Wednesday, May 17th
Great Hall, Finnish Literature Society Main Building (Hallituskatu 1)
08:45‒09:00 Coffee and Registration
09:00‒09:15 Opening Words
09:15–10:30 Keynote lecture
Alison Wray (Cardiff University)
Memorisation as a Regulator of Fluency under Cognitive Pressure: Prefabricated Language in the Service of Creative Practice
10:30–10:45 Coffee
10:45–11:30 Jarkko Niemi (University of Tampere)
Analysing Fabrics of Sung Language in Oral Tradition: A Systemic-Ecological Perspective on Performance of Culture as Skill
11:30–12:15 Heini Arjava (University of Helsinki)
Prosodies of Music and Formulaic Language on Collision Course
12:15–13:45 Lunch
13:45–14:30 Timo Kaartinen (University of Helsinki)
Formulas and the Formality of Discourse
14:30‒15:15 Alexandra Arkhipova (Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow) & Elena Jugai (Nikolay Karamzin Fellow, Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences)
A Dangerous Name: The Poetics of a Political Formula
15:15–15:30 Coffee
15:30–16:15 Viliina Silvonen (University of Helsinki)
Formulas in the Language and Music of Olonets Karelian Laments
16:15–17:00 Hans Nollet (KU Leuven)
Formulas in Neo-Latin Poetry as a Means to Language Enrichment and Self-Representation: Language Tips and Sociolinguistics in Justus Lipsius’ Poems
Thursday, May 18th
Great Hall, Finnish Literature Society Main Building (Hallituskatu 1)
08:45‒09:00 Coffee
09:00–09:45 Anatoly Liberman (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
Formulas through the Centuries
09:45‒10:30 Yelena Sessilja Helgadóttir (University of Iceland)
Formulae across the North Atlantic (from Continental Scandinavia to Iceland)
10:30–10:45 Coffee
10:45–11:30 Paul Kiparsky (Stanford University)
Formulas and Themes
11:30–12:15 Chiara Bozzone (University of California, Los Angeles)
Homeric Formulas – Between Language Acquisition and Language Change
12:15–13:45 Lunch
13:45–14:45 Poster presentations
Tatiana Bogrdanova (University of Eastern Finland)
Folklore Formulas in Arthur Ransome’s Old Peter’s Russian Tales (1916)
Clyde Coreil (Independent Scholar)
Formulaics: A New Approach to Communication
Lital Belinko Sabah (The Hebrew University)
Proverbs and Idioms in a Textual Context
Ilya Sverdlov (Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies)
Formulaic Language, Alliteration, and Metrical Statistics in Old English Poetry: From Eduard Sievers via Thomas Shippey to Olga Smirnitskaya and beyond
14:45–15:00 Coffee
15:00–15:45 Sergei B. Klimenko (Institute for Linguistic Research, RAS)
Rhythmic Fillers in Ifugao hudhuds
15:45–16:30 Jacqueline Ekgren (Ekgren Musikkinstitutt)
The Word-Accent Pair in a Half-Line: The Performance Formula of Norwegian stev as a Fresh Approach to Old Germanic Accentual Verse
16:30–17:00 Tour of the Folklore Archives of the Finnish Literature Society
Reception hosted by the Finnish Literature Society
Friday, May 19th
Great Hall, Finnish Literature Society Main Building (Hallituskatu 1)
09:00‒09:15 Coffee
09:15–10:30 Keynote lecture
Karl Reichl (University of Bonn)
Formulas in Oral Epics: The Dynamics of Metre, Memory and Meaning
10:30–10:45 Coffee
10:45–11:30 Maria V. Stanyukovich (Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera), Russian Academy of Science)
Anthroponymic Formulas in the Ifugao hudhud and Other Epics of the Philippines
11:30–12:15 Jukka Saarinen (Finnish Literature Society, SKS)
Formula and Structure: Ways of Expressing Names in the Northern Runosong Tradition
12:15–13:45 Lunch
13:45–14:30 Daniel Sävborg (University of Tartu)
The Formula in the Icelandic Family Saga
14:30‒15:15 Cristóbal Pagán Cánovas (University of Navarra)
Formulaic Creativity: Connecting the Main Tenets of Cognitive Linguistics and Oral Poetics
15:15–15:30 Coffee
15:30–16:15 Frog (University of Helsinki)
Formulaic Language and Linguistic Multiforms: Questions of Complexity and Variation
16:15–16:45 Closing Discussion