[Gandur] RMN Newsletter is here!

[- Frog]

We are pleased to announce that the founding, pilot issue of RMN Newsletter, the 
newsletter of the Retrospective Methods Network, is now available on-line at:
 
http://www.helsinki.fi/folkloristiikka/English/RMN/index.htm 
 
RMN Newsletter(ISSN 1799-4497) is an open access bi-annual publication of 
Folklore Studies / Department of Philosophy, History, Culture and Art Studies, 
University of Helsinki.  It is a newsletter of the Retrospective Methods Network 
with issues appearing in December and May of each year.  The newsletter is 
primarily oriented to constructing an informational resource and discourse space 
for researchers of diverse and intersecting disciplines who share common 
interests in the problems, strategies, values and limitations of comparative and 
diachronic research related to:
 
	* investigations into the history underlying the diverse and      variegated 
evidence of a tradition or other cultural phenomenon;
	* relationships between evidence of a tradition manifested in      different 
historical periods;
	* relationships and historical processes underlying      manifestations of a 
tradition encountered across multiple cultures;
	* and the potentials and limitations of analogical comparisons      between 
living traditions or traditions subject to extensive documentation      in the 
19th and 20th centuries and the traditions of earlier historical      periods 
for which evidence is extremely limited.
 
These interests are not bound to any one discipline, and the increasing movement 
toward interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary study and research projects makes 
it important to have a multidisciplinary informational resource.  The 
orientation of the newsletter is therefore not the publication of research 
articles.  It is instead oriented toward information about events, people, 
activities, developments and technologies, and research which is ongoing or has 
been recently completed – and we invite you to participate in this process by 
submitting abstracts of your own relevant presentations and publications to 
include as announcements and reports so that other scholars with similar 
interests can be made aware and remain up to date on what you are doing.  Rather 
than an index, the electronic publication of RMN Newsletter is formatted to be 
searchable, so that you will be able to find other scholars doing work in the 
areas of your interests by using the relevant key words.  The newsletter also 
constructs a venue in which scholars can engage in discussion rather than 
constraining contributions to the conclusions of research (which we present in 
abstracts, summaries and announcements for rapid survey, directing the reader to 
the full publication).  

 
RMN Newsletterwelcomes and promotes its readership to engage in the discourse 
space which it offers.  We also promote an awareness that your contribution to 
the voices presented here and engagement with them will support, maintain and 
also shape this emergent discourse space, so please visit us at 
http://www.helsinki.fi/folkloristiikka/English/RMN/index.htm where you will find 
more information on how to contribute.
 
The emerging generation of scholars is extremely important across our diverse 
disciplines and it is important for us to both be aware of that generation and 
open contact with it.  RMN Newsletter therefore has sections devoted to 
summaries of ongoing or recently completed doctoral dissertation and master 
thesis research, and we would greatly appreciate it if you could forward this 
information to your relevant students: every publication is significant on a 
young researcher’s CV, and we welcome the opportunity to be a place of first 
publication.
 
With warm regards, welcome, and holiday cheer,
 
 
Frog, Helen F. Leslie and Mathias Nordvig.