Conferences

A selection of recently organized international conferences, symposiums and seminars:

2025

• 14th International Conference of Young Folklorists: Humble Theory and the Power of the Vernacular in 25.-26. 09 2025. More about conference.

2021

• 14th International Conference of the Estonian Association of Comparative Literature "The Factor of Lyrical Poetry in the Formation of Literary Cultures" in Tartu, November 1-3, 2021
• 10th International Conference of Young Folklorists "Lore Makers, Law Breakers: Tradition, Change, and People" in (virtual) Tartu, May 19-21, 2021
• The Young Researchers of Culture Conference “Young Voices” online, April 21-22, 2021

2020

• The International Workshop ‘Indigeneity’, Orality, and Liminal Ontologies: Methodological Pluralisms and Approaches to Culture, January 14-17, 2020 in Diphu, Karbi Anglong

2019

• Colloquium "Folklore Studies at Tartu University: 100 Years in Half a Day", December 13, 2019
• 13th International Conference of the Estonian Association of Comparative Literature "Current State of Literary Theory, Research and Criticism in (Non-“Centric”) National Cultures", September 30 and October 1, 2019
• 9th International Conference of Young Folklorists "(Ir)relevance of Classical Folkloristics in 21st Century" in Vilnius, September 18-20, 2019
• Conference "Perception and Performativity in Arts and Culture in the Age of Technological Change", September 5-7, 2019
• 17th EASR Annual Conference "Religion – Continuations and Disruptions", June 25-29, 2019
• 9th Arctic Workshop of the UT "Animals of the Actic: From Symbiosis to Symbols", May 24-25, 2019
• Conference "Museums as Agents of Memory and Change", April 24-25, 2019, in Tallinn and April 26, 2019, in Tartu
• Seminar "Conspiracy Theories in Eastern Europe and Beyond", April 24, 2019

2018

• International Conference on Baltic Drama "BALTIC LINES", September 8, 2018
• Meeting of the SIEF working group of historical approaches in cultural analysis "Historical Approaches in Contemporary Research Field: Making Connections", August 29-31, 2018
• Conference "Applications in Cultural Evolution: Arts, Languages, Technologies", June 5-8, 2018
• Supernatural Places Revisited: The Spatial Dimensions of Folklore and Sagas. A Symposium in Tartu, June 5, 2018
• 13th Winter Conference of Folklorists "Does Gender Matter?", March 8-9, 2018
• 7th Winter School “Fact and Method: Data, Borders and Interpretation”, February 5-9, 2018
• Third LACE Winter School "Uses of Narrative", January 26-28, 2018

2017

• Conference "Deities, Spirits and Demons in Vernacular Beliefs and Rituals in Asia", November 8-10, 2017
• 7th International Conference of Young Folklorists "Negotiations of Belonging" in Narva, October 4-6, 2017
• 12th International Conference of the Estonian Association of Comparative Literature “Influence and Originality in Literary Creation”, October 1-3, 2017
• IX Internationales Symposium zur baltischen literarischen Kultur "Medien der Aufklärung. Aufklärung der Medien", 4.-6. September 2017
• Conference "Folklorists are Fallible", June 9-10, 2017
• The Eighth Tartu University Arctic Workshop "Sounds and Silences: Verbal and Nonverbal Communication in the North", May 26-27, 2017

2016

• Symposium and workshop of the Graduate School of Culture Studies and Arts "Mythology, discourse, and authority: Retrospective methods in cultural research", November 22-23, 2016
• International Conference “Religion and Nation(alism): Entanglements, Tensions, Conflicts", November 10-11, 2016
• Eighth Symposium of the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present "Alternatives to the Present", September 3-5, 2016
• Symposium "Stories of Hope and Fear: Mapping Emotions and Affects in Life, Arts, and Literature", August 24-25, 2016, in Palmse Manor
• Seventh Arctic Workshop of the University of Tartu "Gatekeepers", June 3-4, 2016
• Symposium “Word Power”, April 25–27, 2016, at the University of Tartu
• Baltic Alliance for Asian Studies (BAAS) Conference in Tartu, April 7–9, 2016

2015

• Symposium "Epics and the Related Genres between Orality and Literacy" on November 3, 2015
• 5th International Conference of Young Folklorists "Folklore of Connections, Folklore of Conflict" in Viljandi, October 7-9, 2015
• 10th Winter Conference of Estonian Folklorists "Memory. Remembering. Legend" in Taevaskoja, February 26-27, 2015

2014

• The Second International MEWSC Workshop "Indigenous Ontologies: Reassessing Human and Non-Human Relations" on July 29-30, 2014
• Responsibility and authority in drinking: Arctic workshop of the University of Tartu, May 30-31, 2014

2013

• VI Autumn Conference of the Centre of Excellence in Cultural Theory "Embodiment, Expression, Exits: Transforming Experience and CulturaI Identity" from October 30 to November 1, 2013
• 11th International Congress of the SIEF at the University of Tartu from June 30 to July 4, 2013
• Fourth Arctic workshop “Drinking and driving is so much fun” in Tartu from May 31 to June 1, 2013
• Third International Conference of Young Folklorists "Vernacular Expressions and Analytic Categories" in Tartu, May 14-16, 2013
• Conference on Finnic minority languages and cultures, University of Tartu, March 7–8, 2013
• Genres of Belief from Folkloristic Perspective: An International Symposium and Workshop in Assam and Meghalaya (India), February 4-12, 2013

2012

• Symposium "Narrated Worlds of Belief" in Estonian Literary Museum on November 16, 2012
• 6th Nordic-Celtic-Baltic Folklore Symposium "Supernatural Places" in Tartu June 4-7, 2012
• International Conference of Young Folklorists "Theoretical Frames and Empirical Research" in Vilnius, April 15-17, 2012

2011

• International Symposium "Traditional and Literary Epics of the World: Textuality, Authorship, Identity. The Kalevipoeg 150", Tartu, November 29-30, 2011

2010

• International seminar "Continuity and Discontinuity of Borders" in Narva and Tartu, December 9-10, 2010