From: Karina Lukin <karina.lukin@helsinki.fi>
Date: May 29, 2013 11:55:45 AM GMT+03:00
Call for Papers
Song and Emergent Poetics: Oral Traditions in Performance
A multidisciplinary conference on the interfaces of form, meaning and imagination in
sung poetry
21.–24. November 2013
Kuhmo, Finland
Song and singing represent a fundamental of human artistic behavior as well as a
multivalent mode of expression and communication that, in some form, seems to manifest
itself in every oral culture. Sung poetry transmits and renews cultural knowledge
through resources that are simultaneously conventionalized and variable. It is a vital
site of imagination that carries earlier established images and concepts about life and
the world from the past that are used to construct, reflect and negotiate the ideas and
understandings of singers in the present. Song and singing is approached from a
multitude of diverse angles in research, from its socially stable formal features to
flexibility and meaningful creative personal expression in improvisation, from its role
and interconnection with mythic knowledge, beliefs and mythology to the vernacular
aesthetics of the melodic structures through which its poetics are realized. It is
studied by many disciplines, including Folklore Studies, Musicology, Philology and
Anthropology. In order to draw their dynamic and diverse perspectives into fruitful
dialogue, we are organizing an international, multidisciplinary and multilingual
conference concentrated on “Song and Emergent Poetics: Oral Traditions in Performance”.
We invite presentations (papers) addressing any of the following themes:
• Song and singing as a form of oral tradition
• Individual creativity and vernacular imagination in oral poetry
• Communicating the language and structures of poetry through song
• Communicating mythic knowledge through poetry and song
• Improvization and emergent structures in singing traditions
Keynote speakers at this event include:
• Dr John Shaw (University of Edinburgh, the School of Scottish Studies)
• Dr Taive Särg (Estonian Literary Museum, the Department of Ethnomusicology)
• Licentiate in Philology, Olga Susoreva (Mordvian State University, Finno-Ugric
Research Center)
• Dr Astrid Nora Ressem (The Norwegian Folk- and Popular Song Archives)
• Professor Emeritus, Dr Karl Reichl (University of Bonn)
• Academy Research Fellow, Docent Jarkko Niemi (University of Tampere, Music Studies)
Scholars are invited to submit proposals for papers to be presented at the conference.
Paper presentations should be 20 minutes in length and reflect a topic of the seminar.
The language of presentation may be in Finnish, English or Russian. There will be
simultaneous translation of each presentation into the other two languages.
If you would like to participate with a paper presentation in this event, please submit:
• An abstract of up to 500 words in Word-compatible documents (NO pdf- documents)
• A CV-like summary of up to one page including degrees, research field(s), current
position/occupation and affiliation, and current contact information
These materials should be sent Karina Lukin at karina.lukin@helsinki.fi. The deadline
for proposals is August 15th 2013.
The conference is organized by the Runosong Academy in cooperation with the University
of Tampere ('Song and singing as cultural communication', Finnish Academy project), the
Sibelius Academy (Folk music Department) and University of Helsinki ('Oral Poetry,
Mythic Knowledge and Vernacular Imagination', Finnish Academy project).
Further information with suggestions for travel and accommodations will be made
available on our website http://www.runolaulu.fi/ajankohtaista/ , or contact Pekka
Huttu-Hiltunen at pekka.huttu-hiltunen@runolaulu.fi or +358 40 2501395.
Date: May 29, 2013 11:55:45 AM GMT+03:00
Call for Papers
Song and Emergent Poetics: Oral Traditions in Performance
A multidisciplinary conference on the interfaces of form, meaning and imagination in
sung poetry
21.–24. November 2013
Kuhmo, Finland
Song and singing represent a fundamental of human artistic behavior as well as a
multivalent mode of expression and communication that, in some form, seems to manifest
itself in every oral culture. Sung poetry transmits and renews cultural knowledge
through resources that are simultaneously conventionalized and variable. It is a vital
site of imagination that carries earlier established images and concepts about life and
the world from the past that are used to construct, reflect and negotiate the ideas and
understandings of singers in the present. Song and singing is approached from a
multitude of diverse angles in research, from its socially stable formal features to
flexibility and meaningful creative personal expression in improvisation, from its role
and interconnection with mythic knowledge, beliefs and mythology to the vernacular
aesthetics of the melodic structures through which its poetics are realized. It is
studied by many disciplines, including Folklore Studies, Musicology, Philology and
Anthropology. In order to draw their dynamic and diverse perspectives into fruitful
dialogue, we are organizing an international, multidisciplinary and multilingual
conference concentrated on “Song and Emergent Poetics: Oral Traditions in Performance”.
We invite presentations (papers) addressing any of the following themes:
• Song and singing as a form of oral tradition
• Individual creativity and vernacular imagination in oral poetry
• Communicating the language and structures of poetry through song
• Communicating mythic knowledge through poetry and song
• Improvization and emergent structures in singing traditions
Keynote speakers at this event include:
• Dr John Shaw (University of Edinburgh, the School of Scottish Studies)
• Dr Taive Särg (Estonian Literary Museum, the Department of Ethnomusicology)
• Licentiate in Philology, Olga Susoreva (Mordvian State University, Finno-Ugric
Research Center)
• Dr Astrid Nora Ressem (The Norwegian Folk- and Popular Song Archives)
• Professor Emeritus, Dr Karl Reichl (University of Bonn)
• Academy Research Fellow, Docent Jarkko Niemi (University of Tampere, Music Studies)
Scholars are invited to submit proposals for papers to be presented at the conference.
Paper presentations should be 20 minutes in length and reflect a topic of the seminar.
The language of presentation may be in Finnish, English or Russian. There will be
simultaneous translation of each presentation into the other two languages.
If you would like to participate with a paper presentation in this event, please submit:
• An abstract of up to 500 words in Word-compatible documents (NO pdf- documents)
• A CV-like summary of up to one page including degrees, research field(s), current
position/occupation and affiliation, and current contact information
These materials should be sent Karina Lukin at karina.lukin@helsinki.fi. The deadline
for proposals is August 15th 2013.
The conference is organized by the Runosong Academy in cooperation with the University
of Tampere ('Song and singing as cultural communication', Finnish Academy project), the
Sibelius Academy (Folk music Department) and University of Helsinki ('Oral Poetry,
Mythic Knowledge and Vernacular Imagination', Finnish Academy project).
Further information with suggestions for travel and accommodations will be made
available on our website http://www.runolaulu.fi/ajankohtaista/ , or contact Pekka
Huttu-Hiltunen at pekka.huttu-hiltunen@runolaulu.fi or +358 40 2501395.
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