Contents of FF Network 14
(December 1997)

• FF Network expands by Lauri Honko
• Tradition, locality and globalization: world's flowing into each other by Satu Lehtinen & Airi Markkanen
• Multicultural processes and meanings of folklore by Lauri Harvilahti
• FFSS 1997 in Lammi
• A code of ethics for folklore studies by Ulrich Marzolph
• Epic scholars in Bonn by Lauri Honko
• FF Summer School in 1999 by Lauri Honko
• NIF in the Nordic eclipse by Lauri Honko
• The Epics of Upper Altai (Review) by Lauri Harvilahti

• Folklore Fellows' Summer School 1997: Tradition, locality and multicultural processes
• Local and global processes in folklore studies - FF Summer School 1997
• Tradition, locality and globalization: worlds flowing into each other
• Multicultural processes and meanings of folklore

A major part of the work of the Summer School consisted of the working groups concentrating on specific themes. The groups also presented final reports at the end of their training. The members of the groups were selected according to their research interests, and also so that each group, as a rule, consisted of representatives from different continents. In addition to discussing individual research problems and the joint theme, the groups aimed at creating a forum for intercultural dialogue.

The working groups were as follows:

I. Myth, Locality and the Construction of Traditions
Group leaders:
Anna-Leena Siikala and Seppo Knuuttila

II. Presenting Self and Ethnicity
Group leaders:
Barbro Klein and Pertti Anttonen

III. Poetics and Politics of Oral Traditions
Group leaders:
Margaret Mills and Ulrich Marzolph

IV. Epic Traditions and Ethnic Identity
Group leaders:
John Miles Foley and Lauri Harvilahti
 

FFSS97 Participants

Ezekiel Alembi
Lecturer, Kenyatta University
Nairobi, Kenya

Anna Anttila
M.A., University of Helsinki
Helsinki, Finland

Madis Arukask
M.A., University of Tartu
Tartu, Estonia

Sabir Badalkhan
Lecturer, University of Naples
Naples, Italy

Mehri Bagheri
Associate Professor, University of Tabriz
Tabriz, Iran

Kishore Bhattacharjee
Ph.D., Lecturer, Gauhati University
Assam, India

Lina Bugiene
M.A., University of Vilnius
Vilnius, Lithuania

Anastasios Daskalopoulos
Editorial, Graduate Teaching Assistant,
Center for Studies in Oral Tradition
Columbia, Missouri, U.S.A.

Charlotte Eklund
M.A., University of Stockholm
Stockholm, Sweden

Bengt Englund
M.A., University of Stockholm
Stockholm, Sweden

Susan Faine
Director, Victorian Folklife Association
Melbourne, Australia

Patrick Flores
Ph.D., Assistant Professor,
University of the Philippines
Quezon City, Philippines

Scott Garner
Editorial Assistant,
Center for Studies in Oral Tradition
Columbia, Missouri, U.S.A.

Lucille Guilbert
Professor, University of Laval
Quebec, Canada

Marina Hodyreva
M.A.
Izhevsk, Russia

Salim Jahangir
Ph.D., Senior Research Fellow,
Department of Folklore, Bangla Academy
Dhaka, Banghladesh

Tecwyn Vaughan Jones
University Tutorial Fellow,
University of Wales
Cardiff, Wales (U.K.)

Dilip Kumar Kalita
Ph.D., Senior Research Fellow
Assam, India

Tuulikki Kurki
M.A., University of Joensuu
Joensuu, Finland

Hui Ying Meng
Associate Professor,
Institute of Literature of National Minorities
Beijing, P.R. China

Mithra Moezzi
M.A., University of California
Berkeley, U.S.A.

