Russian Humanities University is highly recommended
(I lectured there p/t 2007-9).
Main sessions will be in Pereslavl'-Zalesskii
Andrew Jameson
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Subject: Centre for Typological and Semiotic Folklore Studies: 13th
International School and Conference (April 26th - May 5th 2013)
Russian State University for the Humanities
Centre for Typological and Semiotic Folklore Studies
Dear colleagues!
On April 26th - May 5th 2013 the Centre for Typological and Semiotic
Folklore Studies at the Russian State University for the Humanities (Moscow)
will host the 13th International School and Conference aimed at young
researches working in the field of folkloristics, ethnolinguistics and
cultural anthropology entitled
Visual and verbal in folk culture
The program of the School includes conference-format papers (20 min.),
lectures (50 min.), seminars, master-classes, round tables, problem-solving
workshops, and screenings of ethnographic films. The following topics are
going to be covered:
- visual and verbal sign systems in contemporary and traditional folk
culture;
- communicative peculiarities of visual, actional, and verbal messages in
folklore and ritual;
- visuality of texts and texts in visual images.
In course of the School there will take place master-classes on quantitative
and qualitative methods, data-bases and indexes in anthropology and
folkloristics, round tables on visual anthropology, seminars on gesture
languages and gesture communication, semiotics of costume and ritual masks,
lectures on the evolution of sign behaviour.
Specialists in these fields willing to participate in the activities of the
School should send their proposals for lectures or seminars (400 words) to
[log in to unmask] before February 1st, accompanied by a CV (not
exceeding 3 pages) till February 10th, 2013.
Young researches (under 35) interested in folkloristics, ethnolinguistics
and bordering disciplines and willing to attend the sessions of the School
should send their abstracts (500-700 words) to [log in to unmask]
or solve the competition task. The selection process will take place till
February 10th, 2013. To participate in the problem-solving competition
and/or abstracts competition (see the details on
http://www.ruthenia.ru/folklore/ls13.htm) you should register on-line at
https://sites.google.com/site/folkloreschool/ before January 30th, 2013.
The opening ceremony of the School will take place in Moscow. The main
sessions, in Pereslavl'-Zalessky. Working languages: Russian and English.
All the information concerning the School can be found on
http://www.ruthenia.ru/folklore. The e-mail of the organising committee:
[log in to unmask], telephone: +74999734354.
Head of the project: D.habil. Prof. S. Yu. Neklyudov,
coordinator of the project: D.phil. A. S. Arkhipova
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