9.00 Visit to the Department of Estonian and Comparative Folklore (Ülikooli 16-208) 10.00–11.30 Two parallel sessions White Hall, Chair: Lotte Tarkka: Mare Kõiva (Tartu, Estonia) Kalevipoeg as the Basis of New Narrative Forms Ülo Valk (Tartu, Estonia) The Kalevipoeg, Mediumship and Discursive Authority of the Other World Mihály Hoppál (Budapest, Hungary) Heroic Epics of the World – Research History and Future Tasks Conference Hall, Chair: Mari Sarv: Ranibala Khumukcham (Imphal, India) Folk Epic: A Study on KhambaThoibi of Manipur Paul Hagu (Tartu, Estonia) A wave of Epics in Setomaa (1920–1930) Sonja Petrović (Belgrade, Serbia) Oral Epic Tradition about the Battle of Kosovo 1389: Story Models, Forms, Ideologies 11.30–12.00 Coffee/tea break 12.00–13.30 Two parallel sessions White Hall, Chair: Liina Lukas: Eve Pormeister (Tartu, Estonia) Das estnische Epos Kalevipoeg in der Spannung zwischen Nationalem und Menschheitlich-Universellem am Beispiel der Höllenfahrtszenen Risto Järv(Tartu, Estonia) Construction of ‘Pre-Kalevipoeg’: K. Ganander/K. J. Peterson's Finnische Mythologie Cornelius Hasselblatt (Groningen, Netherlands) German Rewritings of the Estonian Kalevipoeg. On the German Reception of the Estonian Epic in the 19th Century Conference Hall, Chair: Jonathan Roper: Tatiana Bulgakova (St. Petersburg, Russia) The Motif of Competition in Siberian Shamanic Tales Nina Yurchenkova (Saransk, Russia) From Mythology to Heroic Consciousness (Based on the Example of the Mordovian Epos) Margaret Lyngdoh (Tartu, Estonia) Elements of Epic in Ritual among the Khasis 13.30–15.00 Lunch 15.00–16.30 Two parallel sessions White Hall, Chair: Madis Arukask: Arne Merilai (Tartu, Estonia) The Kalevipoeg: Aspects of Authorship Katre Kikas (Tartu, Estonia) “Dr. Kreutzwald Has Been Blamed…” A Village Tailor H. A. Schults Defending the Authenticity of Kreutzwald’s Kalevipoeg Conference Hall, Chair: Mihály Hoppál: Jouni Hyvönen (Helsinki, Finland) Elias Lönnrot’s Ethno-historical View of the Finnish Mythology in the Kalevala Pille-Riin Larm (Tartu, Estonia) Estonian Mythopoeia. Myths, Epics and Identity Ott Heinapuu (Tartu, Estonia) Estonian Civil Religion: The Kalevipoeg and Sacred Oak Groves of Taara 16.30–17.00 Coffee/tea break 17.30 Visit to the Estonian Literary Museum (Vanemuise 42)