[Folkfriends] 3/18: Folklorist and Poet Desmond Kharmawphlang Interfaces : Objects, Orality, Poetry, Place and Ritual

[Moriarty, Megan]

A Conversation with Folklorist and Poet Desmond Kharmawphlang Interfaces : Objects, Orality, Poetry, Place and Ritual

March 18, 2025
1:00PM - 2:00PM
Via Zoom (Register for Link)<https://deall.osu.edu/events/conversation-folklorist-and-poet-desmond-kharmawphlang-interfaces-objects-orality-poetry>

This presentation will focus attention on Ka Chat Pyrlein, a divination ceremony in which the shaman-singer uses eggs, water, mud, rice grains and the diplin diknor, a wooden object on which signs are read. The performance of the Ka Chat Pyrlein also unleashes the chanting of an origin myth, the storyline of which binds the whole performance into an experience of poetry which is at once, primeval and contemporary.

This event is sponsored in part by a Global Arts and Humanities Grant<https://globalartsandhumanities.osu.edu/research-funding/opportunities>, with support from the departments of East Asian Languages and Literatures<https://deall.osu.edu/>, Near Eastern and South Asian Languages and Literatures<https://nesa.osu.edu/>, Comparative Studies<https://comparativestudies.osu.edu/>, the OSU Humanities Institute<https://humanitiesinstitute.osu.edu/>, the East Asian Studies Center<https://easc.osu.edu/>, Center for Studies of Religion<https://religion.osu.edu/>, and OSU Center for Folklore Studies<https://cfs.osu.edu/>.

REGISTER HERE.<https://deall.osu.edu/events/conversation-folklorist-and-poet-desmond-kharmawphlang-interfaces-objects-orality-poetry> <https://deall.osu.edu/events/conversation-folklorist-and-poet-desmond-kharmawphlang-interfaces-objects-orality-poetry>





Mark Bender
Professor of Chinese Literature and Folklore
Chair, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures
The Ohio State University
1775 College Road S, Hagerty Hall 398
Columbus, OH 43210

USA

bender.4 at osu.edu
614-688-5737
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