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19th Folklorists' Winter Conference: Parallel Worlds and Parallel Traditions
05.12.2024
Madis Arukask
Institute of Cultural Research
Department of Estonian and Comparative Folklore
Associate Professor of Estonian and Comparative Folklore
Ülikooli 17-324
Pihla Maria Siim
Institute of Cultural Research
Department of Estonian and Comparative Folklore
Research Fellow in Folkloristics 0.2 p
We await presentations for "19th Folklorists' Winter Conference: Parallel Worlds and Parallel Traditions" inspired by the notions of 'parallel worlds' and 'parallel traditions'.
Date and location:
20th-21st March 2025, Kadrina manor guesthouse, Peipsiääre parish, Tartu county.
Conference organisers: The Academic Folklore Society (ARS) and the Department of Estonian and Comparative Folklore of the University of Tartu, in collaboration with the Estonian Society for the Study of Religion.
Working languages of the conference: Estonian and English
Keywords: cultural and religious polyphony, perceiving otherness, traditional parallels, the nature of parallel worlds.
Folklore (as a phenomenon) and folkloristics (as a discipline) both draw upon an understanding of cultural polyphony and a lack (or the equivocality) of a single authority. So, there is little new for folklore researchers in declarations about the changeability and variability of a single culture over time and space. From the earliest times, the traditions of various occupations, ethnicities, and other groups have differed, have been in both dialogue and opposition to one another, and have united people in interest or bewilderment.
Folklore and its various genres often reflect shifts between different worlds, realities or understandings. At play here are both imaginative forces and deliberate changes in consciousness. Shifts and transitions from one reality to another characterize the heroes of fairy tales and the singers of regi-songs, shamans and role-players, stories and practice, and do so both in the past and today. And in a postmodern traditions-space, with its fuzzy identities and continually-developing technologies, the possibilities and opportunities here have only increased.
We invite proposals developing thoughts on these themes and which touch upon traditional parallels or transitions from one reality, meaning-system or cultural area to another. To assess the departures and returns which characterize the beliefs, practices and poetics of folklore. It is likely that just such a perception of otherness, whether it be utopian or practical, invented or experiential, has always characterized folklore.
Format:
The conference will take place at the Kadrina manor guesthouse (https://www.kadrinamois.ee) in person, and will not be held in hybrid form.
Length of abstracts: 200-300 words by the deadline of January 10th, 2025. Please send your abstracts to: conference.folkloristics@ut.ee
You will be informed whether your abstract has been accepted by January 24th, at the latest.
Presentations should last about 20 minutes and will be followed by time for discussion.
Conference fee: 15 euros for members of The Academic Folklore Society (ARS) and 25 euros for others.
If you have any further questions, please contact:
Madis Arukask, Associate Professor of Estonian and Comparative, madis.arukask@ut.ee
Pihla Maria Siim, Research Fellow in Folkloristics, pihla.siim@ut.ee
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