Sep 5, 2021
Zagreb-Time: UTC+2
2.00-3.30 p.m. BNN Committee Meeting
4.00-5.00 p.m. Opening ceremony + welcome lecture
Renata Jambrešić Kirin (Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research, Croatia): “To Touch, to Hear, to Feel: Can Ethnography Dissolve the Narrations of Fear?”
5.00-5.15 p.m. Break
5.15-7.00 p.m. Programme in 5 Parallel Sessions
CONVENER: Kimberly Lau (University of California, USA)
BACKUP CONVENER: Josipa Tomašić (FFZG, University of Zagreb, Croatia)
- Alina Oprelianska (University of Tartu, Estonia): “Whom to be Scared of: The Dragon or the Dragon Slayer?”
 - Nataliia Naumovska (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine): “Envy as Defining Feature of the Character of a Neighbor in Japanese Fairy Tales”
 - Malay Bera (Ashoka University, India): “Rakshasis and Dainis: Sentimental Monsters in Bengali Foklore”
 - Elene Gogiashvili (Tbilisi State University, Georgia): “Heroes as Narrators in Georgian Folktales”
 
CONVENER: Lynette Šikić Mićanović (Institute ‘Ivo Pilar’, Croatia)
BACKUP CONVENER: Petra Kelemen (FFZG, University of Zagreb, Croatia)
- Marilena Papachristophorou (University of Ioannina, Greece): “The Participant and the Observer: Conceptualising Self Through Fieldwork Practice”
 - Zsuzsa Bálint (University of Debrecen, Hungary): “Multi-ethnic Cohabitation Conflicts in Gypsy Folk Narratives”
 - Laimute Anglickiene (Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania): “Collecting Methods and Suggestibility of the Texts: The Scariest Children’s Horror Stories”
 - Lynette Šikić Mićanović (Institute ‘Ivo Pilar’, Croatia); Esther Mühlethaler (University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Switzerland): “Emotions in Field Diaries and Their Value in Reflexive Ethnography with Homeless People”
 
CONVENER: Jonathan Roper (University of Tartu, Estonia)
BACKUP CONVENER: Davor Nikolić (FFZG, University of Zagreb, Croatia)
- Eleonora Cianci (University ‘G. d’Annunzio’, Italy): “Charms as Texts: The Transmission of Medieval German Charms and the Problems of Textual Criticism”
 - Aigars Lielbārdis (University of Latvia, Latvia): “Curses and Eliminating Formulas in Latvian Charms”
 - Katherine Hindley (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore): “Digital Charms: Building an Online Database of Medieval English Charm-Texts”
 - Emese Ilyefalvi (Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary): “Looking through the Digital Database of Hungarian Verbal Charms”
 - Nicholas Wolf (New York University, USA): “Mining for Charm Information in Large-Scale Digital Library Corpora”
 
CONVENER: Pihla Maria Siim (University of Tartu, Estonia)
BACKUP CONVENER: Nevena Škrbić Alempijević (FFZG, University of Zagreb, Croatia)
- Jón Þór Pétursson (Lund University, Sweden); Matilda Marshall (Örebro University, Sweden):”I Miss the Pantry’ – Preserving Food and Feelings in the 21st Century”
 - Alf Arvidsson (Umeå University, Sweden): “Local Hero, Global Embarassment: “Conflicting Emotions Concerning the Memory of a Disputable Film Star”
 - Mrinal Medhi (Independent scholar, India): “Home on Wheels: The Emotional World of Indian Truckers”
 - Pihla Maria Siim (University of Tartu, Estonia): “Emotional Emplacement: Stories of Belonging in Estonian-Finnish Translocal Context”
 
CONVENER: Terry Gunnell (University of Iceland)
BACKUP CONVENER: Penta
- Dagrún Ósk Jónsdóttir (University of Iceland, Iceland): “Fear of Dangerous Supernatural Women in Icelandic Folk Legends”
 - Mare Kõiva, Alena Bohaneva (Estonian Literary Museum, Estonia): “Emotions and the Lore of Water Dwellers”
 - Anders Gustavsson (University of Oslo, Norway): “Maritime Fears Depicted of a Folklife Artist and Narrator in the 20th Century”
 - Terry Gunnell (University of Iceland, Iceland): “Riders on the Storm; Riders at the Door: The Nordic Legends of the Wild Ride”
 
