ISFNR Newsletter No. 3 March 2008
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2 March 2008 Contents Friends in Folklore Research by Ülo Valk ................................................................................................. 3 Message from the Membership Committee by Cristina Bacchilega ................................ ISFNR Interim Conference “Folk Narrative and Society”, September 20th-22nd, 2007, Argentina Sharing Difference: A View on the Interim Conference in Santa Rosa, La Pampa, Argentina by Ricardo Kaliman ..................................................................................... 5 Folk Narrative and Society Meeting in Latin America by Eerika Koskinen ..................................................................................... 7 About Favorable Surprises, Interactions and Particular Behaviour that We Call Folklore. E-mail Interview with Martha Blache by Elo-Hanna Seljamaa ............................................................................ 10 Call for Papers: 15th Congress of the ISFNR Narratives Across Space and Time: Transmissions and Adaptation, Athens, Greece, June 21st-27th, 2009 .......................................................................................................... 13 Call for Papers: ISFNR Symposium “Folk Narrative: Genres, Social Function and Cultural Arena” at Kenyatta University in Nairobi, Kenya, September 2nd-4th, 2008 .......................................................................... 15 Message from the Committee on “Folktales and the Internet” by Theo Meder .......................................................................................... 16 The Charms of Pécs. News from the Committee on Charms, Charmers and Charming by Jonathan Roper ................................................................................... 16 International Call for Papers: One-Day Seminar on Encounter Charms/ Begegnungssegen, Society May 9th, 2008, Tartu, Estonia .................................................................. 17 for Folk Narrative Belief Tales: Call for Cooperation ......................................................... 17 Research In Memory of Kirill Vasilyevich Chistov (1919-2007) by Pekka Hakamies .................................................................................. 18 ISFNR Newsletter is published by the In Memory of George Mifsud-Chircop (1951-2007) International Society of Folk Narrative by Mare Kõiva ........................................................................................... 19 Research. Archives of Argentinean Folk Narrative: Trends, Topics and History of Argentinean Folkloristics ISSN 1736-3594 by María Inés Palleiro ............................................................................... 20 International Conference Charms, Charming and Charmers in Pécs Editors: Ülo Valk ([email protected]) by Ülo Valk ............................................................................................... 29 th Elo-Hanna Seljamaa The 7 Folklore Fellows Summer School in Karelia ([email protected]) by Mészáros Csaba .................................................................................. 33 Language editor: Frank Carney Symposium The Concept of Time and Space in European Folklore in Design and layout: Marat Viires Ljubljana Editorial Office: by Katja Hrobat ......................................................................................... 37 ISFNR Newsletter Joint Annual Meeting of the American Folklore Society and Folklore University of Tartu Studies Association of Canada in Québec Department of Estonian and Comparative by Liisi Laineste ........................................................................................ 40 Folklore Folklorists’ Festivity in Latvia Ülikooli 16-208 by Toms Ķencis ......................................................................................... 43 51003 Tartu Conference and Festival of South Asian Folklore in New Delhi Estonia by Ülo Valk ................................................................................................ 45 Once More about the Origin of Fairy Tales. A Parable and its Exegesis ISFNR on the Internet: by Heda Jason .......................................................................................... 