Department of Estonian and Comparative Folklore, University of Tartu

India folkloristika sai valusa kaotuse käesoleva aasta 28. aprillil, mil Guwahati–Tezpuri maanteel toimunud õnnetuses hukkusid kaks noort Assami rahvaluuleteadlast. Kailash Dutta töötas Tezpuri Ülikooli kultuuriteaduste osakonna lektorina, Parag Moni Sarma sama osakonna professorina.

Alanud on Eesti folkloristika aastapreemia kandidaatide esitamine.

Aastapreemia määratakse silmapaistva tulemuse eest folkloori teaduslikul uurimisel ja/või uurimistulemuste populariseerimisel. Arvestatakse ühe kalendriaasta jooksul jüripäevast (23. aprill) kuni järgmise aasta jüripäevani ilmunud publikatsioone või muud preemia statuudile vastavat teadustegevust.

Eesti ja võrdleva rahvaluule osakonna bakalaureusetööde kaitsmine toimub 30. mail algusega kl 10.15, auditooriumis Ülikooli 16-212. Magistritööde kaitsmine toimub 31. mail, algusega kl 10.15, auditooriumis Ülikooli 16-212.

Lõpetajatel tuleb eelnevalt registreeruda ÕIS-is õppeainele: bakalaureuseõppes - FLKU.04.085 Bakalaureusetöö (6 EAP); magistriõppes - FLKU.04.084 Magistritöö (30 EAP).

Neljapäeval, 29. märtsil 2012 kell 16.15 toimub folklorist Kristi Salve juubelile pühendatud ettekandekoosolek Eesti Kirjandusmuuseumi saalis.

Kavas

Madis Arukask: Tabud ja seksuaalsus vepsa karjusemaagias

Kristi Salve: Alliteratsioon ja allikakriitika. Tähelepanekuid vepsa rahvaluule lühivormidest

Placing Texts: Folk Narrative and Spatial Construction

June 3-7, 2012, Tartu, Estonia

Graduate course of the Estonian Graduate School of Culture Studies and Arts (GSCSA)

2 ECTS credits

Organized by the Department of Estonian and Comparative Folklore, University of Tartu, the Estonian Graduate School of Culture Studies and Arts (GSCSA), Tartu Nefa Group and the Centre of Excellence in Cultural Theory (CECT).

Dear conference participants,

With this circular we send more information about the 6th Nordic-Celtic-Baltic folklore symposium SUPERNATURAL PLACES to be held in Tartu during June 4-7, 2012, 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.

Confirmed plenary lecturers include Lina Būgiene (Vilnius), Terry Gunnell (Reykjavik), David Hopkin (Oxford), Irma-Riitta Järvinen (Helsinki), Bengt af Klintberg (Stockholm), John Lindow (Berkeley), Diarmuid Ó Giolláin (Cork/, Notre Dame, IN), Jonathan Roper (Tartu), Daniel Sävborg (Tartu), Timothy Tangherlini (Los Angeles) and Ergo-Hart Västrik (Tartu).

The working language of the symposium will be English. Each paper will be given 20 minutes for presentation with 10 minutes for discussion. Conference rooms will be provided with necessary equipment for presentations (computer, overhead, PP-projector, etc) and presenters will be granted technical assistance.

In the attachments registered participants will find the preliminary timetable of the symposium and practical information concerning travel and accommodation. We will send you a more detailed program by the beginning of April. You will also find the updated program from the symposium’s homepage at http://www.ut.ee/folk/index.php/en/events/295

Please note that you should book the accommodation as soon as possible. Some of the hotels in Tartu are already fully booked for the symposium period. In the attachment we offer a list of hotels and hostels, to which we have made a reservation for symposium participants.

The symposium will include a book exhibition, which we invite you to join. For this purpose you could bring along recently published folkloristic literature and journals. We would appreciate it if you could please consider donating a copy of the exhibited publications to the libraries of the organizing institutes.

Detailed information about the symposium venue is available in the symposium timetable.

We kindly ask you to let us know if there are special restrictions regarding your diet.

If you have any questions, please contact symposium secretaries Siiri Tomingas-Joandi ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ; tel. +372503 5595) or Pihla Maria Siim ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ; tel. +372 527 7937).

Neljapäeval, 26. jaanuaril 2012 kell 16.15 toimub Akadeemilise Rahvaluule Seltsi ettekandekoosolek Eesti Kirjandusmuuseumi saalis. Koosoleku teemaks on "Uusvaimsed tõlgendused: alternatiivi otsijatest lugude loojateni"

Kõnelejateks on:

Religiooniantropoloogia doktorant Marko Uibu - tõstatab oma ettekandes küsimuse uue vaimsuse individuaalsest otsimisest ning autoriteetidest, mis sel teel oluliseks saavad.

Folkloristika eriala doktorant Kristel Kivari - analüüsib energisammaste ümber koonduvat uut kohapärimust, maaenergeetikaga seonduvat seltsitegevust ning erinevaid suundumusi selles.

Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics has just published its latest issue Vol. 5 (1) "Religion and the Re-identification of Ethnic Groups" online at http://www.jef.ee.

The current special issue, compiled by prof. Art Leete, is dedicated to studies of religious and identity changes in post-socialist regions. The authors grouped together here aim to provide interpretations to the dynamics of the contemporary religious landscape in Estonia and the Russian North as they appear after the collapse of the Soviet system.

This special issue was supported by the European Union through the European Regional Development Fund (Centre of Excellence in Cultural Theory, CECT), Estonian Science Foundation (grant no. 8335) and the Center for the Study of Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements in Russia.

The Estonian Folklore Archives invites you to the Seventh Annual Conference of Folklorists which is dedicated to the 75th birthday of Dr. Mall Hiiemäe (January 9th, 2012). The title of the conference is "Pärimus inimese ja maastiku dialoogis" (Folklore in the dialogue between man and landscape) and it will be held on February 2-3, 2012. More information can be found on Estonian page.

20. detsembril algusega kell 14.15 peab Ergo-Hart Västrik venia legendi loengu teemal "Looduslikud pühapaigad vadja rahvausus".

Loeng toimub Ülikooli 16 auditooriumis 214.

Lähem info: prof. Ülo Valk, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it