7.00-7.15 p.m. Break
7.15-9.00 p.m. Program in 5 Parallel Sessions
PANEL CONVENER: Katherine Borland (The Ohio State University, USA)
BACKUP CONVENER: Jelena Marković (IEF, Croatia)
- Andrew Giarelli (Anglo-American University, Czech Republic; Portland, USA): “It’s Happening Right Here, Right Now’: The Emotional Power of Cheyenne Narrative”
 - Evelina Rudan (FFZG, University of Zagreb, Croatia): “Love and Fear: Ballad and Legend (Sage)”
 - Nataša Polgar (Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research, Croatia): “Belief Legends as Symptoms of Madness”
 - Katherine Borland (The Ohio State University, USA): “Shame and Shamelessness in Local Character Anecdotes”
 
PANEL CONVENER: Pauline Greenhill (University of Winnipeg, Canada)
BACKUP CONVENER: Ivana Brković (FFZG, University of Zagreb, Croatia)
- Cristina Bacchilega and Marie Alohalani Brown (University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, USA): “Navigating the Emotional Politics of Human-Nonhuman Relations in Hawaiʻi Waters: Relationality and Justice”
 - Sabina Magliocco and Sadie Rittman (University of British Columbia, Canada): “Climate Grief and Environmental Justice in Fairy Legends”
 - Anne Kustritz (Utrecht University, Netherlands): “Gods and Monsters of YouTube: Narrating Affective Neoliberal Labor”
 - Jack Zipes (University of Minnesota, USA): “Post Traumatic Soldier Stories: Speaking to Survive With Hope”
 
PANEL CONVENER: Emanuela Timotin (Institute of Linguistics ‘Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti’, Romania)
BACKUP CONVENER: Renata J. Kirin (IEF, Zagreb)
- Saša Babič (Scientific Research Centre SAZU, Slovenia): “Dealing with Fear: What Kind of Dangers do Incantations Ward off?”
 - Laura Iliescu Jiga (Romanian Academy of Science, Romania): “Against Fear: Between Demon and Psychic Emotion”
 - Mare Kõiva (Estonian Literary Museum, Estonia): “Illnesses due to Fright and Treatment of such Illnesses”
 - Emanuela Timotin (Institute of Linguistics ‘Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti’, Romania): “Healing Emotions in Romanian Charms”
 
PANEL CONVENER: Vivian Labrie (ÉRASME, Québec, Canada)
BACKUP CONVENER: Sanja Lončar (FFZG, University of Zagreb, Croatia)
- Tom Fogel (Hebrew University, Israel): “Jewish Yemeni Folklore Archives ̶ Archival Memory and Cultural Performance”
 - Siyun Wu (Leiden University, Netherlands): “Folk Music, Emotions and Local Heritage: A Sensory Ethnographic Approach to Kihnu Island, Estonia”
 - Anja Mlakar (University of Maribor, Slovenia): “Enchanting Heritage: How ‘Folk Beliefs’ and Practices Were Transformed into Cultural Heritage and Tourist Attractions”
 - David Hopkin (University of Oxford, UK): “Emotional Labour: The Record of Lacemakers’ Traditional Occupational Culture made by their Sons”
 - Vivian Labrie (ÉRASME, Québec, Canada): “Motions, Emotions and Interbeing in Two Marvelous Tales of Becoming (ATU 502-314 and ATU 510B) from French Canada”
 
