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June 17, 2024
Venue: National Library of Latvia // Mūkusalas iela 3, Riga
Registration
June 17 / 12:00–16:00 / Atrium of the National Library of Latvia // Mūkusalas iela 3, Riga
Walking tour to Riga Old Town
June 17 / 12:30–14:30
Meeting at the entrance of the National Library of Latvia before the tour
Congress opening ceremony
June 17 / 16:00–17:20 / Ziedonis Hall, National Library of Latvia
Chair: Toms Ķencis
Silvija Reinberga (Parliamentary Secretary of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Latvia)
Gundars Bērziņš (Rector of the University of Latvia)
Sadhana Naithani (President of the International Society for Folk Narrative Research)
Keynote lecture I
Rita Grīnvalde (Archives of Latvian Folklore, Institute of Literature, Folklore and Art, University of Latvia)
Archives of Latvian Folklore in the Changing World
Congress opening dinner
June 17 / 17:30–19:30
Latvian Railway History Museum // Uzvaras bulvāris 2A, Riga
June 18, 2024
Venue: University of Latvia Academic Centre, House of Nature // Jelgavas iela 1, Riga
Registration
June 18 / 08:00–09:00 / Lobby of the House of NatureMorning session
Keynote lecture II
June 18 / 9:00–10:00 / Room: 106 (Magnum)
Chair: Toms Ķencis
Veronica Strang (School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, Oxford University)
Serpent Tales: Water Beings and Transformational Narratives in Contemporary Environmental Activism
Coffee break
June 18 / 10:00–10:30 / Room: 107 (Sinistrum)
Session I * Subtopic III: Oral vs Online
June 18 / 10:30–12:40 / Room: 108 (Dextrum I)
Chair: Georgios Kouzas
10:30–10:50. Risto Järv (Estonian Literary Museum)
Folktales on the Folklore Archive’s Social Media Channels
10:50–11:10. Aphrodite-Lidia Nounanaki & Rea Kakampoura (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
Storytime: When Personal Experience Narratives Become a TikTok Trend
11:10–11:30. Nicolas Le Bigre (University of Aberdeen)
"Who’s still listening in 2023?": YouTube Comments as Folk Narrative Practice
11:30–11:40. Break
11:40–12:00. Akemi Kaneshiro-Hauptmann (Toyama Prefectural University)
Fairy Tale Preservation: Consideration with a Focus on the Voice of Etsuko Ichihara
12:00–12:20. Tsering Samdrup (University of Leeds)
Preservation or Eradication? Exploring the Dynamics of Tibetan Proverbial Competitions on Live-streaming Platforms in China
12:20–12:40. Síle de Cléir (University of Limerick)
Saints and Wonders: Narratives of Virtuous Women in Oral, Print and Digital Formats
Session II * Subtopic V: Changing Environment
June 18 / 10:30–12:20 / Room: 109 (Dextrum II)
Chair: David Hopkin
10:30–10:50. Toni Saarinen (University of Helsinki)
Changes in Climate and Counterknowledge: Challenging Epistemic Authorities with Anti-Apocalyptic Dissent
10:50–11:10. Kristinn Schram (University of Iceland)
Out of the Blue: Human and Non-Human Entanglements in the North Atlantic
11:10–11:30. Mariann Domokos (HUN-REN RCH, Hungarian Research Network, Research Centre for the Humanities, Institute of Ethnology)
Different Contexts, Changing Narratives. Hungarian Cheap Print Versions of the Grimm Tales in the 19th Century
11:30–11:40. Break11:40–12:00. Juris Urtāns (Latvian Academy of Culture)
Folklore of the Hillforts of Latgale. The Search for the Departed
12:00–12:20. Rūta Muktupāvela & Ieva Vītola (Latvian Academy of Culture)
Historical, Symbolic and Scenic Aspects of Latvian Hillforts in Folk Narratives: From Legends to Modern Stories
Session III * Subtopic IV: Narratives of Crisis
June 18 / 10:30–12:40 / Room: 334
Chair: Dani Schrire
10:30–10:50. Renata Jambrešić Kirin (Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research, Zagreb)
The New Life of the Lyric-Epic Genre in a Feminist Poetics
10:50–11:10. Arbnora Dushi (Institute of Albanology, Pristina)
‘She helps those who trust her’: Women's Personal Narratives on Their Crisis and Changes
11:10–11:30. Saša Babič (ZRC SAZU)
Time is Money, Money is the Ruler of the World: Time in Slovenian Paremiological Units
11:30–11:40. Break
11:40–12:00. Rok Mrvič (ZRC SAZU, Institute of Slovenian Ethnology)
