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Graduate Colloquium

Feb 26, 2015, 6:00 pm

tattooJules Helweg-Larsen will deliver the first Folklore Graduate Colloquium address on February 26 at 6:00 pm in the Lorenzo West Room (PLC 461).  Titled “Been There, Done That, And Got The Ink To Show For It,” Jules’s talk addresses tattoos as they relate to place through theories of Romantic Nationalism, cognitive mapping, tourism, sympathetic magic, and sense of place.

Jules Helweg-Larsen is a first year Master’s student in folklore. Recently graduated from Memorial University of Newfoundland, she is a Canadian citizen who happened to grow up in North Carolina. Inspired by her BA in Folklore and a minor in Classics, Jules’s research interests include the reciprocal relationship between folk and popular culture and its representation in material culture, differential identity, and the interplay between vernacular belief and social media. Other passions include tattoos, the outdoors, circus arts, the supernatural, and collecting books.