PANEL CONVENER: Mirjam Mencej (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)
BACKUP CONVENER: Terry Gunnell (University of Iceland)
- Margaret Lyngdoh (University of Tartu, Estonia): !Spirit Lineages and Generational ‘Curses’: The Untrustworthy Deities in Karbi Religious Folklife”
 - Bela Mosia (Shota Meskhia State Teaching University of Zugdidi, Georgia): “Emotions and Symbolic Expression of Fear of Dead in Samegrelo (West Georgia)”
 - Luka Šešo (Catholic University of Croatia, Croatia): “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Who can be Other in Demonological Legends”
 - Eva Thordis Ebenezersdóttir (University of Iceland, Iceland): “Differently Human or Simply Supernatural”
 - Julian Goodare (University of Edinburgh, UK): “Narratives of Bewitchment in Scotland”
 
Sep 6, 2021
Zagreb-Time: UTC+2
3.00-4.45 p.m. Program in 6 Parallel Sessions
CONVENER: Mario Talamo (Centre de recherche sur les civilisations de l’Asie orientale, France)
BACKUP CONVENER: Ivana Brković (FFZG, University of Zagreb, Croatia)
- Pooja Mann (Dr. B.R. Ambedkar University Delhi, India): !A Comprehensive Study of Interdependence of Emotion and Narration in Jaat Married Women Folksongs, Geet!
 - Viliina Silvonen (University of Helsinki, Finland): “Emotion in Lament Performances – Artificial, Performed and Felt”
 - Simona Delić (Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research, Croatia): “Encountering Emotions in the Croatian Ballads”
 - Aysegul Saklica (Independent Researcher, Spain); “Two Different Genres with a Common Narration: Halk Hikayesi and Romances”
 - Mario Talamo (Centre de recherche sur les civilisations de l’Asie orientale, France): “Women and Emotions: Changes of Readership and Their Implications in the Late Edo Period”
 
CONVENER: Hrvoje Čargonja (University of Zagreb, Croatia)
BACKUP CONVENER: Renata Jambrešić Kirin (Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research, Croatia)
- Sanjukta Naskar (Janki Devi Memorial College, India): “Leţō Folk Form In the Making of a Revolutionary: Kazi Nazrul Islam”
 - Hrvoje Čargonja (University of Zagreb, Croatia): “Narrative Identity and Emotions in the Hare Krishna Religious Experience”
 - Vlaho Kovačević, Tea-Tereza Vidović Schreiber (University of Split, Croatia); Ivana Čagalj (University of Silesia, Poland): “The Emotional Narratives with the Topic of Popular Religious Feast as Illustration of the Heritage Reality of a Symbolic Community”
 - Ayantika Chakraborty (Gauhati University, India): “The Significance of ‘Brotokatha’, an Armour Against ‘What if’ in the Patriarchal Society of Bengal”
 
CONVENER: Marjetka Golež Kaučič (Scientific Research Centre SAZU, Slovenia)
BACKUP CONVENER: Maja Pasarić (Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research, Croatia)
- Yoshiko Noguchi (Beika Women’s University, Osaka, Japan): “Fear of Snakes in the Fairy Tales and the German Legends of the Brothers Grimm ― A Comparison with Japanese Fairy Tales”
 - Suzana Marjanić (Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research, Croatia): “Trans-Speciesist and Transgender Video Performance F to H, Run, Hare, Run (2014) by Multimedia Artist Tajči Čekada: Anthrozoology and Performance Art”
 - Auli Viidalepp (University of Tartu, Estonia): “Science, Fiction, or Folklore: Reconsidering Contemporary Techno-Narratives from the Perspective of Traditional Storytelling Context and Functions”
 - Marjetka Golež Kaučič (Scientific Research Centre SAZU, Slovenia): “The Human and Non-Human in Emotional Encounter: Folk, Literary and Personal Stories about Animals and Their Narrators”
 
CONVENER: Dirk Johannsen (University of Oslo, Norway)
BACKUP CONVENER: Petra Kelemen (University of Zagreb, Croatia)
- Radvilė Racėnaitė (Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore, Lithuania): “Religious Topography of Vilnius: Places of Memory and Memory o of Places”
 - Ane Ohrvik (University of Oslo, Norway): “Scavenging Holy Wells in the Norwegian Landscape: Negotiating History through Narration and Emotion in Digital Applications”
 - Kristel Kivari (University of Tartu, Estonia): “Emotions and Feelings in the Supernatural Encounter as a Sites of Multi-layered Communication”
 - Lona Päll (Estonian Literary Museum, Estonia): “Place-related Narratives as Part of Conflict Communication: Two Cases from Estonia”
 
