Folk Narrative Theories and Contemporary Practices
14th Congress of the International Society for Folk Narrative Research (ISFNR)
July 26-31 2005, Tartu, Estonia
PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME
Tuesday, July 26
10.00 Registration opened
Opening Ceremony Assembly hall
16.00-16.15 Welcome speeches
16.15-16.45 Hasan-Rokem, Galit: Presidential address
16.45-17.45 Gunnell, Terry: Opening keynote: Narrative and Space
19.00-22.00 Opening reception at Vanemuise Concert Hall
Wednesday, July 27
Plenary sessions 1 & 2 Assembly hall
Chair: Kõiva, Mare
09.00-10.00 Ben-Amos, Dan (Philadelphia, USA): Folktales as Cultural Negotiation
10.00-11.00 Lyle, Emily (Edinburgh, UK): Narrative themes and the structure of myths
11.00-11.30 Tea and coffee break
Session: Narrative Genres - Continuity and Changes 1 Jakobi 226
Chair: Rosen, Ilana
11.30-12.00 Löfstedt, Torsten (Ingelstad, Sweden): Narratives of the Fall of Satan and Adam in the Qur'an: A Study in Oral Composition
12.00-12.30 Beyer, Jürgen (Tartu, Estonia): Josephus Flavius unter livländischen Bauern. Zum Nachleben der Antike am Rande des Abendlandes
12.30-13.00 Jorgensen, Lene I. (Hvalso, Denmark): Folk Narrative and the History of Culture
13.00-13.30 Oettinger, Ayelet (Haifa, Israel): Myth versus Reality: Itineraries of Jewish 12th-13th Century Travellers to the Holy Land
Session: Vernacular Genres - Vernacular Religion 1 HVB 212
Chair: Valk, Ülo
11.30-11.35 Valk, Ülo & Anttonen, Veikko: Panel Presentation
11.35-12.30 Primiano, Leonard Norman (Philadelphia, USA): Vernacular Religion and the Ambiguity of Power (Keynote lecture)
12.30-13.00 Bowman, Marion (Milton Keynes, UK): Celtic Myth, Vernacular Religion and Contemporary Spirituality: Undermining Arthur in Avalon
13.00-13.30 Anttonen, Pertti J. (Turku, Finland): Argumentation Analysis in the Study of Narration
Session: Heritage and Politics 1 HVB 214
Chair: Kuutma, Kristin
11.30-12.00 Hafstein, Valdimar Tr. (Reykjavik, Iceland): Safeguarding Intangible Heritage: The Government of Community and Cultural Diversity
12.00-12.30 Johansson, Carina (Visby, Sweden): Cultural Heritage and Tourism in Visby Narratives
12.30-13.00 Aarnipuu, Tellervo (Helsinki, Finland): Turku Castle as a Narrative
13.00-13.30 Agoston-Nikolova, Elka (Groningen, the Netherlands): The National Folklore Tradition and Ethnic Minorities - New Challenges in Post-Totalitarian Bulgaria
Session: Narrated Gender 1 Lossi 217
Chair: Nylund Skog, Susanne
11.30-12.00 Kupiainen, Tarja (Joensuu, Finland): Female Desire and the Maid of Vellamo
12.00-12.30 Raufman, Ravit (Haifa, Israel): The Birth of Fingerling as a Feminine Projection
12.30-13.00 Vakimo, Sinikka (Helsinki, Finland): The Politics of the Ageing Body: Images of Old Women in National Discourses
13.00-13.30 Bagheri, Mehri (Tabriz, Iran): From the Moon to the Earth
Session: Narrative Genres - Fairy Tales 1 Lossi 327
Chair: Naithani, Sadhana
11.30-12.00 Bacchilega, Cristina (Honolulu, USA): Reflections on Recent Fairy-Tale Fiction
12.00-12.30 Jorgensen, Jeana (Bloomington, USA): A Wave of the Magic Wand: Fairy Godmothers in Contemporary American Media
12.30-13.00 Haase, Donald (Detroit, USA): The Paratextual Life of Folktales and Fairy Tales in Popular Print and the Internet
13.00-13.30 Leppälahti, Merja (Turku, Finland): New Texts, Old Themes: Folklore and Fantasy Literature
Session: Theory and Methods 1 Lossi 328
Chair: Palmenfelt, Ulf
11.30-12.00 Uther, Hans-Jörg (Göttingen, Germany): The Fisherman and his Wife in the Mass Media
12.00-12.30 Nagy, Ilona (Budapest, Hungary): Cooked Cock Crows. The Apocryphal Acta Petri, Evangelium Nicodemi and a Hungarian Origin Legend
12.30-13.00 Sõukand, Renata (Tartu, Estonia): Text on Herbal Folk Medicine as a Narrative
13.00-13.30 Levin, Isidor (St. Petersburg, Russia): Ein Volkskundliches Dokumentationssüstem (dargestellt anhand der Jidisch-Folkloresammlung des Literaturmuseums zu Tartu)
Session: Festivals and Rituals 1 Lossi 427
Chair: Alembi, Ezekiel
11.30-12.00 Mencej, Mirjam (Ljubljana, Slovenia): The Role of the Legend in Constructing Annual Cycle
12.00-12.30 Lintrop, Aado (Tartu, Estonia): Liminal Times and Storytelling
12.30-13.00 Minniyakhmetova, Tatiana (Innsbruck, Austria): Narratives about Rituals. Is it a Folklore Genre?
