Breann Leake and Joseph Leake 11:00am, Oct. 31 (Tues.), AUST 202
Breann Leake and Joseph Leake are PhD candidates in Medieval Studies working (respectively) on translation, adaptation, authorship, sedimented histories and etymologies, place-names, and Welsh literature in early medieval sources. Their talk, "Networks of Halloween's Cultural and Devotional Pasts," will provide an overview of how and why different cultural practices/traditions (Celtic, Roman, early Christian Catholicism and later Protestantism) become sedimented and lead to modern iterations of Hallowe’en. Attendees are encouraged to wear costumes!
Eileen Moore Quinn (by Skype) 12:30 pm, Oct. 31 (Tues.), AUST 445
Eileen Moore Quinn will present “‘With my Back to the Moon’: Halloween Customs in America after the Great Irish Famine.” Quinn is Professor of Anthropology at the College of Charleston, SC, where she teaches Anthropology, Folklore, and Irish and Irish American Studies. She is author of Irish American Folklore in New England (Academica P, 2009), and edited “Texts and Textures of Irish America,” a special issue of Irish Studies Review in 2015. Her most recent work on the lore of post-Famine Irish-American women in New England appeared in Women and the Great Irish Famine (Quinnipiac UP, 2017). Attendees are encouraged to wear costumes!
For more information, contact: Mary Burke at mary.burke@uconn.edu