List of conference presentations

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ACADEMIC PRESENATATIONS Scientific Paper Presentations (25.–30.06.2013) “Death by Wisdom: Myth and the Ideology of Oral Knowledge-Objects in the Circum-Baltic Region”, at the 16th ISFNR (Vilnius, Lithuania) 1. 2013 (22.–24.05) “Register, Ideology and Cultural Transformation: Considering the Displacement of Oral-Poetic Communication”, at Register II: Emergence, Change and Obsolescence (Helsinki, Finland) 2. 2013 (18.–19.01) “Reading Alliteratively: Mythology, Oral Poetry and Lexical Semantics in a Dead Language”, at the Alliterativa causa at the Warburg Institute (London, U.K.) 3. 2012 (29.–30.11) “Mythology, Poetic Register and Dialects of Singing”, at Regilaulukonverents: Laulvad kogukonnad – Singing Communities (Tartu, Estonia) 4. 2012 (22.11.) “Incantations as Technology: The Tietäjä, Healing and Ideology”, at Pahasi parantamahan! – Tietäjät, shamaanit ja kansanparannus (Helsinki, Finland) 5. 2012 (09.–10.11) “Ethnocultural Substratum as a Cross-Disciplinary Indexing Tool” Rekonstruktio ja kerrostuneisuus: Näkökulmia monitieteiseen menneisyyteen (Espoo, Finland) 6. 2012 (24.–27.10) “Contextualizing Creativity in an Archival Corpus: The Case of Kalevala-Meter Mythology”, at the 124th annual meeting of the American Folklore Society: “The Continuity and Creativity of Culture” (New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A.) 7. 2012 (19.–20.10.2012) “Interpretation, Hierarchy and Scope: Challenges for CrossDisciplinary Indexing and Indexing Methodologies”, at Old Norse Mythology in the Digital Age (Bonn, Germany) 8. 2012 (05.–11.08.) “Myth as Referent: Saga Sources as Evidence of Oral Intertextuality”, at the 15th International Saga Conference (Aarhus, Denmark). 9. 2012 (15.–16.08.) “A „New‟ Ritual Specialist? – A Relevant Indicator of Changing Social Structures”, at Viking Age in Finland III: “Identity and Identification and the Viking Age in Finland (with Special Emphasis on the Åland Islands)” (Mariehamn, Åland Islands) 10. 2012 (08.–10.06.) “'Relevant Indicators': A Cross-Disciplinary Indexing Tool? – Examples from Mythological Thinking”, at Transcultural Contacts in the CircumBaltic Area: 2nd Meeting of the Austmarr Network (Helsinki, Finland) 11. 2012 (04.–07.06.) “When Thunder Is Not Thunder: Changing Intersections of Narrative and Conceptual Models”, at the 6th Nordic-Celtic-Baltic Folklore Symposium (Tartu, Estonia) 12. 2012 (23.–25.05) “Register, Meter, Mode and Meaning: Intergenericity in Oral Poetry”, at Register: Intersections of Language, Context and Communication (Helsinki, Finland) 13. 2011 “Traditional Epic as Genre: Definition as a Foundation for Comparative Research”, at Traditional and Literary Epics of the World: Textuality, Authorship, Identity. The Kalevipoeg 150 (Tartu, Estonia) 14. 2011 “Shamans, Christians, and Things in between: Riddles of Cultural Transition in Medieval Karelia”, at Conversions and Ideological Changes in Middle Ages in Comparative Perspective (Rzeszow, Poland). 1 FROG – CURRICULUM VITÆ: APPENDICES 15. 2011 “Conceptualizing Chaos and Conflict in the Assertion of Order: Finno-Karelian Magic, Ritual and Reality in Long-Term Perspective”, at the 123rd American Folklore Society annual meeting, “Peace, War, Folklore” (Bloomington, Indiana, U.S.A.). 16. 2011 “Cultural Contacts Reflected through Myth and Mythological Thinking”, at Viikinkiaika Suomessa [2]: Kulttuurienväliset yhteydet ja niiden merkitys Suomessa viikinkiajalla - Viking Age in Finland [2]: Cross-Cultural Contacts and Their Significance in Finland in the Viking Age (Helsinki, Finland). 