13.00-13.30 Gustavsson, Anders (Oslo, Norway): Rituals around Unexpected Death
13.30-15.00 Lunch
Session: Narrative Genres - Continuity and Changes 2 Jakobi 226
Chair: Löfstedt, Torsten
15.00-15.30 Kikas, Katre (Tartu, Estonia): Framing in Writing Folklore
15.30-16.00 Stanonik, Marija (Ljubljana, Slovenia): Literary Folklore is the Art of Dialects (about collection: Voices)
16.00-16.30 Levinton, Georgiy A. (St. Petersburg, Russia): A Genre Space of a Folk Narrative Tradition: The Case of Russian
Session: Vernacular Genres - Vernacular Religion 2 HVB 212
Chair: Bowman, Marion
15.00-15.30 Siikala, Anna-Leena (Helsinki, Finland): Methodical Questions of Myth Studies
15.30-16.00 Hoppál, Mihály (Budapest, Hungary): Shamanic Narratives as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Mankind
16.00-16.30 Mathisen, Stein (Alta, Norway): Representations of Belief in Multicultural Contexts
Session: Heritage and Politics 2 HVB 214
Chair: Mbugua, wa-Mungai
15.00-15.30 Mikkola, Kati (Lahti, Finland): Folk Schools as Reforming the Borders of the Public and the Private in the Late 19th Century Finland
15.30-16.00 Haddad, Mon'im (Peqi'n, Israel): Teaching Palestinian Heritage In Israel?
16.00-16.30 Ljungström, Åsa (Uppsala, Sweden): To Make the School Safe for Diversity: Narratives from the Classrooms by Teachers-To-Be Doing Ethnography
Session: Narrated Gender 2 Lossi 217
Chair: Raufman, Ravit
15.00-15.30 Anu Salmela (Turku, Finland): Young Somali Women in Turku, Finland: Gender, Gossip and Socio-Spatial Behaviour
15.30-16.00 Nylund Skog, Susanne (Stockholm, Sweden): Broken Silences in Life Stories by Jewish Women in Sweden
16.00-16.30 Gavish, Haya (Jerusalem, Israel): Patterns of Feminine Leadership between Diaspora and Homeland as Reflected in the Personal Narratives of Jews from Zakho, Kurdistan
Session: Narrative Genres - Fairy Tales 2 Lossi 327
Chair: Haase, Donald
15.00-15.30 Hawwas, Abd-El-Hameed M. (Cairo, Egypt): The Manifesto-Tale and the Formation of the Arabian Nights
15.30-16.00 Kaliambou, Maria (Munich, Germany): "Popularmärchen" and Popular Novel: A Dialogue between Genres
16.00-16.30 Mikos, Éva (Budapest, Hungary): Connections between Oral and Literary Tradition, Popular Culture and Folklore
Session: Proverbs 1 Lossi 328
Chair: Voigt, Vilmos
15.00-16.00 Mieder, Wolfgang (Burlington, Vermont, USA): The Proof of the Proverb is in the Probing. Alan Dundes as Pioneering Paremiologist
16.00-16.30 Chakraborty, Biplab (Calcutta, India): Indian Proverbs: As the Style of 'Lokaabharan'
Session: Festivals and Rituals 2 Lossi 427
Chair: Gustavsson, Anders
15.00-15.30 Deka, Geeta & Deka, Umesh (Guwahati, Assam, India): The Festivals of the Tribes of the North East India: Diversity and Integrity
15.30-16.00 Alembi, Ezekiel (Nairobi, Kenya): Escorting the Dead with Song and Dance
16.30-17.00 Tea and coffee break
Session: Narrative Genres - Continuity and Changes 3 Jakobi 226
Chair: Gwyndaf, Robin
17.00-17.30 Meder, Theo (Amsterdam, the Netherlands): Modern Exempla: Crop Circle Tales in the New Age Era
17.30-18.00 Antola, Päivikki (Tampere, Finland): Modern Genre of the Finnish Mass Sermon
18.00-18.30 Mburu, Michael M. (Nairobi, Kenya): The Agikuyu Folk Narratives: An Ultimate Tool in Regional Social-Political Scene
Session: Vernacular Genres - Vernacular Religion 3 HVB 212
Chair: Knuuttila, Seppo
17.00-17.30 Västrik, Ergo-Hart (Tartu, Estonia): Narrating Votian Vernacular Religion: Practices of Textualizing Folk Beliefs and Ritual Descriptions
17.30-18.00 Järvinen, Irma-Riitta (Helsinki, Finland): Vernacular Religion and Piety in Old and New Karelian Context
18.00-18.30 Leete, Art (Tartu, Estonia) & Lipin, Vladimir (Syktyvkar, Komi Republic, Russia): Some Rules of Narrating among the Komi Hunters
Session: Heritage and Politics 3 HVB 214
Chair: Hafstein, Valdimar Tr.