CONVENER: Jonathan Roper (University of Tartu, Estonia)
BACKUP CONVENER: Jelena Marković (IEF, Croatia)
- Mr Frog (University of Helsinki, Finland): “Approaching Formulaic Language (with Some Perspectives on Formulaic Language and Emotions)”
 - Jonathan Roper (University of Tartu, Finland): “Family Formulas?”
 - Lital Belinko-Sabah (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel): “Ke ke faga” – Frustration, Happiness and Surprise Formulas in Judeo-Spanish stories”
 - Gordana Laco; Anđela Milinović Hrga (University of Split, Croatia): “Linguistic Construction of Emotions in Croatian Oral Tales”
 
CONVENER: Maria Ines Palleiro (Buenos Aires University, Argentina)
BACKUP CONVENER: Evelina Rudan (FFZG, University of Zagreb, Croatia)
- Kaarina Koski (University of Helsinki, Finland): “Nightmares: From Outer to Inner Demons”
 - Louise Milne (University of Edinburgh, UK): “Dreams of Fear and Joy: On the Nightmare and Other Doubles”
 - Éva Pócs (Janus Pannonius University in Pécs, Hungary): “Desire and Fear: Textual Representations of Nightmare Experiences in a Transylvanian Hungarian community”
 - Robin Gwyndaf (St Fagans National Museum of History, Wales): “Fantasy, or Reality? My Great Encounter with Donald Trump in a Dream”
 
4.45-5.00 p.m. Break
5.00-6.15 p.m. Keynote lecture, Ülo Valk (University of Tartu, Estonia): “Belief Narrative, Liminality and Emotion“ “ (Q&A moderated by Una Bauer)
6.15-6.30 p.m. Break
6.30-8.15 p.m. Program in 6 Parallel Sessions
CONVENER: Cristina Bacchilega (University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Honolulu, USA)
BACKUP CONVENER: Renata J. Kirin (IEF, Croatia)
- Pauline Greenhill (University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, Canada): “Cannibalism, Disgust, and the Unjust: Two ‘Hansel and Gretel’ Horror Films”
 - Jill Terry Rudy (Brigham Young University, Provo, USA): “‘Little Red Riding Hood’ on TV: Mise-en-scène, Socialization, and Emotion Perception”
 - Steven Kohm (University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, Canada): “The Horror of Crime: Representing (In)Justice in Indigenous Crime Films”
 - Suva Lubomir: “The perilous realm of Faërie and the air, which blows there: J.R.R. Tolkien and the Brothers Grimm”
 
CONVENER: Mr Frog (University of Helsinki, Finland)
BACKUP CONVENER: Davor Nikolić (FFZG, University of Zagreb, Croatia);
- Damien Villers (University of Toulouse, France): “Haters Gonna Hate: The Weight of Emotions in the Propagation of Phrasemes”
 - Georgios Kouzas (University of Athens, Greece): “Gossip: The Social Importance of ‘Informal’ Communication for the Emotional Life”
 - Katalin Vargha (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary): “Enigmatic Emotions: Expressions of Emotions in Hungarian Riddles”
 - Subbachary Pulikonda (Dravidian University, Andhra Pradesh, India): “The Rasās (Emotions) in the Indian Folk Narrative Performances: An Emotional Journey from Homo Narrans to Homo Digitalis”
 
