Conference “International Folkloristics” in honour of Professor Ülo Valk's 60th birthday

14:00 Opening words
 

14:15         

Regina Bendix                               The Devil at Sixty?

Lina Būgienė                                 Lithuanian Folklore: A National Discipline in an International Context or Vice Versa?

Dace Bula                                     Interpreting Metaphors of Folklore
 

15:15 break
 

15:30

Pertti Anttonen                             How Folkloristics Is and Is Not International in Finland

Camilla Asplund Ingemark          'Climate Change Is The Biggest Lie in the World': Nordic Climate Change Sceptics as Part of a Global Movement

Lotte Tarkka                                National and Transnational Folklore – The Kalevala, Cultural Appropriation and Identity Politics
 

16:30 Conclusion

Join Zoom Meeting: https://ut-ee.zoom.us/j/99420072180?pwd=RWlWVjRrT3dYejdBQlFoQXJ3VG9kdz09 (Meeting ID: 994 2007 2180; Passcode: 521832).

More information: Liilia Laaneman-Nekoliak (+ 372 737 5304, liilia.laaneman@ut.ee).

The conference is supported by University of Tartu, Cultural Endowment of Estonia, Estonian Academy of Sciences, Academic Folklore Society, Estonian Society for the Study of Religions.