månadsarkiv: december 2022

Budkavlen vol 101 (2022). Äckel som kulturell kraft

Detta nummer av Budkavlen fokuserar på vad äckel och äcklighet åstadkommer i olika sammanhang. Det äckliga kan både avstöta och attrahera, väcka både nyfikenhet och avsmak. Äckel är en kulturellt formad känsla som kan ha starka effekter i världen och i enskilda människors liv. Artiklarna som ingår visar bland annat hur hur äckel kan användas för att styra in människor i önskad riktning, engagera människor att handla och avskräcka dem från oönskat beteende.

Redigerat av Blanka Henriksson & Ann-Helen Sund

Numret kan hittas här.

Laboratorium 3/2022 – Turisten och havet

Olika former av turist- och reseupplevelser med havskoppling är temat för detta nummer av Laboratorium, med Blanka Henriksson och Fredrik Nilsson som gästredaktörer. Inom ramarna för en kurs i kulturanalys vid Åbo Akademi begav sig studenter och lärare på en fältexpedition och upptäcksresa på färjan mellan Åbo och Stockholm, och i detta nummer får vi ta del av deras kulturanalytiska perspektiv på färjetrafiken.
I numret ingår även två referentgranskade artiklar. Kasper Westerlunds artikel ”Sjöresor och rituella platser” utgår ifrån en samling teckningar gjorda av en finländsk sjöman kring sekelskiftet 1900. I artikeln ”Mötet med Visby: En studie om var kryssningsresenärer kommer i land i Visby” lyfter Malin Stengård fram kulturarvsdiskussioner i ett turistsammanhang och hur Visby iscensätts och presenteras för besökare via informationsskyltar.

CFP: Colloquium ”Silenced Sources, Heritage, and the Oral-Literary Continuum”

Colloquium Silenced Sources, Heritage, and the Oral-Literary Continuum – Rewriting the Margins of the National

28–31 June 2023
Helsinki, Finland
CFP 15 Feb 2023

Proposals with a short abstract of fewer than 300 characters, a long abstract of fewer than 250 words, and a short biographical note should be sent by 15 February 2023 at
https://bit.ly/silenced-sources-proposal (Google Forms).

The full CFP with more details is attached as PDF.

Theme

Notions of culture, heritage and literature are formed in historical processes entangled with values and institutionalized power that are constantly challenged by countermoves in society and art. Not only are the notions intrinsically contested in this manner. Similar ideologically motivated dialogues determine the formation of historically specific, empirically observable cultures, folklore collections, heritage regimes and literary fields. The colloquium Silenced Sources, Heritage, and the Oral-Literary Continuum – Rewriting the Margins of the National focuses on the making of national cultures and canonized regimes of folklore, literature, and cultural heritage in Northern Europe during the long 19th century.

In the context of Romantic Nationalism, the conceptual and ethnographic invention of folklore and oral poetry laid the basis for creating elite cultures and literatures – within and across national borders. The practices of dismissal, integration and transformation were strategic in the mediation between oral and literary forms of artistic expression. Rather than simple transformation of the oral into the literary, the processes of textualization and heritagization consist of phases of decontextualization and recontextualization that set the elements of cultural practices into novel symbolic and political articulations.

19th century developments in the nationalization of culture and society continue to be a significant topic in the humanities and social sciences. This constant scholarly attention reflects the contemporary concern for upsurging cultural and political movements in Europe that have produced ideological visions of national pasts and political agendas based on them. The colloquium focuses on the diverse textualization practices that have laid the ground for the notions and narratives of allegedly national pasts. Setting the processes of using, transcribing, editing, and publishing oral and literary traditions into a larger national and transnational context deepens the understanding of the creation of nations, heritages, and canons, i.e., building culture and ascribing it the meaning and value of ‘national’.

