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

Venue: University of Tartu History Museum (Toome Hill, Lossi 25)

Organisers: The Centre of Excellence in Cultural Theory, the Estonian Literary Museum and the Institute for Cultural Research and Fine Arts, University of Tartu.

 

Tuesday 29.11.2011

10.15–10.30 Symposium opening (University of Tartu History Museum, White Hall)

10.30–11.15 Plenary lecture: David Elton Gay (Bloomington, IN, USA) The Idea of an Epic: Some Problems of Genre Definition

11.15–11.45 Coffee/tea break

11.45–12.30 Plenary lecture: Dmitry Funk (Moscow, Russia) The Last Shor Epic Singer

12.30–14.00 Lunch

14.00–15.30 Two parallel sessions

White Hall

Chair: Ergo-Hart Västrik

Lotte Tarkka (Helsinki, Finland) The Dialogue of Genres in Kalevala-Metre Oral Epics

Tiina Kirss (Tallinn, Estonia) Core and Trunk: The Textuality of the Kalevipoeg in Estonian Culture

Frog (Helsinki, Finland) Traditional Epic as Genre: Definition as a Foundation for Comparative Research

Conference Hall

Chair: Cornelius Hasselblatt

Niina Hämäläinen (Turku, Finland) Emotions and Authenticity. Reflections on the Epoch in the Kalevala

Liina Lukas (Tartu, Estonia) The Baltic-German Sagendichtung around the Kalevipoeg

Aldis Pūtelis (Riga, Latvia) The Epic Need for an Epic: Latvian Literary Epics of the Late 19th Century

15.30–16.00 Coffee/tea break

16.00–17.30 Two parallel sessions

White Hall

Chair: Frog

Mari Sarv (Tartu, Estonia) The Success Story of a Verse Form

Madis Arukask (Tartu, Estonia) Lamenting Kalevipoeg

Rein Veidemann (Tallinn, Estonia) The Epic Kalevipoeg as a Source of Principal Clauses of the Estonian Narrative

Conference Hall

Chair: Aldis Pūtelis

Hasso Krull (Tallinn, Estonia) The Mystified Landscape: The Kalevipoeg and the Reversal of Tradition

Marin Laak (Tartu, Estonia) Traces and Threads: The Kalevipoeg in Modern Estonian Culture

Kärt Summatavet (Tartu, Estonia) Mythology and the Artist’s Imagination

 

18.00 Reception by the City of Tartu in the Town Hall (for registered participants)

 

Wednesday 30.11.2011

10.00–11.30 Two parallel sessions

White Hall

Chair: Lotte Tarkka

Mare Kõiva (Tartu, Estonia) Kalevipoeg as the Basis of New Narrative Forms

Ülo Valk (Tartu, Estonia) The Kalevipoeg, Mediumship and Discursive Authority of the Other World

Mihály Hoppál (Budapest, Hungary) Heroic Epics of the World – Research History and Future Tasks

Conference Hall

Chair: Mari Sarv

Ranibala Khumukcham (Imphal, India): Folk Epic: A Study on KhambaThoibi of Manipur

Paul Hagu (Tartu, Estonia) A wave of Epics in Setomaa (1920–1930)

Sonja Petrović (Belgrade, Serbia) Oral Epic Tradition about the Battle of Kosovo 1389: Story Models, Forms, Ideologies

11.30–12.00 Coffee/tea break

12.00–13.30 Two parallel sessions

White Hall

Chair: Liina Lukas

Eve Pormeister (Tartu, Estonia) Das estnische Epos "Kalevipoeg" in der Spannung zwischen Nationalem und Menschheitlich-Universellem am Beispiel der Höllenfahrtszenen

Risto Järv (Tartu, Estonia) Construction of ‘Pre-Kalevipoeg’: K. Ganander/K. J. Peterson's Finnische Mythologie

Cornelius Hasselblatt (Groningen, Netherlands) German Rewritings of the Estonian Kalevipoeg. On the German Reception of the Estonian Epic in the 19th Century

Conference Hall

Chair: Jonathan Roper

Tatiana Bulgakova (St. Petersburg, Russia) The Motif of Competition in Siberian Shamanic Tales

Nina Yurchenkova (Saransk, Russia) From Mythology to Heroic Consciousness (Based on the Example of the Mordovian Epos)

Margaret Lyngdoh (Tartu, Estonia) Elements of Epic in Ritual among the Khasis

13.30–15.00 Lunch

15.00–16.30 Two parallel sessions

White Hall

Chair: Madis Arukask

Arne Merilai (Tartu, Estonia) The Kalevipoeg: Aspects of Authorship

Katre Kikas (Tartu, Estonia) "Dr. Kreutzwald Has Been Blamed…" A Village Tailor H. A. Schults Defending the Authenticity of Kreutzwald’s Kalevipoeg

Conference Hall

Chair: Mihály Hoppál

Jouni Hyvönen (Helsinki, Finland) Elias Lönnrot’s Ethno-historical View of the Finnish Mythology in the Kalevala

Pille-Riin Larm (Tartu, Estonia) Estonian Mythopoeia. Myths, Epics and Identity

Ott Heinapuu (Tartu, Estonia) Estonian Civil Religion: The Kalevipoeg and Sacred Oak Groves of Taara

16.30–17.00 Coffee/tea break

The abstracts can be downloaded here,

The symposium committee: Risto Järv (Estonian Literary Museum), Mare Kõiva (Estonian Literary Museum), Marin Laak (Estonian Literary Museum) and Ülo Valk (University of Tartu)

More information from the symposium secretaries: Mare Kalda ( kalda@folklore.ee; tel. +372 5340 4517) and Pihla Siim (pihla.siim@ut.ee; tel. +372 527 7927)

The symposium is supported by European Regional Development Fund (Centre of Excellence in Cultural Theory).