Finland Shamanism and Beliefs in Europe Photography
9 to 12 October 1997, Hanasaari (The Swedish – Finnish Cultural Centre), Helsinki/FI
Main Lectures:
Prof. Margaret Harker Farrand, President of the ESHPh, Croydon
»The Eye of the Beholder«
Erik Höök, researcher, August Strindberg Museum, Stockholm
»Images of the Soul – August Strindberg – the Photographer«
Heikki Kirkinen, professor, University of Joensuu
»Dvina Karelian – Poem Singers as Seers«
Irmeli Niemi, Senior Professor, Helsinki
»Women in Kalevala – Rulers, Healers and Seers«
Karina Solovieva, Senior Researcher, Russian Museum of Ethnography, Petersburg
»Photo Collections on the Beliefs and Shamanism of Ob Ugrians in the Russian Ethnographic Museum«
Jean-René Beguin, Service Archives Photographiques, Ministère de la Culture, Paris
»Short Papers: One Tooth, One Eye, Three Sisters«
Kira van Deusen, independent researcher, Vancouver
»Shamanic Storytelling in Siberia«
Anna Auer, Photographic Society in Vienna
»The Forgotten Letters and Manuscripts, Niècpe, Daguerre, Talbot«
Christopher Webster, lecturer in Photography, School of Art, University of Wales
»Memento Mori«
Lennert Meri, Finnish Cultural Foundation
»Shaman (video-film by L. Meri)«
Mihály Hoppál, Ethnographic Institute, Budapest
»Shamans, Helping Spirits and Photographers: Mediating Visual Imagery«
Will Tsosie jr., Advisor of the Central Navajo Youth Leadership Council, Tsail, Arizona
»Navajo Culture, Navajo Life«
Erkki Pirtola, artist and art critic, Helsinki
»The Drum and the Camera«
Director Ms Outi Pohjanheimo
»Mr Keijo Kivioj a, Shaman Journey (video-film)«