On Tuesday, March 13th, 2012 David Elmer will offer the 26th Albert Lord and Milman Parry Lecture at the University of Missouri. The title of his talk, to be delivered at 7:00 pm in the Fred Smith Forum at the Reynolds Journalism Institute, is “Poetry’s Politics in Greek Epic and Lyric” [abstract]. The lecture is sponsored by the Center for Studies in Oral Tradition.
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The first in a series of webcast lectures and seminars was broadcast live over the Internet by the International Society for Studies in Oral Tradition on October 10, 2011. Dr. Chao Gejin conducted a seminar entitled Oral Epic Traditions in China: Diversity, Dynamics, and Decline of Living Heritage. Dr. Chao is the Director of the Institute for Ethnic Literatures at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing. The live webcast was viewed by ISSOT members and interested parties in thirteen countries around the world. For those who were unable to view the seminar live, Archived video of the presentation and following discussion are available on the ISSOT website.
The Center for Studies in Oral Tradition announces a new organization, the International Society for Studies in Oral Tradition. As an online, universally accessible, and free-of-charge facility, the ISSOT seeks to create and maintain an open, democratic network for understanding the world’s oral traditions. The central mission of this new organization is to use electronic media to connect people with a truly international group of colleagues who have similar interests.
We would like to extend to you a cordial invitation to join the Society by registering as a member. The Center for Studies in Oral Tradition will continue with its other online projects, all of them open-access and free-of-charge.
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The Center for Studies in Oral Tradition is pleased to announce the first recipient of the A.B. Lord Fellowship in Oral Tradition, Ms. Agnieszka Matkowska, who is pursuing her doctorate in Linguistics at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland. Ms. Matkowska will be resident at the CSOT for Fall semester 2011.
On February 10th, 2011 the Center for Studies in Oral Tradition at the University of Missouri will celebrate its twenty-fifth anniversary. Founded in 1986, the CSOT has focused on creating networks for exchange on the world’s oral traditions, from ancient times to the present day. Please refer to the 25th Anniversary Celebration Itinerary.
On this occasion we are pleased to be able to announce the donation of the Albert Bates and Mary Louise Lord Library, thanks to the generosity of Nathan and Mark Lord and their families. This gift includes more than 3000 volumes from the personal libraries of these two eminent scholars, to be made available either in Special Collections at the university’s Ellis Library or as part of its regularly circulating contents.
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On Thursday, February 10th, 2011 Mark Bender will offer the 25th Albert Lord and Milman Parry Lecture at the University of Missouri. The title of his talk, to be delivered at 7:30 pm in the Auditorium (Room 7) in the School of Law's Hulston Hall, is “Butterflies and Dragon-Eagles: Processing Epics from Southwest China” [abstract]. The lecture is sponsored by the Center for Studies in Oral Tradition, which is celebrating the 25th anniversary of its founding in 1986.
Read more...This presentation honors the landmark achievements of Albert Bates Lord, one of the founders of the field of studies in oral tradition, and celebrates the generous donation of his and Mary Louise Lord’s personal libraries by their sons Nathan and Mark and their families to the University of Missouri. It will trace the roots of Lord’s research and scholarship in contemporary anthropology and philology, as well as discuss the spread of this comparative approach to more than 150 language traditions from the ancient world to the present day. Audio examples of Lord’s fieldwork collections in the Former Yugoslavia will illustrate the talk.
The home page of the Center for Studies in Oral Tradition website features news stories, articles, and announcements of events that are of interest to individuals involved in the comparative field of oral tradition studies. What appears on this page at any given moment is a selection of items that are either time-dependent or of continuing importance of one kind or another. After their currency has expired, we will archive older items in the archive section of the website, so that they can serve as reference material on a permanent basis.
Thanks to the generosity of their sons Nathan and Mark, together with the support of their families, the personal libraries of Albert Bates Lord and Mary Louise Lord have been donated to the Center for Studies in Oral Tradition and the University of Missouri-Columbia Libraries.
The Center for Studies in Oral Tradition now offers an online, searchable, free-of-charge bibliography that contains every book, article, film, or other item ever referenced in the journal Oral Tradition from its founding in 1986 onward, more than 15,000 entries in all.
This multimedia, hyperlinked eEdition of an oral performance provides an experience beyond the reach of a freestanding book or page. To a degree you can actually join the audience.
How to Read an Oral Poem starts from square one. Above all, it's intended as a reader- friendly invitation to think about oral poetry on its own terms. HROP attempts to speak to the nonspecialist in a straightforward, uncomplicated way. Plain talk, plain style, and a cornucopia of examples are its mainstays.
