Symposium “Word Power” on April 25–27, 2016, at the University of Tartu
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Programme
Monday, April 25th
Ülikooli 16 (von Bock building). Room 109
16:15–16:30 Opening words
16:30–17:30 James Kapaló (University College Cork): Whispered Charms and
Secret Files: The Performance of Hidden Words (keynote lecture)
Tuesday, April 26th
Ülikooli 18 (University main building). Room 140
9:00–10:00 Jonathan Roper (University of Tartu): Ronald or Donald?
Vernacular Theorizing on Language (keynote lecture)
Coffee
Session I:
10:30–11:15 Laur Vallikivi (University of Tartu): How to Do Christians
with Words? Language in an Evangelical Mission Encounter in the Russian
Arctic
11:15–12:00 Eva Toulouze (INALCO, Paris; University of Tartu) & Liivo
Niglas (University of Taertu): Power of Words in a Culture of Silence: An
Attempt in Yuri Vella’s Speech Analysis
Lunch break
Session II:
13:30–14:15 Karina Lukin (University of Helsinki): Reported Speech in
Nenets Epic Poetry
14:15–15:00 Elo-Hanna Seljamaa (University of Tartu): Breaching Norms and
Mending the World in an Estonian Song About Aex, Money and Murder
Coffee
Session III:
15:30–16:15 Laura Siragusa (University of Aberdeen): Power in Ways of
Speaking: Spatio-Temporal Relations and the Co-Creation of the “Domus”
16:15–17:00 Rajat Nayyar (Tallinn University): Upanayana Samskara |
Bhojpuri Initiation Rites & Folk Songs (film screening)
Wednesday, April 27th
Ülikooli 18 (University main building). The senate hall
9:00–10:00 Lotte Tarkka (University of Helsinki): Words, Powers, and
Genres – Notes on the Efficacy of Oral Poetry (keynote lecture)
Coffee
Session IV:
10:30–11:15 Aleksi Moine (INALCO, Paris): Words, Ointments, and Bodies:
The Healing Power of the Word in Finnish charms
11:15–12:00 Frog (University of Helsinki): Texts as Objects: Considering
Emic Conceptions of the Exchange of Supernaturally Powerful Words
Lunch break
Session V:
13:30–14:15 Ergo-Hart Västrik (University of Tartu): Secret Tradition and
the Power of Archived Word: Prayers of Seto Peko Cult
14:15–15:00 Margaret Lyngdoh (University of Tartu): The Powerful
Unwritten: Secrecy, Names and Taboo in Khasi Belief Narratives
Coffee
Session VI:
15:30–16:15 Kati Kallio (University of Helsinki, Finnish Literature
Society): Powers of Poetic Form
16:15–17:00 Closing discussion
The symposium is organized by the Department of Folkloristics, University
of Helsinki, and the Department of Estonian and Comparative Folklore,
University of Tartu.
Programme and Abstracts of the symposium in PDF format.
http://www.ut.ee/folk/index.php/en/events/499-word-power-2016
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