48 http://www.folklore.org.il/ISFNR/ March 2008 3 Dear Friends in Folklore Research, The year 2007 marked a new step in positive examples of co-operation in tury. While Palleiro focuses on changes the history of the ISFNR as many of us well-defined fields of research. This in research paradigms, Heda Jason’s travelled to Argentina to our first official Newsletter marks the establishment of follow-up comment on the orality and meeting in the Western Hemisphere. yet another research group, a commit- literacy debate mediated in last year’s Members of our folk narrative society tee dedicated to belief narratives and Newsletter draws attention to the stub- gathered to hold the ISFNR Interim open to all interested scholars. born persistence of certain topics and Conference “Folk Narrative and So- the tendency of history to repeat itself. ciety” in Santa Rosa, La Pampa. We Another initiative taken by our mem- met in a small university town with bers and supported by the Executive As many of you already know, and a lively academic atmosphere and Committee is to broaden the scope of hopefully have noted in your diaries, in a strong school of folkloristics, well events organized under the auspices June 2009 the ISFNR will meet in Ath- known among Latin American scholars of the ISFNR. Ezekiel Alembi – our ens, Greece to hold its 15th Congress who had visited the town before for its vice-president representing Africa – “Narratives Across Time and Space: Conferences for the Study of Folk Nar- has, together with his colleagues, invited Transmissions and Adaptations”. The rative. The ISFNR Interim conference us to take part in the ISFNR research Athens Congress will also mark the was organized jointly with the 7th Jor- symposium “Folk Narrative: Genres, So- 50th anniversary of the ISFNR and an nadas de Estudio de la Narrativa Folk- cial Function and Cultural Arena” at the exhibition dedicated to the society’s lórica. For most guests from the rest Kenyatta University in Nairobi, Kenya in history will feature at the meeting. As of the world this was their first, exciting September 2008. For participants of the mentioned in the call for papers, all of trip to this lovely town in the hospitable ISFNR Interim Conference aof 2000, you are invited and encouraged to par- country of Argentina. The conference this offers an opportunity to go back and ticipate in assembling this display and was a remarkable success thanks to refresh old acquaintances while for oth- in helping document what is part of the the efforts of Ana María Dupey, María ers this will be a new experience. In May, history of our discipline and a frame- Inés Poduje, María Graciela Eliggi and the Committee for “Charms, Charmers work for networks of friendship and the other organisers as well as to the and Charming” will convene in Tartu, collegiality that span the decades. supporting institutions: Instituto Na- Estonia, for a one-day seminar on En- cional de Antropología y Pensamiento counter Charms/ Begegnungssegen. These approaching milestones and Latinoamericano, Secretaría de Cultura Information about subtopics and dates cyclically recurring gatherings, as well de la Nación and Departamento de In- of both meetings can be found on the as the new initiatives, gain significance vestigaciones Culturales Sub-Secre- pages of this Newsletter as well as on also from the steadily growing member- taría de Cultura de La Pampa. Martha the ISFNR web site. ship of the ISFNR. Cristina Bacchilega, Blache and Manuel Dannemann – the our vice-president representing North vice-president of the ISFNR represent- The call from Africa, like the projects of America and Chair of the Member- ing Latin America – also deserve our the committees, serve as reminders of ship Committee accounts for the steps gratitude for planning and preparing the simple truth that the life and activities taken by the Membership Committee this forum. of the ISFNR depend on the efforts of all to facilitate the procedure for joining of its members. The Executive Commit- the society. We are glad to welcome The third issue of the ISFNR Newsletter tee of the ISFNR welcomes initiatives seventeen new members who joined offers to our readers some impressions, taken by members in order to make us in 2007: Camilla Asplund Ingemark ideas and reflections about our recent the ISFNR into a more active society (Finland/ Sweden), Simon J. Bron- meeting in Argentina, including an inter- that effectively carries out the mission ner (USA), Anne Duggan (USA), Ana view with Martha Blache. It also shares established in our Statues: “to develop María Dupey (Argentina), Marja-Liisa with you memories of folklore events in scholarly work in the field of folk narra- Keinänen (Sweden), Desmond Khar- Canada, Hungary, India, Karelia (both in tive research and to stimulate contacts mawphlang (India), Chan-Hoe Kim Finland and in the Russian Federation), and the exchange of views among its (Japan), Pauliina Latvala (Finland), Lea Latvia and Slovenia, where members members”. I am pleased that this issue Olsan (USA/ UK), Hanne Pico Larsen of the ISFNR and friends of our society of the Newsletter makes several contri- (Denmark/ USA), Radvilė Racėnaitė participated in over the past year. One of butions towards these goals by bringing (Lithuania), Soumen Sen (India), Hanna the priorities of the ISFNR is to develop