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.