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Wayne Morse Center talk by Folklore and Public Culture Prof. Leah Lowthorp, 2020-21 Wayne Morse Center Resident Scholar
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The recent rise of direct-to-consumer genetic ancestry testing has had profound implications for identity. This project considers one genre of identity performance: the genetic ancestry test “reveal” on YouTube. It explores these performances by asking questions about the authority performers grant test results to inform racial and/or ethnic identities, the hierarchies of knowledge created when test results contradict family histories, and what these performances reveal about conceptions of biological determinism today. At a moment that elevates the technological over other forms of knowledge, this project considers online identity performance as part of the folklore of a post-genomic age.
Check Out these Summer Classes!
Summer is coming, and the UO Folklore and Public Culture Program is offering great courses for undergraduates!
Check out these online classes. Visit the class schedule at https://classes.uoregon.edu/.
FLR 255 Folklore and U.S. Popular Culture: Introduces modern US folklore, including popular narratives, legends, rituals, ethnic and gender stereotypes, carnivalesque events, fan cultures, subcultures, DIY, and the commodification of youth culture. Special focus on how people may use mass culture to create new, personal, and sometimes subversive meanings. Fulfills AL requirement, Cultural Literacy, and FLR Expressive Forms and Practices.
FLR 225 Voices of Africa: Novels, music, dance, dress, paintings, films, and cartoons serve as a primary sources from which to learn about the diversity and vivacity of contemporary African peoples. Fulfills AL requirement, Cultural Literacy, FLR Expressive Forms and Practices.
FLR 236 Magic in the Middle Ages: This course considers the period often considered the most “magical” historical period, the Middle Ages. We’ll examine rituals, spells, magical creatures such as elves and fairies, and the ways in which magic reflects the medieval understanding of the universe. Along the way we’ll look at the medieval and magical origins of Hallowe’en and Christmas, and finally at the legacies (or not) of medieval magic such as Wicca and modern magic. Fulfills AL requirement, FLR Diverse Communities and FLR Elective requirements.
FLR 250 Intro to Folklore: An introduction to contemporary folklore studies, with emphasis on the meanings of stories, rituals, festivals, body art, subcultures, the supernatural, street art, Internet folklore, and other forms of vernacular expression. Fulfills AL requirement, cultural literacy requirement. Required for FLR Major/Minor.
Folklore and Public Culture Graduate Specialization now open to applications!
The UO Folklore and Public Culture Program now offers a Graduate Specialization for students earning graduate degrees in other UO programs.
This specialization is open to all UO graduate students in folklore and public culture-related areas of study in the humanities, social sciences, media studies, nonprofit management, ethnomusicology, and dance, among others. It is designed to be done alongside a student’s work in their home program, and gives training and credentials in many aspects of public culture, public sector work, arts programming, and related fields. The Graduate Specialization will be of particular interest to those engaged in public scholarship with an interest in a career outside of higher education.
There is no deadline; applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. We welcome applications!
Read more about the specialization here.
Folklore and Public Culture Fall 2020 Courses
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Folklore and Public Culture Program
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Summer Term Courses
Summer is coming, and the UO Folklore and Public Culture Program is offering great courses for undergraduates!
Summer Registration is Ongoing.
Check out these online classes.
