Folklore Fellows’ Summer School 1999 Programme

9.8. MONDAY

Morning
Opening:
Keijo Virtanen, Rector of the University of Turku
Gustav Björkstrand, Rector of Åbo Akademi University
Plenum 1: Lauri Honko, Thick Corpus and Organic Variation
Presentation of participants

Afternoon
Plenum 2: Anna-Leena Siikala,Variation and Genre as Practice
Workshop II Keynote: John Miles Foley, Individual Poet and Epic Tradition
Workshops I-IV

Workshop I. Group Leaders: Ulrich Marzolph & Anna-Leena Siikala
Variation and Textuality in Oral Literature

Workshop II. Group Leaders: John Miles Foley & Lauri Harvilahti
Variation and Textuality in Oral Epics

Workshop III. Group Leaders: Barbro Klein & Ulrika Wolf-Knuts
Principles of Fieldwork and Archiving
Workshop IV. Group Leaders: Margaret Mills & Lauri Honko
Folkloristic Research Ethics

10.8. TUESDAY

Morning
Workshop III Keynote: Barbro Klein, Folklore Archives, Heritage Politics and Ethical Dilemmas: Notes on Writing and Printing

Panel 1: Maria Vasenkari, Armi Pekkala & 2-3 invited panelists
Dialogic Methodology & Producing Thick Data

Afternoon
Workshop I Keynote: Ulrich Marzolph,
Variation, Stability and the Constitution of Meaning

Workshops I-IV

Demo 1: Pictorial ethnography I: Video.
Scholars present their experience of audiovisual documentation and its relevance in analytic work.

11.8. WEDNESDAY

Morning
Plenum 3: Lauri Harvilahti, Variation and Memory

Panel 2: Tove Fjell, Lena Marander-Eklund & 2-3 invited panelists
Variation in Repeated Interviews

Afternoon
Workshop IV Keynote: Margaret Mills, The Question of Truth in Folk Narrative Research

Excursion to the historical town of Turku, including a visit to the archaeological museum Aboa Vetus et Ars Nova.

12.8. THURSDAY

Morning
Workshop IV Keynote: Lauri Honko, Safeguarding Tradition as Ethics

Panel 3: Rionach ui Ogain, Jyrki Pöysä & 2-3 invited panelists
Comments on Context, Text and Subtext & Variation in Archived Jokes

Afternoon
Workshop III Keynote: Ulrika Wolf-Knuts, On the Construction of Research Material

Workshops I-IV

Demo 2: Archiving systems. Different systems of archiving and experiences of their digitalisation.

13.8. FRIDAY

Morning
Plenum 4: Senni Timonen, Thick Corpus and the Poetics of a Singer

Panel 4: Ilkka Pyysiäinen, Seppo Knuuttila & 2-3 invited panelists Variation from a Cognitive Perspective & How to Seize Mentalities

Afternoon
Workshops I-IV

Kalevala and the World’s Traditional Epics

14.8. SATURDAY

Morning
Opening session
Welcome, Keijo Virtanen, Rector of the University of Turku
Opening, Heikki Koski, Governor of West Finland
Lauri Honko, The Kalevala as Performance

Session 2
Dell Hymes, Lineaments and Approximations
Karl Reichl, Genealogy and Heroic Conduct in Turkic Oral Epics
John William Johnson, Contribution to the Theory of Oral Poetic Composition

Afternoon
Session 3
Minna Skafte Jensen, Homeric Performance
John Miles Foley, Story-Pattern as Sêma: The Odyssey as a Return Song
Clive Tolley, Oral Assumptions: A Warning from Old Norse

Session 4
Anna-Leena Siikala, Different Cultures, Different Voices: A View on Kalevalaic Poetry
Georgij A. Levinton, The Influence of the Kalevala on the “Artificial” Epic (Hiawatha and Kalevala revisited)
John B. Alphonso Karkala, The Nature of Heroic Action in “Traditional” Epics: Consideration of Some Events in the Kalevala