17. 2011 “Questions of Ethno-Cultural Substrata in the Finno-Karelian Song of Creation and the Sampo-Cycle”, at Cultural Exchanges across the Baltic Sea in the Middle Ages Symposium and Workshop: 1st Meeting of the Austmarr Network (Tartu, Estonia). 18. 2011 “Ilmarinen, Inmar, Jen and Num-Ilәm: Evolution, Revolution and Ethnocultural Substrates”, at the 5th International Symposium on Finno-Ugric Languages (Groningen, the Netherlands). 19. 2011 “Lemminkäinen's Death in the Labyrinth of History”, at Kalevala: epiikka, kansanrunous ja musiikki – Kalevala: l‟epica, la poesia orale e la musica (Cividale del Friuli, Italy). 20. 2011 “Myth, Mythology, and Mythological Thinking: Considering the Viking Age in Finland”, at Viikinkiaikia Suomessa [1]: Suomen viikinkiajan määrittely eri tieteenalojen lähestymistapojen valossa – Viking Age in Finland [1]: The Viking Age in Finland Defined in the Light of the Approaches of Different Disciplines (Helsinki, Finland). 21. 2010 “'Genres, Genres Everywhere, but Who Knows What to Think?'”, at Laji nykytutkimuksessa (Helsinki, Finland). 22. 2010 “Convention, Variation and Social Identities Reflected in Song”, at the 4th Regilaulukonverents. "Sa laulad siinnä, ma laulan siellä..." (Tartu, Estonia). 23. 2010 “A Mythology of One: Arhippa Perttunen and Kalevalaic Poetry”, at the Annual Meeting of the American Folklore Society (Nashville, Tennessee, USA). 24. 2010 “Multiforms and Meaning: Playing with Referentiality in Kalevalaic Epic”, at Song and Singing as Cultural Communication / Ontrei Malinen‟s Kantele: Jubilee Seminar for the Opening of the Runosong Academy (Kuhmo, Finland). 25. 2010 “Snorri Sturluson qua Fulcrum in the Evolution of Mythology and Poetics in Medieval Iceland”, at Seeing, Hearing, Reading and Believing: Authorities in the Middle Ages (Helsinki, Finland). 26. 2010 “The Continuity, Evolution and Transformation of Myth: The Curious Case of Þrymsqviða”, at New Focus on Retrospective Methods (Bergen, Norway). 27. 2010 “Who the Devil is Phol Phil? – The Problem of Baldr in the Second Merseburg Charm, yet Again”, at the 45th International Congress on Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA). 28. 2009 “Snorri Sturluson and Oral Traditions”, at the 14th International Saga Conference (Uppsala, Sweden). 29. 2009 “Circum-Baltic Mythology? – The Theft of the Thunder-Weapon in Germanic, Finnic and Baltic Traditions”, at Baltic Worldview: From Mythology to Folklore (Vilnius, Lithuania). 30. 2008 “Narrative and Healing Rite: The Problem of Sources”, at Medica V: Lood Haigustest ja Nende Ravist (Ülenurme, Estonia). 31. 2008 “Applying Pieces of a Pagan Past in a Christian Present: Approaching Mythology in Snorri Sturluson‟s Edda through the Activating Power of Expression”, at the 2 FROG – CURRICULUM VITÆ: APPENDICES Study of Tradition & Traditions: A Colloquium on Methodological Approaches (Tartu, Estonia). 32. 2008 “Speech-Acts in Skaldic Verse”, at Greinir Skáldskapar – The Branches of Poetry (Reykholt, Iceland). 33. 2008 “Bósa saga and the Poems of the Finnish Sampo-Cycle”, at University College London Department of Scandinavian Studies Research Symposium (London, UK). 34. 2008 “The Mythic Landscape in the Immediate World”, at Suomen Kansantietouden Tutkijain Seuran III Kevätkoulu (Helsinki, Finland). 35. 