Oral and written in culture: Connections and collisions December 12–13, 2016, in Estonian Literary Museum, Tartu Annual conference of the CEES and annual 60th Kreutzwald Days conference

The conference will focus on the relationship of the oral and the written in the Estonian (or more broadly Baltic) culture up to the present times when written culture seems to govern the world in order to foster dialogue between different disciplinary approaches. Presentations deal with language, speech, and text in the crosswinds of their oral and written mediation and dissemination, the philosophical and ethic questions that accompany these processes, but also the interrelations of the written, visual and acoustical in culture.

Key note speakers:
Andris Levans, Das Wort ist mein Gesicht. Überlegungen zum Verhältnis von Mündlichkeit, Schriftlichkeit und Gedächtnis im mittelalterlichen Livland
Terry Gunnell, Performance and Audience, Time and Space, Sound and Vision. The Uses of the Performance Studies Approach for the Study of Folklore Past and Present

Welcome to be part of the conference! Check out the our programme and be guest: https://folklore.ee/CEES/kava2016.pdf

Organisers: IUT 20-1 "Estonian Literature in the Paradigm of Comparative Literary Research"  and CEES written culture and literary studies working group.
The conference is supported by the Estonian Ministry of Education and Research (IUT 20-1 and IUT 22-5), and by the European Union through the European Regional Development Fund (Centre of Excellence in Estonian Studies).

Liina Lukas, liina.lukas@ut.ee
Meelis Roll, meelis.roll@folklore.ee
Piret Voolaid, piret@folklore.ee
Mare Kõiva, mare@folklore.ee