ALL -RUSSIAN CONFERENCE “FOLK CULTURE IN THE CITY AND IN THE VILLAGE: FORMS OF EXISTENCE. INTERACTION. TRANSFORMATIONS”

The article contains an overview of the work of the All-Russian conference “Folk Culture in the City and in the Village: Forms of Existence. Interaction. Transformations”, held on October 24–26, 2023 in Moscow. The conference was dedicated to the 130th anniversary of the prominent Russian folklorist, Slavist, translator Pyotr Bogatyrev, professor at Moscow University, who in the 1940s headed the Department of Russian Folklore at the Faculty of Philology; it was organized jointly by the A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature (RAS), the State Institute of Art Studies and the Faculty of Philology of Lomonosov Moscow State University and was held in the buildings of GIWL and SIAS. Special attention was paid to the processes of interaction between the traditional folklore of the communal village and its later, mostly urban, forms, as well as aspects of an interdisciplinary approach to the study of folklore and folk culture.