CONVENER: Sadhana Naithani (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India)
BACKUP CONVENER: Maja Pasarić (IEF, Croatia)
- Taija Kaarlenkaski (University of Eastern Finland, Finland): “Affective Human-Cattle Relationships on Contemporary Technologized Dairy Farms”
 - Lidija Delić (Institute for Literature and Arts, Beograd, Serbia): “’Jagnje đurđevsko'(Kurban): Victim and Empathy”
 - Alice Bower (Reykjavík University, Reykjavík, Iceland): “Bordering Human: Emotion and Kinship in Polar Bear Narratives in Iceland and Beyond”
 - Maja Pasarić (Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research, Zagreb, Croatia): „Bare Emotions: Humans and Bears in East Siberian Indigenous Communities“
 
CONVENER: Natka Badurina (University of Udine, Italy)
BACKUP CONVENER: Nataša Polgar (IEF, Croatia)
- Tiina Seppä (University of Eastern Finland, Finland): “The Greater Finland? Emotions in the War Correspondence 1918. Case: Samuli Paulaharju”
 - Nguyễn Thị Kim Ngân (Vietnam): “History and Memory in Contemporary Legend: the Journey to Find Grave of Psychics in Post-War Vietnam”
 - Åsa Ljungström (Uppsala University, Sweden): “Contextualizing Great Grandmother’s Daybooks: Interplay of Brief Lines and Narratives by Descendants”
 - Makoto Yokomichi (Kyoto Prefectural University, Japan): “Political and Non-political Japanese Narratives about the Nazi Party”
 - Natka Badurina (University of Udine, Italy): “Memory Boom and Narratives of Fear”
 
CONVENER: Ülo Valk (University of Tartu, Estonia)
BACKUP CONVENER: Nevena Škrbić Alempijević (University of Zagreb)
- Valentina Punzi (University of Tartu, Estonia; University of Naples, Italy): “’Women shi zangzu’: Emotional Belonging to Tibetanness among Minyak in Southwest China”
 - Agita Misāne (University of Latvia, Latvia): “Emotional Narratives of the Latvian Hikers on the Camino de Santiago”
 - Lina Leparskienė (Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore, Lithuania): “Life Stories, Visions and Feelings in the Shadow of Piety of Our Lady of Trakai”
 - Lina Būgienė (Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore, Lithuania): “Personal Place-Lore in Life Stories: Experience, Memory, Emotion”
 
CONVENER: Kaarina Koski (University of Helsinki, Finland)
BACKUP CONVENER: Mirjam Mencej (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)
- Maria Ines Palleiro (Buenos Aires University, Argentina): From ‘The Lady Ghost” and “The Vanishing Hitchhiker” to the desaparecidos: Fear of the Other in Argentinean Folk Narrative”
 - Emilia Zoric (Argentinian University of Arts, Argentina): “Cromañon Argentinean Tragedy: Healing Pain Through Vernacular Religion and Arts”
 - Mirjam Mencej (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia): “The Fear of the Dead in Post-War Srebrenica”
 - Vito Carrassi (Independent scholar, Italy): “The Cemetery: A Sacred and Fearsome Place”
 - Ana Perinić Lewis; Petra Rajić Šikanjić (Institute for Anthropological Research, Croatia): “Hidden Historical Cemetery in One Zagreb Neighbourhood”
 
Sep 7, 2021
Zagreb-Time: UTC+2
3.00-4.45 p.m. Program in 5 Parallel Sessions
CONVENER: Barbara Ivančič Kutin (Scientific Research Centre of SAZU, Slovenia)
BACKUP CONVENER: Evelina Rudan (FFZG, University of Zagreb, Croatia)
- Rosa Thorsteinsdottir (The Arni Magnusson Institute for Icelandic Studies, Iceland): “So is All the World a Story’: Icelandic Storytellers and Their Tales”
 - Jūratė Šlekonytė (The Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore, Lithuania): “The Attitude to the Folktales in Contemporary Lithuanian Society”
 - Barbara Ivančič Kutin (Scientific Research Centre of SAZU, Slovenia): “The Slovenian Fairy-tale “for Adults” Written Down by Jan Baudouin de Courtenay in 1872 and its Emotional Impact on the Contemporary Audience (Listener/Reader)”
 
