BNN Online Lectures Archive

Belief Narrative Network’s online lecture recordings can be found below. For ISFNR lecture series, see this page.

 

A Religion of War: How Messianic Sentiments, Military Rituals, and Conspiracy Theories Made Putinism Effective
Alexander Panchenko
June 3, 2022

 

‘The Good Old Method of the Nail’: Nail Murders and the ‘Nail in the Skull’ Legend
Davide Ermacora
May, 2022

 

Ghost of Kyiv, White Tights and Spring Man: Eastern European Wartime Rumours in Comparative Perspective
Petr Janecek
April, 2022

 

Boggart in British Folklore
Simon Young
February, 2022

 

Wereseals, Merpeople and the Pharaoh: A Complex Phenomenon of Nordic and Baltic Folk Belief in Comparative Perspective
Mare Kõiva
February, 2022

 

‘A Miracle Walking Tree’: The Supernatural in the Landscape Mythology and Social Space of Contemporary Mongolia
Alevtina Solovyeva
January 7, 2022

 

Yuletide Belief and Activism
Eva Pordis Ebenezersdottir
December 3, 2021

 

Lecture on Welsh Legend
Robin Gwyndaf
November, 2021

 

Half Human Monsters of the Kentucky Mountains
Carl Lindahl
September 3, 2021

 

Stories on the Sources of Power and Knowledge: Initiation Narratives of Wise Women in Central Europe
Judit Kis-Halas
June 4, 2021

 

Folk Healing: Care, Cure, and Wellness in India
Tulika Chandra
May 7, 2021

 

On Werewolves and Legend Maps
Willem de Blécourt
April, 2021

 

Animal Tales, Belief Narratives and COVID-19 in Argentinian Folklore
Maria Ines Palleiro
February, 2021

 

What Do We Mean by Belief? Some Thoughts and Observations
Terry Gunnell
March 3, 2021

 

Aliens, Androids, Animals, and Ghosts: Belief Narratives of Human Ontology During the Anthropocene
Tok Thompson
December 4, 2020

 

Greetings from Hell: Estonian Folktale ATU 475 in Trans Generic Context
Ülo Valk
November 6, 2020

 

Introduction Narratives on afterlife and symbolic immortality
Kaarina Koski
October 14, 2020

 

Conspiracy in the time of corona
Timothy Tangherlini
September, 2020