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Wars of Words: Conflict/ing Narratives, Myth, and Folklore, Day 1
Friday, May 31, 2019 @ 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
This conference explores representations of conflict in popular narratives, myth and folklore, with emphasis on the reciprocal relationship between social antagonisms—individual, local, or international—and the stories that help process, shape, or perpetuate them. Drawing on a variety of literary sources including ancient epics, Anglo-Saxon poetry and medieval romance, Celtic mythology, and early modern drama, as well as premodern medical and natural-scientific materials, speakers explore folkloric materials that depict literal clashes between nations, groups, or individuals, as well as more abstract iterations of martial imagery in erotic, medical, psychological and linguistic contexts.
Organized by Sara Burdorff (Undergraduate Education Initiatives, UCLA), Stephanie Jamison (Asian Languages & Cultures, UCLA), and Olga Yokoyama (Linguistics, UCLA). This colloquium is a joint endeavor with Undergraduate Education Initiatives and the GE30 Cluster Course, “Never-Ending Stories.”
All panels will be chaired by students currently enrolled in the first-year Myth Cluster course.
Funding for this event is provided by the Armand Hammer Endowment for the UCLA Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies.
Friday, May 31, 2019
9:00 Refreshments
9:15 Welcoming Remarks, Stephanie Jamison (UCLA)
9:30 Heather James (University of Southern California)
The Graveyard and the Frontier: Hamlet and the Myth of the American West
10:30 Trevor Kann (UCLA)
Humor as Defensive and Offensive: Manipulating Linguistic Perspective in Political and Social Media Exchanges
11:00 Break
11:15 Wendy Hennequin (Tennesee State University)
The Confining Crown of Champions: Women’s Aggressive Speech and Containment in Seinte Katerine and The Wife of Bath
12:15 Hanna Young (UCLA)
Language for the “Other”: Linguistic Representations of Colonized and Othered Peoples
Day 2 continues on Saturday, June 1, 2019. Click here to see the schedule for Day 2.
Image: Der Herzog von Anhalt, Große Heidelberger Liederhandschrift (Codex Manesse), Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg, Cod. Pal. germ. 848, Bl. 017r.