Anjali Padhi
Ph.D.
Khariar, India

Elina Rahimova
M.A. (University of Helsinki)
Moscow, Russia

Monica Santos
Graduate Student,
University of the Philippines
Quezon, Philippines

Svetlana Sorokina
M.A., University of Moscow
Moscow, Russia

Kevin Stuart
Ph.D.
Xining, P.R. China

Salla Taavetti
M.A., (University of Turku)
Lyngseidet, Norway
 

FFSS97 Teachers

Pertti Anttonen
Acting Associate Professor
Department of Folklore
University of Helsinki, Finland

Satu Apo
Associate Professor
Department of Folklore
University of Helsinki, Finland

John Miles Foley
Professor
Center for Studies in Oral Tradition
University of Missouri
Columbia, Missouri, U.S.A.

Diarmuid O'Giollain
Professor
Department of Irish History
University of Cork, Ireland

Jawaharlal Handoo
Director, Folklore Unit
Central Institute of Indian Languages
Mysore, India

Lauri Harvilahti
Docent, Project Director
University of Helsinki, Finland

Lauri Honko
Professor emer., Project Director
University of Turku, Finland

Annikki Kaivola-Bregenhøj
Associate Professor of Folkloristics
Department of Cultural Studies
University of Turku, Finland

Barbro Klein
Professor, Director
The Swedish Collegium for Advanced Studies
in the Social Sciences (SCASSS)
Uppsala, Sweden

Seppo Knuuttila
Professor
Department of Folklore Studies
University of Joensuu, Finland

Ulrich Marzolph
Professor, Dr.
Enzyklopädie des Märchens
Göttingen, Germany

Margaret Mills
Professor
Department of Folklore and Folklife
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, U.S.A.

Torunn Selberg
Professor
Department of Cultural Studies and Art History
University of Bergen,
Bergen, Norway

Anna-Leena Siikala
Professor
Department of Folklore
University of Helsinki
Helsinki, Finland
 

FFSS97 Secretariat

Anna-Leena Siikala, Chair
Professor, Department of Folklore
University of Helsinki, Finland

Lauri Harvilahti, Secretary General
Docent, Department of Folklore
University of Helsinki, Finland

Pauliina Latvala, Course Secretary
M.A., Department of Folklore
University of Helsinki, Finland

Raisa Poutanen, Assistant Secretary
B.A., Department of Folklore
University of Helsinki, Finland
 

FFSS97 Supporting Staff

Pasi Enges
M.A., Department of Cultural Studies
University of Turku

Sanna Heikkilä
M.A., Department of Folklore
University of Helsinki

Pia Isojärvi
M.A., Department of Folklore
University of Helsinki

Eeva-Liisa Kinnunen
Lic. Phil., Department of Folklore
University of Helsinki

Satu Lehtinen
M.A., Department of Folklore
University of Helsinki

Heikki Majava
B.A., Department of Folklore
University of Helsinki

Airi Markkanen
M.A., Department of Folklore Studies
University of Joensuu

Jyrki Pöysä
Ph.D., Department of Folklore
University of Helsinki

Jenny Tuominen
B.A., Department of Folklore
University of Helsinki
 

FFSS97 Sponsors

University of Helsinki, Faculty of Arts
University of Helsinki, Department of Folklore
Academy of Finland
Nordic Institute of Folklore (NIF)
Centre for International Mobility (CIMO) at the Ministry of Education,
University of Joensuu
 

FFSS97 Organizing Institutions

Department of Folklore, University of Helsinki
Department of Cultural Studies, University of Turku
Department of Folklore Studies, University of Joensuu
Department of Folklore, Åbo Academy University
Folklore Fellows of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters
Nordic Institute of Folklore, Turku
Finnish Literature Society, Helsinki
 

FFSS97 Organizing Committee

Anna-Leena Siikala, University of Helsinki (Chair)
Lauri Honko, University of Turku (Vice Chair)
Lauri Harvilahti, University of Helsinki (Secretary General)
Pauliina Latvala, University of Helsinki (Course Secretary)
Pekka Hakamies, University of Joensuu
Annikki Kaivola-Bregenhøj, University of Turku
Reimund Kvideland, Nordic Institute of Folklore
Pekka Laaksonen, Finnish Literature Society
Aili Nenola, University of Helsinki
Lotte Tarkka, University of Helsinki
Ulrika Wolf-Knuts, Åbo Academy University

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