Programme
Monday, April 25th
Ülikooli 16 (von Bock building). Room 109
16:15–16:30 Opening words
16:30–17:30 James Kapaló (University College Cork): Whispered Charms and Secret Files: The Performance of Hidden Words (keynote lecture)
Tuesday, April 26th
Ülikooli 18 (University main building). Room 140
9:00–10:00 Jonathan Roper (University of Tartu): Ronald or Donald? Vernacular Theorizing on Language (keynote lecture)
Coffee
Session I:
10:30–11:15 Laur Vallikivi (University of Tartu): How to Do Christians with Words? Language in an Evangelical Mission Encounter in the Russian Arctic
11:15–12:00 Eva Toulouze (INALCO, Paris; University of Tartu) & Liivo Niglas (University of Taertu): Power of Words in a Culture of Silence: An Attempt in Yuri Vella’s Speech Analysis
Lunch break
Session II:
13:30–14:15 Karina Lukin (University of Helsinki): Reported Speech in Nenets Epic Poetry
14:15–15:00 Elo-Hanna Seljamaa (University of Tartu): Breaching Norms and Mending the World in an Estonian Song About Aex, Money and Murder
Coffee
Session III:
15:30–16:15 Laura Siragusa (University of Aberdeen): Power in Ways of Speaking: Spatio-Temporal Relations and the Co-Creation of the “Domus”
16:15–17:00 Rajat Nayyar (Tallinn University): Upanayana Samskara | Bhojpuri Initiation Rites & Folk Songs (film screening)
Wednesday, April 27th
Ülikooli 18 (University main building). The senate hall
9:00–10:00 Lotte Tarkka (University of Helsinki): Words, Powers, and Genres – Notes on the Efficacy of Oral Poetry (keynote lecture)
Coffee
Session IV:
10:30–11:15 Aleksi Moine (INALCO, Paris): Words, Ointments, and Bodies: The Healing Power of the Word in Finnish charms
11:15–12:00 Frog (University of Helsinki): Texts as Objects: Considering Emic Conceptions of the Exchange of Supernaturally Powerful Words
Lunch break
Session V:
13:30–14:15 Ergo-Hart Västrik (University of Tartu): Secret Tradition and the Power of Archived Word: Prayers of Seto Peko Cult
14:15–15:00 Margaret Lyngdoh (University of Tartu): The Powerful Unwritten: Secrecy, Names and Taboo in Khasi Belief Narratives
Coffee
Session VI:
15:30–16:15 Kati Kallio (University of Helsinki, Finnish Literature Society): Powers of Poetic Form
16:15–17:00 Closing discussion
The symposium is organized by the Department of Folkloristics, University of Helsinki, and the Department of Estonian and Comparative Folklore, University of Tartu.