2008 “Considering Genre in Changing Cultures: Hymisqviða, Þrymsqviða and the Ballad”, at COLSONOEL: Cambridge-Oxford-London Symposium on Old Norse, Old English and Latin (Oxford, UK). 36. 2007 “Seizing the Supernatural: Capturing Völundr and Merlin”, at the 12th International Medieval Congress (Leeds, UK). 37. 2007 “Healing Magic in a Changing Conceptual System”, at Folk Medicine in the Cultural Adaptation Systems of the North (Syktyvkar, Komi Republic, Russian Federation). 38. 2007 “Poetry in the Oral Traditions of Medieval Iceland”, at the 7th international Folklore Fellows‟ Summer School (Kuhmo, Finland, and Voknavolok, Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation). 39. 2007 “Text, Performance and Ritual: Issues of Eddic and Skaldic Poetry”, at Text, Performance and Ritual (Jyväskylä, Finland). 40. 2007 “Mythic Images and Mythological Narrative”, at Medieval Scandinavian Cultural History Symposium (Helsinki, Finland). 41. 2006 “Völundr and the Bear in Norse Tradition”, at Skáldamjöðurinn: University College London Graduate Symposium in Old Norse Literature and Philology (London, UK). 42. 2006 “Miðgarðsormr – Fenrisúlfr – Hel: A Mythological Prototype for Magical Banishment?”, at COLSONOEL: Cambridge-Oxford-London Symposium on Old Norse, Old English and Latin (Cambridge, UK). 43. 2006 “Recognizing Mythic Images in Fantastic Literature: Reading Baldrs draumar 12– 14”, at the 13th International Saga Conference (Durham and York, UK). Scientific Seminar Presentations 1. 2013, 17.01. “Scandinavian Mythology, Genre and Meaning-Potential at their Intersection”, for the Medieval Scandinavian Seminar of University College London (London, U.K.) 2. 2010 “A Theory of Oral Epic”, Folklore Studies Research Seminar (HY, Helsinki). 3. 2010 “The Rise of Christianity and the Demise of Oral Epic in Western Europe”, Oraalisuus, Muisti ja Traditio (NCMS/Finnish Literature Society, Helsinki). 4. 2009 “Multiforms and Kalevalaic Poetry”, Folklore Studies Research Seminar (HY, Helsinki). 5. 2008 “Approaching Mythological Narrative Traditions through Medieval Texts”, Folklore Studies Research Seminar (HY, Helsinki). 6. 2008 “Problems and Approaches in the Comparison of Early Germanic and Kalevalaic Traditions”, Oraalisuus, Muisti ja Traditio (NCMS/Finnish Literature Society, Helsinki). 3 FROG – CURRICULUM VITÆ: APPENDICES 2008 “Awash in the Wake of Orality – Beyond the Pale of Snorra Edda”, for the Medieval Scandinavian Seminar of University College London (London, U.K.) (2 hours). 8. 2007 “Eddic Poetry, Inclinations toward Memorization, and the Development of Prosimetrics”, for the Þemakvöld “Munnleg Hefð og Eddukvæði / Oral Tradition and Eddic Poetry” of the Folklore Society of Iceland, with Gísli Sigurðsson, Director of the Árni Magnússon Institute as the accompanying speaker (Reykjavík, Iceland) (2 hours). 7. Scientific Workshop Presentations and Participation 1. 2012, 30.11–01.12 Participant discussant at “Encounter with the Otherworld in Bárðar saga Snæfellsáss: Second Meeting of the Old Norse Folklorists Network” (Tartu, Estonia 2. 2012, 16.11. Commentator on the paper “Eye Pain in Thirteenth and Fourteenth-Century Iceland Sagas” by Kirsi Kanerva (University of Turku) at the research seminar of the Finnish Literature Society (Helsinki, Finland) 3. 2012, 27.09. “Mythology and Vernacular Genres: Toward the Semiotics of Interface and Suspension”, at the workshop of the project “Oral and Literary Culture in the Medieval and Early Modern Baltic Sea Region” (Helsinki, Finland) 4. 