Autumn school 2021
Autumn school „Dialogues with Magic“
Organiser: Estonian Literary Museum
Time and venue: 11-12 November 2021, Saka Manor,
Ida-Virumaa
On November 11-12, 2021 Estonian
Literary Museum organises the autumn school
„Dialogues with Magic“ with the aim to observe the phenomenon of magic through time – language
use, beliefs, fears, philosophies and interests related to
magic, presentations and functions of magic in various
cultural spaces, symbolism, pre-modern scholarly discussions,
chronicles, modern media and advertising. This event takes place in cooperation with the Graduate
School of Linguistics, Philosophy and Semiotics, but other PhD
students (e.g., cultural research), their supervisors as well
as master’s level students are also warmly welcome. PhD and MA
students whose research is related to the topic are welcome to
give a 20-minutes paper. Participants can earn 2 credit points
(ECTS) for participation or 3 credit points when additionally
presenting a paper or get a certificate of participation.
The event takes place in Saka manor (www.saka.ee/en; in case of restrictions – in hybrid or virtual form),
working language is English. In addition to Estonian
researchers, experts from abroad are going to present lectures
and workshops. The trip from Tartu to Saka and back will be
organized with a rented bus, all participants are granted
accommodation (in single rooms) and food. Saka has also nice possibilities for recreation
activities.
Planned presentations:
- Substances, healing and multi-sensory imagery in Brazilian mediumistic trance (Emily Pierini)
- Shamanism from the perspective of cross-cultural research and neuroscience (Michael Winkelman)
- Magic in the early modern scholarly discussions in Europe (Meelis Friedenthal)
- Dark Theology: a new theory of supernatural objects (Andrey Shishkov)
- Estonian magic healers and verbal magic (Mare Kõiva)
- Magic in news – magic, witchcraft and superstition in Estonian newspapers 1850-1980 (Tõnno Jonuks)
- Magic in the language of advertisement texts in contemporary Estonian media (Risto Järv)
- The role of the feminine in ritual and magic among Karbi and Khasi ethnic groups (North-East India) (Margaret Lyngdoh)
- Assault sorcery in Karbi belief worlds (Kareng Ronghangpi)
- Magic in modern Udmurt society (Eva Toulouze, Nikolai Anisimov)
- Spirits Between the Strings: The Ainu Tonkori as a Magically Imbued Instrument (Savannah-Rivka Powell)
- Matriarchal charming tradition in Multan (Kashif Farooqi)
- Folk ornament and magic (Digne Ūdre)
- Ukrainian witches and their burial customs (Alina Oprelianska)
- Wild Witches in the Italian Alps (Michele Tita)
- What can philosophy of language say about spells? (Nikolai Shurakov)
- Technology-as-magic: historical automata as magical objects (Auli Viidalepp)
- Point of view of magic and supernatural in fictional audiovisual narrative forms (Tanel Toom)
- Detectives of the occult in early 20th century weird fiction (Helen Roostma)
- “All that is great is built upon memes”: meme magic and the cult of Kek (Anastasiya Fiadotava)
Please inform about your interest to participate by 11 October 2021 (if you wish to give a paper),
or 22 October 2021 (if you wish to attend without giving a
paper) to the e-mail address: reet@folklore.ee (registering
form 2021 is HERE)
The event is supported by the European
Union (ASTRA project of Estonian Literary Museum, EKMDHUM),
it is also related to the Centre of Excellence in Estonian
Studies.
Additional information: Reet Hiiemäe, reet@folklore.ee
