Fourth International Colloquium on Bosnian Oral Tradition in World Culture


International Forum Bosnia is pleased to announce its Fourth International Colloquium on Bosnian Oral Tradition in World Culture to take place online as a Zoom conference on 30 October (Saturday) 2021.

The first three colloquia were held in 2017, 2018, and 2020, respectively, in cooperation with the Herzegovina Museum in Mostar and, as of last year, the Tuzla University Faculty of Philosophy/Arts and focused on different aspects of the work and legacy of Milman Parry, whose importance in the areas of folklore studies and oral literature can hardly be overstressed, particularly in Bosnia, where he did so much of his fieldwork and developed his most fertile theories.

The focal theme of the fourth colloquium will be Oral Tradition in Inter-Literary Context – The Bosniak Case. The Oral Traditions of Bosnia were constituted as an object of study within the context of the struggle between imperial and nationalist ideologies for dominance in the late and post-Ottoman 19th century Balkans. This led to the identification of specific confessional and national oral traditions within Bosnia, which has played a major role in debates over national identity, authochthony, authenticity, and political legitimacy over the past 100 years. The question of the constitution of a Bosniak Oral Tradition as a field of study therefore requires urgent reconsideration, deconstruction, and recontruction within the broader mosaic of not just a Bosnian and southern Slavic but ultimately a global inter-literary continuum.

The three headings under which participants are invited to explore this theme are:

• The Bosniak Oral Tradition and its relationship to emancipatory and identitarian strategies;

• Bosniak Oral Tradition and its relationship to other local and regional oral traditions, in a comparative context;

• Reading and interpreting other oral traditions in Bosnia and the region.


We request all those interested in participating at the colloquium to fill out and return the attached registration form by 25 September. The working languages of the colloquium will be Bosnia, Serbian, Croatian, Montenegrin, and English.

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