Conference organizers:

Jane Costlow, Bates College ( USA )

Amy Nelson, Virginia Tech ( USA )

Keynote Speaker:

Nigel Rothfels, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee ( USA )

Participants:

Jose Alaniz, University of Washington ( USA )

Mikhail Alekseevsky, State Republican Center of Russian Folklore, Russian Federation,

Gala Argent, University of Leicester, United Kingdom

Andy Bruno, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign ( USA )

Gesine Drews-Sylla, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany

Cathy Frierson, University of New Hampshire (USA)

Olga Glagoleva, University of Toronto, Canada,

Ian Helfant, Colgate University ( USA )

William B. Husband, Oregon State University (USA)

Daria Kabanova, University of Illinois (USA)

Ann Kleimola, University of Nebraska ( USA )

Katherine Lahti, Trinity College ( USA )

Robert Murray, Virginia Tech (USA)

Roy Robson, University of the Sciences in Philadelphia (USA)

Arja Rosenholm, Tampere University, Finland