17.00-17.30 Nitovuori, Liisa-Maria (Helsinki, Finland): Using Phenomenology and Arts-Based Methods in Narrative Research. Case: Narratives of Gender in Finnish Youth Work
17.30-18.00 Mbugua, wa-Mungai (Nairobi, Kenya): 'Ismarwa!' It is ours: Identity Politics in Contemporary Kenyan Popular Music
18.00-18.30 Boro, Anil Kumar (Guwahati, Assam, India): Bodo Mythical Narratives and Intercultural Communication
Session: Community and Communication 1 Lossi 217
Chair: Bula, Dace
17.00-17.30 Laitinen, Katja (Joensuu, Finland): Narrated Sense of Community - the Cultural Commonality
17.30-18.00 Kilianova, Gabriela (Bratislava, Slovak Republic): Social Networks and Storytelling Communities
18.00-18.30 Salmi-Niklander, Kirsti (Helsinki, Finland): Manuscripts and Broadsheets: Narrative Genres and the Communication Circuit among Working-class Youth in early 20th Century Finland
Session: Narrative Genres - Fairy Tales 3 Lossi 327
Chair: Vaz da Silva, Francisco
17.00-17.30 Neemann, Harold (Laramie, Wyoming, USA): Seventeenth-Century French Literary Fairy Tales as a New Modernist Genre
17.30-18.00 Rubini, Luisa (Zürich, Switzerland): Virginia Woolf and the Flounder: AaTh 515 The Fisherman and his Wife and the Italian Literary Precedents of the Cinquecento
18.00-18.30 Ono, Hisako (Kariya-City, Japan): Der Wald - Eine kristallisierte Idee der Brüder Grimm
Session: Proverbs 2 Lossi 328
Chair: Voigt, Vilmos
17.00-17.30 Lauhakangas, Outi (Helsinki, Finland): Use of Proverbs and Narrative Thought
17.30-18.00 Paczolay, Gyula (Veszprém, Hungary): Some Interlinguistic Relationships in the 1598 Hungarian Proverb Collection
18.00-18.30 Krikmann, Arvo (Tartu, Estonia): Digging One's Own Grave
Session: Place and Space 1 Lossi 427
Chair: Gavish, Haya
17.00-17.30 Rosen, Ilana (Beer-Sheva, Israel): Immigration and Uprootedness in Cross-Disciplinary Perspective
17.30-18.00 Berglund-Lake, Håkan (Härnösand, Sweden): Public and Private Realms: The Spatiality of Dwelling in Modern Houses of the Post-War Period
Cultural programme: performances of storytellers in Lutsu Theatre House:
20.15 Estonian folktales by Piret Päär and Sandra Sillamaa
21.30 Math, Lleu and Blodeuwedd: The Fourth Branch of the Mabinogi, the National Epic of Wales by Nigel Watson
Thursday, July 28
Plenary sessions 3 & 4 Assembly hall
Chair: Hasan-Rokem, Galit
09.00-10.00 Naithani, Sadhana (New Delhi, India): The Post-Modern and the Post-Colonial in Folklore
10.00-11.00 Briggs, Charles L. (Berkeley, USA): The Communicability of Tradition: Narratives and Power in Discursive Imaginaries
11.00-11.30 Tea and coffee break
Session: Theory and Methods 2: Voice, Narrative, Narration Jakobi 226
Chair: Lindahl, Carl
11.30-12.00 Bendix, Regina (Göttingen, Germany): Voice: Medium and Message in Narration Past and Present
12.00-12.30 Mills, Margaret (Columbus, Ohio, USA): Voice/Verse/Virtue: Passion in Persian Prosimetric Genres
12.30-13.00 Noyes, Dorothy (Columbus, Ohio, USA): The Singing Bone: Folk Voice in Bourgeois Narrative
13.00-13.30 Hasan-Rokem, Galit (Jerusalem, Israel): Voice and Other (De)Constructions of Subjectivity in the Study of Ancient Narratives
Session: Vernacular Genres - Vernacular Religion 4 HVB 212
Chair: Siikala, Anna-Leena
11.30-12.00 Pócs, Éva (Pécs, Hungary): Narratives of the Supernatural in a Contemporary Community. Topic - Genre - Context
12.00-12.30 Rowbottom, Anne (Manchester, UK): Chronic Illness and the Negotiation of Vernacular Religious Belief
12.30-13.00 Metsvahi, Merili (Tartu, Estonia): The Narrative Genres of Setu Folklore
13.00-13.30 Keinänen, Marja-Liisa (Stockholm, Sweden): The Search for Feminine Patterns in Folk Religion
Session: Socialism and Post-Socialism 1 HVB 214
Chair: Anastasova, Ekaterina
11.30-12.00 Profantová, Zuzana (Bratislava, Slovak Republic): Life Histories and New Identities After 1989
12.00-12.30 Kõresaar, Ene (Tartu, Estonia): Political Scripts in Autobiographical Meaning-Making of the Past: Estonian Post-Soviet Life Stories
12.30-13.00 Jõesalu, Kirsti (Tartu, Estonia): Socialist Work Life in Post-Socialist Texts
Session: Tradition and Performance 1 Lossi 112
Chair: Ben-Amos, Dan
11.30-12.00 Weich-Shahak, Susana (Tel-Aviv, Israel): Sephardi Children Rhymes: Minimal Narrative, Speech and Music
