Mystic Seaport's 36th Annual Symposium
"MUSIC OF THE SEA"

Sponsored by Mystic Seaport Museum, Connecticut College, and the University of Connecticut at Avery Point

June 12 & 13, 2015

Friday, June 12, Olin Science Center, Conneccticut College

8:30 Coffee and Morning Refreshments
9:00 Official Welcome
9:15 William Dunlap, "A Letter of Marque Came from the King: Privateers, Pirates, and Picaroons in Lyric, Lore, and Law"
10:00 Georgina Prineppi, "Jack Tar and the British Broadside Ballad, 1800-1850"
10:45 Morning Break
11:00 Dr. E. David Gregory, "Maritime Songs from England and British Columbia: A Comparative Analysis"
11:45 Dr. Marcia Phillips McGowan, "A Celebration of the Sea Songs of Cicely Fox Smith"
12:30 Lunch
2:00 Dr. Faye Ringel, "A Song at the Sea: Jewish Women and Sea Music, Miriam to Me"
2:45 Dr. Robert D. Madison, "What It was Like to Know Mrs. Greenleaf"

Saturday, June 13, Greenmanville Church, Mystic Seaport Museum

9:00 Coffee
9:20 Official Welcome
9:30 David Peloquin, "Pip's Tambourine: A Restoration of Pip's Proper Role as Shamanic Musician"
10:15 Marti Klein, "The Leg I Left Behind Me"
11:00 Morning Break
11:15 Dr. Gibb Schreffler, "Rethinking the Practical use of the Chantey; or, Why the Charles W. Morgan's Windlass is a Priceless Item of Historical Significance"

Please join us at Mystic Seaport for the rest of the weekend for the Sea Music Festival!

We would like to thank Mystic Seaport, Connecticut College, and the University of Connecticut at Avery Point for co-sponsoring the Music of the Sea Symposium. We would also like to thank the Symposium committee—Tom Brillat, Mary K. Bercaw Edwards, Craig Edwards, Geoff Kaufman, Faye Ringel, Mark Slobin, and Robert J. Walser—as well as Denise Kegler of Mystic Seaport for all their help.