Research Seminar Series: Folklore & Friends

Folklore and Friends is a research seminar series that brings together the staff, students, and guests of the Department of Estonian and Comparative Folklore to introduce and discuss their ongoing research. It is open to guest listeners from across departments and disciplines.

Wednesdays at 14:15 · No prior registration needed

PRESENTATIONS ARE ONSITE ONLY.

Spring Semester 2026 schedule

4 February – Veera Ojala (University of Turku)
Ülikooli 16–216 at 14.15
The Afterlife of Catastrophe: Visual Cultures of Risk and the Ethics of Remembering the Nuclear Age

11 February – Kikee Doma Bhutia (Ghent University)
Ülikooli 16–103
Don’t Wake the Sleeping Mountains

25 February – Timothy Raymond Anderson (Tallinn University; University of Tartu)
Ülikooli 16–103
The Uncanny Believer: Sincerity, Suspicion, and the Bureaucratic Production of the Other

11 March – Evakordor Benson Diengdoh (University of Tartu)
Ülikooli 16–103
The Development of Rituals among the Khasis: Inter-group Practices and Interpretations

25 March – Roomet Jakapi (University of Tartu)
Ülikooli 16–103
What Is the Value of Fieldwork for the Philosopher of Religion?

22 April – Alevtina Solovjeva (University of Tartu)
Ülikooli 16–103
Eschatology and Entrepreneurship in Contemporary Central and Inner Asia

6 May – Joni Matias Haikonen (University of Tartu)
Ülikooli 16–103
Breaking Through the Medicalization Fairytale at the End of Life: Where Neuroscience and Spiritual Care Unite

20 May – Corneliu Pintilescu (Romanian Academy of Sciences in Cluj-Napoca)
Ülikooli 16–103
Youth in Late Socialist Romania and the 1989 Revolution: Personal Collections and Oral Testimonies

Seminar series poster.

Organized by the Department of Estonian and Comparative Folklore University of Tartu
In case you have questions or would like to present at one of the following seminars in autumn, please contact the series organizer at [email protected]