Perspectives on Contemporary Legend

International Society for Contemporary Legend Research

34th International Conference

Programme

    Tuesday, June 28

9.00 – 10.00 Registration
10.00 – 11.30 Session 1

Christine Shojaei Kawan - Walter Anderson as an Innovator

Eda Kalmre - Some Remarks on Urban Legends and Their Collecting Process in Estonia in the 1990s

Carme Oriol and Emili Samper - Collecting, Archiving and Studying Rumours and Contemporary Legends Today

 

11.30 – 12.00 Coffee break
12.00 – 13.30 Session 2

Radvilė Racėnaitė - Folk Narrative and the Internet: Christian Saints and God in a Digital World

Rae Muhlstock - Knossos in the Catskills: The Mythopoesis of Michael Ayrton’s Arkville Maze

Gail de Vos - The Norse God Bragi in Popular Culture

 

13.30 – 15.00 Lunch break
15.00 – 16.30 Session 3

Véronique Campion-Vincent - Native Americans as a Source of Wisdom. History and Analysis of a Contemporary Mythology

Eleanor Hasken - “Some of My Experiences, I Just Want to Share”: Tellability in Alien Abduction Narratives

Theo Meder - BLACK STORIES. Kwispels, Contemporary Legends etc. as Card Games

 

17.30 – Tour of Old Town
19.00 Reception at the Estonian Academy of Sciences, Kohtu 6 (at Toompea Hill)

    Wednesday, June 29

9.00 – 10.30 Session 4

Anna Kirzyuk - Death to Soviet Children in a Black Car: The History and Meaning of the Child’s Horror Story

Jeanmarie Rouhier-Willoughby - Stalin or the Bolsheviks?

Sandy Hobbs and David Main - The Vanishing Hitchhiker: Then and Now

 

10.30 – 11.00 Coffee break
11.00. – 12.30 Session 5

Anastasiya Astapova - Fraud or Sham? Rumor and Humor on Elections in Belarus

Patricia A. Turner - For Better or for Worse: Folklore and Michelle Obama

Rita Repšienė and Odeta Žukauskienė - Utopias, Fictions and Dead Cities: Reality and Perspectives

 

12.30 – 14.00 Lunch break
14.00 – 15.30 Session 6

Reet Hiiemäe - Fate, Miracle Doctors and Magical Interventions: Contemporary Beliefs about Childlessness in Interaction with the Mass Media

Mare Kõiva, Rahel Laura Vesik - Loyal Dogs – That have touched many hearts

Peter Burger - White Van Stories: Stranger Danger, Rhetoric, and Media

 

15.30 – 16.00 Coffee break
16.00 – 17.30 Session 7

David Clarke - “Can’t Believe a Word You Read, Sir, Can You?”: The Role of Soldiers, Spies and Journalists in the Dissemination of WWI Rumour-Legends

Filip Graliński - Forteana, Urban Legends or Journalistic Copy Paste? Weird Stories in the Interwar Polish Press

Carolyn E. Ware - A Dog Named Tank and Other Tales of Animal Rescue

18.00 Tour of Old Town

    Thursday, June 30

Excursion to Lahemaa

    Friday, July 1

9.00 – 10.30 Session 8

Zuzana Panczová - The “West” in Conspiracy Theories in Slovakia

Alexander Panchenko - Organ Theft Legends in Russia: Conspiracy Theories, the Authoritarian State and Consumer Society

Daria Radchenko - Secret Bodies, Stolen Organs: Legend Motives of the Ukrainian Crisis

 

10.30 – 11.00 Coffee break
11.00 – 12.30 Session 9

Aurore Van de Winkel - The Disappearance of Flight MH370: Rumours, Legends and Theories in the French Sphere

J. J. Dias Marques - “The Grateful Terrorist” in the Portuguese Oral Tradition

Rosemary V. Hathaway - Legendary Personal Experience Narratives from a Vietnam-War Era Protest

 

12.30 – 14.00 Lunch break
14.00 – 15.30 Session 10

Mikel Koven - The Haunted Antiquarian: BBC’s "Ghost Stories for Christmas", Antiquarian Investigations and Folk Horror

Andrea Kitta - Supernatural Contagion: Suicide, Violence, and Slender Sickness in the Slender Man Phenomenon

Jan Pohunek - Shadows, Sounds and Energies: On the Phenomenology of Haunted Places

 

15.30 – 15.45 Coffee break
15.45 – 17.00 General meeting

 

19.00 Conference Dinner

    Saturday, July 2

10.00- 12.00 Session 11

Mare Kalda - Sacrifices at the Unearthing of Treasure: Legends and Beyond

John M. Bodner - Pot Labourers’ Communication Ecologies: Rumour, Legend and Occupational Narratives among Marijuana Growers

Elena Iugai - The Magic Requital in Russian Everyday Narratives

 

Conference closing