Call for Papers-Haitian Folklore

Emily Socolov (socolov@CCWF.CC.UTEXAS.EDU)
Fri, 3 Feb 1995 11:12:40 -0600

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>Dear Members and Friends of the FOLKLORE LATINO, LATINOAMERICANO Y
CARIBE~NO Section of the American Folklore Society,
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>Here are excerpts from the 1995 Annual Meeting Call for Papers:
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>"The American Folklore Society will hold its annual meeting at the
Lafayette Hilton in Lafayette, LA on October 12-15, 1995. The 1995 Program
Committee encourages proposals for panels ot individual aspects papers on
all aspects of folklore, expecially those that address this year's special
theme, "The Creolization of Cultures. The term CREOLE is most often
associated with the Caribbean and its "northern tip," Lousiana. The
concept of creolization, i.e., the making native of elements from other
places or cultures by a regional or cultural blending process, is more
widely useful in considering all cultures that are in a state of flux.
Cultural creolization as a concept ecourages us to look at the folkloristic
complexity of cultures as an ongoing process, rather than as a fixed
product... ..." (full text may be found in AFS Newsletter, 8-11.
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>Program Committee Co-Chairs: Barry Jean Ancelet and Marsha Gaudett
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>Mail Address: Department of Modern Languages
> University of Southwestern Louisiana
> Lafayette, LA 70504
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>EMAIL: <folklore@usl.edu>
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>DEADLINE: Submission must be postmarked ON OR BEFORE APRIL 15!
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>We had decided as a section that we would try to promote discussion on
HAITI - and this year's meeting theme couldn't fit better with that theme.
Please encourage those who work on on some aspect of expressive culture in
HAITI to contact me at this email address:
<owner-follac@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu>. The conventional address is:
> 1505 Rabb Road
> Austin, TX 78704
> (512) 444-3990
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>Sincerely,
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>Emily Socolov
>Section Convener

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