Evening
Reception by the City of Turku

15.8. SUNDAY

Morning
Session 5
Panel 1: Traditional Epics of the Eastern Baltic Sea Region
Senni Timonen, A Singer’s Response to the Kalevala
Elina Rahimova, Crystallized Imagery Manifested Through Variation in Lemminkäinen’s Journey to Päivölä
Ülo Valk, From Prose to Verse: the Case of Legends in the Kalevipoeg
Madis Arukask, Restructured Runo-songs in Estonian and Setu National Epics
Paul Hagu, Anne Vabarna as the Singer of the Setu Epic Peko
Seppo Suhonen, Wealth of Language in the Setu Epic Peko and its Translation
Lauri Harvilahti, The Bear Slayer of Andrejs Pumpurs as an Ideological Epic

Session 6
Panel 2: Indian Epic Traditions
C. N. Ramachandran, Ambivalence and Angst: A Note on Indian Folk Epics
Sabir Badalkhan, A Study of the Roles of Composer and Performer of a Balochi Epic

Afternoon
Session 7
Panel 3: Iranian Epic Traditions
Jaan Puhvel, Constraints on Historicity in the Book of Kings
Mehri Bagheri, The Mythical Structure of Iranian Epic
Ulrich Marzolph, The Persian National Epic Shahnamed in between Tradition and Ideology

Session 8
Panel 4: Southeast European Epic Traditions
Elena Agoston-Nikolova, The Construction of the National Epic Tradition
Nicolae Constantinescu, Cultural Context and Performance Context

Session 9
Panel 5: Nordic Epic Traditions
David Elton Gay, The 1849 Kalevala: Romantic Epic as Finnish Tradition
Margaretha Mellberg, Epic in the Faroe Islands
Osmo Pekonen, How Beowulf Sailed to Finland
Susan E. Walima, Kalevala-Tradition Among Finnish-Americans: Values, Community and Heritage

Evening
Banquet

Folklore Fellows’ Summer School 1999 Programme

16.8. MONDAY

Morning
Plenum 5: Dell Hymes, Variation and Narrative Competence

Panel 5: Tuija Hovi, Päivikki Suojanen, Ülo Valk & 2-3 invited panelists
Textualising Religious Experience & The Encounter of Rural and Urban Traditions

Afternoon
Workshops I-IV

17.8. TUESDAY

Morning
Plenum 6: Ulrika Wolf-Knuts, On the History of Folkloristic Comparison

Panel 6: Anders Salomonsson, Ann-Helene Bolstad Skjelbred & 2-3 invited panelists
Documentation and Research & Problems and Limitations – A Critical Look at a Norwegian Tradition Archive

Afternoon
Workshops I-IV

Demo 3: Pictorial ethnography II: Photography. Scholars present their experience of audiovisual documentation and its relevance in analytic work.

18.8. WEDNESDAY

Morning
Plenum 7: Annikki Kaivola-Bregenhoj, Varying Folklore

Panel 7: Patricia Nyberg, Marjut Huuskonen, Pasi Enges & 2-3 invited panelists
Observations on Interview in a Depth Study on Saami Folklore

Afternoon
Excursion to the traditional landscapes of Southwest Finland

Folklore Fellows’ Party at “Cave of Louhi” in Laitila

19.8. THURSDAY

Morning
Plenum 8: Barbro Klein, The Miracle in Södertälje, Sweden: Mass Media, Interethnic Politics, and the Profusion of Text and Images

Panel 8: Carola Ekrem, Rionach ui Ogain & 2-3 invited panelists
Variation and Continuity in Children’s Counting-out Rhymes & Aspects of Change in the Irish Language Tradition

Afternoon
Workshops I-IV

20.8. FRIDAY

Morning
Plenum 9: Margaret Mills, Women’s Tricks: Subordination and Subversion in Afghan Folktales

Panel 9: Lauri Honko, Anneli Honko & 2-3 invited panelists
Variation and Textuality in Oral Epics: a South Indian Case

Afternoon
Workshops I-IV

21.8. SATURDAY

Morning
Workshop I: Report by the Group
Variation and Textuality in Oral Literature

Workshop II: Report by the Group
Variation and Textuality in Oral Epics

Afternoon
Workshop III: Report by the Group
Principles of Fieldwork and Archiving

Workshop IV: Report by the Group
Folkloristic Research Ethics

22.8. SUNDAY

Morning
Closing discussion

Afternoon
Departure
or:
Excursion to Mannerheim’s home Louhisaari in Askainen and to Uusikaupunki, a small coastal town.

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