Wednesday June 10
11.00 Registration desk opens (Reception/Restaurant)
12.00-13.00 Opening (B 51)
13.00-13.45 Chair: Terry Gunnell
Key note 1: Diane Goldstein: Venerating the Vernacular: The Rise of Local Knowledge and Narrative
14.00-14.45 Chair: Terry Gunnell
Key note 1: Carl Lindahl: Surrender the Self, See the Community, Secure the Future
14.45-15.15 Coffee
15.15-16.45 Sessions part 1.
1:1 (B 51)
Chair: Lina Bugenie
Alf Arvidsson, Umeå: Canon, class, competence?
Michéal Briody, Helsingfors: Not a Safe Haven
Audun Kjus, Oslo: Why and How We Will Return with a Vengeance
1:2 (B 25)
Chair: Åsa Ljungström
Linda Fleming, Glasgow: Being British, Acting Scottish
Katie Heathman, Leicester: Why Folksong and Dance?
Niina Hämäläinen, Helsingfors: Emotional Pearls?
1:3 (E 30)
Chair: Mats Nilsson
Carmel McKenna, Limerick: Betwixt and Between
Jennifer Stritch, Limerick: Death Becomes Us.
Tracey Fahey, Limerick: The Persistence of Legends
17.00-18.30 Sessions part 2.
2:1 (B 51)
Chair: Dace Bula
Lotte Tarkka, Helsingfors: Historical Consciousness and Creativity in Archival Research
Torunn Selberg, Bergen: Continuity through Variation
Charlotte Hyltén-Cavallius, Södertörn: Crafting Identity
2:2 (B 25)
Chair: Lars Kaijser
Oksana Kuzmenko, Lviv: Oral Folklore about Early 20th Century Dramas
Tora Wall, Stockholm: How to Create a Magical Landscape
Eija Stark, Helsingfors: Folklore and Cultural Concepts of Class Formation
2:3 (E 30)
Chair: Jonas Engman
Karin Högström, Stockholm: Expressiva Forms in Motion
Sarah Holst Kjaer, Agder: Tourism Industry as the Last Folklore-Protector
Bryan Levina-Viray, Trondheim: Putong/Tubong Knowledge
Thursday June 11
09.00-09.45 Key Note 3: Chair: Ulf Palmenfelt (B 51)
Barbro Klein: Folkloristics and the benefits of broad perspectives
10.00-11.30 Sessions part 3
3:1 (B 51)
Chair: Kyrre Kverndokk
Lina Bugiene, Vilnius: Folklore Fieldwork as Reflection and Stimulus
Merili Metsvahi, Tartu: Folklorists’ Contribution to the Study of the Estonian Family History
Georg Drakos, Stockholm: Chronic Pain, Medicine and Folklore
3:2 (B 25)
Chair: Mircea Poduraru
Åsa Ljungström, Uppsala: Notes and Family Lore on the Owners of the Sandvik Manor Magic Art Manuscripts: Material Artefacts in Oral Tradition
Coppélie Cocq, Umeå och Fredrik Skott, Göteborg: ”Party på Blåkulla” — Digital Vernacular Practices and Folkloristics
Hanna Jansson, Stockholm: ”Keep up the Writing so I can Dream away”: Readers’ Comments on Cruising Sailors’ Online Storytelling
3:3 (E 30)
Chair: Jin Feng
Mats Nilsson, Göteborg: There is no Traditional Dance!
Lene Halskov Hansen, Köpenhamn: Comic Songs as Source Material
Tom Hulme, London: “No Mere Fairy Tale”: Historical Pageantry and the Folk Revival in Dorset 1905-1939.
11.30-13.00 Lunch
13.00-14.00 Key Note 4: Chair: Owe Ronström (B 51)
Regina Bendix: Disciplinary Capital in a Departmentalized World
14.15-15.45 Sessions part 4
4:1 (B 51)
Chair: : Eila Stepanova
Dace Bula, Riga: Sustainable Folkloristics
Frog, Helsingfors: Why Folklorists Can Take Over the World (or at Least the Humanities): Theory, Methodology and Interdisciplinarity
Tina Paphitis, London: Folkloristics in/as Public Archeology
4:2 (B 25)
Chair: Anders Gustavsson
Lars Kaijser, Stockholm: Public Aquariums, Staged Nature
Kendra Willson, Åbo: Tradition in and about Information Technology
Sevdagul Aliyeva, Azerbajdjan: Development of National Identity
4:3 (B 27)
Chair: Alf Arvidsson
Jonas Engman, Stockholm: Contextualizing Folklife and Folklore Archives
Line Grønstad, Oslo: The Tradition Archives’ Present Situation
Sverker Hyltén-Cavallius, Stockholm: Sound Trackers and Vinyl Chasers
4:4 (E 30)
Chair: Linda Fleming
Rostislav Kononenko, Irina Shuvalova, Elena Iarskaia-Smirnova, Moskva: The Changing Role of Popular Heritage: Tradition and Innovation in a Cultural Biography of One Russian Folk Song
Elena Karachkova: Oral Traditions About the Past in Contemporary Rajastan: Performances and Purposes
Roman Urbanowicz: Local Narration and Dissipation of Locality
15.45-16.15 Coffee
16.15-17.45 Sessions part 5
5:1 (B 51)
Chair: Carmel Mc Kenna
Kyrre Kverndokk, Bergen: Folkloristics Contingency – Folklore and Disaster Studies
Andreas McKeough, Helsingfors: Remembering and Interpreting the Finnish Civil War
Ulla Savolainen, Helsingfors: The Meaning of the Form: The Case of Historical Present in the Autobiographical Writings of the Finnish Karelian Evacuees
5:2 (B 25)
Chair: Lotte Tarkka
Mircea Paduraru, Iasi: Dark Materialities. Fear and Tremble
Marja-Liisa Keinänen, Stockholm: Folk Belief Research in Sweden: New Challenges and Perspectives
Ugnius Mikucionis, Vilnius: The Family Life of the Dwarfs
5:3 (B 30)
Chair: Oksana Kuzmenko
Jin Feng, Detroit: Houshold Furniture in a Small Mountain Village
Kashif Jamil, Lahore: Folklore as Supporting Tool: A Case Study of Cholistan Desert and Punjab
Jiang Lu, Michigan: A Special Buddhist Temple
Conference dinner (Restaurant)
Friday June 12
09.00-10.00 Chair: Birgitta Meurling (B 51)
Key note 5: Anne Eriksen: Folkloristics and the Heritage Field
10.15-11.15 Key note 6: Susanne Österlund Pötzsch: Why Folkloristics in the Case of Stairs? Disciplinary Perambulations.
11.30-13.00 Sessions part 6
6:1 (B 51)
Chair: Oksana Kuzmenko
Eila Stepanova, Helsingfors: The Register of Karelian Lamenters. Advancing Theory
Elena Iugai, Vologda: The Russian Funeral Lamentation
Irina Sjuvalova, Rostislav Kononenko. Evgenia Karpova, Moskva: Folklore as a Basis of Cultural Memory and a Source of Cohesion: The Case of Russian Movement
6:2 ( B 25)
Chair: Georg Drakos
Anders Gustavsson, Oslo: Folkloristics in the light of auto-ethnography
Anna Blomster, Los Angeles: Little Sweden Village – Red Cottages and the Experience of an Authentic Swedish Summer
Karina Lukin, Helsingfors: Lying about the Mythical Past
13.30 Finale (B 51)
14.30 Lunch. Guided Walking Tour in Mediaeval Visby. (Starting from the stage in Almedalen)