The Ever-Changing Weight of the Word: Slovenian Verbal Bonds from the Mid-20th Century to Today
12:00–12:20. Siria Kohonen (University of Helsinki)
Interpreting Change of Behaviour: Finno-Karelian Ritual Specialists Raising Their "Luonto"
12:20–12:40. Krisztina Frauhammer (Ferenc Gál University)
Ask for a Prayer: Crises and Changes in the Guest Books of Catholic Shrines in Hungary
Session IV * Committee Sessions: BNN
June 18 / 10:30–12:40 / Room: 217
Chair: Kristel Kivari
10:30–10:50. Ülo Valk (University of Tartu)
Pushing the Limits of the (In)Credible: Personal Experience Stories of the Uncanny in Vernacular Hinduism
10:50–11:10. Margaret Lyngdoh (University of Tartu)
Reasoning Magic: Interpretive Positionalities Toward Myntor Tradition among Khasi and Karbi
11:10–11:30. Lina Būgienė (Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore)
Different Ways of Dealing with the Uncanny in Life Stories: Fieldwork Materials from the Lithuanian Countryside
11:30–11:40. Break
11:40–12:00. Alina Oprelianska (University of Tartu)
Explaining Sleep Paralysis through the Encounter with a Household Spirit Khatnyk in Ukrainian Folklore
12:00–12:20. Lodewyk Barkhuizen (University of Tartu)
Happily Possessed: The Relationship between Spirit Possession and Knowledge Production in South African ‘Traditional’ Healing Practices
12:20–12:40. Kari Korolainen (University of Eastern Finland)
Sketching Uncanny Borders: Arts-Based Research on Uncertainty in the Belief Narratives of Borders
Lunch
June 18 / 12:30–13:40 / Room: 107 (Sinistrum)
Afternoon sessions
Session V * Subtopic II: Digital Approaches
June 18 / 13:40–15:30 / Room: 108 (Dextrum I)
Chair: Kati Kallio
13:40–14:00. Sandis Laime (Institute of Literature, Folklore and Art, University of Latvia)
Latvian Witchcraft Legend Corpus
14:00–14:20. Terry Gunnell & Trausti Dagsson (University of Iceland)
Folk Legends of the North Atlantic Islands on Line
14:20–14:40. Kyrre Kverndokk (University of Bergen)
SAMLA – Norwegian Tradition Archives Online: Some of the Challenges and Possibilities in Constructing a Trans-Institutional Online Folklore Archive
14:40–14:50. Break
14:50–15:10. Angun Sønnesyn Olsen (University of Bergen)
The Hannaas Collection – Opportunities and Challenges in Digitizing a Norwegian Folklore Collection
15:10–15:30. Kathleen Ragan (Independent scholar)
A Novel, Digital Approach to the Study of the Oral, Literate, and Computer-Mediated Narrative
Session VI * Subtopic V: Changing Environment
June 18 / 13:40–15:30 / Room: 109 (Dextrum II)
Chair: Kristinn Schram
13:40–14:00. Martha Norkunas (Middle Tennessee State University)
Re-imagining Earth: Stories of How the World Should Be
14:00–14:20. Niina Hämäläinen (Kalevala Society)
Finnish Periodical Mehiläinen and Readers’ Letters as a Narrative Act
14:20–14:40. Kitija Balcare (Institute of Literature, Folklore and Art, University of Latvia)
Eco-narratives in the Performing Arts in Latvia: Collaborative Imagination of Changing Environment
Break 14:40–14:50
14:50–15:10. David Hopkin (University of Oxford)
The Passion of the Flax, Continued
15:10–15:30. Marjeta Pisk (ZRC SAZU - Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts)
Weather Proverbs in a Changing Climate
15:30–15:50. Michele Tita (University of Tartu)
Disappearance of Folk Narratives in a Time of Environmental Changes: Two Examples about Humanlike Figures and Wilderness
Session VII * Committee Sessions II: FNLM
June 18 / 13:40–15:50 / Room: 334
Chair: Elizabeth Howard
13:40–14:00. Hadar Berelowitz Levin (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) "Shaatnez": Creating Jewish Fantasy Literature
14:00–14:20. Malay Bera (Ashoka University)
The Wife Mother in Rupkotha: Exploring the Nexus of Nationalism, Gender and Religion in Bengali Fairy Tales
14:20–14:40. Kanika Chauhan (Indian Institute Of Technology, Mandi)
Display of Desire and Intimacy through Women’s Folklore of Uttar Pradesh
14:40–14:50. Break
14:50–15:10. Rósa Thorsteinsdóttir (Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies)
Am I Allowed to Kiss Her? Is #MeToo Changing Fairy Tales?
