Dusting off the Old Goods: Reviving Old Folkloristic Pursuits
21 January 2025
When: January 24, 2025 | 12 pm - 1:30 pm MST
Presented by Dr. Dorian Jurić - Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University Bloomington and the President of the Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Folklore Association.
ZOOM (Online-only presentation)
About the presentation:
The performative turn and other movements in the 1970s and 1980s importantly drew folklorists out of the archives and libraries and into the field. Demands that we cease being “bogged down by the tedium of taxonomy” and attend to folklore in situ have, particularly in North America, pushed contemporary ethnographic research into a central position of importance in our discipline. This vital shift has, however, led to the abandonment of many projects that once defined our field. As a scholar long committed to applying contemporary approaches to “stale” and “outdated” subjects, Dr. Jurić will discuss some of his work dealing with the oral traditions of the Western Balkans and highlight abandoned or moribund research topics that might be fruitfully pursued by upcoming folklorists working in Eastern Europe and elsewhere.
About the presenter:
Dorian Jurić is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University Bloomington and the President of the Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Folklore Association. His writings on oral epic, supernatural legends, nineteenth-century academic paradigms, and the political life of folklore in the contemporary and historical Western Balkans can be found in the journals Folklore, The Journal of American Folklore, Oral Tradition, The Slavic and East European Journal, The Journal of Indo-European Studies, and Folklorica.
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