Theoretical Approaches to Comparative Mythology, including Transitions and metamorphoses in myth


Thirteenth Annual International Conference on Comparative Mythology
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Annual Conference of the Centre of Excellence in Estonian Studies


10-14 June 2019, Tartu, Estonian Literary Museum

PROGRAM


  • MONDAY, JUNE 10


    • 09:00 – 09:30PARTICIPANTS REGISTRATION
    09:30 – 10:00OPENING ADDRESSES:
    MICHAEL WITZEL, Harvard University, USA; IACM
    URMAS SUTROP, Estonian Literary Museum, Tartu, Estonia
    MARE KÕIVA, Estonian Literary Museum, Tartu, Estonia
    MONDAY MORNING SESSION: COMPARATIVE AND THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES I CHAIR: MICHAEL WITZEL
    10:00 – 10:30YURI BEREZKIN, Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography, St. Petersburg, Russia THE FOLKTALE. CATEGORIES OF MOTIFS, PATTERNS OF MOTIFS' SPREAD AND HISTORY OF EURASIA
    10:30 – 11:00PAOLO BARBARO, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris, France THE BRAIN , THE SOCIAL GROUP AND HISTORY : PRELIMINARY RESULTS OF TESTS AND STATISTICS DEVISED TO DISCUSS CHANCES OF PAREIDOLIA, CONVERGING EVOLUTION AND RANDOMNESS IN ASTERISMS AND (MYTHOLOGICAL) NARRATIVE
    11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break
    11:30 –12:00MARCIN LISIECKI, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland DOES MYTH HAVE TO BE OLD? PHILOSOPHICAL INTRODUCTION TO THE THEORY OF MYTH
    12:00 – 12:40SPECIAL LECTURE: ANTTI TAMM The Centre of Excellence “Dark Side of the Universe”, Tartu Observatory, Estonia COSMIC MYTHOLOGY
    12:40 – 14:00 Lunch Break
    MONDAY AFTERNOON SESSION : MYTHOLOGY OF METAMORPHOSES I CHAIR: MARE KÕIVA
    14:00 – 14:30KEIKO TAZAWA, The Ancient Orient Museum, Tokyo, Japan TRANSFORMING GODDESSES IN ANCIENT EGYPT
    14:30 – 15:00LUCIE VINŠOVÁ, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic SEEING THROUGH THE EYES OF OTHERS: PERCEPTUAL AND LANGUAGE ASPECTS OF SHAPESHIFTING IN SHAMANIC RITUAL PRACTICES OF THE SELECTED SOUTH AMERICAN TRIBES
    15:00 – 15:30ATTILA MÁTÉFFY, University of Bonn, Germany TRANSFORMATION AND PASSAGE IN A NORTH EURASIAN MYTHOLOGICAL AND RITUAL TRADITION: ANIMISM, SHAMANISM, EMBODIMENT, AND INDIGENOUS ONTOLOGY
    15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break
    16:00 – 16:30ONDŘEJ PIVODA, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic THE CALL OF THE SHAMAN'S DRUM [PRESENTED IN ABSENTIA BY VÁCLAV BLAŽEK]
    16:30 – 17:00HITOSHI YAMADA, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan HUMAN-CANINE INTERACTION AND TRANSFORMATION DESCRIBED IN DOG ANCESTOR MYTHS
    17:00 – 17:30MARIA V. S TANYUKOVICH, Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography, St. Petersburg, Russia SHAPESHIFTERS IN PHILIPPINE MYTHOLOGY
    17:30 – 18:00ŠTĚPÁN KUCHLEI, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic THE DOLPHIN AND THE DRAGON: COMPARING HINDU AND BUDDHIST ASPECTS OF A HUMAN/ANIMAL TRANSFORMATION – AN EXAMPLE OF METAMORPHOSIS IN TWO CAMBODIAN MYTHS
    19:00 – Reception University of Tartu History Museum (Tartu Cathedral) White Hall Lossi 25, Tartu


