25.09.2014

Olete oodatud Akadeemilise Rahvaluule Seltsi kõnekoosolekule

Neljapäeval, 25. septembril 2014 kell 16.15
Eesti Kirjandusmuuseumi saalis (Vanemuise 42)

Kavas:

• Tuulikki Kurki (Ida-Soome ülikool) – “Borders and Cultural Studies” (Ettekanne inglise keeles)

Väljaannete tutvustused:

• Folklore 58 erinumber. Eesti ja läti folkloristide ja etnoloogide uurimusi Siberi rahvuskaaslastest.
  Külalistoimetaja Anu Korb.
  http://www.folklore.ee/folklore/vol58/
• Imemuinasjutud 2 (Eesti muinasjutud I:2).
  Koost. Risto Järv, Mairi Kaasik, Kärri Toomeos-Orglaan.
  http://www.folklore.ee/kirjastus/?raamat=55

Kõik on oodatud kuulama!

Kõnekoosoleku korraldajad:

Akadeemiline rahvaluule selts, Tartu Ülikooli eesti ja võrdleva rahvaluule osakond
Info: Tiiu Jaago 737 5214, Pihla Maria Siim 737 6256

Ettekande lühitutvustus:

The presentation highlights some intellectual trends that have been used in examining more or less explicit borders in the cultural research since the late nineteenth century until the twenty-first century in the European and Anglo-American contexts. The presentation focuses e.g. on questions: 1) what kinds of representations of borders the concepts and models introduced in these theories have created?; 2) what kind of additional understanding about borders cultural research can convey in the multidisciplinary field of border studies?; 3) who form the so-called interpretive community, that control the representations and interpretations of borders in the cultural research? This presentation argues that cultural research focusing on micro-level perspectives of individuals and groups at borders, is able to make visible such elementary understandings and meanings of borders that cannot be reached through the larger, dominating, macro-level perspectives, and therefore it is important to recognize these understandings about the borders. Furthermore, this paper claims that one of the strengths of cultural research is the diversification of the interpretive community that creates the representations of borders in research during the latter half of the twentieth century. Therefore, the understanding of borders has become more versatile in research.

Tuulikki Kurki is a Senior Researcher in cultural studies at the Karelian Institute of the University of Eastern Finland and a Docent in Folklore research. Her research interests include Finnish language literature in Russian Karelia, writing cultures on borderlands, and amateur writers in Finland. In 2010–2014 she is a responsible leader of the research project “Writing Cultures and Traditions at Borderlands” funded by the Academy of Finland. (See www.uef.fi/wctb)

Tuulikki Kurki, Senior Researcher
Karelian Institute, University of Eastern Finland
tuulikki.kurki@uef.fi
www.uef.fi/wctb