Department of Estonian and Comparative Folklore, University of Tartu

Dr. Liisa Granbom-Herranen from the University of Jyväskylä (Finland) will give a lecture "Proverbs in SMS messages: Agrarian Language using Post-modern Communication" on Monday, April 23th, 2012 at 14.15. The lecture will take place in Ülikooli 16-212.

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Dr. Mihály Hoppál reads a course "Shamanism: Approaches to Visual Anthropology" for students of all study levels at the University of Tartu on March 19-21, 2012. Course code is FLKU.04.102 (1 ECTS) and it is open for registration in the study information system (ÕIS). The course consists of three part and includes films about shamanism at the Festival of Visual Culture Worldwilm 2012.

On March 12 at 14.15 Katalin Juhász and Zoltán Szabó (Budapest, Hungary) will give a public lecture with musical examples titled "When Drums Are Beaten - The Hungarian Revolution and Independence War" (1848-49) in the Folklore and Folk Art". Their lecture will take place in the University of Tartu von Bock building (Ülikooli 16), room 212

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Svetlana Tsonkova will give a public lecture "Bulgarian March Health Amulets - Folklore Tradition in Action" at 12.15 on March 8, 2012 at the Department of Estonian and Comparative Folklore. The lecture will take place in von Bock building of the University of Tartu (Ülikooli 16), lecture room No. 212.

Abstract of the lecture: This presentation will be about a Bulgarian amulet, called martenitsa and related to health and good luck magic. I shall speak about its outlook, context and possible origins. Also, I shall present the contemporary usage of the amulet and the surrounding rituals. All these are an ancient folklore tradition, which is also very much alive and practiced in contemporary Bulgaria.

International symposium organised by the Department of Estonian and Comparative Folklore and the Department of Scandinavian Studies, University of Tartu, in cooperation with the Centre of Excellence in Cultural Theory.

In 1988 the Department of Irish Folklore, University College, Dublin, hosted the symposium “The Supernatural in Irish and Scottish Migratory Legends”. Other symposia then followed: in Galway (1991), Copenhagen (1993), Dublin (1996) and Reykjavik (2005), and now, for the first time, it will be held on the east side of the Baltic Sea. With each symposium, the international scope has expanded and the number of participants has increased. The local and migratory legends of Northern Europe have remained the major topic of the meetings, providing common ground for discussions about contents, form, performance, history and theories of folk narratives and their relationship to social realities.

On Thursday, March 1st, at 14.15 Dr. Alexandra Arkhipova (Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow) will give a public lecture on "Anthropology of Snow Revolution in Russia. Folklore and Protest: From Idioms to Street Actions". The lecture in English will take place in von Bock's House (Ülikooli 16), room no. 102. Slides of the lecture can be downloaded here (13.1 MB).

On Friday, March 2nd, at 10.15 professor Sergey Neklydov (Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow) will give a public lecture on "Folklorno-mifologicheskije tradicii segodnja (po materialam mongolskih ekspedicii 2006-2010 g.)" [Folkloric and mythological traditions of today (on the materials of the expeditions to Mongolia in 2006-2010)]. The lecture in Russian with translation into English will take place in von Bock's House (Ülikooli 16), room no. 212.

On Thursday, January 5th at 14.15 Bela Mosia (Sugdidi University, Georgia) will give a public lecture on "Symbols in Georgian Folklore". The lecture will take place in Ülikooli 16 – 215.

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On Monday, December 12th at 16.15 Ambrož Kvartič (Ljubljana University, Slovenia) will give a public lecture on "Vanishing hitchhiker and its context: a case study from Slovenia". The lecture will take place in Ülikooli 16 – 212.

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Venue: University of Tartu History Museum (Toome Hill, Lossi 25)

Organisers: The Centre of Excellence in Cultural Theory, the Estonian Literary Museum and the Institute for Cultural Research and Fine Arts, University of Tartu.

Tuesday 29.11.2011

10.15–10.30 Symposium opening (University of Tartu History Museum, White Hall)

10.30–11.15 Plenary lecture: David Elton Gay (Bloomington, IN, USA) The Idea of an Epic: Some Problems of Genre Definition

Esmaspäeval, 10. oktoobril kell 16.15 peab Eesti Akadeemilise Usundiloo Seltsi kõnekoosolekul loengu Dr. Meenaxi Barkataki-Ruscheweyh Göttingenist. Tema uurimisteemaks on Arunachal Pradeshi hõimurahvaste usund ja kultuur. Loengu pealkiri on "What is not strictly forbidden is allowed: the dynamics of religious accommodation amongst the Tangsa in Northeast India" ja see toimub Ülikooli 16-214.