9.8. MONDAY
Morning
Opening:
Keijo Virtanen, Rector of the University of Turku
Gustav Björkstrand, Rector of Åbo Akademi University
Plenum 1: Lauri Honko, Thick Corpus and Organic Variation
Presentation of participants
Afternoon
Plenum 2: Anna-Leena Siikala,Variation and Genre as Practice
Workshop II Keynote: John Miles Foley, Individual Poet and Epic Tradition
Workshops I-IV
Workshop I. Group Leaders: Ulrich Marzolph & Anna-Leena Siikala
Variation and Textuality in Oral Literature
Workshop II. Group Leaders: John Miles Foley & Lauri Harvilahti
Variation and Textuality in Oral Epics
Workshop III. Group Leaders: Barbro Klein & Ulrika Wolf-Knuts
Principles of Fieldwork and Archiving
Workshop IV. Group Leaders: Margaret Mills & Lauri Honko
Folkloristic Research Ethics
10.8. TUESDAY
Morning
Workshop III Keynote: Barbro Klein, Folklore Archives, Heritage Politics and Ethical Dilemmas: Notes on Writing and Printing
Panel 1: Maria Vasenkari, Armi Pekkala & 2-3 invited panelists
Dialogic Methodology & Producing Thick Data
Afternoon
Workshop I Keynote: Ulrich Marzolph,
Variation, Stability and the Constitution of Meaning
Workshops I-IV
Demo 1: Pictorial ethnography I: Video.
Scholars present their experience of audiovisual documentation and its relevance in analytic work.
11.8. WEDNESDAY
Morning
Plenum 3: Lauri Harvilahti, Variation and Memory
Panel 2: Tove Fjell, Lena Marander-Eklund & 2-3 invited panelists
Variation in Repeated Interviews
Afternoon
Workshop IV Keynote: Margaret Mills, The Question of Truth in Folk Narrative Research
Excursion to the historical town of Turku, including a visit to the archaeological museum Aboa Vetus et Ars Nova.
12.8. THURSDAY
Morning
Workshop IV Keynote: Lauri Honko, Safeguarding Tradition as Ethics
Panel 3: Rionach ui Ogain, Jyrki Pöysä & 2-3 invited panelists
Comments on Context, Text and Subtext & Variation in Archived Jokes
Afternoon
Workshop III Keynote: Ulrika Wolf-Knuts, On the Construction of Research Material
Workshops I-IV
Demo 2: Archiving systems. Different systems of archiving and experiences of their digitalisation.
13.8. FRIDAY
Morning
Plenum 4: Senni Timonen, Thick Corpus and the Poetics of a Singer
Panel 4: Ilkka Pyysiäinen, Seppo Knuuttila & 2-3 invited panelists Variation from a Cognitive Perspective & How to Seize Mentalities
Afternoon
Workshops I-IV
Kalevala and the World’s Traditional Epics
14.8. SATURDAY
Morning
Opening session
Welcome, Keijo Virtanen, Rector of the University of Turku
Opening, Heikki Koski, Governor of West Finland
Lauri Honko, The Kalevala as Performance
Session 2
Dell Hymes, Lineaments and Approximations
Karl Reichl, Genealogy and Heroic Conduct in Turkic Oral Epics
John William Johnson, Contribution to the Theory of Oral Poetic Composition
Afternoon
Session 3
Minna Skafte Jensen, Homeric Performance
John Miles Foley, Story-Pattern as Sêma: The Odyssey as a Return Song
Clive Tolley, Oral Assumptions: A Warning from Old Norse
Session 4
Anna-Leena Siikala, Different Cultures, Different Voices: A View on Kalevalaic Poetry
Georgij A. Levinton, The Influence of the Kalevala on the “Artificial” Epic (Hiawatha and Kalevala revisited)
John B. Alphonso Karkala, The Nature of Heroic Action in “Traditional” Epics: Consideration of Some Events in the Kalevala
Evening
Reception by the City of Turku
15.8. SUNDAY
Morning
Session 5
Panel 1: Traditional Epics of the Eastern Baltic Sea Region
Senni Timonen, A Singer’s Response to the Kalevala
Elina Rahimova, Crystallized Imagery Manifested Through Variation in Lemminkäinen’s Journey to Päivölä
