NIF in the Nordic Eclipse

This is a sad story. The Nordic Institute of Folklore has ceased to exist. Last spring its thousand or more friends received the following letter: To the readers of NIF Newsletter Nordic Institute of Folklore to be closed The decision has now been taken. NIF is to be...

FF Summer School in 1999

Variation and textuality as keywords The Organizing Committee of the FF Summer School which consisting of representatives of the folklore departments at the universities of Finland, convened in Helsinki on December 1, 1997. It was agreed that the 4th Summer School...

Epic Scholars in Bonn

Integrating words and music The University of Bonn has been marked on the maps of international epic scholarship as one of the capitals of comparative research on oral epics. The seminar series on Central Asian epic traditions conducted for decades by Professor...

A Code of Ethics for Folklore Studies

An invitation to participate in an interdisciplinary debate Folklore, understood as traditional expressive culture, is universally accepted as constituting an important part of the cultural heritage of mankind. Folklorists, whose prime task it is to research,...

FFSS 1997 in Lammi

A major part of the work of the Summer School consisted of the working groups concentrating on specific themes. The groups also presented final reports at the end of their training. The members of the groups were selected according to their research interests, and...

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