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The online-lecture by Eda Kalmre on Friday, 6th October, at 5 p.m. CEST
We are pleased to share the announcement of the ISFNR Belief Narrative Network:
Dear Belief Narrative Network / ISFNR members, dear Friends, dear Colleagues,
The 28th online lecture of the ISFNR Belief Narrative Network Online Lecture Series will be given on Friday, 6th October, at 5 p.m. CEST by Eda Kalmre from the Estonian Literary Museum (Tartu, Estonia).
Her talk is titled "The Lilac Lady: The Etiology of a Collective Belief-Legend (A case study)".
The lecture will analyse the emergence and the stages of development of a ghost story, formed about a century years ago, and related to the present-day building of the Estonian Literary Museum and its collective.
The investigation builds heavily on the theories on the elaboration of legends by Lauri Honko, Linda Dégh and Andrew Vázsonyi, Jans Harold Brunwand, and Bill Ellis. It also contributes to the achievements of contemporary legend research.
Among other things, the talk highlights the extent to which a specific narrator can influence the creation of a story and its persistence in the repertoire. It also dwells on the role of community and media in the formation and preservation of the legend, and how the fiction and reality – persons, locations and (tragic) events – appear side by side in the story.
The analysis is based on rich archival material, and the speaker’s more than two decades long ethnographic field research, including participant observations, and several interviews.
Eda Kalmre is senior research fellow at the Department of Folkloristics of the Estonian Literary Museum. Her research interests include Estonian children and youth lore, the types of Estonian folktales, history and methodology of folklore, contemporary media and storytelling, rumours, and urban legends. She is the author of several articles, anthologies, and textbooks.
She is a member of the editorial boards of important Estonian and international journals and publications. Here monographs are What a Wonderful World of Legends (ELM Scholarly Press 2018) and The Human Sausage Factory: A Study of Post-War Rumour in Tartu (Rodopi 2013), the latter of which won the International Society of Contemporary Legend Research (ISCLR) Brian McConnell Award for Best Legend and Folklore Research.
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on behalf of the Belief Narrative Network Committee: Eva Þórdís Ebenzersdóttir, Petr Janeček, Judit Kis-Halas (chair), Kristel Kivari, Kaarina Koski, Mare Kõiva, Margaret Lyngdoh, Bela Mosia, Maria Ines Palleiro, Sonja Petrović, Nemanja Radulović, Tok Thompson.