  • TUESDAY, JUNE 11


    • TUESDAY MORNING SESSION: MYTHOLOGY OF METAMORPHOSES II CHAIR: HITOSHI YAMADA
    09:00 – 09:30LYUBOV LISKI, University of Helsinki, Finland KOMI BELIEFS AND PRACTICES CONCERNING THE REGULAR MONTHLY PURIFICATION OF THE FEMALE BODY
    09:30 – 10:00MARINA VALENTSOVA, Institute of Slavic Studies, Moscow, Russia METAMORPHOSES AND TRANSFORMATIONS IN SLAVIC DEMONOLOGY
    10:00 – 10:30LOUISE MILNE, University of Edinburgh, UK METAMORPHOSIS, MYTH, DREAMS & DESIRE: THE CASE OF THE WATERWOMAN
    10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
    11:00 – 11:30 SEÁN MARTIN, Edinburgh Napier University, UK GHOSTLY TRANSFORMATIONS: SUPERNATURAL SHAPESHIFTING IN MEDIAEVAL ENGLISH HISTORIES
    MYTHOLOGY OF METAMORPHOSES IN THE MODERN ART
    11:30 – 12:00 JOEL DIETZ, Palo Alto, California, USA BURNING MAN AND META -MYTHOLOGICAL LANGUAGE
    12:00 – 12:30 SACHIE KIYOKAWA, Kobe University, Japan TO CALL UPON THE ANCESTORS: THE MEANING OF BECOMING PART OF MYTH IN BLACK PANTHER
    12:30 – 14:00 Lunch Break
    TUESDAY AFTERNOON SESSION : COMPARATIVE AND THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES II CHAIR: YURI BEREZKIN
    14:00 – 14:30DMITRI PANCHENKO, St. Petersburg State University, Russia THE RELEVANCE OF CELESTIAL PHENOMENA TO CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY
    14:30 – 15:00MICHAEL WITZEL, Harvard University, USA IS IT RACIST TO COMPARE DATA?
    15:00 – 15:30 NATALIYA YANCHEVSKAYA, Princeton University, USA PROBING THE BOUNDARIES OF COMPARATIVE MYTHOLOGY: ON METHOD AND MATTER
    15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break
    16:00 – 16:30KAZUO MATSUMURA, Wako University, Tokyo, Japan THREE TYPES OF STRUCTURE: PROPP, CHIASMUS, AND LÉVI-STRAUSS
    16:30 – 17:00ARJAN STERKEN, Groningen, The Netherlands IN-BETWEEN DĒMĒTĒR AND PERSEPHONĒ: COGNITIVE THEORY AND THE BINARY PRINCIPLE
    17:00 – 17:45 METHODOLOGY IN COMPARATIVE MYTHOLOGY: GENERAL DISCUSSION


  • WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12


    • WEDNESDAY MORNING SESSION: METAMORPHOSES AND TRANSITIONS IN THE INDO-EUROPEAN MYTHOLOGY CHAIR: KAZUO MATSUMURA
    09:00 – 09:30JAN A. KOZÁK, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic & University of Bergen, Norway BODY AND COSMOS: THE LOGIC OF MYTHICAL TRANSFORMATIONS IN OLD NORSE RELIGION
    09:30 – 10:00SIGNE COHEN, University of Missouri, USA FLESH TO STONE, STONE TO FLESH: LITHIC TRANSFORMATIONS IN INDO-EUROPEAN MYTH
    10:00 – 10:30JOSEPH HARRIS, Harvard University, USA & NATALIYA YANCHEVSKAYA, Princeton University, USA SEXUAL M ETAMORPHOSIS AND ‘THE BINARY’
    10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
    11:00 – 11:30YAROSLAV VASSILKOV, Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography, St. Petersburg, Russia INDIAN MYTHOLOGY OF THE CAVE IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE
    11:30 – 12:00KRZYSZTOF GUTOWSKI, University of Warsaw, Poland AGNIHOTRA AS A RITUAL MODEL OF AND MODEL FOR THE TRANSFORMATIONS OF REALITY
    12:00 – 12:30 BORIS O GUIBÉNINE, University of Strasbourg, France BUDDHIST HELL AS SACRIFICE METAMORPHOSED
    12:30 – 14:30 Lunch Break Business Lunch for IACM Board of Directors and Conference Organizers
    WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON SESSION: MYTHOLOGY OF THE AMERICAS AND EAST ASIA CHAIR: LOUISE MILNE
    14:30 – 15:00PETRA VOGLER. Ludwigsburg University of Education, Germany PWATAKIS AND DIVINATION SYSTEMS PREDOMINANTLY PRACTICED IN THE TWO MAJOR CUBAN CULTS SANTERÍA (REGLA DE OCHÁ ) AND PALO MONTE (LAS REGLAS DE CONGO)
    15:00 – 15:30MARTÍN CUITZEO DOMÍNGUEZ NUÑEZ, Center for Research and Advanced Studies in Social Anthropology (CIESAS), Mexico City, Mexico FLOUR IN THE SKY : A NORTHWEST MEXICO PAIPAI MYTH ABOUT THE ORIGIN OF MILKY WAY
    15:30 – 16:00 MICHAL SCHWARZ, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic REPTILES, AMPHIBIANS AND THEIR EMOTIONAL POLARITY IN EAST ASIAN FOLK TALES
    16:00 – 16:30 Coffee Break
    16:30 – 17:00 YOKO NAONO, International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan DISTRIBUTION AND CHARACTERISTICS OF THE MOTIF OF “THE ORIGIN OF PEOPLE’S DEATH” IN JAPAN
    17:00 – 17:300KOKO NANGO, Kobe University, Japan SAN-JIN, HUNTER, AND CHRISTIANITY: THE OVERLAPPING IMAGE OF THE MISSIONARIES AND IMAGINARY PEOPLE LIVING IN THE MOUNTAIN
    17:30 – 18:000 JINGHUA HUANG, Yunnan University, China STORY AND RITUAL: HOW TO UNDERSTAND THE LAHU’S CREATION MYTH IN FOUR VILLAGES?


