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11.30 am – 12.30 pm

12.30 - 1.30 pm

1.30 - 3 pm

Room One
	THIELE, Frances The Language of Prophecy: an exploration of the dissemination and cultural dispersal of non-scriptural prophecies in sixteenth-century England	BHATTACHARJEE, Kishore Temple Legends and Popular Religion in Assam	SARKARATI, Abandokht Kave, the Iranian Archetype of the Celestial Smith
Room Two
	MBELE, Joseph The Epic of Sitta and Nindwa	ASLANIDOU, Titika A contribution to the Diachronic Study of Greek Folk Narratives: Copais	BADALKHAN, Sabir A Study of Bow Motif in the Legend of the Fifteenth-century Baloch Hero Shey Murid
Room Three
	MCANDREWS,Kristin Folk Narratives of the Gardens at Diamond Head	KEAN, John "I never painted in my life all I ever did was work"	GONEN, Rivka History, Tombs, and Territory
Room Four
	SELBERG, Torunn The Finnskogen Festival: the ritualisation of difference	DARIAN-SMITH, Kate and WILLS, Sara Beauty Contest for British Bulldogs: recreating ‘Britishness’ in Frankston	KOCHAVI-NEHAB, Roni Books Celebrating Jubilee of Kibbutzim* in Israel: Folklore and Ideology
Room Five
	STEVENSON, Mark Phantom Anthropology, Or When Worlds Come Together	AVDIKOS, Evangelos Joking by e-mail	QIAO, Zhensheng (Presenter DUAN, Baolin) The Contemporary Functions of Folk Jokes
Room Six
	PANTCHENKO, Alexandre Eschatological Expectations in a Changing World: narratives about the end of the world in present day Russian folk culture	KRAWCZYCK-WASILEWSKA,Violetta Political and Economic Transition Versus Local Narrative Tradition: a Polish example	PROFANTOVA,Zuzanna European Cultural Adaptation or About the Place of Tradition in the Schizophrenia of Post-Totalitarian Cultures

3 - 3.30 pm

Afternoon Tea

3.30 - 5 pm

Room One
	MORAVEC, Mark Strange Illuminations: 'Min Min Lights' - Australian 'Ghost Light' narratives	KÖHLER-ZÜLCH, Ines Near-Death Experiences in Past and Present	AZZOLINA, David Coming Out in Time and Space
Room Two
	METSVAHI, Merili Revelations of Worldview in the Folklore Text: a South-east Estonian example	LI, Yang Some Morphological Traits of Chinese Folktales	MESSERLI, Alfred Spatial Representation in European Popular Fairy Tales
Room Three
	GLAZER, Mark The Vanishing Hitchhiker in South Texas: tellers, circumstances and gender	PALLEIRO, Maria Ines Travelling to AIDS World: hypertextual itineraries in Argentinean folk narrative	WITTICH, Thomas Air Rage’ Stories: heroes and villains at 30 000 feet
Room Four
	KROPEJ, Monika Cosmology in the Narrative of Slovenians in Windish Bleiberg	KUPERANJOV, Andras On Estonian Folk Astronomy - Birds’ Way or Milky Way?	BAGHERI, Merhi The Twofold Transformation of an Iranian Legendary Tradition
Room Five
	BOENISCH-BREDNICH, Brigitte New Zealandism and Governmental Mythology: the narration of colonial cultural concepts	CHOWDHURY, Shafiqur Rahman The Role of Oral History in the Rediscovery and Reinterpretation of National and Cultural Identity: the liberation war of Bangladesh	JOHNSTON, Chris and BUCKLEY, Kristal Telling Tales: place, attachment and government action
Room Six
	KOK, Hu Jin The Maiden in the Moon and Other Tales as Remembered and Used by nineteenth-Century Chinese Miners in Australia	SEAL, Graham Narrating Nation: Ned Kelly and the ambivalence of folk heroism	DAVEY, Gwenda Myths of non-Indigenous Australia