15:10–15:30. Elizabeth Howard (Independent scholar)
Queering Gender through the Motif of the Magical Skin in Peau d’Homme
15:30–15:50. Abigail Fine (Queen Mary University of London)
Transgendered Fairies, Transgendered Princesses: The Role of Fashion Design(ers) on Gender in Fairy Tale Film, Graphic Novels, and Red Carpets
Session VIII * Committee Sessions: BNN
June 18 / 13:40–15:50 / Room: 217
Chair: Ülo Valk
13:40–14:00. Kristel Kivari (University of Tartu)
Alienation of the Landscape: The Presence of Soviet Military Power in Stories of the Supernatural
14:00–14:20. Mirjam Mencej (University of Ljubljana)
Narratives on the Dead Causing Traffic Accidents in Central Bosnia
14:20–14:40. William Westerman (New Jersey City University)
Libellous Accusations as Folklore: The Use of False Narratives and Propaganda in the 2020 U.S. Presidential Coup Attempt
14:40–14:50. Break
14:50–15:10. Abhirup Sarkar (North-Eastern Hill University)
Horror Narratives and the Indian Digital Media
15:10–15:30. Maja Pasarić (Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research, Zagreb)
"The Weasel Is Lucky, but if You Touch Her, Believe Me, She Will Take Revenge"
15:30–15:50. Nemanja Radulović (University of Belgrade)
NDE Narratives in Serbian Folklore
Coffee break
June 18 / 15:50–16:20 / Room: 107 (Sinistrum)
Evening sessions
Session IX * Subtopic I: Theoretical Paradigms
June 18 / 16:20–18:30 / Room: 108 (Dextrum I)
Chair: Ave Goršič
16:20–16:40. Valdis Muktupāvels (University of Latvia)
Latvian Versions of the ‘Singing Bone’
Motif (ATU 780) and the ‘Magic Technology’ of the Baltic Psaltery: A
Proposal for Extended Interpretation
16:40–17:00. Eija Stark (Finnish Literature Society)
Defining the Agenda: ISFNR 1974 and the Concept of Narrative and Paradigm Shift in Progress
17:00–17:20. Giedrė Buivytė (Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore)
Landscape of Emotions in Folk Love Songs and Singers’ Life Narratives
17:20–17:30. Break
17:30–17:50. Marina Mladenović Mitrović (Institute for Literature and Arts, Belgrade)
Serbian Folk Narratives and Practices Commonly Referred to as Plagiarism
17:50–18:10. Alf Arvidsson (Umeå University)
Revival of the Fittest: The Genre Dynamics of Folk Narrative in Sweden
18:10–18:30. Åsa Margareta Ljungström (Uppsala University)
Narratives Triggered by Artefacts on Human Needs for Values of Life: Intangible Cultural Heritage of Narrativity Framed by Materiality
Session X * Subtopic V: Changing Environment
June 18 / 16:20–18:30 / Room: 109 (Dextrum II)
Chair: Kitija Balcare
16:20–16:40. Evangelos Valasiadis (University of the Aegean)
Digital Medusa in the Age of #MeToo
16:40–17:00. Jelena Marković (Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research, Zagreb)
Red Flag! Diagnostification of Romantic Partners and Relationships in Everyday Communication and Digital Environments
17:00–17:20. Xie Yawen (Ocean University of China)
Emerging Female Storytellers: A Review of Folktale Study in China
17:20–17:30. Break
17:30–17:50. Karuna Kanta Kakati (Anundoram Borooah Institute of Language, Art and Culture)
Beliefs and Superstition Associated with the Preservation of the Environment in the Changing World with Special Reference to Assam
17:50–18:10. Guo Qianqian (Ocean University of China)
Differential Narratives in Tales of “Animals Reward the Kindness” in China
Session XI * Committee Sessions II: FNLM
June 18 / 16:20–18:30 / Room: 334
Chair: Andrew Teverson
16:20–16:40. Jūratė Šlekonytė (Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore)
The Transformation of the Lithuanian Magic Tale “The Queen of Serpents” (ATU 425M) in Vytautas V. Landsbergis' Novel “Žalčių karalienė”
16:40–17:00. Aimee Baruah (Gauhati University)
Adapting Folk Narratives in Cinema – A Study of Dr. Bhupen Hazarika's "Shakuntala"
17:00–17:20. Nidhi Mathur (Kurukshetra University)
Changing Narrative Trends in Indian Films
17:20–17:30. Break
17:30–17:50. Melissa King (Mullins) (Berry College)
'Matching but not Identical': Natalie Frank’s Rhapsodic Treatment of the Tales of Madame d’Aulnoy
17:50–18:10. Mayako Murai (Kanagawa University)
Imagining a Multispecies Society through Picturebook Adaptations of Formula Tales
18:10–18:30. Abhirup Sarkar (North-Eastern Hill University)
Paranormal Legends and Digital Games
Session XII * Committee Sessions: ChChCh + Film Screening
June 18 / 16:20–18:30 / Room: 217
Committee on Charms, Charmers and Charming presentation
“What Has the Charms Committee Been Up To?”
Jonathan Roper (University of Tartu) The Charms Committee, 2007 – the Present
Mare Kõiva (Estonian Literary Museum) Incantatio, an Online Journal of Charms, Charmers and Charming
Aigars Lielbārdis (Archives of Latvian Folklore, Institute of Literature, Folklore and Art, University of Latvia) Digital Catalogues and Databases of Charms
17:20–17:30. Break
17:30-18:30. K V Cybil (Department of Humanistic Studies, Indian Institute of Technology BHU)
Ethnographic film screening “Story of the Anklet” (more information here)
Midsummer celebration event "Jāņa sēta"*
June 18 / 17:00–20:00
*Midsummer celebration event "Jāņa sēta" is organized by the Riga City Council to introduce the residents and guests of Riga to traditional Midsummer songs, dances, games, wreath making, and other traditions. The evening session of the congress ends at 18:30, so it is still possible to attend the final part of this event. The venue, Uzvaras Parks, is approximately a 15-minute walk from the House of Nature.
June 19, 2024
Morning sessions
Keynote lecture III
June 19 / 8:30–9:30 / Room: 106 (Magnum)
Chair: Terry Gunnell
Anne Kustritz (Utrecht University)
Digital Orality and Folk Orality: The Queer Affordances of Remediation in the Podfic Community
Coffee break
June 19 / 9:30–10:00 / Room: 107 (Sinistrum)
Session XIII * ISFNR Executive Committee Meeting
June 19 / 10:00–11:30 / Room: 108 (Dextrum I)
Meeting for ISFNR Executive Committee members only
Session XIV * Subtopic II: Digital Approaches
June 19 / 10:00–11:50 / Room: 109 (Dextrum II)
Chair: Ginta Pērle-Sīle
10:00–10:20. Olha Petrovych (Estonian Literary Museum), Alla Vinnichuk (Vinnytsia Mykhailo Kotsiubynskyi State Pedagogical University)
Colors of Tradition: A Computational Exploration of Ukrainian Folk Dumas
10:20–10:40. Nataliia Yesypenko (University of Alberta)
Living in the Canadian Prairies Before WWII: Collection and Digital Preservation of Multicultural Oral Accounts
10:40–11:00. Tiber Falzett (University College, Dublin)
‘Làn Mo Dhà Chluaise’: Two Earfuls of Oral Formulae and Their Function in Framing Scottish Gaelic Narrative Structure and Typologies
11:00–11:10. Break
11:10–11:30. Inna Lisniak (Estonian Literary Museum & M. Rylsky Institute of Art Studies, Folkloristics and Ethnology) & Liudmyla Yefremova (M. Rylsky Institute of Art Studies, Folkloristics and Ethnology)
Genre Varieties Determination of the Winter Cycle in Ukrainian Calendar and Ritual Folk Songs of the Podillia Region: Computational Methods
11:30–11:50. Kati Kallio (Finnish Literature Society & University of Helsinki), Mari Sarv (Estonian Literary Museum), Maciej Janicki (University of Helsinki) & Eetu Mäkelä (University of Helsinki)
Regional Cultures of Narrative Songs in Computational Comparison
Session XV * Subtopic IV: Narratives of Crisis
June 19 / 10:00–11:30 / Room: 334
Chair: Louise S. Milne
10:00–10:20. Manolis Varvounis (Democritus University of Thace) & Nadia Macha-Bizoumi (Democritus University of Thace)
Uses of the Past in Pandemic Narratives in Greece
10:20–10:40. Anna E. Griķe (Latvian Language Institute, University of Latvia)
Narrative and Imagery of Evil during Covid-19 Pandemics in Latvia
10:40–11:00. Andrus Tins (Estonian Literary Museum)
Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the Human World: The Folklore of AI as a Resource for Exploring the Relationship between People and Technology
11:00–11:10. Break
11:10–11:30. Asta Skujytė-Razmienė (Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore)
" 'tis Not the Spirit That Ails You": Narratives on Diseases in the Lithuanian Interwar Press
Session XVI * Subtopic III: Oral vs Online
June 19 / 10:00–11:30 / Room: 217
Chair: Síle de Cléir
10:00–10:20. Sonja Stojanović (University of Belgrade) & Jovana Savić (Modern Talking Language School)
The Role of Social Media in Preserving Cultural Heritage
10:20–10:40. Anastasiya Fiadotava (Estonian Literary Museum), Guillem Castañar (University of Tartu) & Liisi Laineste (Estonian Literary Museum)
"Laughter and sex prolong life": Current Trends in the Humour Practices of Russian-Speakers in Estonia
10:40–11:00. Georgios Kouzas (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
The Circulation of Gossip from Social Life to Digital Life: A Comparative Ethnographic Research in a Greek Community
11:00–11:10. Break
11:10–11:30. Katerina Schoina (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
Unveiling Divergences: A Comparative Analysis of Oral and Online Narratives due to Natural Disasters in Greece
Lunch
June 19 / 12:40–13:40 / Room: 107 (Sinistrum)
Afternoon / Evening
Excursion to Gauja National Park (Sigulda, Turaida)
June 19 / 13:20~21:00
June 20, 2024
Morning sessions
Keynote lecture IV
June 20 / 9:00–10:00 / Room: 106 (Magnum)
Chair: Sanita Reinsone
Sándor Darányi (Swedish School of Library and Information Science, University of Borås)
Narratives in the Crosshairs: Morphometry of the Fairy Tale
Coffee break
June 20 / 10:00–10:30 / Room: 107 (Sinistrum)
Session XVII * Workshop (Part I)
June 20 / 10:30–12:30 / Room: 108 (Dextrum I)
Joshua Hagedorn (Independent scholar)
Opening the Trilogy: Folklore Taxonomies & Annotated Texts for Reproducible Research
Session XVIII * Subtopic IV: Narratives of Crisis
June 20 / 10:30–12:40 / Room: 109 (Dextrum II)
Chair: Anastasiya Astapova
10:30–10:50. Louise S. Milne (Edinburgh Napier University & University of Edinburgh)
The Industrialisation of the Nightmare in Modernity
10:50–11:10. Suzana Marjanić (Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research, Zagreb),
Myth/s about the End of the World (by 2040) in/on Internet Rumors
11:10–11:30. Tatjana Menise (University of Tartu & Riga Technical University) & Mari-Liis Madisson (University of Tartu)
Building Plots: The Transmedia Conspiracy Narratives of “1984” in Latvia and Estonia
11:30–11:40. Break
11:40–12:00. Ian Brodie (Cape Breton University)
The Dialectics of Legend and Politics
12:00–12:20. Robin Gwyndaf (St Fagans National Museum of History, Cardiff)
Sky and Scam and a Year of Fear: An Ethnologist 2023 ‘Purely Personal’ Narrative
Session XIX * Committee Sessions II: FNLM
June 20 / 10:30–12:40 / Room: 334
Chair: Anne E. Duggan
10:30–10:50. Charlotte Trinquet du Lys (University of Central Florida)
Fairy Tales, Food, and Colonization: Societal Changes Reflected in Madame D’Aulnoy’s Narratives
10:50–11:10. Allison Stedman (University of North Carolina – Charlotte)
Fairy Tales in the Age of Reason: Marie-Madeleine de Lubert’s Resistance to Change
11:10–11:30. Nola Dolan (New York University – Gallatin School of Individualized Study)
Reading Rumpelstiltskin: A Critical Social Analysis of Power Relations and Othering in Rumpelstiltskin
11:30–11:40. Break
11:40–12:00. Andrew Teverson (University of the Arts London)
Industrial Revolution and Social Change in William Henderson's Notes on the Folklore of the Northern Counties of England and the Borders
12:00–12:20. Anne E. Duggan (Wayne State University)
Gwen, or the Book of Sand: Consumerism, Storytelling, and bricolage in a Post-Apocalyptic Tale
12:20–12:40. Kristiana Willsey (University of Southern California)
Stone Soup: Fairy Tale Studies and Controversies Over Authenticity
Session XX * Committee Sessions: BNN
June 20 / 10:30–12:40 / Room: 217
Chair: Lina Būgienė
10:30–10:50. María Inés Palleiro (Buenos Aires University)
Little Red Riding Hood in Covid Times: Folktales, Belief Narratives and Embodied Performances
10:50–11:10. Dagrún Ósk Jónsdóttir (University of Iceland)
"Something Happened That Cannot Be Explained, That Feeling Stays with You": Teenage Encounters with the Supernatural through the Icelandic Ouija Board
11:10–11:30. Andrius Kaniava (Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore)
Phenomenology, Story-Places and Belief Narratives: Theoretical Insights into the Study of Place-Lore, Illustrated through Lithuanian Sacred Sites
11:30–11:40. Break
11:40–12:00. Parismita Sarma (Baihata Chariali B.Ed College)
Belief and Its Changing Paradigm in the Assamese Folk Songs
12:00–12:20. Dilip Kumar Kalita (Anundoram Borooah Institute of Language, Art and Culture)
Hai-I-Alun: The Ballad that Brings Rain
12:20–12:40. Gaganjyoti Bora (Gauhati University)
Identity of the Rabhas and the Serpent Goddess
Lunch
June 20 / 12:40–13:40 / Room: 107 (Sinistrum)
Afternoon sessions
Session XXI * Workshop (Part II)
June 20 / 13:40–15:40 / Room: 108 (Dextrum I)
Joshua Hagedorn (Independent scholar)
Opening the Trilogy: Folklore Taxonomies & Annotated Texts for Reproducible Research
Session XXII * Subtopic IV: Narratives of Crisis
June 20 / 13:40–15:50 / Room: 109 (Dextrum II)
Chair: Asta Skujytė-Razmienė
13:40–14:00. Olesia Naumovska (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv)
"Glory to Heroes!": Some Notes on the Image of the Ideal Hero in Ukrainian Fairy Tales and Contemporary War Narratives
14:00–14:20. David Rotman (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Soldiers, Rabbis, and One Matriarch: Politics and Folk Narratives in Rachel’s Tomb in the Last Three Decades
14:20–14:40. Michal Pavlásek (Institute of Ethnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences)
"We didn´t cross the borders, borders crossed us!" Narratives, Memories and Practices of the Border Crisis in the Czech-Slovak Borderland
14:40–14:50. Break
14:50–15:10. Dani Schrire (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Jerusalem at War and the Weather is Fine: Postcarding during Cataclysmic Events
15:10–15:30. Bubulinë Syla (Institute of Albanology, Pristina)
Gjama: The Narrative of Men’s Grief and Glory
15:30–15:50. Alexandra Arkhipova (Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Sociale EHESS, Paris)
Legends as Languages for the Contemporary Threats: The Russian Case, 2020–2024
Session XXIII * Committee Sessions II: FNLM
June 20 / 13:40–15:10 / Room: 334
Chair: Jill Terry Rudy
13:40–14:00. Ruth B. Bottigheimer (Stony Brook University)
Re-Creating Hannā Diyāb’s Performance of “Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves” for Antoine Galland in Paris on Monday, 27 May 1709
14:00–14:20. Jacqueline Smith (University of Oxford) Dark Side of the Swan: Fairy-Tale Ballet and the Strange Stage Presence of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
14:20–14:40. Elene Gogiashvili (Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University)Fairy Tales in Georgian Theatres for Young Audiences
14:40–14:50. Break
14:50–15:10. Jill Terry Rudy (Brigham Young University) Fairy-Tale Injustice and Aggressive Superiority in Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella
Session XXIV * Narratives of Crisis
June 20 / 13:40–15:50 / Room: 217
Chair: Renata Jambrešić Kirin
13:40–14:00. Anna Zalewska (Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń)
Is Immortality a Blessing or a Curse? Crisis in the Natural Cycle of Birth and Death in Polish and the East Slavic Magic Folktale
14:00–14:20. Oksana Mykytenko (Rylsky Institute of Art Studies, Folklore and Ethnology)
Conceptualizing ‘Unforgiveness’ (the Narrative Plot “Grass Snake in The Hut”): Mythology, Intertextuality, Contextualization
14:20–14:40. Sarah Jessica Darley (University of East Anglia)
"Wrap Yourself in This Skin, Leave the Palace, and Walk So Long as You Can Find Ground to Carry You": Twin Dialogues of Decolonizing the Fairy Tale in Contemporary Literature
14:40–14:50. Break
14:50–15:10. Uģis Nastevičs (University of Latvia)
Narratives’ Impact on the Religious Persecution and Discrimination of Dievturi in Latvia
15:10–15:30. Ave Goršič (Estonian Literary Museum)
Narratives In- and Outside of Crisis
15:30–15:50. Smiljana Đorđević Belić (Institute for Literature and Arts)
Dreams, Visions, and Obtaining Secret Knowledge: Folklore Religion and (Post) New Age
Coffee break
June 20 / 15:50–16:20 / Room: 107 (Sinistrum)
Evening
ISFNR General assembly
June 20 / 16:20–18:20 / Room: 106 (Magnum)
June 21, 2024
Morning sessions
Keynote lecture V
June 21 / 9:00–10:00 / Room: 106 (Magnum)
Chair: Toms Ķencis
Sadhana Naithani (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
The Narrative Grip: Folk Narrative and Ecology
Coffee break
June 21 / 10:00–10:30 / Room: 107 (Sinistrum)
Session XXV * Subtopic I: Theoretical Paradigms
June 21 / 10:30–12:40 / Room: 108 (Dextrum I)
Chair: Eija Stark
10:30–10:50. Diarmuid Ó Giolláin (University of Notre Dame)
Colonial Legacies in European Folkloristics
10:50–11:10. Jonathan Roper (University of Tartu) List vs. Narrative (On the Basis of Micro-Genres)
11:10–11:30. Haseena Naji (Vellore Institute of Technology)
Unveiling Cultural Nuances: Integrating Ochs and Capps' Linearity with Propp's Framework in the Analysis of Kurichyan Folk Songs of Wayanad, Kerala, India