12.00-12.30 Buturovic, Lada (Sarajevo, Bosnia and Hertsegovina): The Process of Making the Style Dense in the Tale during the Narration
12.30-13.00 Papachristophorou, Marilena (Athens, Greece): Traces of Older Legends in a Modern Mythology of Origins: A Case Study in a Greek Insular Community
13.00-13.30 Pakalns, Guntis (Riga, Latvia): Lettische Märchenerzählerin Alma Makovska (1922-2004) - Tradition und Performance
Session: Computer Mediated Communication & Databases 1 Lossi 217
Chair: Meder, Theo
11.30-12.00 Krawczyk-Wasilewska, Violetta (Lódz, Poland): E-Folklore in the Age of Globalization
12.00-12.30 Sharapov, Valery (Syktyvkar, Komi Republic, Russia): New Ethnographic Hypermedia Projects Dedicated to the History of Finno-Ugric Studies
12.30-13.00 Domokos, Mariann (Budapest, Hungary): Folklore and Mobile Communication. SMS and Folklore Text Research
Session: Narrative Genres - Mythology Lossi 327
Chair: Hoppál, Mihály
11.30-12.00 Kuhn, Hans (Canberra, Australia): Sögur and Rimur: The Transformation of Prose Narrative into Chant Cycle
12.00-12.30 Bek-Pedersen, Karen (Edinburgh, UK): The Women in the Well - Some Thoughts on Fate in Old Norse Mythology
12.30-13.00 Berezkin, Yuri E. (St. Petersburg, Russia): Dwarfs and Cranes. Baltic Finnish Mythologies in Eurasian and American Perspective (70 years after Y. Toivonen)
13.00-13.30 Guo Wei (Nanning, Guangxi, China): The Comparative Study of Hehe (mammam) Abuka of the Manchus and Mi (mother) Luo Jia of the Zhuangs
Session: Narrative Genres - Fairy Tales 4 Lossi 328
Chair: Neemann, Harold
11.30-12.00 Vaz da Silva, Francisco (Lisbon, Portugal): Red as Blood, White as Snow: Chromatic Symbolism of Womanhood in Fairy Tales
12.00-12.30 Dannemann, Manuel (Santiago, Chile): The Märchen as Marvellous Tale and the Wonderfulness of the Folk Narrative
12.30-13.00 Alekand, Katrin (Tartu, Estonia): Ordinary Setu Folk-Tales: Some Thoughts on Time and Space
13.00-13.30 Umenai, Yukinobu (Kagoshima, Japan): Über die kulturelle Verschiebung in 2 Grimmischen Märchen
Session: Place and Space 2 Lossi 427
Chair: Gunnell, Terry
11.30-12.00 Remmel, Mari-Ann (Tartu, Estonia): Some Regional Aspects of Estonian Legends about Church-Buildings
12.00-12.30 Dahamshe, Amer (Jerusalem, Israel): The Galilean Arab Place Names in Folk Narrative: Name, Figure and Place
12.30-13.00 Hakamies, Pekka (Joensuu, Finland): Narrating About Places
13.00-13.30 Kalda, Mare (Tartu, Estonia): Buried Treasures in Estonia: Story and Action
13.30-15.00 Lunch
Session: Theory and Methods 3 Jakobi 226
Chair: Bacchilega, Cristina
15.00-15.30 Kerbelyte, Bronislava (Kaunas, Lithuania): The Possibilities of Structural-Semantic Method
15.30-16.00 Racenaite, Radvile (Kaunas, Lithuania): Structural-Semantic Analysis and Some Peculiarities of Lithuanian Novelle Tales
16.00-16.30 Shojaei Kawan, Christine (Göttingen, Germany): Innovation, Persistence and Self-Correction: The Case of Snow White
Session: Vernacular Genres - Vernacular Religion 5 HVB 212
Chair: Anttonen, Pertti
15.00-15.30 Knuuttila, Seppo (Joensuu, Finland): Belief Stories without Belief
15.30-16.00 Bugiene, Lina (Vilnius, Lithuania): The Specifics of Lithuanian Negative Legends
16.00-16.30 Seljamaa, Elo-Hanna (Tartu, Estonia): Chain Letters as a Vernacular Genre
Session: Socialism and Post-Socialism 2 HVB 214
Chair: Profantová, Zuzana
15.00-15.30 Bela-Krumina, Baiba (Riga, Latvia): Multiple Voices: Narrative Genres in Stories About Soviet Period in Latvia
15.30-16.00 Kõiva, Mare (Tartu, Estonia): A Tale of Love and Strategies of Personal Pragmatics
16.00-16.30 Anastasova, Ekaterina (Sofia, Bulgaria): Power and Narrative
Session: Tradition and Performance 2 Lossi 112
Chair: Handoo, Jawaharlal
15.00-15.30 Ivancic Kutin, Barbara (Ljubljana, Slovenia): The Roles of Participants in the Storytelling Event
15.30-16.00 Ozawa, Toshio (Kawasaki, Japan): The Theory Max Lüthi's in Japan
16.00-16.30 Reuster-Jahn, Uta (Mainz, Germany): Rhetoric Strategies of Persuasion and Manipulation in Animal Trickster Tales
Session: Computer Mediated Communication & Databases 2 Lossi 217
Chair: Jonuks, Tõnno
15.00-15.30 Kavykin, Oleg (Moscow, Russia): Internet as a Medium for Russian Neo-pagans Net-society
15.30-16.00 Butler, Jenny (Cork, Ireland): Personal Spiritual Narratives of Irish Neo-Pagans
Session: Narrative Genres - Legends 1 Lossi 327
Chair: Brednich, Rolf W.