  • THURSDAY, JUNE 13


    • THURSDAY MORNING SESSION: MYTHOLOGY AROUND THE WORLD I CHAIR: NATALIYA YANCHEVSKAYA
    INDO-EUROPEAN MYTHOLOGIES
    09:00 – 09:30NATĀLIJA ABROLA, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia OLD INDIAN AŚVINĪ, UṢAS , AND LATVIAN DIEVA DĒLI: POTENTIAL PARALLELS
    09:30 – 10:00YURI KLEINER, St. Petersburg State University, Russia FROM THE RAGE OF GODS TO SWEARING (SEMANTICS OF THE OLD GERMANIC ‘INNER WORLD’)
    10:00 – 10:30 VÁCLAV B LAŽEK, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic WOLF OR SHE-WOLF AS A FOSTER IN INDO-EUROPEAN MYTHOLOGICAL TRADITIONS AND BEYOND
    10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
    11:00 – 11:30 ALDIS PŪTELIS, Riga, Latvia WHAT IF GRUNAU WAS RIGHT? AN OLD-PRUSSIAN CHRONICLE AS A SOURCE FOR MYTHOLOGY RESEARCH
    MYTHOLOGY OF THE MIDDLE EAST
    11:30 – 12:00LEILA ABDI, Shiraz University, Iran THE INFLUENCE OF VEGETAL AND MARTYR GODS ON THE CONSTRUCTION OF “HUSSEIN”: A COMPARISON OF TAMMUZ AND SYAVASH
    12:00 – 12:30 VLADIMIR SAZONOV, University of Tartu, Estonia THE ROLE OF BEER IN SUMERO-AKKADIAN AND HITTITE MYTHOLOGIES: SOME COMPARATIVE NOTES
    12:30 – 14:00 Lunch Break
    THURSDAY AFTERNOON SESSION: MYTHOLOGY AROUND THE WORLD II CHAIR: BORIS OGUIBÉNINE
    SLAVIC AND FINNO-UGRIC MYTHOLOGY
    14:00 – 14:30YULIA A. KRASHENINNIKOVA, Institute of Language, Literature, and History of Komi Science Center, Syktyvkar, Russia MYTHOLOGICAL CONTEXTS IN THE RITUAL DIALOGUES OF THE RUSSIAN WEDDING CEREMONY
    14:30 – 15:00 ELENA BOGANEVA, Center for the Belarusian Culture, Language, and Literature Researches, Minsk, Belarus & MARE KÕIVA & ANDRES KUPERJANOV, Estonian Literary Museum, Tartu, Estonia MYTHS RELATED TO TREES
    15:00 – 15:30 REET HIIEMÄE, Estonian Literary Museum, Tartu, Estonia MAPPING THE TRAJECTORIES OF THE PLAGUE SPIRIT : A CASE STUDY OF HANDLING COLLECTIVE FEAR
    15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break
    MYTHOLOGY OF MONGOLIA AND AFRICA
    16:00 – 16:30MARIA MAGDOLNA TATÁR, Oslo, Norway A HOLY MOUNTAIN IN THE DESERT GOBI, MONGOLIA, HUNTING GROUND AND HOLY PLACE
    16:30 – 17:00 JOHN M. SAUL, Paris, France ELAND AND STORK, AND THE ORIGIN OF HUMANITY’S OLDEST BELIEFS
    17:00 – 17:45 MUSICAL SURPRISE


  • FRIDAY, JUNE 14




    • FRIDAY MORNING SESSION: TRANSFORMATION, MYTHOLOGY, AND MODERNITY CHAIR: MARCIN LISIECKI
    09:00 – 09:30SIARHEI ANOSHKA, Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University, Warsaw, Poland METAMORPHOSIS OF THE FOUNDING MYTH OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS (MORMONS): THE PROPHET JOSEPH SMITH AND REVELATION
    09:30 – 10:00 ANNELI MIHKELEV, Tallinn University, Estonia THE BIBLICAL MYTHS IN CONTEMPORARY CULTURE
    10:00 – 10:30KATHERINE ANNA NEW, New College, University of Oxford, UK THE METAMORPHOSES OF MYTH IN RUSSIAN NEO-CLASSICAL DRAMA: TRANSFORMING THE PRELUDE TO THE TROJAN CYCLE
    10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
    11:00 – 11:30INDREK OJAM, University of Tartu, Estonia USING MYTH FOR THE SAKE OF LITERARY REALISM: THE CASE OF MATI UNT
    11:30 – 12:00ALEXANDRA YATSYK, Polish Centre of Advanced Studies, Warsaw, Poland NECROPOLITICAL MYTHMAKING AND NATIONALISM: THE CASE OF POLAND
    12:00 – 12:20 POSTERS DISCUSSION:
    HASMIK HMAYAKYAN Institute of Oriental Studies, Yerevan, Armenia AROUND SOME COMMONALITIES IN R ITES R ELATED TO HATTI-HITTITE GODS HAŠAMILI AND TELEPINU
    URMAS SUTROP Estonian Literary Museum, Tartu, Estonia METAMORPHOSIS IN SNOW WHITE FAIRY TALES
    12:20 – 13:00 GENERAL DISCUSSION & CONCLUDING REMARKS
    19:00 – Conference Closing Dinner Vilde and Vine Restaurant Vallikraavi 4, Tartu


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