ORALITY AND LITERACY III: MEMORY
International Conference
Rice University, Houston, Texas
October 10-12, 2003

Friday evening:

6:00 to 7:00 PM: Registration Duncan Hall, Martel Hall

7:00 to 10:00 PM Duncan Hall 1070

Welcome and Introduction
Gary Wihl,
Dean of Humanities and Moody Foundation Professor of Humanities

Introduction to Keynoter
Werner H. Kelber,
Director of the Center for the Study of Cultures and Isla Caroll and Percy E. Turner Professor in Religious Studies

Keynote Address
Jan Assmann,
University of Heidelberg
"Cultural Memory and Cultural Texts"

Reception

Saturday morning:
Group I Humanities 120

8:00am – 8:30am Coffee

Chair: Jeff Opland, Institut für Afrikanistic, Universität Leipzig, Germany
8:30am – 9:00am Catherine C. Fourshey: Ukunena and Ukupanga Speaking and Creating Historical Order: Language and Memory in Oral Traditions of South-Western Tanzania

9:00 am – 9:30am David Gordon: Orality, Memory and the Historical Time on the Luapula (Zambia)

9:30am – 10:00am Sheryl A. McCurdy: Healing and Memory: Spirit Possession Performances and National Narratives in Ujiji/Kigoma, Tanzania

10:00am – 10:30am Discussion

10:30am – 11:00am
Coffee

Chair: Sarah Dugal, Tulane Univ., LA
11:00 – 11:30am
Maria-Regina Kecht: Gendered Narratives of Counter-Memory: Austrian Women Writers Remember National Socialism

11:30am – 12:00pm Bertrade B. Ngo-Ngijol Banoum: African Orality and Social Identity: Imag(in)ing Gender and Womanhood in Basaá Epic Tradition

12:00pm – 12:30pm Sandra Ott: Remembering the Resistance in Popular Theatre: A Basque Controversy

12:30pm – 1:00pm Discussion


Saturday morning:

Group II Humanities 226

8:00am – 8:30am Coffee

Chair: John Miles Foley, Univ. of Missouri, Columbia, MO
8:30am – 9:00am Liz Dietz: From Classical Memory System to Perspective Device: John Donne’s ‘The Anniversaries’

9:00am – 9:30am Gerhard F. Strasser: Mastering World History from Adam to the Year 1670: Johannes Buno’s Mnemotechnically Illustrated Idea Historiae Universalis

9:30am – 10:00am Hanne Kolind Poulsen: Images as Memory: Luther, Cranach and the Notion of Merckbilder (with slides)

10:00am – 10:30am Discussion

10:30am – 11:00:am
Coffee

Chair: Richard Horsley, Univ. of Massachusetts, Boston, MA
11:00am – 11:30am
Sabrina Inowlocki: Rewriting the Bible: Josephus’ Appropriation of the Jewish Past in the Jewish Antiquities

11:30am – 12:00pm Caroline K. Quenemoen: Father, Tyrant, or God? : The Commemoration of Caesar in the Roman Forum (with slides)

12:00pm – 12:30pm
Discussion


Saturday morning:

Group III Humanities 227

8:00am - 8:30am Coffee

Chair: Holly Hearon, Christian Theological Seminary in Indianapolis

8:30am – 9:00am Monica Green: From Memory to Written (Medical) Record: Female Medical Practice and the Transition to Book-Based Medicine in Medieval Europe

9:00am – 9:30am
Dennis Dewey: The Mnemonics of the Heart: Marinating in the Stories of Scripture

9:30am – 10:30am Discussion

10:30am – 11:00am Coffee

Chair: Mary Ann Clark, Rice University
11:00am – 11:30am
Jonathan Draper: The Ritualization of Memory: The Interface of Written and Oral Tradition in Ibandla Labancwele of George Khambule

11:30am – 12:00pm
Megan Biesele: Re-membering Idioms of the Heart: Nineteenth-Century San Folklore and Twentieth-Century San Politics

12:00pm – 12:30pm
Gregory H. Maddox: Transcribing Memory: Writing Oral Traditions in Central Tanzania

12:30pm – 1:00pm
Discussion


Saturday afternoon:

Chair: Elias Bongmba, Rice University
3:00pm – 5:00pm
Duncan Hall, McMurtry Auditorium
Roundtable discussion with Mary Nooter Roberts,
Fowler Museum of Cultural History, UCLA and Allen F. Roberts, Department of World Arts and Cultures, UCLA
'Between Memory and History': Visual Hagiographies and Lieux de Memoire in Congo and Senegal

Saturday evening:
8:00pm
Alice Pratt Brown Hall, Stude Concert Hall
Concert (Complimentary tickets available for all participants)
This concert introduces a recently discovered Viennese piano built by Conrad Graf in 1825. Sergiu Luca (violin) and Brian Connelly (piano) will perform Schubert's Sonata in G Minor for Violin and Piano, "Wanderer" Fantasy for Piano, and Fantaisie in C Major for Violin and Piano.

Sunday morning:

Group I Humanities 120

8:00am – 8:30am Coffee

Chair: Werner Kelber, Rice University
8:30am – 9:00am
Pieter J.J. Botha: Memory and Orality in the Jesus Traditions

9:00am – 9:30am
Richard A. Horsley: A Prophet like Moses/Joshua/Elijah: Israelite Cultural ‘Scripts’ Underlying And Adapted in the Gospel of Mark

9:30am – 10am
J.A. Loubser: Memory and Oral Intertext in Matthew

10:00am – 10:30am
Discussion

10:30am – 11:00am
Coffee

Chair: Alex Byrd, Rice University
11:00am – 11:30am
Tammy Shapiro: From Contestation to Attestation: Fostering Exchange of Memories in Debates over Multicultural Content of U.S. History Textbooks

11:30am – 12:00pm
Eliza Slavet: Mediating Memory: ‘Tradition’ in Freud’s Moses and Monotheism

12:00pm – 12:30pm
Discussion


Sunday morning:
GROUP II Humanities 226

8:00am – 8:30am
Coffee

Chair: Gerhard F. Strasser, Penn State University
8:30am – 9:00am
Pinelopi Skarsouli: The Proem of Hesiod’s Theogony and the Tradition of Memory as a Vehicle of Oral Justice

9:00am – 9:30am
Joachim Lacrosse: The Platonic Myth of Theuth and Electronic Media (paper read by Sabrina Inowlocki)

9:30am – 10:00am
Bernard Collette: Memory, Imprint of the Soul

10:00am – 10:30am
Discussion

10:30am – 11:00am
Coffee

Chair: Susan Rasmussen, University of Houston
11:00am – 11:30am Sarah Dugal: Founder’s Myth in Highland Madagascar: the Case of the Vazimba

11:30pm – 12:00pm
Discussion


Sunday morning:
GROUP III Humanities 227

8:00am – 8:30am
Coffee

Chair: Betty Joseph, Rice University
8:30am – 9:00am
Jeff Opland: What is remembered in Xhosa Izibongo

9:00am – 9:30am
Meshack Owino: Bridging Orality and literacy: Letter Writing Schemes in War-time Colonial Kenya

9:30am – 10:00a
m J.K. Ayantayo: The Ethics of Remembering, Memorizing, and Documentation of IFA Divination System among Yoruba People, Nigeria

10:00am – 10:30am
Discussion

10:30am – 11:00am
Coffee

Chair: Gregory Maddox, Texas Southern University

11:00am – 11:30am
Mary Ann Clark: Unraveling the Memorative Web of the Santerîa Altar Display

11:30pm – 12:00pm
Anne Pym: Memory as Practice of Sustenance

12:00pm - 12:30pm Discussion


Sunday afternoon:


Humanities 226
Chair: Professor Shirley Moore, Texas Southern University

3:00pm – 3:30pm Emevwo Biakolo: Between Memory and Consciousness: Orality, Literacy and Scientific Under-Development in Africa

3:30pm – 4:00pm
Anne C. Klein: The Land Remembers: Living Landscape and Soulful Spirits of the Tibetan Plateau. (with slides)

4:00pm – 4:30pm
John Miles Foley: Memory and Oral Tradition

4:30pm – 5:00pm
Discussion


Sunday evening:

7:00pm Rice Memorial Center, Farnsworth Pavillion
Dinner
An Announcement
Poet Laureate of the Conference
Dance Performance:
Yin Mei Critchell, Professor at Queens College (CUNY) and Artistic Director of Yin Mei Dance, will perform two pieces, "/Asunder" and "Empty Tradition/City of Peonies." Click here for a picture of her performances.

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