15.00-15.30 Bregenhøj, Carsten (Turku, Finland): The Danish Ghost Horse
15.30-16.00 Berzina-Reinsone, Sanita (Riga, Latvia): Stories about Losing One's Way: Tradition and Changes
16.00-16.30 Golovakha-Hicks, Inna (Kiev, Ukraine): The Life of Traditional Demonological Legends in Contemporary Ukrainian Community
Session: Narrative Genres - Fairy Tales 5 Lossi 328
Chair: Dannemann, Manuel
15.00-15.30 Jivanyan, Alvard (Yerevan, Armenia): The Neutralisation of Tropes in Armenian Fairy Tale Narrative
15.30-16.00 Mamiya, Fumiko (Kanagawa, Japan): Andere Welten im japanischen Volksmärchen
16.00-16.30 Nakayama, Junko (Kyoto, Japan): Chirimen-bon (Crapaper books): Japanische Volksmärchen und Gedichte mit Holzschnittbilder auf Crapepaper
Session: Migration & Diasporas 1 Lossi 427
Chair: Bendix, Regina
15.00-15.30 Christou, Anastasia (Athens, Greece): Liquid Lives and Fluid Identities: Narrating Second-Generation Ancestral Return Migration
15.30-16.00 Kirss, Tiina (Tartu, Estonia): Tall Tales, Trauma Tales: Life Writing Groups in the Toronto Estonian Diaspora
16.00-16.30 Fingerroos, Outi (Turku, Finland): Karelia as a Place of Memories and Utopias
16.30-17.00 Tea and coffee break
Session: Theory and Methods 4 Jakobi 226
Chair: Bottigheimer, Ruth B.
17.00-17.30 Barzilai, Shuli (Jerusalem, Israel): The Party Consciousness: Intertextuality in Margaret Atwood's "Bluebeard's Egg"
17.30-18.00 Kurss, Helen (Tallinn, Estonia): Mouvance and its Relations to the Oral and the Written Tradition in Middle High German Short Couplet Narratives
18.00-18.30 Frizzoni, Brigitte (Zürich, Switzerland): Adonis Revisited - Erotic Representations of the Male Body in Crime Fiction by Women
Session: Vernacular Genres - Vernacular Religion 6 HVB 212
Chair: Primiano, Leonard Norman
17.00-17.30 Panchenko, Alexander (St. Petersburg, Russia): How to Make a Shrine by Your Own Hands: Local Holy Places and Vernacular Religion in Russia
17.30-18.00 Valk, Ülo (Tartu, Estonia): Discussing Belief in Contemporary Estonian Folklore
18.00-18.30 Anttonen, Veikko (Turku, Finland): Vernacular Genres and The Problem of Defining Folklore: Ethical Discourse on Forest as a Representation of Vernacular Religion
Closing the panel
Session: Narrative Genres - Epics HVB 214
Chair: Kvideland, Reimund
17.00-17.30 Hyvönen, Jouni (Helsinki, Finland): The Making of a National Epos: Private Readings of the Old Kalevala (1835-1836)
17.30-18.00 Zoran, Gabriel (Haifa, Israel): Concepts of Narrativity and Fictionality in Homer
18.00-18.30 King'ei, Kitula (Nairobi, Kenya): An Intertextual and Historical Perspective of Utenzi Wa Liyongo and Kifo Kisimani
Session: Computer Mediated Communication & Databases 3 Lossi 217
Chair: Kropej, Monika
17.00-17.30 Reinaus, Reeli (Tartu, Estonia): Birthstories in Internet - Nowadays Narrating Culture?
17.30-18.00 Torp-Kõivupuu, Marju (Tallinn, Estonia): Soul Migration: Concurrent Birth and Death Dates in Traditional and Contemporary Narratives
Session: Narrative Genres - Legends 2 Lossi 327
Chair: Beyer, Jürgen
17.00-17.30 Kvideland, Reimund (Paradis, Norway): Legends Performed as Action
17.30-18.00 Messerli, Alfred (Zürich, Switzerland): How Old are Modern Legends?
