Department of Estonian and Comparative Folklore, University of Tartu

Visiting PhD student Alevtina Solovyova from the Russian State University for the Humanities will give a lecture titled "An Experience of Folkloristic Field Work in Contemporary Mongolia (Russian-Mongolian Expeditions 2006-2012 of the Centre for Typological and Semiotic Folklore Studies, RSUH)". The lecture will take place on Tuesday, 9th April at 14.15 in von Bock building of the University of Tartu (Ülikooli 16-215).

You are warmly welcome!

Külalisõppejõud Tatiana Minniyakhmetova (Innsbrucki ülikool, Šveits) peab 19.-28. märtsil venekeelse loengukursuse "Idapoolsete soomeugrilaste folkloor ja etnograafia: etnokultuurilised vastasmõjud" (FLKU.04.109; 6 EAP). Loengud ja seminarid toimuvad eesti ja võrdleva rahvaluule osakonnas. Kursus on arvestatav kõikide õppeastmete valikainena.

Rahvusvaheline konverents "Läänemeresoome keeled, kultuurid ja kohavaim" toob 7. ja 8. märtsil Tartusse erinevate teadusalade uurijad. Konverentsil luuakse interdistsiplinaarne diskussioon ja tutvustatakse uuemaid teadustulemusi läänemeresoome keelte ja kultuuride ajaloost ning tänasest olukorrast. Kaks konverentsipäeva pakuvad osalejatele võimalust kaasa mõelda 37 sektsioonettekandele ning neljale plenaarettekandele.

A new course to be held by Prof. Pertti Anttonen (University of Helsinki, Finland) at the Department of Estonian and Comparative Folklore:

FLKU.04.108 Performance Studies Mini Course

The course consists of three lectures and additional readings.

Dates: 25th – 27th February, 2013

Monday, 10.15 in Ülikooli 16-215
Tuesday, 10.15 in Ülikooli 16-102
Wednesday, 10.15 in Ülikooli 16-215

The course can be taken as an optional course by PhD, MA and BA students.

Information: Liilia Laaneman, 737 5304, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

On Feb. 4-5 2013 the Department of Estonian and Comparative Folklore, University of Tartu, and the University of Science and Technology, Meghalaya, organised joint symposium "Genres of Belief from a Folkloristic Perspective". It was held in Guwahati, Assam, and was dedicated to the memory of two Indian folklorists Parag M. Sarma and Kailash Dutta whose lives ended prematurely in a tragic road accident. In addition to the speakers from the University of Tartu and from India scholars from Germany, Ireland, Latvia, USA and Russia took part in the forum. The symposium was followed by folkloristic fieldwork in Meghalaya, Raid Maiong (Feb. 6-7) and Assam, Mayong (Feb. 8-10) with the aim of documenting Khasi and Assamese vernacular religion. The fieldwork was organised in co-operation with folklorists of North-Eastern Hill University and concluded with a joint seminar in Shillong (Feb. 11, 2013).

TIME CHANGED!

Sofie Strandén-Backa and Andreas Backa (Åbo Akademi) will give at the Department of Estonian and Comparative Folklore a lecture "Who are the Finland Swedes, and how can they be described? Critical perspectives" on December 4, 2012 at 14.15. The lecture will take place in von Bock Building (Ülikooli 16) room no. 212

All are very welcome!

You are warmly welcome to participate in the symposium Narrated Worlds of Belief" dedicated to the 70th birthday of Hungarian folklorist and ethnologist Mihály Hoppál, eminent scholar of Eurasian shamanism, to be held on Friday, November 16th in the Estonian Literary Museum (Tartu, Vanemuise 42).

Programme of the symposium

11.00
Mihály Hoppál - The Eurasia Concept: Myth and Reality
Ülo Valk - The Land of Dismembered Goddess: Notes on Place-Lore in Assam
Merili Metsvahi - Relationships between the brother and sister in Estonian and Karelian folk tales
Hasso Krull - Sister's Metamorphoses: Shamanism with Animism

Judit Kis-Halas (Hungary, University of Pécs) will show in November and December a film serial titled "Witchcraft staged and directed". 

Thursday, 22.11.2012 at 16-18 (Ülikooli 16, room 214):

The Tragedy of Macbeth (1971) by Roman Polanski, starring John Finch, Francheska Annis, Martin Show (140 min).

Judit Kis-Halas (Hungary, University of Pécs) reads a course "Witches, Healers, Magicians. Vernacular Magic and Healing in Early Modern Europe" for students of all study levels at the University of Tartu between November 6th and December 5th, 2012. Course code is FLKU.04.106 (3 ECTS) and it is open for registration in the study information system (ÕIS).

Lectures will be held on Tuesdays at 12.15 and on Wednesdays at 10.15 in von Bock's building (Ülikooli 16-215).

Eesti Kirjandusmuuseumi Eesti Rahvaluule Arhiivi / Tartu Ülikooli rahvaluule osakonna muinasjuttude töörühma sügisseminar “Muinasjutud ja jutupärimus. Lood kui identiteedi loojad“ Saare maakonna keskraamatukogus 5. oktoobril kella 10.00–16.00.

10.00–11.30
Avasõnad ja sissejuhatus
Taive Särg Jursi küla Bruno Pao lugudes. “Fakt peab saama inimeseks“
Helen Kästik Maailma tõlgendamine läbi lugude
Moon Meier Jutuvestmine paigaidentiteedi loomise vahendina