… 16 (von Bock building). Room 109 16:15–16:30 Opening words 16:30–17:30 James Kapaló (University College Cork): … University of Tartu) & Liivo Niglas (University of Taertu): Power of Words in a Culture of Silence:  An Attempt in Yuri … Upanayana Samskara | Bhojpuri Initiation Rites & Folk Songs (film screening)   Wednesday, April 27th Ülikooli …

… The 6th International Conference of Young Folklorists 2016 "Us and Them: Exploring the Margins" Place: The Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore, Antakalnio 6, LT-10308 Vilnius, Lithuania Date: …

… A new course Serbian folklore: introduction into its classical forms in the … Sad, Serbia) will give lectures from 15th to 25th  April 2016. Everybody is welcome to attend! 15.04.2016 lecture at … of collecting and recording Serbian and South Slavic folklore, focusing on the Vuk Stefanovic Karadzic's work …

… On December 20, 2016, at 14.15 Marleen Metslaid will defend her PhD dissertation in ethnology titled "Between the folk and scholarship: ethnological practice in Estonia in … focused on construing the then central research object – folk culture – and discovered ambiguity and variability, …

… Folkloristika eriala magistri- ja bakalaureusetööde kaitsmised toimuvad 31. mail 2016 algusega kl 10.15 von Bocki õppehoone (Ülikooli 16) … Kivari Kl 11.15 Kaija Rumm –  Vene-Türgi sõda: andmete folkloristlik võrdlev analüüs Juhendaja: dotsent Tiiu Jaago; …

… Academics vs policy debate: the case of the shadow economy index   It has been argued that academic performance, … NGOs. Arnis Sauka is co-author of the annual Shadow Economy Index for the Baltic Countries (with Prof. Tālis J. Putniņš, … on Financial and Economic Issues. He has organized various events, including academic and applied conferences, …

… Korom  (Boston University) will deliver a lecture titled " Folk Art and Globalization: An Example from West Bengal ". …

… Dowsing as a link between natural and supernatural. Folkloristic reflections on water veins, Earth radiation and … supports the individual’s accessibility to the life-forming powers in the intimate contact with the environment. In this …

… Ancient East-Mediterranean Studies in Tartu (ICAEM 2018): "Power and (Op)position" 1–3 June 2018   General information … 15 January 2018 . Abstracts should not be longer than 200 words and should be submitted to  caemc@ut.ee . There is no …  (University of München, Germany): "Assyrian imperial power and how to oppose it" Prof.  Lynette Mitchell …

… organised by the Department of Estonian and Comparative Folklore (University of Tartu), Viljandi Culture Academy … partnership with the Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore (Vilnius). Keynote speakers: Dr Alexander Panchenko … for the conference include but are not limited to: The power of genres and themes to connect, unify, mediate and …

… contribution in the construction of one of the world’s most powerful centres of materials science, the European …

… organised by the Department of Estonian and Comparative Folklore, the Department of Scandinavian Studies, the … in Cultural Theory. In 1988 the Department of Irish Folklore, University College, Dublin, hosted the symposium … about contents, form, performance, history and theories of folk narratives and their relationship to social realities. …

… Philip Shaw (University of Leicester) will deliver lecture "Folktales in the Middle Ages: Exploring pre-modern evidence for folklore". The lecture will take place in von Bock Building … welcome to attend! Department of Estonian and Comparative Folklore …

… On Feb. 4-5 2013 the Department of Estonian and Comparative Folklore, University of Tartu, and the University of Science … organised joint symposium "Genres of Belief from a Folkloristic Perspective" . It was held in Guwahati, Assam, and was dedicated to the memory of two Indian folklorists Parag M. Sarma and Kailash Dutta whose lives …

… Since 2010 the Department of Estonian and Comparative Folklore has offered regular classes of folkloristics in English, mainly oriented towards MA and PhD … 6th to 14th February 2017.    During the autumn semester 2016 the Department of Estonian and Comparative Folklore …

… home page at http://nobelprize.org/physics/laureates/1987/index.html . Illari Lään Head, UT Public Relations and …

… Call for Papers: 7th International Conference of Young Folklorists “Negotiations of Belonging” October 4-6, 2017 … in Estonia (2011, 2013, 2015) and Lithuania (2012, 2014, 2016). The conference aims to foster academic communication, … by March 1, 2017 and to send their abstracts (max 250-words including bibliography) by May 2, 2017 to …

… New South Wales) will give a public lecture on 2 November 2016 at 16:15 in room Jakobi 2-114 . The title of the talk is "Foucault on Power and Government" Paul was a student of both Foucault … the implications of Nietzsche's and Foucault's analysis of power for political liberalism and key liberal ideas, …

… Winter school “Biopower and Semiotics of the Body” on February 20-25, 2017 in … and PhD students to apply for the winter school “ Biopower and Semiotics of the Body ”. This school is part of an … future career. The deadline for submission is December 1, 2016 .  Members of the organizing committee: Andrey …

… organised by the Department of Estonian and Comparative Folklore, University of Tartu, and the Tartu Nefa Group in … partnership with the Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore, Vilnius and the Centre of Excellence in Cultural … we study. The aim of the conference is to explore power relations between scholars and 'the folk', the …