2022 FOLKLORE SOCIETY OF UTAH CONFERENCE PROGRAM
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Friday, November 18th - Online Session
5:00 PM
Presidential Welcome Message
Location: Zoom
5:15 PM
Session 0A: Mixed Genre: Folk Groups and Engaging Narratives
Location: Zoom
Chair: Christopher Blythe (Brigham Young University)
Christopher Blythe, “Three Nephites at the End of the World”
Allie Stanich, “All the World’s a (Neurotypical) Stage: Masking Autism, Performing Neurotypical Identity, and New Space for Discussing Autistic Identity”
Margaret Hsiao, “Using Folk Narrative Principles to Deliver Engaging PowerPoint Presentations”
6:15 PM
Session 0B: Shaping Community
Location: Zoom
Chair: Christine Blythe (Brigham Young University)
Megan Miller, “Women’s Traditional Roles in Ghost Stories”
Melissa Peterson, “Wilderness: A Boundary for the ‘Other’”
Jack Daley, “Mothman, the Silver Bridge Collapse, and the Folklorization and Commemoration of Actual Events”
Saturday, November 19th - Westminster College
9:00 AM
Breakfast and Registration
Location: 2nd Floor, Malouf Hall
(breakfast included in the price of conference registration)
9:30 - 10:00 AM
Welcome Reception and Folk Music Presentation by Dewey and the Decimals
10:15 AM
Session 1A: Latter-day Saint Folklore
Location: Breakout, Malouf 202
Chair: Lori Lee (Love Your Story Podcast)
Millie Tullis, “Plenty of Peepstones: Spiritual Gifts and Sacred Landscape in Early Utah”
Jolyn Brown, “Between Private and Public: How Official Church Rhetoric Impacts the Oral Traditions of Latter-day Saints”
Cianna Alano, “All are alike unto God’ : “Navigating Culture-Specific Wards in the LDS Church”
Caroline Raines, “File Folder Games and Sacrament Entertainment”
Session 2A: Gaming, Therapy, and the Folklore of Neurodiversity
Location: Malouf Hall 201
Chair: Christopher Blythe (Brigham Young University)
Emma Crisp, “Chuubo Makes a Terrible God-King: Oral Storytelling Techniques in the Roleplaying Games of Jenna Moran”
RD Boardman, “Confronting Demons and Slaying the Skeletons in Your Closet: Healing through Folklore via Dungeons and Dragons”
Brittney Hatchet, “Nothing About Us Without Us: A Folkloristic Approach for Creating Neurodivergent Friendly Pedagogy for Secondary Classrooms”
Allie Rawlings, “Stories Shape Us: Patterns of Identity Formation in ADHD Diagnosis Personal Experience Narratives”
11:20 AM
Session 1B: LGBTQ Folklore and the Construction of Personal Identity
Location: Malouf Hall 201
Chair: Nan McEntire (Indiana State University)
Luke Lutz, “Stereotypes or Identity: How I Study from the Outside-In”
Cara Saxton, “Creating Spaces of Belonging: The Wearing of Pride Items on BYU Campus”
Mariane Rizzuto, “Queer Coding in Mythology and Folklore”
Brittney Malloy, “The Blended Family Novel: Discovering Identity through Family Lore”
Eve Dixon, “Developing Identity from Childhood Legends”
Session 2B: Legends
Location: Breakout, Malouf 202
Chair: Julie Swallow (Brigham Young University)
Drew Holey, “I think my video is haunted’: Legend Tripping on TikTok”
Alexis Johansen, “Adventures Across Time: Legend Tripping through the West”
Karley Lay, “Haunted Theaters”
Celine Taylor, “Evolution of the Wendigo in Media”
Salem Valiulis, “The Clown Craze”
12:30 PM
Lunch
(on your own)
1:30 PM
Folk Arts Walking Tour of Allen Park
Tour guided by folklorist David Stanley, emeritus professor of English at Westminster College and editor of Folklore in Utah: A History and Guide to Resources. (tour included in the price of conference registration)
2:45 PM
Session 1C: Interpreting Legends, Fairytales, and Material Lore
Location: Breakout, Malouf 202
Chair: David Stanley (Westminster College)
Anna Summers, “Halloween Decorator Facebook Group Culture”
Melanie Kimball, “I think that’s true’: The Role of Folk Groups in Supernatural Interpretation”
Tamara Pratt, “Following the Twists and Turns of Rapunzel’s Braid”
John Priegnitz, “The Legend Trippers Progress: The Legendary Destinations Grid”
Samuel Rowels, “From Narcissus to Hanahaki: Parasitic Flowers, Imbued Meaning, and the Dying Body”
Session 2C: Western Narrative Traditions
Location: Malouf Hall 201
Chair: Deanna Allred (Utah State University)
Rachel Terry, “Along the Sunflower Trail: Etiological Wildflower Legends Referencing Mormon Pioneers, Forty-niners, and Other Westward Trekkers”
Sarah Schulzke, “At the Intersections of Folklore and Professional Storytelling”
Lisa Gabbert, “Beaver Mountain: Oral Histories of Snow”
Katie Fastabend, “‘Oh Way Back When’: A Campfire Singing Approach to Oral Tradition”
4:00 PM
Keynote Address
Dr. Nan McEntire, “Notes from the Field: Firsthand Fieldwork Experiences”
Location: Hall, streamed on Zoom
Dr. Nan McEntire is an emeritus professor of Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana State University. She will be speaking about her fieldwork experiences in Indiana and in Scotland.