Folklore Research News Today

Croatia is well known as a dog-loving country, but just how long have there been domesticated dogs in Croatia?

The dissemination event of the TraPoCo Jean Monnet Network focussing on the event will focus on the Western Balkans migration route to discuss the capacity of European civil society actors to challenge the EU border policies from below, and their efforts to propose alternative narratives on migration, their joint work to build a European political space of solidarity. This event takes place as part of the Refugee Weeks in Croatia

Terming the detention and questioning of activist and writer Dr Navsharan Singh by the Enforcement Directorate as ‘harassment’, the writers, artistes and members of Folklore Research Academy appealed to the community members to come out in her support.

On 16th August the Department of Sociology, Cotton University in collaboration with Anamaya-tribal health collaborative organised a dialogue on Tribal Health and Culture Interlinkages. The key speakers at the event were Dr. Forhad Akhtar Zaman, Additional Professor and Head, Department of Community & Family Medicine, AIIMS-Guwahati; Dr. Anil Kumar Boro, Head of Department,

Templar gold, a pirate vault, a natural sinkhole, or one giant hoax?

Dr. Nripen Chandra Das & Research Supervisor, Department of Folklore Research, Gauhati University. He can be reached at nripenchdas@yahoo.com) There are many mysteries and puzzles in human history which are still waiting solutions. Many questions in history are there which remained unexplained and unanswered by the historians. Varied interpretations are available to the same question or problem. Well established interpretation to the problem still waits. The puzzle regarding the Indus ...

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