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 – 10:00am 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.