BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:icalendar-ruby CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:HOWLoween 2023: Celebrating National Wolf Awareness Week at St anford Libraries X-WR-TIMEZONE:Pacific Time (US & Canada) BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T194630Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_44403587684538 DTSTART:20231021T200000Z DTEND:20231022T000000Z DESCRIPTION:National Wolf Awareness Week takes place on the third week of O ctober and is intended to "celebrate the unique place of wolves in the ani mal kingdom and learn more about their threatened place in the natural wor ld today." This year will mark the third year of celebration at Stanford L ibraries\, after HOWLoween 2022 and HOWLoween 2021.\n\nThe goal of HOWLowe en is to learn more about wolves\, to examine the human fascination with w olves\, and also to explore the meanings and characteristics that humans a ssociate with wolves through various cultural forms of expression.\n\nFirs t time visiting Stanford? Stanford University is a large campus and it is important to plan ahead. For parking and travel information\, as well as a ccess to Green Library\, please see this site. \n\n*****\n\nProgram\n\n1:0 0pm: “Introduction and welcome: The meanings of wolves”\nKathleen Smit h (Curator\, Germanic Collections & Medieval Studies\, Stanford Libraries) \n\n “The wolf in Comanche folklore and tradition”\nWeyodi OldBear (Wr iter and Storyteller)\n\nThe wolf plays a very different role in Indigenou s/Native American cultures than it does in Western European traditions suc h as fairy tales and accounts from the medieval to the present. This sessi on will present some of the ways in which the wolf appears in Comanche tal es and traditions.\n\n2:00pm: “A wolf in the children’s hospital: Scul ptures that tell stories”\nAntonia Dapena-Tretter (Art Curator\, Stanfor d Children’s Health)\n\nWhy is there a giant gray wolf sculpture in the middle of Stanford Children’s Health\, a hospital for children facing se rious illness? What does it mean to those around it\, and how can we use t his sculpture\, and others\, to explore stories of illness\, resilience\, and community?\n\nCoffee Break \n\n3:00pm: “The Big Bold Wolf? A study t o investigate personality in captive gray wolves (Canis lupus)” \nYasmee n Ghavamian (Animal Biology PhD Student\, University of California\, Davis ) \n\nAs part of ongoing research at the California Wolf Center and Oaklan d Zoo\, this talk will provide an overview of animal personality research in addition to the methodology UC Davis researchers are using to assess pe rsonality in wolves\, outcomes of animal care staff ratings of wolf person ality\, and the impacts this research holds for welfare and conservation. \n\n4:00pm: Panel discussion among all speakers: “Telling wolf stories ”\n\n****\n\nSpeaker Biographies\n\nWeyodi OldBear (she/her)\n\nWeyodi O ldBear (she/her) was born on the shores of Long Island Sound among her fat her’s people but raised among her mother’s people\, the Comanche Natio n of Oklahoma\, where she is an enrolled voting citizen. After the death o f her grandparents in 2013 and 2014 she left Oklahoma for other parts of t raditional Comanche territory. She’s written 4 novels\, hundreds of poe ms\, numerous speculative fiction and science fiction short stories in add ition to a historical play about her great great grandparents Weckeah OldB ear and Quanah Parker\, and is one of the principal writers for the ground breaking Indigenous Futurist tabletop Role Playing Game Coyote & Crow. In 2018 she was awarded the Imagining Indigenous Futurisms prize for her stor y “Red Lessons.” Weyodi has two novel publications pending in 2024\, A s Many Ships As Stars with Android Press and Chunky Atakwasi: Finder of Lo st Loves\, a graphic novel from Native Realities Press\, with art by Sadek aronhes Esquivel. Weyodi reckons her lifelong focus on speculative fiction is the result of a childhood surrounded by elderly Comanches with a livel y interest in both the past and the future as well as a distinctly non-mai nstream world view. Today Weyodi lives in Albuquerque\, heading her large extended household\, on the traditional nomadic route of her band.\n\nAnto nia Dapena-Tretter (she/her)\n\nAntonia earned her Masters degree in Art H istory from the University of Toronto with an emphasis on modern and conte mporary art. Her research has taken on a variety of different forms\, from public speaking engagements at museums and universities to articles in pe er-reviewed journals and art magazines. Antonia is passionate about sharin g art with the public through educational and cross-disciplinary learning opportunities. In this capacity\, she has held managerial positions at ins titutions like The Kreeger Museum and The Walt Disney Family Museum\, and has exposed thousands of students\, educators\, and underserved population s to the expressive possibilities of art-making and animation. Believing i n the power of art to heal\, Antonia currently holds the position of Art C urator at Stanford Children's Health. In this role\, she oversees all acqu isitions\, installations\, temporary displays\, and conservation measures for a robust permanent collection of art.\n\nYasmeen Ghavamian (she/her)\n \nYasmeen is a graduate student (PhD Animal Biology) in the Animal Behavio r and Cognition Lab of the Department of Animal Science at the University of California\, Davis. She has a BA in Biology and an MS in Biology from S onoma State University. Her master’s research at Sonoma State University investigated the effects of complex feeding enrichment on the stereotypic behavior of the sun bears at Oakland Zoo. For her PhD\, Yasmeen is resear ching how the captive North America gray wolf (Canis lupus) personality ma y impact cognitive enrichment engagement.\n\nKathleen M. Smith (she/her)\n \nKathleen M. Smith is the subject specialist for the Germanic Collections & Medieval Studies at Stanford Libraries. Prior to Stanford\, she worked in the Research and Development Department of the State and University Lib rary in Göttingen\, Germany. She has a B.A. in English Literature & Germa nic Studies from the University of Colorado at Boulder\, a M.S.I.S. from t he University of Texas at Austin\, and a PhD in Germanic Languages and Lit eratures from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. GEO:37.426631;-122.167086 LOCATION:Hohbach Hall\, Seminar Room SUMMARY:HOWLoween 2023: Celebrating National Wolf Awareness Week at Stanfor d Libraries URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.stanford.edu/event/howloween_celebrating_natio nal_wolf_awareness_week_at_stanford_libraries CATEGORIES:Conference/Symposium CATEGORIES:Lecture/Presentation/Talk END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR