SUNDAY, July 28, 1991
Arrival of the participants at the Turku Christian Institute, address: Lustokatu 7, 20380 Turku, Finland (tel. intl. 358 21 638001).
Evening:
Get-together at the TCI.
MONDAY, July 29th
Morning:
Opening and presentation of the participants.
Lauri Honko: “The analysis of the folklore process.” Discussion.
Afternoon:
Sight-seeing in Turku and its vicinity.
Visits to the Nordic Institute of Folklore and the Department of Cultural Studies, Turku University.
Evening:
Reports by the participants, discussion.
TUESDAY, July 30th
Morning:
Lauri Honko: “The discovery of folklore.” Discussion.
Lauri Honko: “The definition of folklore.” Discussion.
Afternoon:
Participants are divided into 3 groups.
Groups meet and discuss previous fieldwork.
Planning of the internal division of labour within a field-team.
Evening:
Reports by the participants, discussion.
WEDNESDAY, July 31st
Morning:
Barbro Klein: “The fieldwork enterprise: types and goals.” Discussion.
Barbro Klein: “The choice of technical equipment for fieldwork.” Discussion.
Afternoon:
Groups meet.
Notebook. Diary. Collcard. Camera. Tape recorder.
Evening:
Discussion on “How to design a fieldwork-strategy.”
THURSDAY, August 1st
Morning:
Anna-Leena Siikala: “Pre-field preparations: inventories of material and previous research.” Discussion.
Anna-Leena Siikala: “Preliminary problem-setting for fieldwork: studies in text, context, personalities, cognition, repertoires, collectivity, performance and meaning.” Discussion.
Afternoon:
Groups meet. Exercises in simulated fieldwork.
Evening:
Free. Reading. Individual study.
FRIDAY, August 2nd
Morning:
Bente Gullveig Alver: “Ethical issues in folkloristic research.” Discussion.
Barbro Klein: “Choice of methods such as interview, observation and visual documentation.” Discussion.
Afternoon:
Groups meet. Video exercise.
Evening:
Film show. Films from projects, archives, participants.
SATURDAY, August 3rd
Excursion to the Folklore Archive of the Finnish Literature Society, Helsinki. Sightseeing.
SUNDAY, August 4th
Free. Individual study.
Voluntary excursions or assignments in fieldwork techniques.
MONDAY, August 5th
Morning:
Satu Apo: “How to analyse the content of narratives 1.” Discussion.
Irma-Riitta Järvinen: “Types of archives and systems of cataloguisation.” Discussion.
Afternoon:
Lauri Harvilahti: “The archiving process: from the field to the user. Problems of preservation and management.” Discussion.
Roger D. Abrahams: “Experience and event, text, texture and context in systematic folkloristics.” Discussion.
Presentation of a project archive at TKU.
Evening:
Get-together with guests.
TUESDAY, August 6th
Morning:
Bengt Holbek: “The comparative method.” Discussion.
Henry Glassie: “The folkloristic study of material culture.” Discussion.
Afternoon:
Lauri Honko: “The ideology of safeguarding: the case of research materials, ethics and copyright.” Discussion.
Exercises in computerised cataloguing and film analysis.
Group meetings.
Evening:
Free. Reading. Individual study.
WEDNESDAY, August 7th
Morning:
Anna-Leena Siikala: “The analytic work. Multiple research interests and paradigms. Interdisciplinarity.” Discussion.
Barbro Klein: “Folklore research in retrospect.” Discussion.
Afternoon:
Hermann Bausinger: “On cultural identity and symbols of identity.” Discussion.
Exercises in computerised cataloguing and film analysis.
Group meetings.
Evening:
Discussion on “How to design a tradition archive.”
THURSDAY, August 8th
Morning:
Lauri Honko: “Genre analysis, emic and etic.” Discussion.
Hannu-Pekka Huttunen: “The taxonomic enterprise: cataloguing or genre theory?” Discussion.
Afternoon:
Roger D. Abrahams: “On performance analysis.” Discussion.
Group meetings.
Evening:
Get-together with guests.
FRIDAY, August 9th
Morning:
Satu Apo: “How to analyse the content of narratives 2.” Discussion.
Bengt Holbek: “Resurrecting the past by means of early records of folklore.” Discussion.
Afternoon:
Henry Glassie: “On the making of handicraft.” Discussion. Hermann Bausinger: “An evaluation of theoretical approaches in folklore research.” Discussion.
Evening:
Group meetings.
SATURDAY, August 10th
Free. Individual study.
Voluntary excursions and assignments in fieldwork and archiving techniques.
SUNDAY, August 11th
Voluntary excursions and assignments in fieldwork and archiving techniques.
Folklore Fellows’ Party.
MONDAY, August 12th
Morning:
Bengt af Klintberg: “Recycling stored data: the second life paradigm of folklore. Publication activities.” Discussion.
Lauri Honko: “Problems of ownership, authenticity and ethics of use.” Discussion.
Afternoon:
Discussion in groups on cases of tradition revival, folklorism, folklorisation and commercial uses of folklore.
Evening:
Discussion on the political uses of folklore.
TUESDAY, August 13th
Morning:
Lauri Honko: “Folklore and identities (national, local, social, ethnic).” Discussion.
Aili Nenola: “Emancipatory folklore work.” Discussion.
Afternoon:
Discussion on applied folklore and the possibilities of a scholar’s engagement in it.
Evening:
Discussion on international cooperation in the safeguarding of folklore.
WEDNESDAY, August 14th
Morning:
An evaluation of the training course by the participants.
Group-leaders have the word.
Closing of the training course.
Afternoon:
Departure.
(FFN 2, June 1991: 2-3)