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SUKK is coming again: May 15th at 5:00 PM

The Estonian Literary Museum has launched an event series called "Finno-Ugric Literary Café" or SUKK…

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Collection contest “Stories about war”

 

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Estonian Folklore Archive collection contest “Meetings with wild animals”

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The magazine Folklore issue 88 has been published

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Russian Anti-War Activism, Civil Society and (Self-)Censorship in Times of Russia's War in Ukraine via MS Teams, on April 24th

 


Since the re-start of Russia’s war in Ukraine on February 24th, 2022, the political repressions…

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Yoking with the Spirits: Sami Sound Rituals and Acoustics of Sacred Sites, via MS Teams, on April 17th

 

  • The University of Helsinki Archaeoacoustic Group has recently began exploring…
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15th International Scientific and Theoretical conference "On the Nature of Laughter" / "Laughter and Its Features" in Tartu on May 18-21, 2023

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Collection campaign “Stories of War”

Since the invasion of Ukraine by Russia in February 2022, various forms of media have broadcast the events in…

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Seminar on social relationships in Rumenian village

On Nov 30th at 11 via Teams Irina Stahl is giving a lecture “Spatial distribution of people inside the church: The…

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Online lecture on old and new sociocultural values in Russia and Bulgaria

On September 28, at 11 (Est. time) Dr Irina Sedakova will give an online-lecture “Old and new sociocultural values…

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Departments

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Department of Folkloristics
The Department of Folklore was founded in 1947 and is engaged in the study of figurative speech, religion, stories and multimedia of Estonian and other nations, as well as the publication of electronic magazines and the establishment of a digital archive.
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Estonian Folklore Archives
Founded in 1927. The Estonian Folklore Archive is the central archive of folklore in Estonia, the task of which is to capture, preserve and make available what is as diverse as possible of the phenomena of non-institutional spiritual culture.
Kultuuriloolise arhiivi maalihoidla
Cultural History Archives
The Estonian Cultural History Archive was founded in 1929. The Estonian Cultural History Archive is Estonia's central archive collecting and organizing literary and cultural history materials (manuscripts, letters, documents, biographies, memoirs, diaries, photographs, works of art, sound recordings).
Arhiivraamatukogu kataloogisaal
Archival Library
The Archival Library was founded in 1909. The task is to collect, preserve and make available to researchers all publications in Estonian, regardless of their place of publication; Publications on Estonia and the Baltics; printed materials about the Finno-Ugric peoples.