11:30–11:40. Break
11:40–12:00. Biplab Chakraborty (University of Burdwan)
Indian Folk Narrative as the Style of ‘Lokaabharan’ in the Context of Whataboutism
12:00–12:20. Galit Hasan-Rokem (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Other People's Myths: Translating the Kalevala and Folklore Scholarship
12:20–12:40. Kishore Bhattacharjee (Gauhati University)
An Intertextual Study of Four Folklore Texts
Session XXVI * Subtopic III: Oral vs Online
June 21 / 10:30–12:20 / Room: 109 (Dextrum II)
Chair: Eda Kalmre
10:30–10:50. Eda Kalmre (Estonian Literary Museum)
From a Children's Horror Story to a Crime Legend of the Adult World
10:50–11:10
Kikee Doma Bhutia (University of Tartu), Nimeshika Venkatesan (Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar College of Engineering)
Intersectional Subalternity and the Case of Cinematic Storytelling in Regional South Asian Films
11:10–11:30
Meghna Choudhury (Gauhati University)
Transition from Oral to Over-The-Top (OTT) Platforms: Folk Narratives in Indian Cinema with Special Reference to the Ramayana
Break 11:30–11:40
11:40–12:00
Parasmoni Dutta (Tezpur University)
Narrativizing the 1990s: Some Reflections on the "90s Kids" Memes on Indian Social Media
12:00–12:20
Santhwana Santhosh (University of Hyderabad)
In Situ-Ex Situ in/of Totam: Oral Narratives in the Changing Contexts
Session XXVII * Subtopic IV: Narratives of Crisis
June 21 / 10:30–12:40 / Room: 334
Chair: Robin Gwyndaf
10:30–10:50. Ieva Zepa (University of Latvia)
Narratives of Miraculous Salvation in Crises
10:50–11:10. Marja-Leena Jalava (Finnish Literature Society)
Narrating Hitchhiking: Transitions in Place, Time and Positions
11:10–11:30. Danijela Popović Nikolić (University of Niš)
Belief Narratives Heroes and Their Affective Responses to Crises
11:30–11:40. Break
11:40–12:00. Mary Beth Stein (George Washington University)
Are the Anti-fascists of Yesterday the Fascists of Today? What Remains of East German Anti-fascism in United Germany
12:00–12:20. Ágota Lídia Ispán (HUN-REN RCH, Hungarian Research Network, Research Centre for the Humanities, Institute of Ethnology)
Complaint, Denunciation, Slander: Changes in Letter Writing in the Second Half of the 20th Century
12:20–12:40. Ardhendu Sarkar (University of Burdwan)
Vrata Katha as Indian Folk Narrative of Social Crisis and Change: A Study on Folk Beliefs and Devotion
Session XXVIII * Committee Sessions: BNN
June 21 / 10:30–12:40 / Room: 217
Chair: María Inés Palleiro
10:30–10:50. Tiina Sepp (University of Tartu)
Legends and Inspiration: Exploring the Mystery of Glastonbury Abbey and the Ever-evolving Influence of the Company of Avalon
10:50–11:10. Piotr Grochowski (Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń)
Turning Narrative Research into Storytelling. How Polish Pagans Retell Slavic Myths
11:10–11:30. Kirsten Marie Raahauge (The Royal Danish Academy)
But It Happened! The Unpleasantness of Maybe
11:30–11:40. Break
11:40–12:00. Mare Kõiva (Estonian Literary Museum)
Do Old Belief Narratives Lose Relevance? Variation and Search for Truth on the Example of Noah’s Ark
12:00–12:20. Vita Džekčioriūtė (Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore)
Belief Narratives in Lithuanian Mushroom Picking Practices
12:20–12:40. Nataša Polgar (Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research, Zagreb)
Disenchanted World and Pathologization of Vernacular Culture: The Function of Belief Legends Outside Traditional Context
Lunch
June 21 / 12:40–13:40 / Room: 107 (Sinistrum)
Evening
Congress closing dinner
June 21 / 16:00–18:00
Folkklubs Ala Pagrabs // Peldu iela 19, Riga
Ethno Disco Night "Solstice"*
June 21 / 20:00–01:00 / Mazās Jaunielas skvērs, Riga (Riga Old Town)
*Event organized by Riga City Council. A possibility to explore Latvian urban Midsummer celebration traditions.
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