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THE SOCIETY FOR FOLK LIFE STUDIES
ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Manoir de Kernault
Mellac, Brittany, France: 16th-19th September 2004
*Shaping the future: constructive interpretations of heritage *
PROGRAMME
THURSDAY 16 SEPTEMBER
Welcome to Brittany
16:00-18:00 - Registration at Hotel Kervidanou
18:00-18:40 - Jean-Pierre Gestin, Ethnologist, a founder of the écomusée movement
The écomusée as a ‘mirror of its society’: the realities of a museum adventure
19:00 - Bar and dinner at Hotel Kervidanou
21:00 - Anne Postic, prize-winning harpist
Medley of Celtic harp music
FRIDAY 17 SEPTEMBER
Research, Work, Play and Transmission
8:30 - Departure by coach for the Manoir de Kernault
8:45-9:00 - Gavin Sprott, SLFS President
Welcome and introductory remarks
9:00-9:40 - Carolina Carpinschi-Castel, Researcher, History of Agriculture
When research and living tradition dovetail (threshing in France)
9:40-10:20 - Heather Holmes, Researcher, Agricultural history, Edinburgh
Scottish agricultural writers and the creation of their personal identities in the 18th century
10:20-11:00 - Shane Lehane, Course Director, Cultural and Heritage Studies, Colaiste Stiofain Naofa, Cork
New light from illustrations of traditional Irish wake practices
11:00-11:20 - Coffee
11:20-12:00 - Walking tour of the Manoir de Kernault with Fanch Postic,
Centre de Recherche et de Documentation sur la Littérature
Orale, and Jean-François Simon, Director of the Centre de
Recherché Bretonne et Celtique, University of Brest, specialist
in vernacular architecture
12:00 - Lunch at Le Goûter Breton, Manoir de Kernault
13:00 - Departure by coach for visit to old town of Quimper and its
Musée Départemental, founded in 1843, most especially the
outstanding costume collection
18:30-19:30 - Members Papers I
18:30 - Linda Ballard. The use of folk lore in a contemporary detective novel
18:50 - Catherine Wilson. Progress report on the Distributed National Collection of Agricultural Heritage Collections
19:10 - Fionnula Carson Williams. Some instances of the protection of buildings on the outside in Brittany and Ireland
19:30 - Bar and dinner at Hotel Kervidanou
21:00 - Guy Jaouen, President of the Breton Traditional Games Association
Making tradition play: presentation of the European Traditional Sports and Games Association Network.
SATURDAY 18 SEPTEMBER
What future?
8:30 - Departure for Manoir de Kernault
9:30-9:40 - Inja Smerdel, Keeper, SEM/Slovene Ethnographic Museum
An attempt to detect and define
the variety of ‘the past in the future’ heritage phenomenon
in Slovenia: the role of the SEM in this process
9:40-10:20 - Jean-François Charnier, Musée National des Arts et traditions Populaires, Paris
The anthropologist AND the collector or VS the collection?
10:20-11:00 - François Sigaut, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris
Some remarks on the uses and limits of oral history: the case of ploughing practices
11:00-11:20 - Coffee
11:20-12:00 - Sarah Blowen, Senior Lecturer, UWE Bristol
Rethinking heritage management in Brittany and Wales
12:00 - Lunch at Le Goûter Breton, Manoir de Kernault
13:00 - Departure by coach for visit to Pont Aven, Concarneau, south coast
18:00-19:00 Members’ Papers II
18:00 Eddie Cass. Fieldwork – the pleasure … and some responsibilities
18:20 Gerallt Nash. St Teilo: the Welsh-Breton connection
18:40 Gavin Sprott. Museums and national identity
19:15 - Bar and dinner at Hotel Kervidanou
20:30 - ‘Whales, whales’. Evening of Breton story and song
by Alain Le Goff and John Molyneux in the Menoir de Kernault regular
events program
(optional, ca 6.50 euros, transportation by car)
SUNDAY 19 SEPTEMBER
Local and European
Catholic church services in Mellac (6km from the Hotel Kervidanou) or
at the Notre Dame in the upper town in Quimperlé (4-5km from
hotel). Hours to be ammounced.
9:45 - Departure by coach for the Manoir de Kernault
10:00-10:40 - Yann Rivallain, Editor-in-chief, ArMen
The Breton regional magazine ArMen at the heart of heritage interpretation
10:40-11:00 - Coffee
11:00-12:00 - Annual General Meeting
12:00-12:40 - SFLS Open Forum Discussion Session
12:40 - Official closing of SFLS conference
13:00 - Lunch at Restaumarché near Hotel Kervidanou.
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