Conference “At the source of living tradition” in the series “From language to reason”

On 4–6 October 2023 an international online conference dedicated to the 70th jubilee of Udmurt folklorist Tatiana Vladykina, under the heading “Калык кылослэн визыл ошмесъёсыз” – “At the source of living tradition”, takes place at the Estonian Literary Museum.

Tatiana Vladykina is a famous Udmurt folklorist, Doctor of Philology, Professor, honoured scholar of the Udmurt Republic, foreign honorary member of the Finno-Ugric Society (Finland), laureate of the “Soul of Udmurtia” award of the Udmurt Republic in the field of traditional culture (2023), leading researcher of the Department of Philological Research of the Udmurt Institute of History, Language and Literature of the UFRC UD RAS. She graduated from the Udmurt State University in 1975, and in 1975–1978 she was a doctoral student at the University of Tartu. She has been collecting, investigating and publishing Udmurt folklore since 1972; since 1978 she has been organising fieldwork to collect folklore and ethnographic materials. She is author and editor of the series Udmurt Folklore, Cultural Monuments of Folklore Heritage, Udmurt Ritual Primer. Her contribution to the studies of Udmurt folklore, mythology and traditional culture is priceless. Tatiana Vladykina’s studies are important also for Finno-Ugric folkloristics. 
The participants in the conference are renowned and younger Finnougrists from Estonia, Hungary, Finland, France, Udmurtia, Bashkortostan, Tatarstan, Mari-El, Karelia and Komi. The conference discusses topics related to fieldwork, traditional culture today, and mythology studies.

The conference is organised through the platform Microsoft Teams and is available on KirmusTV.

Join via MS TEAMS (preregistration maris.kuperjanov@folklore.ee)

The conference is organised by the Department of Folkloristics of the ELM, in partnership with the Udmurt Research Institute and the Udmurt State University. The conference is organised within the framework of an international cooperation agreement between these scientific institutions and in the series of conferences „From language to reason”, dedicated to famous folklorists.

Within the framework of the conference an exhibition of Tatiana Valdykina’s works opens on the ground floor of the Estonian Literary Museum.