The Folk Bible: Oral Tradition and Holy Writ

Reposting from the Linguistic Ethnography Forum. I thought MAP readers would be particularly interested in the first presentation, "The Folk Bible: Oral Tradition and Holy Writ." See you there!

Dear all,

We are pleased to announce the final roundtable that will conclude the seminar series on Writing Orality, hosted by the Early Text Cultures research cluster at the University of Oxford. It will take place online (Zoom), on Wednesday, 31 March 2021 (15:30–19:30 GMT).

It will comprise papers exploring interactions between oral and written traditions that may be of interest to scholars who seek to recover the oral dimension of texts in modern and contemporary cultures.

PROGRAMME (all times GMT)

§ Session 1, 15.30–17.00:

 1. Prof Florentina Badalanova Geller (Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland)
The Folk Bible: Oral Tradition and Holy Writ

 2. Prof Antonio Scuderi (Truman State University)
Performance and Text in the Italian Carolingian Tradition

§ Session 2, 17:30–19:00:
 3. Prof Ágnes Birtalan (Eötvös Loránd University)
Mongolian Shamanic Invocations: Interaction between Orality and Written Tradition

 4. Prof Dwight Reynolds (UC Santa Barbara)
The Banī Hilāl Epic: From Oral, to Manuscript, to Print, to Digital

§ Roundtable, 19:00–19:30

 Please register here: https://forms.gle/kAUroyJor261VSgW6
 Contact address: earlytextcultures.ox@gmail.com 

Zoom details will be circulated on Tuesday 30 March. Everyone is extremely welcome.