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13 maltatoday | WEDNESDAY • 29 JANUARY 2020 CULTURE THIS Friday, Dr Óscar Abenójar Sanjuán will be giving a public talk in English on "Oral Litera- ture in the Contemporary Medi- terranean. Old Genres into New Wineskins". The talk - to be held at 6pm at the Faculty of Arts Library of the University of Malta - is part of the Oral Traditions pro- ject of the Department of Mal- tese in the Faculty of Arts of the University of Malta, which is supported by the Research Fund of the University and Klabb Kotba Maltin. Several old narratives, songs, rituals, riddles, and superstitions have survived in the Mediterranean region from antiquity to this day. Nevertheless, the ways of transmission are no longer the same. This talk will give some examples of the transforma- tions occurring nowadays in the field of oral literature. Óscar Abenójar has a PhD in comparative literature and he has specialised in oral narrative and ethnography. At present he teaches hispan- ic literature at Hankuk Univer- sity of Foreign Studies in Seoul in the Republic of Korea. He is the author or co-au- thor, amongst others, of sever- al studies about oral traditions in North Africa: Cuentos pop- ulares de la Cabilia (2014); La hermosa Ilona: antología de baladas populares húngaras (2014); La princesa cautiva y el pájaro del viento: mitos y cuen- tos del norte de Argelia (2015), and La grandas de oro y otros cuentos tradicionales del oasis del Mzab (Argelia) (2016). In June 2019, Dr Óscar Abenójar Sanjuán gave a video talk on Techniques and Meth- ods for Collecting Oral Tradi- tion to researchers as part of the Oral Traditions project. This is his first visit to Malta. Oral literature tradition in the contemporary Mediterranean This talk will give some examples of the transformations occurring nowadays in the field of oral literature