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 (
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; tel. +372503 5595) or Pihla Maria Siim (
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; tel. +372 527 7937).