Piret Voolaid: COVID-19 Folklore in Estonia

Wednesday, October 28 at 7pm VEMU virtual lecture:

From to Minihorns to the Return of the Vikings: What Can We Learn from COVID-19 Folklore in Estonia?

Piret Voolaid, Senior Researcher at the Department of Folkloristics in Estonian Literary Museum and the Executive Manager of the Centre of Excellence of Estonian Studies gives lecture about the role of folklore in times of straining COVID-19 crisis. The folklorists in Literary Museum started to collect COVID-19 folklore as a digital heritage already in January 2000, when the virus devastated the city of Wuhan in China. The virus initiated the development of crisis folklore, which expresses different emotions linked to the corona virus, like the fear of the unknown.

Participate in this interesting lecture at VEMU Youtube Channel. The lecture will be in Estonian language.

Link to the lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lUHXOcHmic