UC Berkeley Folklore

If you missed Dr. Solimar Ortero's Alan Dundes Lecture live, you can still watch the recording on-line.

2021 Alan Dundes Lecture with Professor Solimar Otero

Cancelled: Folklore Roundtable 3/5/20

In solidarity with the planned Statewide Day of Action on Thursday, March 5, 2020 in support of fired UCSC Graduate Students and their ongoing struggle for a Cost of Living Adjustment, speaker Jon Cho-Polizzi has asked us to postpone his Folklore Roundtable lecture scheduled for Thursday, 3/5/20. It will be rescheduled on a date TBA. We apologize for any scheduling inconveniences.

We are very, very proud to share a documentary produced by Dr. Raju Nayak during his time at UC Berkeley. Raju was an affiliate of the Department of South Asian Studies, but worked closely with the Folklore Program during his time at Berkeley. Raju's doctoral work focused on history, caste, and criminality in the historical songs of his community—Ādivāsī speakers of the Lambāḍi language in Telaṅgāna State, India. While at Cal, he used footage he'd recorded for his dissertation to produce this beautiful documentary. The first screening was here in Berkeley in 2017. We're very excited that it's now available for all of you to watch on-line. It's half an hour of your time well spent.

Indigenous Culture and Singing Resistance A Documentary Film Title: Indigenous Culture: Singing Resistance Deconstructing Criminal tribe Identity through Lambada Bhat Narratives The objective of this...