18.00-18.30 Miloševic-Ðordevic, Nada (Belgrade, Serbia): The Survival and Changes in the Serbian Tales of Fortune and Fate
Session: Narrative Genres - Fairy Tales 6 Lossi 328
Chair: Shaw, John
17.00-17.30 Gulyas, Judit (Budapest, Hungary): A Function of Embedded Dream Narratives in Folk Fairy Tales
17.30-18.00 Lee, Linda (Philadelphia, USA): Slandered Brides and Scheming Mothers-in-Law
18.00-18.30 Arkhipova, Alexandra & Kozmin, Artem (Moscow, Russia): Tale about Kind und Unkind Girls: Social Structure and Semantic Construction of the Tale End
Session: Migration & Diasporas 2 Lossi 427
Chair: Christou, Anastasia
17.00-17.30 Korb, Anu (Tartu, Estonia): Repatriation in the Stories of Estonians in Russia
17.30-18.00 Fialkova, Larisa & Yelenevskaya, Maria N. (Haifa, Israel): How to Outsmart the System: Immigrants' Trickster Stories
18.00-18.30 Kippar, Pille (Tallinn, Estonia): Wie unsere Familie nach Estland geraten ist
19.30-20.30 Cultural programme: Concert of Estonian folk hymns by Triskele in St. John's Church
21.00-22.15 Cultural programme: Play Lemminkäinen by the Estonian Heritage Theater Loomine in Sadamateater
Friday, July 29
09.00-20.00 Sightseeing tour by bus
Saturday, July 30
Plenary sessions 5 & 6 Assembly hall
Chair: Noyes, Dorothy
09.00-10.00 Krikmann, Arvo (Tartu, Estonia): Contemporary Linguistic Theories of Humour
10.00-11.00 Lindahl, Carl (Houston, USA): The Uses of Terror: Appalachian Märchen Performed, Reconstructed, and Remembered
11.00-11.30 Tea and coffee break
Session: Narrative Genres - Jokes Jakobi 226
Chair: Krikmann, Arvo
11.30-12.00 Mifsud Chircop, George (Il-Mosta, Malta): A Wise Fool's Anecdotal Cycle in Malta. A Reappraisal
12.00-12.30 Laineste, Liisi (Tartu, Estonia): Political Jokes under Different Regimes
12.30-13.00 Schmidt, Sigrid (Hildesheim, Germany): Children's Talk - Amusing Remarks by Children and Their Relationship to Jokes
Session: Oral History 1 HVB 212
Chair: Briggs, Charles L.
11.30-12.00 Latvala, Pauliina (Helsinki, Finland): The Dialogue Between Individual and History
12.00-12.30 Kalkun, Andreas (Tartu, Estonia): The Seto Women's Autobiographical Songs as Micro Historical Sources
12.30-13.00 Kuutma, Kristin (Tartu, Estonia): Narrative Research and Narrated Lives
13.00-13.30 Makkonen, Elina (Joensuu, Finland): How Institutions Remember? Oral History of University of Joensuu
Session: Nature and Experience HVB 214
Chair: Västrik, Ergo-Hart
11.30-12.00 Hänninen, Kirsi (Turku, Finland): Narrative Construction of Supernatural Experience
12.00-12.30 Hryban Widholm, Victoria (Vienna, Austria): Fire Relicts in the Mountainous Part of Bukovina: Their Use and Transformation in the Folk Narratives and Popular Culture
12.30-13.00 Laurén, Kirsi (Joensuu, Finland): Experiences of Nature
13.00-13.30 Bárth, Dániel (Budapest, Hungary): Narratives about Dogs in an Anthropological Context
Session: Care and Loss 1 Lossi 112
Chair: Vakimo, Sinikka
11.30-12.00 Marander-Eklund, Lena (Turku, Finland): Narratives and Emotions: The Revealing and Concealing Laughter
12.00-12.30 Orimoogunje, Oladele Caleb (Unilag, Akoka, Nigeria): A Symbolic Interpretation of Yoruba Health-Related Genres
12.30-13.00 Paal, Piret (Helsinki, Finland): The Stories of Illness
13.00-13.30 Zoran, Rachel (Haifa, Israel): Back to "Cinderella": Fairy Tales in the Bibliotherapeutic Dialogue
Session: Computer Mediated Communication & Databases 4 Lossi 217
Chair: Fialkova, Larisa
11.30-12.20 Voigt, Vilmos (Budapest, Hungary): Theory of Database in Folk Narrative Studies
12.20-12.50 Vesik, Liisa (Tartu, Estonia): The Narrative Database "Rehepapp" and its Application on the Example of lendva-Tradition
12.50-13.20 Henriksson, Blanka (Turku, Finland): Mapping Folklore - Creating and Using a Database in Folklore Research
Session: Theory and Methods 5 Lossi 327
Chair: Ó Giolláin, Diarmuid
11.30-12.00 Harvilahti, Lauri (Helsinki, Finland): Cultural Dynamics and the Role of Folklore Studies
12.00-12.30 Zolkover, Adam (Bloomington, USA): Transforming Texts and Constructing the Past: Discursivity and Roger Abrahams' "Deep Down in the Jungle"
12.30-13.00 Wehse, Rainer (Munich, Germany): The Effects of Legends, Rumours, and Related Genres on Audiences
13.30-14.00 Britsyna, Oleksandra (Kiev, Ukraine): In the Circle of Permanent Returnings: The Study of Repeated Performances and Some Aspects of the Theory of Oral Tradition
Session: Narrative Genres - Witchcraft Lossi 328
Chair: Anttonen, Veikko
11.30-12.00 Hesz, Agnes (Pécs, Hungary): The Making of a Bewitchment Narrative - A Case Study
12.00-12.30 Zentai, Tünde (Szentendre, Hungary): The Witch and the Bed in Hungarian Narratives
12.30-13.00 Vladykina, Tatyana (Izhevsk, Udmurtia): The Sacral Knowledge in the Images of Udmurt Spells and Narratives of Sorcery Learning
13.00-13.30 Vähi, Tiina (Tartu, Estonia). Ethics and Juridical Categories in Witchcraft Trials on Lycanthropic Beliefs in the Contexts of Archaic Common Law and Christian Ethics
Workshop: Lossi 427
Estonian Tale "The Lake which Flew away" - Telling, Retelling and Variation
11.30-13.30 Watson, Nigel (Penarth,Wales, UK)
13.30-15.00 Lunch
Session: Narrative Genres - Songs Jakobi 226
Chair: Chakraborty, Biplab
15.00-15.30 Konrade, Kristine (Riga, Latvia): The Meter of the Narrative and Lyric Dainas: Old Conventions, New Approaches
15.30-16.00 Porter, Gerald (Vaasa, Finland): "Rook Starving": Plotless Narratives in Children's Worksongs in England
16.00-16.30 Madar, Vered (Jerusalem, Israel): "Women have the power to make (even) a donkey cry". The lamentations of Yemenite Jewish Women: A Jewish-Muslim Meeting of Cultures
Session: Oral History 2 HVB 212
Chair: Latvala, Pauliina
15.00-15.30 Heimo, Anne (Turku, Finland): Building up Oral Narratives as Factual Accounts: What Really Happened during the 1918 Finnish Civil War in Sammatti?
