Call for papers
The 14th Congress of the
International Society for Folk Narrative Research (ISFNR) will be held in
July 26-31, 2005, in Tartu, Estonia.
The central topic of the Tartu Congress will
be Narrative Theories and Modern Practices.
The program will include plenary sessions,
workshops, thematic panel sessions and forums. The publications and
periodicals issued since the 13th congress will be displayed.
Poster presentations will introduce research centres and disciplines.
Various fields of research have been
concerned with the study of narratives and performance in the past dozens
of years. This has brought along searches and experiments in folklore
studies and linguistics, ethnology and psychology, social anthropology and
medical science, geography and fine arts.
During the last ten years the focus has been
on communication in the Internet, and the relationship of media and oral
narrative tradition. Oral history, identification of self and ethnicity
through narratives, links between fiction and reality, moral issues, the
second life of narratives in printed publications and archives have
inspired scholars to study new and traditional folk narratives.
We welcome all scholars
who are working in the field of folk narratives. The themes of the congress
sessions are:
- Theoretical Schools in Narrative Studies
- Narrative Genres: Continuity and Changes
- Public and Private
- Networks and Networking
- Cross-Cultural Communication
- Mapping and Preservation
For further information, and also if you wish
to set up a panel, forum or round-table discussion, please contact the
local organising committee by mail, e-mail or fax:
by e-mail: isfnr@folklore.ee
by fax: 3727- 377-706
contact address: ISFNR 14, Vanemuise 42,
EE 51003, TARTU, ESTONIA
