Nuo tradicijos ir modernumo dermės iki tautosakos rankraštyno fondų skaitmeninimo

Abstract

The article describes the international conference “Harmony, opposition and development perspectives of the tradition and modernity” organized by the Baltic Philology Centre and the Literature Department of Klaipėda University Faculty of Humanities on November 15–16, 2012 and the final conference of the scientific research project “Lithuanian folklore manuscripts: digitalization and spread of the funds” supported by the Lithuanian Science Council that took place at the Lithuanian Literature and Folklore Institute on November 21, 2012. At the conference that took place in Klaipėda University, Lithuanian, Latvian and German scientists discussed the issues of ethnological research methodology, folklore, calendar and Christian holidays, ancient village traditions and their change under modern urban living conditions, youth and family customs, music playing and its acoustic research, spiritual energy of song festivals performers, and Lithuanian identity in neomodern classical music compositions. There were discussed literary issues not only of our and neighbouring nations, but also of Finland, United States, United Kingdom and China, including the creative work of famous Salman Rushdie. The attention was paid to the reflection of the Holocaust in literature, and also to the image of “a town” in relation to the Jewish lifestyle in our writer Grigorijus Kanovičius’ books. Those more than 60 reports showed that scientific researches of various trends may reveal the most pressing contemporary lifestyle and cultural issues, analyzing them in a wide and diverse context. The Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore organized a conference for the digitalization of our cultural values kept in the folklore funds and their public presentation. [...]