2011, 02–03.12. Participant discussant at the Old Norse Folklorist Network Meeting and Workshop (Tartu, Estonia) Informational Academic Presentations 1. 2012 31.10. “Life after Old Norse”, in the course Old Norse Language and Literature (SCAN 5701), University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.A.). 2. 2012 15.–16.05. “What Can We Do with the Open-Access Publication, RMN Newsletter? Kansainvälisen RMN Newsletter:julkaisun mahdollisuudet internet-ympäristössä”, at Suomen Kansantietouden Tutkijain Seuran VI Kevätkoulu (Suomen Kansantietouden Tutkijain Seura, Helsinki). Guest Lecture / Lecture Series 1. 2010 “Diachronic Perspectives on North Finnic / Kalevalaic Epic”, lecture for the Department of Estonian and Comparative Folklore, University of Tartu (Tartu, Estonia) (2 hours) APPENDIX 2. ORGANIZATION OF CONFERENCES 1. 21.–24.11.2013 “Song and Emergent Poetics: Oral Traditions in Performance” (Kuhmo, conf. of Runosong Academy, U.Tampere, Sibelius Academy U. Helsinki) 2. 22.–24.5.2013 “Register II: Emergence, Change and Obsolescence” (Helsinki, conference of Folklore Studies U.Helsinki, SKS Academy of Finland project) 3. 03.–04.09.2012 “VAF III: Identity and Identification and the Viking Age in Finland (with Special Emphasis on the Åland Islands)” (Mariehamn, Åland, conf. of the Viking Age in Finland Project and the Åland Museum) 4. 8.–10.6.2012 “Transcultural Contacts in the Circum-Baltic Area: 2nd Meeting of the Austmarr Network” (Helsinki, conf. of Folklore Studies and NORSU U.Helsinki) 4 FROG – CURRICULUM VITÆ: APPENDICES 23.–25.5.2012 “Register: Intersections of Language, Context and Communication” (Helsinki, conference of Folklore Studies U.Helsinki, SKS Academy of Finland project) 6. 11.–12.11.2011 “Viikinkiaika Suomessa: Kulttuurienväliset yhteydet ja niiden merkitys Suomessa viikinkiajalla – The Viking Age in Finland: Cross-Cultural Contacts and Their Significance in Finland in the Viking Age” (Helsinki, conf. of the Viking Age in Finland Project, hosted by Folklore Studies, U.Helsinki) 7. 28.–29.05.2011 “Kalevala: epiikka, kansanrunous ja musiikki - Kalevala: l‟epica, la poesia orale e la musica”; international conference (Cividale del Friuli, Italy, conf. of Kalevala Society, Il Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali di Torino); 8. 28–29.4.2011 “Viikinkiaika Suomessa: Suomen viikinkiajan määrittely eri tieteenalojen lähestymistapojen valossa – The Viking Age in Finland: The Viking Age in Finland Defined in the Light of the Approaches of Different Disciplines” (Helsinki, conf. of the Viking Age in Finland Project, hosted by Folklore Studies, U.Helsinki) 5. APPENDIX 3. PUBLIC TALKS AND INTERVIEWS Public Talks 1. 2011 “Kalevala, Epic, Incantation and Ethnographic Film” (with simultaneous translation into Italian) at Kalevala: epica - poesia orale arte - musica finlandese e careliana (26.05.–19.06.2011), Cividale del Friuli, Italy. Publicized Interviews 1. 2013 Two live ten minute interviews on Kaupunkiradio (Helsinki, 89.70) in the program “Radioheads” discussing Kalevala and mythology (6.4.2013): https://soundcloud.com/nanouk-wouters/radioheads 2. 2012 “Kansantaruissa aukeaa jännittäviä ajankuvia” by Katri Meriläinen, Pohjola–Norden 2012/2: 10. APPENDIX 4. COURSES Courses Designed 1. 2013 “Mythology and Culture” (KFO361, 5 credit lecture course) in the unit Folklore Studies (other majors by agreement) / Department of Philosophy, History, Culture and Art Studies, University of Helsinki, in the spring term of 2013 5