15.30-16.00 Schwarcz Gyöngyi (Budapest, Hungry): The Modification of Minority Identity through Narratives. Three Generations' Retrospective Narratives about the Collective Punishment of Germans in a Hungarian Village after the 2nd World War
16.00-16.30 Raudalainen, Taisto (Tallinn, Estonia): Ethnohistory: Real Events and Narrative Scripts
Session: Community and Communication 2 HVB 214
Chair: Kilianova, Gabriela
15.00-15.30 Schram, Kristinn H. M. (Reykjavik, Iceland): Negotiating the City: Urban Narrative and Identity among Taxi Drivers
15.30-16.00 Sarelin, Mikael Valentin (Turku, Finland): The Role of the Researcher - Fieldwork on the Arena of Extreme Metal
16.00-16.30 Saarikoski, Helena (Helsinki, Finland): Narrators' Voices in Young Girls Speaking about Fandom of the Spice Girls
Session: Care and Loss 2 Lossi 112
Chair: Zoran, Rachel
15.00-15.30 Haanpää, Riina (Turku, Finland): From a Fratricide to Family Memory - Studies about Veikko Haanpää as Images of South Ostrobothnia
15.30-16.00 Koski, Kaarina (Helsinki, Finland): The Power of Death: Different Views in Different Contexts
16.00-16.30 Sandberg, Christina (Turku, Finland): The Power of Grief - a Family has Lost a Member
Session: Computer Mediated Communication & Databases 5 Lossi 217
Chair: Pöysä, Jyrki
15.00-15.30 Gunnell, Terry (Reykjavik, Iceland): Sagnagrunnur: The Icelandic Legend Database
15.30-16.00 Voolaid, Piret (Tartu, Estonia): Carrying a Wolf, a Goat, and a Cabbage across the Stream. Metamorphoses of ATU 1579
16.00-16.30 Van Effelterre, Katrien (Leuven, Belgium): The Flemish Folk Narrative Database (presentation of a website)
Session: Theory and Methods 6 Lossi 327
Chair: Köhler-Zülch, Ines
15.00-15.30 Handoo, Jawaharlal (Mysore, India): Folklore and Discourse and Historical Space: A Theoretical Viewpoint
15.30-16.00 Lehtipuro, Outi (Joensuu, Finland): Advance in Science? Finnish Folkloristics from within
16.30-17.00 Nathalang, Siraporn (Bangkok, Thai): Should We Worship "the Nature Gods" or "the Buddha"?: Messages from Thai-Tai Myths in Southeast Asia
Session: Narrative Genres - Continuity and Changes 4 Lossi 328
Chair: Leete, Art
15.00-15.30 Papamichael-Koutroubas, Anna (Athens, Greece): Narrative Genres in the Greek Area
15.30-16.00 Huuskonen, Marjut (Turku, Finland): Local Discussions about Narrative Genres: Some River Sami Examples
16.00-16.30 Lukin, Kaarina (Helsinki, Finland): Nenets Narratives in Russian: Continuities and Change
16.30-17.00 Tea and coffee break
Session: Narrative Genres - Memorates Jakobi 226
Chair: Hakamies, Pekka
17.00-17.30 Enges, Pasi (Turku, Finland): Memorate: A Uniform Genre? Examples from River Sami Tradition
17.30-18.00 Lozhkina, Elizaveta (Izhevsk, Udmurtia): Memorat or Archaic Tale? (To the problem of Udmurt Narrations)
Session: Oral History 3 HVB 212
Chair: Shojaei Kawan, Christine
17.00-17.30 Kaivola-Bregenhøj, Annikki (Turku, Finland): War as a Turning Point in Life
17.30-18.00 Masoni, Licia (Edinburgh, Scotland): Discussing Variation: the Functions of References to Reality in the Narratives of a Small Mountain Community in the North of Italy
18.00-18.30 Neumann, Siegfried (Rostock, Germany): Autobiographien "einfacher Leute". Private Mitteilung - öffentliches Interesse
Session: Computer Mediated Communication & Databases 6 Lossi 217
Chair: Laukkanen, Kari
17.00-17.30 Baran, Anneli (Tartu, Estonia): How Long are Sayings? Database of Estonian Phrases
17.30-18.00 Järv, Risto (Tartu, Estonia): Proverbs in Estonian Fairy Tales
Session: Theory and Methods 7 Lossi 327
Chair: Uther, Hans-Jörg
17.00-17.30 Bottigheimer, Ruth B. (Stony Brook, USA): Fairy Tale Origins, Fairy Tale Dissemination, and Folk Narrative Theory
