9.00 Visit to the Department of Estonian and Comparative Folklore (Ülikooli 16-208)
10.00–11.30 Two parallel sessions

White Hall, Chair: Lotte Tarkka:
Mare Kõiva (Tartu, Estonia) Kalevipoeg as the Basis of New Narrative Forms
Ülo Valk (Tartu, Estonia) The Kalevipoeg, Mediumship and Discursive Authority of the Other World
Mihály Hoppál (Budapest, Hungary) Heroic Epics of the World – Research History and Future Tasks

Conference Hall, Chair: Mari Sarv:
Ranibala Khumukcham (Imphal, India) Folk Epic: A Study on KhambaThoibi of Manipur
Paul Hagu (Tartu, Estonia) A wave of Epics in Setomaa (1920–1930)
Sonja Petrović (Belgrade, Serbia) Oral Epic Tradition about the Battle of Kosovo 1389: Story Models, Forms, Ideologies
11.30–12.00 Coffee/tea break
12.00–13.30 Two parallel sessions

White Hall, Chair: Liina Lukas:
Eve Pormeister (Tartu, Estonia) Das estnische Epos Kalevipoeg in der Spannung zwischen Nationalem und Menschheitlich-Universellem am Beispiel der Höllenfahrtszenen
Risto Järv(Tartu, Estonia) Construction of ‘Pre-Kalevipoeg’: K. Ganander/K. J. Peterson's Finnische Mythologie
Cornelius Hasselblatt (Groningen, Netherlands) German Rewritings of the Estonian Kalevipoeg. On the German Reception of the Estonian Epic in the 19th Century

Conference Hall, Chair: Jonathan Roper:
Tatiana Bulgakova (St. Petersburg, Russia) The Motif of Competition in Siberian Shamanic Tales
Nina Yurchenkova (Saransk, Russia) From Mythology to Heroic Consciousness (Based on the Example of the Mordovian Epos)
Margaret Lyngdoh (Tartu, Estonia) Elements of Epic in Ritual among the Khasis
13.30–15.00 Lunch
15.00–16.30 Two parallel sessions

White Hall, Chair: Madis Arukask:
Arne Merilai (Tartu, Estonia) The Kalevipoeg: Aspects of Authorship
Katre Kikas (Tartu, Estonia) “Dr. Kreutzwald Has Been Blamed…” A Village Tailor H. A. Schults Defending the Authenticity of Kreutzwald’s Kalevipoeg

Conference Hall, Chair: Mihály Hoppál:
Jouni Hyvönen (Helsinki, Finland) Elias Lönnrot’s Ethno-historical View of the Finnish Mythology in the Kalevala
Pille-Riin Larm (Tartu, Estonia) Estonian Mythopoeia. Myths, Epics and Identity
Ott Heinapuu (Tartu, Estonia) Estonian Civil Religion: The Kalevipoeg and Sacred Oak Groves of Taara
16.30–17.00 Coffee/tea break
17.30 Visit to the Estonian Literary Museum (Vanemuise 42)