Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 13, Number 12, 1 December 1996 — Oral traditions conference set [ARTICLE]

Oral traditions conference set

Oral traditions are a featured topic of the Pacific International Popular Culture Conference set for January 9-11,1997. This broad-based eonference will look at myths, legends, tales, ballads, proverbs, jokes, riddles, boasts, prayers, folklore and folklife, music, art, theory, method, history, criticism and performance in contemporary understandings of native and nonnative users. How do native oral traditions survive in an age of astrophysics, computers,

multiculturalism, diversity and corporate global village culture? The conference is sponsored by PCAP of the Pacific, BYU-Hawai'i, University of Hawai'i-Mānoa and UH-West O'ahu. Registration is $65 (students pay $45). To register contact: Dr. Leialoha Apo Perkins, UH West-Oahu 453-6186, Dr. Margaret Baker or Gale Ward at BYU-Hawai'i, 2933602, or Dr. Joseph Stanton, UH Mānoa Center of Arts and Humanities , 9564050.