COVID-19 - I. Management Strategies and Communication Models, On-line Seminar I   (18 August 2020)


Moderator: Tõnno Jonuks


11.00-11.10 Opening, Introduction

11.15-11.45 Piret Voolaid (Tartu, ELM DF), Proverbs as Powerful Devices for Conveying Messages in Official and Vernacular Crisis Communication: The Case of Estonia

11.45-12.15 Mare Kalda (Tartu, ELM DF), Sense and Sensibility in Estonian Corona Memes

12.15-12.45 Angelina Ilieva (Sofia, BAS, IEFS EM), The General and His Fandom

12.45-13.15 Reet Hiiemäe (Tartu, ELM DF), Media Representations of Alternative Medicine in the Time of COVID-19 Crisis

13.15-13.45 Ave Goršič (Tartu, ELM EFA), Resisting the Glass Cupboard

13.45-14.15 Mare Kõiva (Tartu, ELM DF), Pandemic-Driven Citizen Philantropy

14.15-14.45 Nikolai Anisimov (Tartu, ELM DF; Izhevsk, UIHLL UdmFRC UB RAS, Russia); Galina Gluhhova (Izhevsk, F-USJ,USU, Russia), COVID-19 и традиционная культура удмуртов / COVID-19 and Udmurt’s Traditional Culture

14.45-15.15 Tatsiana Volodina, Tatsiana Marmysh (Minsk, BNA), Пандемия и актуализация архаических схем преодоления кризисной ситуации / Pandemic and Actualization of Archaic Schemes for Overcoming a Crisis Situation

15.15-15.45 Anastasiya Fiadotava (Tartu, ELM DF), As a Lifelong Slutsk Fan of 8 Days Now, I Can Safely Say This is not a Fleeting Love”: FK Slutsk Worldwide Facebook Page Between Ironic and Genuine Football Fandom

15.45-16.15 Eda Kalmre (Tartu, ELM DF), Nature is Coming Back: Dolphins and Dinosaurs. Fake News and Photoshop – From Legend to Doomsday Imaginations (in Estonian)

16.15-17.15 Valentina Haritonova (Moscow, IEADM; AMA, Russia), – COVID-19 – Medical Anthropology Seminars in Moscow




The conference was supported by the research grant EKM 8-2/20/3 and by the Centre of Excellence in Estonian Studies (TK-145).