Monday, March 18
Ray Cashman, “Folklore on the Irish Border: A Voice from the Margins”
LaRose Digital Theater, ?Koury Business Center, 7:30 p.m.
Cashman specializes in the ethnography of communication, performance studies and the politics of culture. He is the author of Storytelling on the Northern Irish Border: Characters and Community, which won the Chicago Folklore Prize from the American Folklore Society and the Donald Murphy Award from the American Conference for Irish Studies, and the co-editor (with Tom Mould and Pravina Shukla) of The Individual and Tradition: Folkloristic Perspectives. Cashman will discuss his current work with an Irish storyteller who turns to traditional narratives to critique the world around him and to push back against marginalization and stigma associated with poverty.