Contents of FF Network
10
(May 1995)
- Oral and Semiliterary Epics: A Panel in Mysore
- Folklore Fellows' Summer School 1995. Preliminary Programme
- Folklore Fellows in Gender Studies in Mysore
- Folklore Fellows in Gender Studies - list of members
- FF Advisory Committee Nominated New Members
- Textualization of Oral Epics. Call for Papers
Other related topics
- Tradition and Conlicting Identities - FF Summer School 1995
- Towards the Nightless Night
- Folklorists in Search of Identity. The Folklore Fellows' Summer School 1995
International training course for the study of folklore and traditional culture
(FFN 10, May 1995: 7-8)
Tradition and Conflicting Identities
June 26 - July 9, 1995
Joensuu University, Mekrijärvi
Research Station, Finland
Preliminary Programme
Monday, June 26th
10.00 Arrival: Registration, accommodation, orientation to the programme.
20.00 Get-together. All participants on the course will be given the opportunity to introduce themselves (1-2 min.).
Tuesday, June 27th
Cultural Identity and Survival
8.45 Anna-Leena Siikala: Opening
speech.
9.00 Lauri Honko: Traditions in
the Construction of Cultural Identity and the Strategies of Ethnic Survival.
11.00 Hermann Bausinger: Beyond
Cultural Identity: Globalization as Opportunity?
12.30 Discussion.
Silk-Road Symposium
Chairman Lauri Harvilahti
14.00 Symposium.
19.00 Dinner
Wednesday, June 28th
Cultural Identity and Tradition - a Tool or a Weapon?
9.00 Hermann Bausinger: National
Use and Misuse of Folklore.
11.00 Lauri Honko: Epic and Identity:
National, Regional, Communal, Individual.
12.30 Discussion
13.00 Lunch
14.00 Barbro Klein: Ethical Conflicts
in Folklore Research.
16.30 Group meetings.
18.00 Jyrki Kurki: Lecture on video
technique.
19.00 Dinner
20.00 Lecture on video technique
continues.
Thursday, June 29th
Observation of the "Petrun praasniekka", Petru-festival, in Hattuvaara, Ilomantsi
Observation of the festival in honour of St. Peter, the patron saint of the Orthodox-Karelian village of Hattuvaara. In the morning an orthodox liturgy (litania), procession (ristisaatto), and prayers for the deceased (litania). After lunch the Praasniekka festival.
Friday, June 30th
Representations of Cultural Identity
9.00 Stein Mathisen: Identity and
Narratives in Folklore Studies.
11.00 Barbro Klein: Presentation
of Cultural Identity.
12.30 Discussion.
13.00 Lunch
14.00 Group meetings.
19.00 Dinner
20.00 Folklore Fellows' Party.
Saturday, July 1st
Negotiating Identity
9.00 Stein Mathisen: Narratives and
Conflicting Ethnic Identities.
11.00 Surjeet Singh: Man, Society
and the Forest: Interaction of Parallel Cultural Traditions in India.
12.30 Discussion.
13.00 Lunch
14.00 Jyrki Kurki: Lecture on video
techique / Individual study on computer.
19.00 Dinner
20.00 Sauna and swimming
Sunday, July 2nd
Fieldwork / Excursion
9.00 Fieldwork and film editing or
Excursion to the Valamo and Lintula
Orthodox Monasteries in Heinävesi.
Monday, July 3rd
Gender and Cultural Identity
9.00 Aili Nenola: Cultural Identity
and Gender: Theoretical Problems.
11.00 Niaz Zaman: Women's Art and
Cultural Identity: The Bangladesh Context.
12.30 Discussion.
13.00 Lunch
14.00 Group meetings.
17.00 Individual study. Video editing
and computer facilities available.
19.00 Dinner
21.00 Sauna and swimming
Tuesday, July 4th
Gender and Body
9.00 Satu Apo: Cultural Models of
the Female Body in Finnish-Karelian Folklore.
11.00 Aili Nenola: Women's Body
as the Representation of Cultural and Ethnic Identity.
12.30 Discussion.
13.00 Lunch
14.00 Group meetings
17.00 Video presentations.
19.00 Dinner
Wednesday, July 5th
Genre and Discourse
9.00 Richard Bauman: Genre Theory
and the Dynamics of Intertextuality.
11.00 Galit Hasan-Rokem: Discourse
and/or Genre.
12.30 Discussion
13.00 Lunch
14.00 Visit to the University of
Joensuu and to Joensuu town.
22.00 Return to Mekrijärvi.
Thursday, July 6th
Dialogue and Performance
9.00 Galit Hasan-Rokem: Intercultural
Dialogues in Folklore.
11.00 Richard Bauman: Structures
of Mediation in Oral Performance.
12.30 Discussion.
13.00 Lunch
14.00 Group meetings.
17.00 Video presentations.
19.00 Dinner
21.00 Sauna and swimming
Friday, July 7th
Tradition and Oral Epic
9.00 John Miles Foley: From Oral
Tradition to Traditional Text: Homeric Epic in Transition.
11.00 Lauri Harvilahti: The Use
of Oral Poetry: Dramatization and Conventionalization?
12.30 Discussion.
13.00 Lunch
14.00 Groups meet and finish their
reports.
16.00 Presentation of the group
reports.
19.00 Dinner
20.00 Reporting continues. Discussion.
Saturday, July 8th
Orality, Literacy and Conflicting Identities
9.00 John Miles Foley: Epics and
Identity: The Oral-Literary Spectrum.
11.00 Anna-Leena Siikala: Mythical
History in Oral Epics.
12.30 Discussion.
13.00 Lunch
Symposium of Kalevalaic Poetry
Chairperson Anna-Leena Siikala
14.00 Opening words: Anna-Leena Siikala
14.15 Lauri Honko: The Fascination
of Long Epic; Lotte Tarkka: Kalevalaic Tradition Meets the Art and Ideology
of Romanticism: The Story of a Displaced Bard; Senni Timonen: The Lyrical
Voice of Mekrijärvi; Seppo Knuuttila: The Last Rune-Singer.
17.00 Presentation of the HyperKalevala
(Juhani Luhtanen); Folklore Performances.
19.00 General discussion. Conclusion.
20.00 Summer School Closing Party.
Sunday, July 9th
7.30 Breakfast and departure.