CONVENER: Mr Frog (University of Helsinki, Finland)
BACKUP CONVENER: Davor Nikolić (University of Zagreb, Croatia)
- Karuna Kanta Kakati (Anundoram Borooah Institute of Language, Art and Culture, Assam, India): “Beliefs and Emotions Associated with the Spirits/Spirit Lore of Assam”
 - Victoria Arakelova (Russian-Armenian University, Armenia): “Praising and Lamenting: Sufi Saints in the Yezidi Folklore”
 - Nimeshika Venkatesan (Stella Maris College (Autonomous), Chennai, India): “God will poke your eyes”: The Ontology of Fear in Religious Practices of South India”
 - Iris Odyuo (Sao Chang College, Tuensang, Nagaland, India): „Gods and Spirits in the Naga Art World“
 
CONVENER: Edward Nanbigne (University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana)
BACKUP CONVENER: Jelena Marković (Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research, Croatia)
- Nina Paarmann (University of Flensburg, Germany; University of Ghana): “Emotion and Hybridity of Gender Concepts in West African Folktale Tradition”
 - Bea Lundt (University of Flensburg, Germany; University of Education, Winneba, Ghana): “What Narrations do Pupils in Ghana Love and Why? Research about the Favorite Stories of School-Children and Youths in Winneba (Ghana)”
 - Sela Adjei (University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana): “Deception, Manipulation and Emotional Intelligence in Anansesem: Unravelling the Amoral Ananse Archetype”
 - Edward Nanbigne (University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana): “Other Voices: Characterisation in Ghanaian Folktales”
 - Esi Sutherland-Addy (University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana): “Female Personalities in the World of the Ghanaian Folktale”
 
CONVENER: Margaret Lyngdoh (University of Tartu, Estonia)
BACKUP CONVENER: Josipa Tomašić (FFZG, University of Zagreb, Croatia)
- Guntis Pakalns (University of Latvia, Latvia): “Latvia’s Amateur Storytellers about Emotions”
 - Tea-Tereza Vidović Schreiber, Silvana Stanić (University of Split, Croatia); Ivana Čagalj (University of Silesia, Poland): “Kamishibai Performance of Oral literature in Working with Children as a new Impetus in Emotional Development”
 - Ruchi Rana (University of Delhi, India): “Emotional Engagements in Garhwali Jagar Ritual: With Special Reference to Ritual Demeanor of Jagri, Dangariya, and Devotees”
 - Lidija Bajuk (Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research, Croatia): “Incantations, Onomatopeias and other Croatian Traditional Verbalizations of Delight”
 
CONVENER: Mare Kõiva (Estonian Literary Museum, Estonia)
BACKUP CONVENER: Penta
- Judit Kis-Halas (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia): “Narrating Fear, Healing Trauma: Fright-Illness in Hungarian Folk Narratives”
 - Monika Kropej Telban (Scientific Research Centre of SAZU, Slovenia): “Emotions of Fear in the Narratives about Plague and the Contemporary Pandemic”
 - Fumihiko Kobayashi (Independent scholar, USA): “A Study of Epidemic Phobia Lore: Examining How Fear of Epidemic Diseases Contributed to Folk Narratives and Vernacular Rituals in East Asian Societies”
 - Toni Saarinen (University of Helsinki, Finland): “Invasion From The Outside. Discourses of Disease in New World Order Conspiracy Theories”
 
4.45-5 p.m. Break
5.00-6.15 p.m. Keynote lecture, Jan Plamper (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK): “Learning from the History of Emotions? Genealogy, Trends, Concepts” (Q&A moderated by Nataša Polgar)
6.15-6.30 p.m. Break
6.30-8.15 p.m General Assembly
Sep 8, 2021
Zagreb-Time: UTC+2
3.00-4.45 p.m. Program in 5 Parallel Sessions
CONVENER: Devon Sereda Goldie (University of Victoria, Canada)
BACKUP CONVENER: Sanja Lončar (FFZG, University of Zagreb, Croatia)
- Devon Sereda Goldie (University of Victoria, Canada): “Пам’ять/Pam’yat (Memory): “Theatre as a Vehicle for Healing Intergenerational Trauma within the Ukrainian Canadian Experience”
 - Swathi Sudhakaran (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India): “When an Angry God Dances: A Study of the Theatre Group Manalmagudi from Karisial Kadu”
 - Assefa Dibaba (Indiana University, USA / Ethiopia): “Lake Qooqa as a Narrative: Escorting the Dead with Story (Oromia/Ethiopia)”
 - Sanja Lončar (FFZG, University of Zagreb, Croatia) “Narratives about War Friendships: Emotions Embodied in Places, Moments, and Items”
 