Topics

We invite researchers on e.g., folklore, literature, cultural heritage, and history to delve on topics such as
– The interaction between oral and written cultures and evaluation of hybrid forms of expression
– The institutional actors and ideological premises in the cultivation of the oral-literary interface (e.g., in the context of archives)
– Epistemological issues related to documentation, textualization and editing
– The formation of values and notions linked to national heritages and literatures
– Documentation, editorial and textualization practices – omissions, silences, editorial decisions, and issues of representation in the field, the archive, research, and the literary field
– Processes of heritagization and canonization of folklore and expressive traditions
– Hidden sources and muted expressive genres on the fringes of cultural canons
– The criteria for marginalization or canonization of folklore, such as genre, area, content, social group
– Cultural appropriation, folklore, and national cultures

The colloquium will be organized in cooperation with The Finnish Literature Society, The Kalevala Society Foundation and the Folklore Department, University of Helsinki.

Research project: Humans and Ticks in the Anthropocene

Humans and Ticks in the Anthropocene is an ongoing project that examines the multi-faceted relationship between humans and ticks from the perspective of environmental history and environmental humanities.

Please visit the website for more information about the project.

The project description from the website:

”Our research project examines the multi-faceted relationship between humans and ticks from the perspective of environmental history and environmental humanities. We aim to provide a comprehensive analysis of discussions about ticks in Finnish society from the late nineteenth century up to the present. Our goal is to increase the knowledge about human relations, not only to ticks but also insects in general. By so doing, we also hope to refine methods and concepts for studying invertebrate animals; a class of animals previously ignored in humanistic research.

We explore the formation and circulation of scientific as well as local knowledge regarding ticks. This analysis increases our understanding of how ticks have influenced human relation to and ways of enjoying nature. Furthermore, by examining ticks as part of the discourse about larger environmental changes, we aim at participating in the humanistic research on the Anthropocene. In the end, we hope to provide intellectual groundings also for the wider public to understand how the ongoing environmental crisis affects ecological networks and changes in the human relation to nature.

The project is funded by the Academy of Finland 2020-2024”

A Girl Can Do: Recognizing and Representing Girlhood (2022)

A girl can do: recognizing and representing girlhood is a new  anthology about girlhood inspired by the “Remembering American Girlhood” panel held virtually during the National Council on Public History’s annual meeting in 2020. Among other chapters it also contains a chapter from Swedish ethnologist Åsa Ljungström about a girl being brought up in Småland in 1890.

The book can be found here.

Summary from Vernon Press website:

”How do scholars research and interpret marginalized populations, especially those that are seldom recognized as marginalized or whose sources are believed to be rare?

Combining intersectional feminism and public history methodologies, ‘A Girl Can Do: Recognizing and Representing Girlhood’ reflects on how girlhood is found, researched, and interpreted in museums, archives, and historic sites. Defining “girl” as “self-identifying females under the age of 21,” ‘A Girl Can Do’ lays the groundwork for understanding girlhood, its constructs, and its marginalization while providing faculty, students, and working professionals with ten case studies on researching and working with girlhood.

Contributors include archaeologists, archivists, curators, educators, and historians who demonstrate how adding a girl studies lens fosters greater inclusivity and diversity in our work. Whether studying spatial techniques of marginalization in colonial Peru, the daybooks as records of girlhood in late-nineteenth century Sweden, or collaborating with self-identifying fangirls to produce a pop-up exhibition, the contributors demonstrate the variety of sources and methods that can be used to interpret this oft-overlooked population. Throughout, ‘A Girl Can Do’ petitions for collaborative and creative thinking in how we can reframe and reinterpret our sources – both traditional and overlooked – to shed new light on how girls have contributed to, and provide frames of reference for, human history and culture. ”

A Girl Can Do: Recognizing and Representing Girlhood, (ed.) Tiffany R. Isselhardt, Girl Museum, Kentucky, 2022: Vernon Press.