Ülo Valk, From Prose to Verse: the Case of Legends in the Kalevipoeg
Madis Arukask, Restructured Runo-songs in Estonian and Setu National Epics
Paul Hagu, Anne Vabarna as the Singer of the Setu Epic Peko
Seppo Suhonen, Wealth of Language in the Setu Epic Peko and its Translation
Lauri Harvilahti, The Bear Slayer of Andrejs Pumpurs as an Ideological Epic
Session 6
Panel 2: Indian Epic Traditions
C. N. Ramachandran, Ambivalence and Angst: A Note on Indian Folk Epics
Sabir Badalkhan, A Study of the Roles of Composer and Performer of a Balochi Epic
Afternoon
Session 7
Panel 3: Iranian Epic Traditions
Jaan Puhvel, Constraints on Historicity in the Book of Kings
Mehri Bagheri, The Mythical Structure of Iranian Epic
Ulrich Marzolph, The Persian National Epic Shahnamed in between Tradition and Ideology
Session 8
Panel 4: Southeast European Epic Traditions
Elena Agoston-Nikolova, The Construction of the National Epic Tradition
Nicolae Constantinescu, Cultural Context and Performance Context
Session 9
Panel 5: Nordic Epic Traditions
David Elton Gay, The 1849 Kalevala: Romantic Epic as Finnish Tradition
Margaretha Mellberg, Epic in the Faroe Islands
Osmo Pekonen, How Beowulf Sailed to Finland
Susan E. Walima, Kalevala-Tradition Among Finnish-Americans: Values, Community and Heritage
Evening
Banquet
Folklore Fellows’ Summer School 1999 Programme
16.8. MONDAY
Morning
Plenum 5: Dell Hymes, Variation and Narrative Competence
Panel 5: Tuija Hovi, Päivikki Suojanen, Ülo Valk & 2-3 invited panelists
Textualising Religious Experience & The Encounter of Rural and Urban Traditions
Afternoon
Workshops I-IV
17.8. TUESDAY
Morning
Plenum 6: Ulrika Wolf-Knuts, On the History of Folkloristic Comparison
Panel 6: Anders Salomonsson, Ann-Helene Bolstad Skjelbred & 2-3 invited panelists
Documentation and Research & Problems and Limitations – A Critical Look at a Norwegian Tradition Archive
Afternoon
Workshops I-IV
Demo 3: Pictorial ethnography II: Photography. Scholars present their experience of audiovisual documentation and its relevance in analytic work.
18.8. WEDNESDAY
Morning
Plenum 7: Annikki Kaivola-Bregenhoj, Varying Folklore
Panel 7: Patricia Nyberg, Marjut Huuskonen, Pasi Enges & 2-3 invited panelists
Observations on Interview in a Depth Study on Saami Folklore
Afternoon
Excursion to the traditional landscapes of Southwest Finland
Folklore Fellows’ Party at “Cave of Louhi” in Laitila
19.8. THURSDAY
Morning
Plenum 8: Barbro Klein, The Miracle in Södertälje, Sweden: Mass Media, Interethnic Politics, and the Profusion of Text and Images
Panel 8: Carola Ekrem, Rionach ui Ogain & 2-3 invited panelists
Variation and Continuity in Children’s Counting-out Rhymes & Aspects of Change in the Irish Language Tradition
Afternoon
Workshops I-IV
20.8. FRIDAY
Morning
Plenum 9: Margaret Mills, Women’s Tricks: Subordination and Subversion in Afghan Folktales
Panel 9: Lauri Honko, Anneli Honko & 2-3 invited panelists
Variation and Textuality in Oral Epics: a South Indian Case
Afternoon
Workshops I-IV
21.8. SATURDAY
Morning
Workshop I: Report by the Group
Variation and Textuality in Oral Literature
Workshop II: Report by the Group
Variation and Textuality in Oral Epics
Afternoon
Workshop III: Report by the Group
Principles of Fieldwork and Archiving
Workshop IV: Report by the Group
Folkloristic Research Ethics
22.8. SUNDAY
Morning
Closing discussion
Afternoon
Departure
or:
Excursion to Mannerheim’s home Louhisaari in Askainen and to Uusikaupunki, a small coastal town.