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Conference "Ethnography, Folklore, and Nineteenth-Century Print Culture": detailed programme

23.06.2022

The conference will be held at the Institute of European Ethnology and Cultural Analysis at LMU Munich, Oettingenstrasse 67, 80538 Munich, 23rd and 24th of June, 2022.
For participation please register with Frauke Ahrens until 3rd of June, 2022:
Frauke.Ahrens@ekwee.uni-muenchen.de

Die Konferenz findet am 23. und 24. Juni 2022 am Institut für Empirische Kulturwissenschaft und Europäische Ethnologie an der LMU München, Oettingenstrasse 67, 80538 München, statt.
Zur Teilnahme bitte bis 3. Juni 2022 bei Frauke Ahrens anmelden:
Frauke.Ahrens@ekwee.uni-muenchen.de

Conference Programme

Thursday, 23 June 2022 (room 151, 1st floor)

14.00           Arrival, welcome, and introductions

14.35‒15.30 Opening of the conference by the Dissecting Society Team
                   Christiane Schwab, Frauke Ahrens, Adriana Markantonatos, Alexandra Rabensteiner, Karin Riedl
                   (LMU Munich)

15.30‒16.45 Session I: Folklore and public communication
                   Chair: Frauke Ahrens (LMU Munich)

                   Underneath the folklore, the tradition: Discourses of authority and ‘ethnological moment’ (France, 1900)
                   Laurent Le Gall (University of Brest)

                   Readers’ Lore. Media, Literature, and the Making of Folk-Lore
                   Hannes Mandel (University of Texas at Austin)

16.45‒17.00 Coffee break

17.00‒18.15 Session II: Nineteenth-century print between education and entertainment
                   Chair: Karin Riedl (LMU Munich)

                   Pedagogical Effects: On Human Geography in El Diario de los Niños (1840‒1845)
                   Kari Soriano Salkjelsvik (University of Bergen)

18.45           Dinner at „Leib & Seele,“ Oettingenstrasse 36, 80538 München


Friday, 24 June 2022 (room 151, 1st floor)

9.15‒9.30   Arrival

9.30‒10.45 Session I: Ethnographic intertextualities I
                  Chair: Alexandra Rabensteiner (LMU Munich)

                  The Making of Japanese Ethnology: James Cowles Prichard and Early Travel Writings of the Far East
                  Efram Sera-Shriar (Science Museum Group, Durham University)

                  “I have entered as many tents as I could but I was not able to see any real sea-Lapp!” Imaginaries,
                   stereotypes and colonial narratives about Sámi peoples in late 19th century Italy
                   Erika De Vivo (University of Torino)

10.45‒11.00 Coffee break

11.00-12.15 Session II: Ethnographic intertextualities II
                   Chair: Alexandra Rabensteiner (LMU Munich)

                   “It is like being ‘in’ a story…” The influence of XIX century literary and journalistic production on Elsie
                    Masson’s and Bronislaw Malinowski’s works
                    Daniela Salvucci (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano)

                    George Frederick Abbott: Sketcher and Scholar of Macedonia
                    Jonathan Roper (University of Tartu)

12.15‒13.15 Lunch break

13.15‒14.30 Session III: Circulating folklore
                   Chair: Christiane Schwab (LMU Munich)

                   The circulations of Matthea, the saintly Ghent beguine, between Belgium and Germany
                   David Hopkin (University of Oxford)

                   Reception of Fairy Tales in 19th Century Bavaria
                   Silvie Lang (University of Kassel)

14.30‒14.45 Coffee break

14.45‒16.00 Session IV: Migrating narratives
                   Chair: Adriana Markantonatos (LMU Munich)

                  ‘Dark Continents’: The Inner Africa at the Margins of the European Metropolis. On the Travelling of a Topos
                   in the Knowledge and Print Culture of the 19th Century
                   Daniela Gretz (University of Cologne)

16.00‒16.30 Wrap up (Adriana Markantonatos)

17.00           Optional get-together at the beer garden "Chinesischer Turm"