Folklore Festival
- When: Thursdays at 3:30 pm, January 29 - February 26
- Where: Scholars’ Commons Reading Room, Strozier Library
The University Libraries will be showcasing a new presentation on folklore traditions from around the world each Thursday for 5 weeks this Spring.
Please come join us and/or tell your friends and classmates.
If you have any other questions, please contact Sarah Buck-Kachaluba.
Schedule
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
| January 29 | Juan Carlos Galeano |
Tales from fishermen, hunters, loggers and small town dwellers recast from those collected in situ over a decade of field work in the Amazon basin. Art included in Galeano’s book will be on exhibit for the duration of the festival. |
| February 5 | Elgin Jumper, Seminole poet and painter and Moses Jumper, Jr., Seminole poet and story-teller. | CANCELLED Seminole poetry and Art. |
| February 12 | Michael Uzendoski (FSU Professor of Modern Languages) | "The Ecology of the Spoken Word: What Amazonian Kichwa Myths about Birds, the Moon, and One-Eyed Anacondas Can Teach us about Storytelling and Communication." Performance and analysis of the Iluku story from Amazonian Kichwa mythology, Napo Ecuador |
| February 19 | Dana Weber (Ph.D. candidate at Indiana University and Instructor in Modern Languages at FSU) | “Folklore and Cinema: Variations on “Bluebeard” in Contemporary Film.” Uses the story of Bluebeard to explore how folklore is currently re-created and transmitted through the medium of cinema. |
| February 26 | Maria Willstedt (FSU Professor of Modern Languages) | Giant Frogs and Children-Eating Ogres: Folklore and fairy tales in Guillermo del Toro’s Laberinto del fauno (Pan’s Labyrinth) |