The Annual Folklorists' Conference "Haldjas 10"
The Estonian Literary Museum's Folklorist Department is holding the
folklorist winter conference "Haldjas 10" on December 15-16, 1005, at
Marguse Puhkekeskus, Nüpli, near Otepää.
This conference celebrates ten years of the first and so far only folklore
server Haldjas.folklore.ee in Estonia. The server Haldjas, born in December
1995, contains in addition to current folkloristic information web also
pages on folklore and belief of Finno-Ugric peoples, article collections,
databases, electronic publications, scientific journals Folklore and
Mäetagused, translations of theoretical articles of the field. Haldjas is
also symbolic of the ten years of comupterisation in Estonian
folkloristics, having on the one hand made the folklorist's technical work
easier (expressed by the unforeseen number of printed and virtual
publications, the digitisation of folklore archives, maintaining and access
to the digitised data via computers and computer networks) and on the other
hand, having given birth to a new subject of study in the form of electronic folklore.
The conference aims to make a brief review of the past ten years of
developmental issues of computerisation in folkloristics, to search for new
interesting theoretical and practical solutions and trend forecasts. We
welcome to the conference (with or without a presentation) everyone whose
folkloristic research interests and output are to some extent related to
the electronic world.
We ask that those willing to contribute a paper (20+10 minutes with
discussion) send the preliminary title or topic by November 10 together
with some information about themselves (name, institution, position, e-mail
address, phone). By December 1, we expect the final title and short
abstract (up to half a page electronically). It is possible to use
computer, internet and video projector at the conference site. Poster
presentations are welcome.
Since the space is limited, participants are asked to register by November
25 on the mail address given below. Please add your name, institution,
position, mailing address and phone.
The conference participation fee is 100 Kroons (free for performers),
including accommodation, food and transport from the Literary Museum in
Tartu to Nüpli and back.
Piret Voolaid
Estonian Literary Museum, Folkloristics Department
Vanemuise 42, Tartu 50003
Phone: +372-7377 742
Faks: +372-7377 706
E-mail: piret@folklore.ee
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