CONVENER: Una Bauer (University of Zagreb, Croatia)
BACKUP CONVENER: Renata J. Kirin (Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research, Croatia)
- Mojca Kovačič (Scientific Research Centre SAZU, Slovenia): “Stage Performative Emotions”
 - Hämäläinen Niina (The Kalevala Society, Finland): “Effects of Lyric. National Narrative of the Young Maiden”
 - Kati Kallio (University of Helsinki, Finland): “Sold and Redeemable Maidens: Narrative, Performance and Emotion in Finnic Folk Songs”
 - Ivana Katarinčić (Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research, Croatia, Croatia): “Emotions and Feelings among Dancers of Classical Ballet on the Stage and in the Classroom”
 - Klara Bogojević Zečević (University of Zagreb, Croatia): “Narrating Stage Fright and Fear of Young Musicians, Performers of Classical Music”
 
CONVENER: Katherine Borland (The Ohio State University, USA)
BACKUP CONVENER: Ivana Brković (FFZG, University of Zagreb, Croatia)
- Teresa Cortez (University of Aveiro, Portugal): “Enthusiasm, Commitment and Philological Labour – Some Notes on the Beginnings of Folk Research in Portugal”
 - Kumar Nishit (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India): “Folkloric Elements with Reference to Emotions Used by Mo Yan in his Writings”
 - Rosana Ratkovčić (University North, Koprivnica, Croatia): “Representations of Medieval Bosnian Rulers in Visual Arts and in Contemporary Emotional Responses”
 - Amir Kapetanović (Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics, Croatia): “Narrative Strategies for (Non)expressing Fear in Croatian Mediaeval Texts”
 
CONVENER: Robin Gwyndaf (St Fagans National Museum of History, Wales)
BACKUP CONVENER: Evelina Rudan (FFZG, University of Zagreb, Croatia)
- Vita Džekčioriūtė-Medeišienė (Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore and Vilnius University, Lithuania): “Children’s Fears of the Other in Traditional Lithuanian Belief Narratives”
 - Jurgita Macijauskaitė-Bonda (Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania): “Adults’ Reactions Towards Unconventional Behaviour of Children in Lithuanian Belief Legends”
 - Olima Kholmurodova (Izzakh State Pedagogical Institute, Uzbekistan): “The Ways of Depicting the Emotional Category of Fear in the Cumulative Fairy Tales and their Significance in Children’s Overcoming of Fear in Life”
 - Sami Kahriman (Ritsumeikan University, Japan): “Real Children as Stimuli in the Formation of the Divine Child Figure: A Reinvestigation in the Light of Blumenberg’s Theory of Myth”
 
CONVENER: Anders Gustavsson (University of Oslo, Norway)
BACKUP CONVENER: Nataša Polgar (Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research, Croatia)
- Kristinn Schram (University of Iceland, Iceland): “Fearing the bjarndýr: Polar Bears in Belief Narratives and the Anthropocene”
 - Merili Metsvahi (University of Tartu, Estonia): “What the Werewolf-Stories tell us about the Estonian Peasants’ Fears and Life?”
 - Felicity Wood (University of Fort Hare, South Africa): “Fear, Fascination and Desire: Oral Narratives Concerning the Mamlambo, a South African Wealth-giving Spirit”
 - Jyrki Pöysä (University of Eastern Finland, Finland): “Animals Who Don’t Fear Humans Any More: Stories and Observations about Inter-Species Encounters in Urban Milieu”
 
