The Center for Studies in Oral Tradition will sponsor a public lecture by A. B. Lord Fellow, Dr. Margaret Lyngdoh, “What the Returning Dead Want: Afterlife Narratives and Belief Worlds in West Khasi Hills,” Thursday, November 3, 2016 at 4:00 P.M. in Strickland Hall Room 115.
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The Center for Studies in Oral Tradition is pleased to announce the fifth recipient of the A. B. Lord Fellowship in Oral Tradition, Dr. Margaret Lyngdoh, who is a Junior Researcher at the Department of Estonian and Comparative Folklore, University of Tartu, Estonia, and will be in residence in Fall 2016.
On Thursday, October 13, 2016 Karl Reichl will offer the 31st Albert Lord and Milman Parry Lecture at the University of Missouri. The title of his talk, to be delivered at 7:00 pm in Room 7, John K. Hulston Hall, is “How to become an epic singer: ‘singer schools’ in Uzbek and other Turkic oral traditions”. The lecture is sponsored by the Center for Studies in Oral Tradition.
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Lee Haring describes himself as a literary critic, albeit one whose research concerns “a bunch of literature that nobody gets to see until I produce it. That is,” he explains, “I retrieve the materials that I work with which consist largely, these days, of what we call oral literature.” Over the course of his long and distinguished career, Haring has worked to translate and analyze the oral literature and traditions of the Indian Ocean Islands. Lee Haring is professor emeritus of English at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York…
On Tuesday, April 5, 2016 Lee Haring will offer the 30th Albert Lord and Milman Parry Lecture at the University of Missouri. The title of his talk, to be delivered at 7:00 pm in Room 7, John K. Hulston Hall, is “Translation in Folkloristics”. The lecture is sponsored by the Center for Studies in Oral Tradition.
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口头传统研究中心将资助A. B. Lord 学者包秀兰博士做题为“蒙古口头传统：历史与现状”的讲座。时间：2015年11月11日下午4:00，地点：Arts & Science大楼40A房间
包秀兰博士的讲座已改期，时间：2015年11月18日（周三）下午4：00，地点：Arts & Science 大楼40A房间。
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口头传统研究中心荣幸地宣布第四届A.B. Lord口头传统奖学金获得者为来自中国社会科学院民族文学研究所的助理研究员包秀兰博士，她将成为口头传统研究中心2015年秋季学期的常驻学者。
口头传统研究中心的首页包括新闻、文章、事件公告等等，这些会吸引口头传统研究领域内不同的读者来访问该网站。首页上主要公布一些重要且时效性强的新闻消息。一旦新闻的时效性一过，我们会将这些收录到网站的档案专栏，以作为永久性的参考资料。
Among the Lyngngam and Nongtrai communities of the Khasi Hills, special funerary rituals associated with spirit propitiation, corpse reanimation, and endo-mortuary anthropophagy exist, and narratives about these practices have a special social function. This talk analyzes the storyworld of the Khasis, and it’s intersections with their social and religious reality. It presents a case study seen from the context of marginalization, the indigenous heritage, and conflicted intentions where belief becomes suggestive of a community’s need to come to terms with its own place alongside other ethnic identities. What comes out strongly, is the divisive function of folklore, as opposed to the romantic, unifying discourse of folklore studies as stressed in Western scholarship.
In his Singer of Tales Albert B. Lord gave a detailed account of the singers’ training, stressing that “an oral poem is not composed for but in performance.” In this lecture the most salient characteristics of the training process of the singers of tales among the Turkic-speaking peoples of Central Asia and Siberia are discussed, highlighting some of the most significant similarities and differences to the South Slavic tradition as analyzed by Milman Parry and Albert Lord. It is argued that the concept of composition in performance acquires a range of different meanings in the Uzbek and other Turkic oral traditions – in traditions that in some areas have continued to flourish into the present century.
作为一个在线的，可普遍访问且免费的设施，口头传统研究国际协会（ISSOT) 旨在创造并保持一个开放民主的网络来了解世界的口头传统。ISSOT的中心任务是利用电子媒介将有着类似兴趣的国际化组织成员联系起来。.
我们非常感谢纳森和马克、以及他们家人的慷慨捐助，他们代表艾尔伯特.贝茨.洛德和玛丽.路易斯.洛德私人图书馆向密苏里大学图书馆和口头传统研究中心捐赠了宝贵的图书资料。
口头传统研究中心为读者免费提供在线搜索参考文献，涵盖了《口头传统》自1986年创刊以来引用的所有书籍、文章、影片、及其他资料，共计一万五千多份条目。
这个项目主要是一个多媒体、超链接的口头传统表演的电子编辑文本，它远远超越了书本的范畴。某种程度上，你可以切身成为观众的一份子。
《如何阅读口头诗作》这本书非常的简单易读。首先，这本书教读者如何从自身角度出发阐释口头诗作。这本书尝试着用简洁直接的方式和非口头诗作朗读者进行对话。这本书言简意赅，并举了一些绘画方面的例子。
