Here’s the latest on the Grimm Legacies Symposium at Harvard University on February 3/4.
http://web.me.com/folkmyth/Folk_%26_Myth…
Friday, February 3rd:
4:00 – 5:00 pm – Heidi Heiner of Sur La Lune: Workshop
6:00 – 7:30 pm – Jack Zipes, Keynote Speaker
“Two Hundred Years after Once Upon a Time: The Legacy of the
Brothers Grimm and their Tales in Germany”
Saturday, February 4th:
9:00 – 9:30 am – Welcome: Maria Tatar
9:30 – 11:15 am – INTO THE WOODS
Cara Zimmerman
“Henry Darger, Adolf Wolfli, and Tales of Violence in Outsider Art”
David Rice
“When the Forest Becomes the Woods: The Horror Effect in the Grimms; Hansel and Gretel and Beyond”
Megan Leroy
“Domestic Adaptations: Anne Sexton’s Transformations and the Grimms’ Tales”
Katie Orenstein
11:30 – 1:00 pm – UNDER THE KNIFE
Valerie Gribben
“Medicine and Märchen”
Ariane Mandell
“Empowered by Tears: Weeping in Grimm’s Fairy Tales”
Perri Klass
“Grimm and the Experts: Psychiatrists, Pediatricians, and Pundits”
1:00 – 1:45 pm – Lunch
1:45 – 2:15 pm – Presentation
2:15 – 3:45 pm – AMONG THE BEASTS
Ruth Lingford
David Elmer
“The Metamorphosis of a Folktale: ‘Beauty and the Beast’ in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses.”
Jerry Griswold
“The Many Conclusions of ‘Beauty and the Beast’”
4:00 – 5:45 pm – THROUGH THE MAGIC MIRROR
John Cech
“The Grimms, Sendak, and the Zeitgeist”
Michael Hearn
“Increasing the Happiness of Children: George Cruikshank Illustrates the Brothers Grimm”
Kate Bernheimer
“The Grimm Art of Fairy-Tale Editorship”
Claudia Schwabe
“Between Socialism and Snow White: GDR Fairy Tales”
5:45 – 6:30 pm – Wrap Up