Committee on Charms, Charmers and Charming
The ISFNR Committee on Charms, Charmers and Charming aims to encourage the study of verbal charms (known in other languages as Segen, scongiuri, zagovory, loitsut, etc.), the practice of charming, and the practitioners of charms and their clients.
The members of the committee are Edina Bozoky, Lea Olsan, Éva Pócs, Jonathan Roper, Andrey Toporkov, Ülo Valk, and Maria Vivod.
Resources:
International Annotated Bibliography of Charms (a work in progress)
Discussion documents:
One of the sessions at our Athens meeting will be devoted to the question of how an international index of charms might be made. Andrei Toporkov and Tatiana Agapkina have granted permission for their discussion document 'Charm indexes: problems and perspectives' to be hosted here. Please send any thoughts and responses to j.roperleeds.ac.uk, and/or bring them to Athens!
'Charm indexes: problems and perspectives'
Future meetings:
Past meetings:
Some of the committee members. L-r: front row: Mare Kõiva, Eva Pocs, Daiva Vaitkevičiene., Emanuela Timotin; back row: Jonathan Roper, Lea Olsan, Andrei Toporkov.
For more information, see this web site or contact jonathan.roper@ut.ee