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 How to become a member of the Folklore 
        Fellows 

        (FFN 21, March 2001: 1,11-12 ) 

        

      
 
      
The year 2001 will see the recruitment of new members 
        to the Folklore Fellows. A new mandate for the international Advisory 
        Committee for the years 2001-05 has been issued by the Finnish Academy 
        of Science and Letters, the mother institution in Helsinki. The Advisory 
        Committee will administer the recruitment in collaboration with the local 
        Executive Committee and the FF Office at the Kalevala Institute in Turku. 
        Our aim is to complete the revision of membership by the end of 2001. 
      
 Before going into the practical membership procedure 
        it may be appropriate to offer a few facts about the Folklore Fellows. 
      
 The Folklore Fellows is an international folkloristic 
        network of researchers, the aim of which is to promote scholarly contacts, 
        publication activities and researcher training. In order to achieve this 
        aim it invites distinguished active researchers from different parts of 
        the world to become members. It further arranges international training 
        courses for researchers, incorporates the editorial board of a monograph 
        series, Folklore Fellows' Communications, and publishes a biannual newsletter, 
        Folklore Fellows Network. 
      
 The Folklore Fellows operates under the auspices of 
        the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters. The Academy Board appoints 
        the editor-in-chief and other members of the editorial board of the FF 
        Communications series and the chairman of the Executive Committee (EC) 
        consisting of 3-5 folklorist members of the Academy. It is the task of 
        the EC to develop the researcher network by inviting new members and distributing 
        information on research and publications. 
      
 The EC is supported by the Folklore Fellows Advisory 
        Committee (AC). It is the AC's task to prepare proposals for new members, 
        to assist in the planning of the researcher training courses, and to distribute 
        information on the publishing potential afforded by the FFC series. The 
        AC has 10 researcher members from outside Finland in addition to the members 
        of the local EC. It is chaired by the chairman of the EC. 
      
 The Folklore Fellows consists of (1) an unlimited number 
        of honorary members, (2) a maximum of 100 full members and (3) an unlimited 
        number of associate members. Honorary members are invited from among eminent 
        folklorists whose scholarly contribution has during a long period of time 
        been internationally and/or nationally important. Distinguished active 
        researchers from different parts of the world are invited by the Folklore 
        Fellows' Executive Committee to become full members on the advice of the 
        Advisory Committee. One quarter of the full members must be from outside 
        Europe and North America. 
      
 The Executive Committee may invite associate members 
        from among folklorists with scholarly merit, including e.g. junior and 
        senior participants in the FF Summer School, authors in the FFC series, 
        or representatives of closely-related disciplines whose participation 
        would help to achieve the functional goals of the researcher network through 
        contacts with research, teaching and archive establishments in different 
        parts of the world. 
      
 Member contacts are maintained by the bulletin FF Network 
        giving information on forthcoming FF Summer Schools, the monographs appearing 
        in FFC, conferences, projects and other activities of scholarly networks 
        on special themes. 
      
 The rules of the Folklore Fellows (see FF Network No. 
        11, October 1995, p. 10) are ratified and amended by the Board of the 
        Finnish Academy of Science and Letters at the unanimous proposal of the 
        Folklore Fellows Executive Committee. 
      
 
      
 
      
Membership applications 
      
 
      
Applications for associate membership should be sent 
        by mail or e-mail as a freely formulated letter of application to two 
        members of the Advisory Committee (see the list below). The letter should 
        contain sufficient information on the folkloristic merits of the applicant, 
        a curriculum vitae or personalia, academic degrees and positions held 
        plus a list of publications. In addition, a copy of the letter should 
        be sent to the chairman, Dr Lauri Honko, Folklore Fellows, P.O.B. 14, 
        20501 Turku, Finland, or e-mail: lhonko@utu.fi. 
      
 
      
 
      
 
      
FOLKLORE FELLOWS ADVISORY COMMITTEE 2001-2005 
      
 
      
Professor Mehri Bagheri

        Head, Dept. of Culture & Old Iranian Languages

        Faculty of Letters

        Tabriz University

        Tabriz

        IRAN

        (e-mail: Mbagheri@ark.tabrizu.ac.ir) 
      
 
      
Professor emer. Hermann Bausinger

        Universität Tübingen

        Ludwig-Uhland-Institut für Empirische Kulturwissenschaft

        Schloss

        72070 Tübingen 

        GERMANY

        (tel. +49 7071 2977307, fax 295330) 
      
 
      
Dr Martha Blache

        Casilla de Correo No 121

        1428 Buenos Aires

        ARGENTINA

        (e-mail: mblache@elsitio.net) 
      
 
      
Professor John Miles Foley

        Center for Studies in Oral Tradition

        21 Parker Hall

        University of Missouri

        Columbia, MO 65211

        U.S.A.

        (e-mail: FoleyJ@missouri.edu) 
      
 
      
Professor Galit Hasan-Rokem

        Dept of Hebrew Literature

        Hebrew University

        Jerusalem 91905

        ISRAEL

        (e-mail: ghasan@www4.huji.ac.il) 
      
 
      
Director, Dr Lauri Honko

        Kalevala Institute

        P.O.Box 14

        20501 Turku

        FINLAND

        (e-mail: lhonko@utu.fi) 
      
 
      
Professor Reimund Kvideland

        Dept of Ethnology & Folkloristics

        University of Bergen

        Sydnesplass 12/13

        5007 Bergen

        NORWAY

        (e-mail: reimund.kvideland@ikk.uib.no) 
      
 
      
Professor Pentti Leino

        Suomen kielen laitos

        PL 3

        00014 HELSINGIN YLIOPISTO

        (e-mail: pentti.leino@helsinki.fi) 
      
 
      
Professor Margaret A. Mills

        Dept of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures

        The Ohio State University

        1735 Neil Ave, Room #203

        Columbus, OH 43210-9263

        U.S.A.

        (e-mail: mills.186@osu.edu) 
      
 
      
Professor Sadhana Naithani

        Center of German Studies

        Jawaharlal Nehru University

        New Delhi 110067

        INDIA

        (e-mail: naithani@jnuniv.ernet.in) 
      
 
      
Professor Klaus Roth

        Institut für dt. und vergl. Volkskunde

        Ludwigstr. 25/0

        80539 München

        GERMANY

        (e-mail: kroth@lrz.uni-muenchen.de) 
      
 
      
Professor Anna-Leena Siikala 

        Folkloristiikan laitos

        PL 59

        00014 HELSINGIN YLIOPISTO

        (e-mail: anna-leena.siikala@helsinki.fi) 
      
 
      
 
      
Professor emer. Leea Virtanen

        Opastinsilta 9 B 48

        00520 HELSINKI

        (tel. +358 9 143 243) 
      
 
      
Professor Vilmos Voigt

        Dept of Folklore

        ELTE University

        Pf. 107

        1364 Budapest 4

        HUNGARY

        (e-mail: Voigt@osiris.elte.hu) 
      
 
      
There is no deadline for the application. The processing 
        of membership normally takes 2-3 months. The Executive Committee also 
        has the right, on the advice of the Advisory Committee, to invite members 
        without formal application. The minimum requirement for associate membership 
        is an academic degree (not necessarily in folklore) and folkloristic publications. 
      
 Nominations for full membership and honorary membership 
        should be made at the discretion of the chairman. They will be decided 
        by secret ballot in the Advisory Committee. 
      
 The membership benefits include the bulletin FF Network 
        (sent free of charge) and a 20% member discount on the volumes published 
        in FFC. 
      
 
      
Lauri Honko 
      
Chairman, FF