17.30-18.00 Repšiene, Rita (Vilnius, Lithuania): Theoretical Narrative Contemplation in Modern Communication: Algirdas Julius Greimas
18.00-18.30 Kobayashi, Fumihiko (Jerusalem, Israel): Forbidden Love in Nature: An Exploration of the Theme of Japanese "Animal Wife" Tales in Terms of the Narrative Structure
Session: Literary Theory Lossi 328
Chair: Barzilai, Shuli
17.00-17.30 Annus, Epp (Tartu, Estonia): Heidegger and van Gogh: Why Philosophers Need Storytelling
17.30-18.00 Tomberg, Jaak (Tartu, Estonia): The Postmodern Nominalism, or, How I Had to Stop Worrying and Started to Differentiate
18.00-18.30 Hughes, Robert (Columbus, USA): Emerson and the Telling of Being
20.00 Congress dinner at Restaurant Atlantis
Sunday, July 31
Plenary session 7 Assembly hall
Chair: Bagheri, Mehri
11.00-12.00 Apo, Satu (Helsinki, Finland): The Relationship between Oral and Literary Tradition as a Challenge in Fairy-Tale Research
12.00-12.30 Tea and coffee break
Session: Oral History 4 HVB 212
Chair: Kaivola-Bregenhøj, Annikki
12.30-13.00 Bula, Dace (Riga, Latvia): Local Past: Contested Histories, Narratives, and Genres
13.00-13.30 Kortelainen, Kaisu (Joensuu, Finland): Oral History of a Factory Community and the Meanings of Places
13.30-14.00 Kropej, Monika (Ljubljana, Slovenia): Folk Narrative in the Era of Electronic Media. From Survival and Folkloristic Performances to Contemporary Legends and other Genres of Narration
Workshop: Lossi 217
Computer Mediated Communication - How Stuff Works?
Chair: Yelenevskaya, Maria
12:30-12.50 Brednich, Rolf W. (Göttingen, Germany): Humour in the Internet
12.50-13.10 Fialkova, Larisa (Haifa, Israel): Emigrants from the FSU and the Russian-Language Internet
13.10-13.30 Kalda, Mare (Tartu, Estonia): Geocatchers and Geomuggles
13.30-14.00 Discussion: New media and perspectives of Internet research
Session: Theory and Methods 8 Lossi 327
Chair: Harvilahti, Lauri
12.30-13.00 Ó Giolláin, Diarmuid (Cork, Ireland): Observations on the Individual and the Collective in the First and Second Life of Folklore
13.00-13.30 Palmenfelt, Ulf (Visby, Sweden): Expanding Worlds. Into the Ethnography of Narrating
13.30-14.00 Pöysä, Jyrki (Joensuu, Finland): Plots, Lives and Histories - the Unity of Action in Non-fiction Narratives
Session: Narrative Genres - Continuity and Changes 5 Lossi 328
Chair: Mathisen, Stein
12.30-13.00 Shaw, John (Edinburgh, UK): (E)migrating Legends and Sea-Change
13.00-13.30 Gwyndaf, Robin (Cardiff, UK): Power Poetry and Poetry in Action: Verse and Narration in Everyday Communication
13.30-14.00 Rosovetski, Stanislav (Kiev, Ukraine): "The Secret Story" as the Oral Narrative Genre of Rebels and Patriots
14.00-15.30 Lunch
15.30-18.00 General Assembly of the ISFNR
19.00 Drinks and informal get-together
Bibliography Workshop
Tartu, 27.-28.07.2005
Estonian Literary Museum, Archival Library, small hall
(Vanemuise 42)
Wednesday, 27 Juli 2005
10.30 Coffee/Tea
11.00 Opening
11.10 Presentation of the IVB
11.30 Rooleid, Karin Maria: Ethnological Subject Words and Category Boundaries in English and German
12.30 Busche, Klaus-Peter: Presentation of the Programm IVB-Bismas and the Preliminary online version)
13.30 Free Discussion
14.00 Coffee/Tea
14.30 Kuula-Bruun, Meri & af Forselles-Riska, Cecilia: Presentation of the Finnish Bibliography
15.30 Free Discussion
16.30 Dinner
Thursday, 28 July 2005
08.30 Coffee/Tea
09.00 Brundell, Mattias & Hermfelt, Dag: M. Presentation of the Swedish Bibliography
10.00 Free Discussion
11.00 Coffee/Tea
11.30 Huber, Ernst J.: Presentation of the Swiss Bibliography
12.30 Free Discussion
13.00 Lunch
14.30 Free Discussion
16.30 Closing
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