chinese: Cultural Persistence and Identity in San Francisco Chinatown Funerals
Yvonne Kennedy, [Wang Yi-wen] Celestial Real Estate (video).

11-12:30 Festival, Pageant, Carnival
Caroline-Isabelle Caron, The Historical pageant as Healing Ritual: The Case of Mid-Century Acadian Nova Scotia
Jing Li, Articulating the Ethnic label in "Oriental Carnival": The Water-splashing Festival and Identity politics in Xishuang Banna, China
Mark Bender. Yi Ritual and Modern Yi Poetry

Lunch

1:30-3:30 Celebration and National Culture
Michael Owen Jones, "Que Viva San Simón! Celebrating a Guatemalan Folk Saint in Los Angeles
Philip Scher, The Devil and the Bedwetter: Carnival, Memory, National Culture and Post-Colonial Consciousness in Trinidad and Tobago
Bingzhong Gao, Two New Year Celebrations as One Rite of Passage in China
Kuili Liu, The Transition of Cultural Meaning in the Panzi Fair

4-5:30 Funerals
Shane Rasmussen, 'Ritualistic Individualism': Personalized Cartharsis as Celebratory Ritual in the Modern American Funeral
Yongchao Chen, A Field Study of Operas and Songs in a Funeral Ritual in South China
Juwen Zhang, Ritual Structure and Cultural Particularity in the Continuity of Local Tradition

Sunday, June 4

9-11:00 Passing Memories, Crossing Boundaries: Contemporary Northeast Asian Rituals of
Initiation, Renewal, and Death
Chair: Eric Shepherd
Eun Hye Son, Korean Funerals Beyond Confucianism
Hana Kang, Neo-Confucian Ancestral Memorial Ritual of Korean American Families: From Reverence to Ethnic Identity
Peace Bakwon Lee, Where is Songchu? "The Song of Songchu" in Memory
Eric Shepherd, A Master for a Day, a Father for Life: Shandong Kuaishu Storytellers' Apprentice Rituals

11:30-1:30 The Ritualesque
Elena Martinez, "Que Bonita Bandera!" The Puerto Rican Flag as Folk Art
Pamela A. Moro, Music as Activist Spectacle: AIDS, Breast Cancer, and GALA Choral Singing
Daniel Wojcik, Urban Decay, Public Display, and Protest Art in an African American Neighborhood
Tiffany Graham, Unraveling a History of Hand Waving by Parade and Pageant Queens

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