No. 58                                                                                                                 May 2004

From the Editor

My apologies for another delayed issue; organizing this year’s annual Perspectives on Contemporary Legend conference has taken up most of my time and been occupying any and all available brain space. This issue, and FTN 59, is also about this year’s conference. FTN 58 features the schedule of events for the conference and the agenda for this year’s annual general meeting. I have also included more references from the ‘Cite Unseen’ file to supplement the last issue’s listing and hopefully for those ISCLR members who are not interested in this year’s conference, these listings will be of interest.  FTN 59 will feature the abstracts of the papers presented in Aberystwyth. As always, submissions to FTN – articles, cite unseen references, reviews (including notices of other conferences) – should be sent to out FTN email address, foaftale-news@aber.ac.uk.

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22^nd Annual Perspectives on Contemporary Legend Conference

21-24 July 2004

University of Wales, Aberystwyth

Schedule of Events

Please note, all paper and panel sessions will be held in the A14, Hugh Owen Building and all coffee and tea breaks will be held in Bronwyn’s, Penbryn Building. Breakfasts and lunches will also be held in Brownwyn’s.

Tuesday 20 July 2004                                                                               

15:00 - 17:00 Registration   

Foyer, Parry-Williams Building

17:00 - 19:00 Welcome and Opening Reception

Foyer, Parry-Williams Building

Wednesday 21 July 2004                                                                           

9:00 - 11:00 Session A                            

·          Kelly Roubo; Representations of the Devil on St. Valentine’s Day and the Legendary Characteristics That Put Him There

·          Eda Kalmre; The Saga of Brothers Voitka in Estonian Press: Origin and Perishing of A Heroic Myth

·          C.P.V. Vijayakumaran; Vishnumurti of north Kerala: the incarnation of Lord Vishnu in folk ritual     

11:00 - 11:30 Coffee/Tea  

11:30 - 13:00 Session B

·          Karen Baldwin; Piratelore and Touristlure in Legendary Coastal North Carolina: Blackbeard’s Revenge, Nags Head Land Pirates, and “The Day the Booze Yacht Came Ashore”

·          George Mifsud-Chircop; Humor as Cultural Critique in Maltese Contemporary Legends

13:00 - 14:00 Lunch                               

14:00 - 15:30 Session C                          

·          Mikel J. Koven; The Folklore Files, or how The X-Files understands and uses folkloristics

·          Julie LeBlanc; Elvis Gratton: Quebec's Contemporary Folk Hero

15:30 - 16:00 Tea/Coffee  

16:00 - 18:00 Session D

·          Robert MacGregor; “ALTOIDS: The Curiously Strong Peppermints”: The Commercial Appropriation of an Urban Legend

·          Kirsten Hardie; ‘But Who is Betty Crocker?’ The existence of ‘real’ and ‘unreal’ people and personalities in contemporary international packaging.

·          David Main; “Waiter, there's something disgusting in my legend”: Food contamination, disgust and the recall of Contemporary Legends"

19:30 Conference Dinner, Wasdell Room, Penbryn                           

Thursday, 22 July 2004                                                                              

9:00 - 11:00 Session E                             

·          Rhiannon McKechnie; Within These Haunted Halls: A Case Study of the Legends at Memorial University of Newfoundland’s St. John’s Campus

·          Ian Brodie; Einstein’s Pants and Buddy’s Comps: Straddling the Line between Gossip and Legend

·          Beth McDaniel; "Do you think there's going to be a strike?":  The Function of Rumor During Recent Faculty Contract Negotiations in Pennsylvania

11:00 - 11:30 Coffee/Tea  

11:30 - 13:00 Session F

·          Sandy Hobbs; Contemporary legend and fraud: E-mail versions of the Spanish Prisoner swindle

·          Bill Ellis; Footless Ghosts, Demon Dolls, and the Internet

13:00 - 14:00 Lunch                               

14:00 - 15:30 Session G

·          Diane Goldstein; Deranged Psychopaths and Victims Who Go Insane: The Depiction of Mental Health and Illness in Contemporary Legend

·          Jon Lee; Public Reactions to the SARS Virus: Rumors, Panics and Pseudo-Preventatives

15:30 - 16:00 Coffee/Tea  

16:00 - 17:30 Session H

·          Per-Anders Östling; Legends of Ghosts in Contemporary Swedish Folklore

·          Bodil Nildin-Wall; Witches of Reality – Contemporary Legends in Witchcraft Trials

19:00 - 21:00 Film: Y Mabinogi (2003, Derek Hayes); Drwm, National Library of Wales – free admission

Friday, 23 July 2004                                                                                     

9:00 - 11:00 Session I                              

·          Phillip Hiscock; Takes on Texts:  Readings of Local Legends

·          John Ashton; Landscape, Legend and Hyperbole:  The Wreck House Wind Phenomenon in Newfoundland

·          Monika Kropej; Contemporary Legends from Karst Region of Slovenia Compared to Fairylore and Traditions of Belief

11:00 - 11:30 Coffee/Tea  

11:30 - 13:00 Session J                           

·          Theo Meder; They are among us and they are against us: Contemporary horror-stories about Muslims and immigrants in the Netherlands

·          Peter Burger; From FOAFtale to media legend: the case of the Smiley Gang

13:00 - 14:00 Lunch                               

14:00 - 15:30 Session K

·          Veronique Campion-Vincent; Metamorphoses

·          Jan Harold Brunvand; Urban Legend - Still Booming, Despite 'Vanishing'

15:30 - 16:00 Coffee/Tea

16:00 – 18:00 Session M

·          Wendy Welch; Underground Railways and Overland Lorries

·          Brian McConnell; The Pretty Nun’s Kiss

·          Mare Koiva; Big Fears in a small town

Saturday, 24 July 2004                            

9:00 - 11:00 Session N

·          Elissa Henken; The Price of Beauty: Body Modification in Legendry

·          Anne Lafferty; Variation in Form and Intensity of Belief in the Banshee

·          Gillian Bennett; “St.” William of Norwich and the Blood Libel: Revaluating the Legend

11:00 - 11:30 Coffee/Tea  

11:30 - 13:00 Session O                          

·          Mark Grazer/Stephen Liebowitz; Aids Legends in the Chicano Community of South Texas:  Tellers and Gender

·          Christine Shojaei Kawan; Not that new but quite adaptive: three cases of contemporary legends

13:00 - 14:00 Lunch                               

14:00 - 15:30 ISCLR AGM 

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International Society of Contemporary Legend Research

Annual General Meeting Agenda

24 July 2004, 2:00 PM

1. Council Reports

     A  President’s Report (Dr. Diane Goldstein)

B. Treasurers Report (Dr. Mark Glazer, Dr. John Ashton, Dr. Sandy Hobbs)

     C. Publications Report

                Contemporary Legend (Dr. Cathy Preston)

                FOAFTale News (Dr Mikel Koven)

D. Report of the Membership Secretary (Dr. Mikel Koven)

E. Report on the Buchan Award (Jeannie Thomas)

2. Setting of annual subscription rate

3. Future conference dates and locations

4. Election of members of council

5. Constitutional Amendment

6. A.O.B.

7. Date of the next general meeting

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Cite Unseen 2003-04, Part II

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