Seminarium: Nils Månsson Mandelgren och kampen för kulturens framtid

Ett seminarium arrangerat av Folklivsarkivet i Lund och Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper vid Lunds universitet med stöd av Kungl. Gustaf Adolfs Akademien för svensk folkkultur och Stiftelsen Ebba och Sigfrid Svenssons fond för folklivsforskning

Seminariets första syfte är att diskutera Nils Månsson Mandelgrens roll för kulturarvet i ett samhällsperspektiv och med hjälp av ett socialhistoriskt ramverk. Hur lyckades Mandelgren som enskild individ manövrera sig fram i ståndssamhället? Hur kunde han under decennier röra sig i olika samhällsskikt i syfte att skaffa resurser och redskap för att bevara och dokumentera kulturfenomen av de mest skilda slag? Hur uppfattades Mandelgren av de ofta högt uppsatta personer som han sökte stöd hos? Varför hamnade han i konflikt med riksantikvarien och andra i kulturvärlden och akademikretsarna? Hur lyckades han kringgå hinder, motstånd och avslag för att till sist få stöd av den franske kejsaren?

Seminariets andra syfte är att diskutera vad Mandelgren faktiskt uppnådde i sitt arbete för utvecklingen av museiväsendet, det fält som idag benämns kulturvård eller kulturminnesvård, samt hantverksutbildningarna efter skråväsendets upphörande. Hittills har forskningen om Mandelgrens livsverk främst haft fokus på hans dokumentation av äldre kulturyttringar, men hans stridbarhet och oräddhet i att utmana etablissemanget hade sikte på hur samtidens och framtidens kulturinstitutioner borde utformas och organiseras.

Seminariet är öppet för forskare och intressenter från exempelvis etnologi, historia, socialhistoria, kyrkohistoria, arkeologi, konstvetenskap och museologi. Seminariet är tänkt att samla forskare från svenska universitet, men är även öppet för nordiska kulturhistoriker med inriktning på 1800-talet.

Tidpunkt: 16 mars 2023 kl. 9-17
Plats: Folklivsarkivet, Arkivcentrum Syd, Porfyrvägen 20, Lund (busslinje 5)
Kostnader: Ingen anmälningsavgift. Kostnader för måltider tillkommer.
Anmälan senast 16 februari 2023 till: andreas.alm(@)folklivsarkivet.lu.se
Kontakt: solfrid.soderlind(@)kultur.lu.se, karin.gustavsson(@)folklivsarkivet.lu.se

Ett preliminärt program kan läsas här.

”Europe Uncertain”: Invitation for submissions for a Roundtable at the upcoming SIEF conference in Brno 2023

’Europe Uncertain’. Marie Sandberg and Alexandra Schwell are organising this roundtable at the upcoming SIEF conference in Brno, 7.-10.th of June 2023: Submissions welcome!

This roundtable invites contributions to the study of Europe and Europeanisation, asking: what does ’the European’ entail in European ethnology, and how can we approach Europe as an uncertain, unstable, and fragile construct that raises questions about its analytical potential and usefulness?

Deadline January 10, 2023.

 

https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/sief2023/p/12757

Nordisk museologi Vol. 33 No. 1 (2022)

Nordisk museologi har utkommit med volym 33, nummer 1 (2022). Hela volymen kan läsas här.

Artiklar:

Disaster, traces of displacement, and mizuaoi seeds. Conversations surrounding A Future for Memory: Art and Life After the Great Japan Earthquake
Rossella Ragazzi

Udstillingsdrevet indsamling af møbler på Trapholt. Gevinst, konsekvens og muligheder Rosita Satell

Communities of Practice within the hybrid cultural institution. Developing new professional identities through LAM convergence
Kamma Overgaard Hansen & Lærke Maria Andersen Funder

Can you relate to a dance from the past? Why teenagers love to dance in museums
Tone Erlien Myrvold

Projektbeskrivningar:
Hva er klima og klimaendringer? Metode for å undersøke ungdoms forståelse av og forhold til begrepene
Anne Birkelandan
Anmälningar:
Nationalmuseum som konsekrerande institution 1890–1920 (2021). Licentiatavhandling av Robert Thavenius
Mattias Bäckström