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Basque Oral Poetry ChampionshipTue, 03 Jan 2006 21:56:00 GMT-->
Imagine selling 13,025 tickets for oral poetry. Imagine further an entire 6-7 hours of live performances broadcast on regional television as they happen, with excerpts, summaries, and expert commentary on national television. Imagine a one-day event – the final act in a multi-stage, four-year, Olympian drama of qualification and elimination – galvanizing ethnic, national identity to a degree unparalleled virtually anywhere in the world. Imagine the confluence of all of these phenomena and you have the Bertsolari Txapelketa, the national championship of bertsolaritza, the improvised contest poetry from Basque oral tradition, which took place in Barakaldo, Spain, on December 18, 2005.Read more...
Lecture by Rieks Smeets of UNESCO now available onlineTue, 03 Jan 2006 12:46:00 GMT-->
On February 20th, Dr. Rieks Smeets, chief of UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage section, delivered a talk entitled “Safeguarding Living Heritage: The Story of a Convention” at the University of Missouri-Columbia.
The entire lecture, together with five examples of intangible cultural heritage, is now available for viewing. The video illustrations include the Carnival of Binche (Belgium), the oral and graphic expressions of the Wajapi (Brazil), the Pansori epic chant (Republic of Korea), the woodcrafting knowledge of the Zafimaniry (Madagascar), and Vanuatu sand drawings (Melanesia).
Dr. Smeets described and illustrated the history of ongoing efforts by the United Nations to foster new approaches to understanding and protecting the cultural heritage of humanity, devoting special attention to the diversity and evolution of the communities and groups that create, re-create, and transmit oral traditions, traditions of music and dance, ritual and festive events, and other forms. He focused on the UNESCO Convention of 2003 for the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage, which has already been ratified by more than 30 member states from six continents, and on the results it has produced so far.Read more...
UNESCO section chief on campus & via webcast on February 20thMon, 02 Jan 2006 21:55:00 GMT-->
On Monday evening, February 20th, at 7:30 pm, Dr. Rieks Smeets, chief of UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage section, will deliver the annual Lloyd B. Thomas Lecture on "Safeguarding Living Heritage" at the University of Missouri-Columbia.
His talk will also be transmitted worldwide via internet webcast from Missouri’s Center for eResearch. Details on viewing the webcast will be available on this site by February 1st.Read more...
Reading the Medieval BookSun, 01 Jan 2006 21:47:00 GMT-->
Reading the Medieval Book examines one of the most important epic poems in thirteenth-century Germany and its redaction in a richly illustrated manuscript created just fifty-five years after the poem's composition. Starkey's book reveals that the Munich-Nuremberg manuscript (c.1270) of Wolfram von Eschenbach's Willehalm (c.1215) was compiled with both oral performance and the written medium in mind.Read more...
Announcing the Center for eResearchSun, 20 Feb 2005 21:51:00 GMT-->
Effective mid-January 2005, the University of Missouri-Columbia inaugurated a Center for eResearch. The primary mission of the CeR is to foster internet-based research across disciplines, both locally on campus and via national and international cooperations. It is crucial to emphasize that all schools, colleges, and intra-college units of its home university, as well as all outside institutions, are welcome and invited to take part in CeR activities, and that the director will make every effort to solicit their initial and continuing participation.
The philosophy behind the establishment of this facility is simple. Today internet-based research is proliferating throughout colleges and universities, just as web-based interactions have revolutionized nearly every sector of our daily lives. A major stumbling block, however, is the fact that individual efforts in e-research have remained highly individual; they have tended to take root and flourish in relative isolation, thriving within their own narrow confines but seldom interacting with efforts by other researchers. To network these “silos” more effectively, the CeR proposes to help e-researchers communicate with one another through local seminars and consultations, webcasts and archived recordings for campus and national/international audiences, national and international agreements, an online journal-newsletter entitled eResearch, and a web page with an updatable database. For more on various CeR initiatives, visit www.e-researchcenter.org.
CSOT Projects
An eEdition of a South Slavic Oral Epic

The Pathways Project
The Pathways Project consists of a book-in-progress, Pathways of the Mind: Oral Tradition and the Internet, that will exist at the center of a suite of media including webcasts and podcasts, linked websites, streaming audio and video, blogs, bulletin boards, and an aggregator designed to capture future developments. Find out more...
eCompanions
View the eCompanions to the journal Oral Tradition.
Oral Tradition 19 II
Oral Tradition 20 I
E-Companion to How to Read an Oral Poem
How to Read an Oral Poem starts from square one. Above all, it's intended as a reader- friendly invitation to think about oral poetry on its own terms. Many books about oral poetry assume that their readers have some prior experience or training in the subject, making it difficult or impossible for the nonspecialist to enter the conversation. HROP attempts to speak to the nonspecialist in a straightforward, uncomplicated way. Plain talk, plain style, and a cornucopia of examples are its mainstays.
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