4.45-5.00 p.m. Break
5.00-6.15 p.m. Keynote lecture Sadhana Naithani (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India): “Absent Emotion, Extreme Action and Ultimate Justice” (Q&A moderated by Renata Jambrešić Kirin)
6.15-6.30 p.m. Break
6.30-8.15 p.m. Program in 4 Parallel Sessions
CONVENER: JoAnn Conrad (Diablo Valley College, Pleasant Hill, USA)
BACKUP CONVENER: Nataša Polgar (Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research, Croatia)
- Kay Turner (New York University, New York, USA): “‘With All My Heart’: The Promise of Emotional Truth in Grimms’ The Three Spinners”
 - JoAnn Conrad (Diablo Valley College, USA): “The Feelings of Structure Affect in (folk)Narrative”
 - Kimberly Lau (University of California, USA): “Sob Stories: Genre, Gender, and the Politics of Weeping in Basile’s Frame Tale”
 
CONVENER: Katherine Borland (Ohio State University, USA)
BACKUP CONVENER: Josipa Tomašić (FFZG, University of Zagreb, Croatia)
- Anna Rezessy (Independent researcher, Finland): “Ambivalent Emotions in Lament Parody – Who Dares Mock Death?”
 - Anastasiya Fiadotava (Estonian Literary Museum, Estonia): “Different Shades of Laughter and Unlaughter: Emotional Economy of Humorous Performances in Family Folklore”
 - Lidija Stojanovic (University ‘St. Cyril and Methodius’, North Macedonia): “Migration and Habitus: Encountering the Emotions among Macedonians in Germany”
 - Una Bauer (University of Zagreb, Croatia): “Ambivalent Emotional Registers of Subversive Affirmation as Political and Artistic Project: Janez Janša Case”
 - Mare Kalda (Estonian Literary Museum, Estonia): “The Cause of Laughter in Treasure Tales”
 
CONVENER: Pihla Maria Siim (University of Tartu, Estonia)
BACKUP CONVENER: Jelena Marković (Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research, Croatia)
- Ante Jerić (University of Rijeka, Croatia): “Sentience Before and After Sapience”
 - María Agustina Morando (The Catholic University Pontificia, Argentina): “The Language of Emotions among the Chané of Northwestern Argentina: An Ethnolinguistic Approach”
 - Baburam Saikia (University of Tartu, Estonia): “Identity and Conversion, Why and Why Not? Narratives of the Mising Folks”
 - Jelena Marković (Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research, Croatia): The Fear of Violence and the Violence of Fear: Breaking out of the Silence Zones
 
CONVENER: Tok Thompson (USC Dornsife, USA)
BACKUP CONVENER: Renata Jambrešić Kirin (Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research, Croatia)
- Reet Hiiemäe (Estonian Literary Museum, Estonia): “Fear of Magically Imposed Love in Estonian Traditional and Contemporary Belief Narratives”
 - Petr Janeček (Charles University, Czech Republic): “Beyond the Café/Pub Split: Contemporary Czech narrative practice concerning “The Others”
 - Robert Guyker (Dept of Sociology, Chapman University, USA): “‘Folk’ of Our Making and Unmaking: Recurrent Tales of Artificial Intelligence”
 - Tok Thompson (University of Southern California Dornsife, USA): “Fear of the Posthuman: Ontological Uncertainties at the Beginning of the Anthropocene”
 - Matija Jelača (Juraj Dobrila University of Pula, Croatia): “FOMO and FUD in the Cryptocurrency Markets”
 
8.15- 8.30 p.m. Break
8.30- 9.30 p.m. Closing Roundtable
CONVENER: Terry Gunnell (University of Iceland, Iceland)
PARTICIPANTS:
- Amy Shuman (Ohio State University, USA)
 - Jonathan Roper (University of Tartu, Estonia)
 - Eva Þórdís Ebenezerdóttir (University of Iceland, Iceland)
 - Margaret Lyngdoh (University of Tartu, Estonia)