Årsarkiv: 2025

PhD Course: Introduction to Feminist Theory, Stockholm University

Doktorandkurser

New PhD Course from The Gender Academy at Stockholm University in Spring 2026: Introduction to Feminist Theory (7,5 credits)

The course offers doctoral students from disciplines where gender perspectives are not commonly applied an opportunity to engage with feminist theory and its wide-ranging importance. Through in-depth exploration of feminist epistemology, decolonial theory, intersectionality, and queer theory, the course traces the historical development and contemporary strands of feminist intellectual traditions.

Course period: March/April 2026

Video recordings of keynote lectures from 14th International Conference of Young Folklorists

Föreläsningar, Streamat

The video recordings of the keynote lectures from the 14th International Conference of Young Folklorists are now available on the UTTV video server. If you missed the lectures or would like to revisit them, check out the links below!

Prof. Dorothy Noyes (The Ohio State University) ”The Vernacular Ground and the Field of Folklore”

Prof. Mariya Lesiv ”Folklore of Anger in the Precarity of War: Humble Theory and the Unhumble Vernacular”

Seminarium 11-12 november 2025: Kos eller kritikk?

Seminarium

Har musea lukkast som aktør og arena for vanskelege tema?

Velkomen til avslutningsseminar for samfunnsrolleaktørprosjektet «Eit skigardsdele». I fire år har Musea i Innlandet sett hyttebygging og utmarksforvalting under lupa. På fjellet og i utmarka er kampen om ressursane stor – og motsettingane mange.

Med «Eit skigardsdele» har musea opna nye rom og løfta krevjande tematikkar. På seminaret spør vi – Kva no for kritikk og samfunnsrolle på museum? Har dei lukkast som aktør og arena for dei vanskelege temaa? Fryktar musea dei kritiske perspektiva, eller trivst dei best med kosen? Målgruppe for seminaret er alle med interesse for museum, samfunn, kritikk og relevans.

På seminaret får du høyre mellom anna: Christin Kristoffersen, Knut Aastad Bråten, Ingrid Røynesdal, Sanna Sarromaa, Åshild Andrea Brekke, Stein Sægrov, Magne Velure, Heidi Anett Øvergård Beistad, Knut Rio, Tom Bratrud, Inga-Lill Sundset og mange fleire.

STAD: Valdres Folkemuseum på Fagernes
TID: Tysdag 11. november kl. 19-22 og onsdag 12. november 2025 kl. 9-16
MÅLGRUPPE: Tilsette på museum
PRIS: Kr. 1000 (inkl. fingermat tysdag og lønsj onsdag)
PÅMELDINGSFRIST: Måndag 3. november, Billetter
ARRANGØR: Musea i Innlandet og Samtidsnett
OVERNATTING: Scandic Valdres, tlf. 61 35 80 00, eller Fagernes Camping, tlf. 61 36 05 10

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11th Folklore Fellows’ Summer School: Interdisciplinarity and Involvement: Enduring and Emerging Sites of the Vernacular

Event, Summer Schools

Helsinki and Tvärminne, Finland, 17th–21st August 2026

Folklorists develop specialized skills and repertoires of methods and theories for investigating the circulation and operation of forms of vernacular culture among groups and networks, including narrative, local knowledge, verbal art, embodied practices, as well as heritage and memory work, while critically examining the ideological underpinnings shaping these processes.

This specialization forms a backbone of disciplinary identity. However, this identity is also fundamentally interdisciplinary, requiring individual folklorists to develop specialist knowledge in the area studies and disciplines connected to their particular focus, interests and research materials.

Interests in vernacular knowledge and perspectives are booming, making folklorists’ skills a valuable commodity. Interdisciplinary research and collaboration are in increasing demand both within academia and in engagements with the public sector. The movement of methods and theories across different disciplines has become increasingly common, yet adapting methods and ideas is not the same as gaining specialist perspectives.

The 2026 Folklore Fellows’ Summer School (FFSS) focuses on what folklorists can bring to interdisciplinary collaborations and the roles folklorists can fill in today’s rapidly changing societies. Rather than focusing on the role of interdisciplinarity in one’s own research, this FFSS will help young folklorists develop perspectives on the value and potential of folklorists to contribute to research, debate and societal engagement beyond our field.

What to Expect?

This week-long event gathers young folklorists with a team of instructors with extensive experience in different domains of interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral work. The FFSS brings into focus the value and potential of folklore research, highlighting that interdisciplinarity is, by definition, dependent on specialist disciplinary knowledge and skill sets. Such specialization provides foundations for a researcher’s identity as they engage with and extend their specialization into other fields.

As multidisciplinary collaborations become increasingly commonplace in the humanities, this FFSS will introduce young scholars to the potentials and pitfalls of such collaborations, while also equipping them to present their potential, as folklorists, for collaborations when applying for grants and positions in academic, public or private sectors.

Keynote speakers:

  • Guy Beiner
  • Diane Goldstein
  • Tim Frandy
  • Frog
  • Tina Paphitis
  • Ülo Valk

The 2026 FFSS will begin in Helsinki on August 17th and move that evening to a facility in Tvärminne, Finland, where room and board are provided for the duration of the event, returning to Helsinki on the evening of August 21st.

How to Apply?

The size of the event is quite limited. For participation, we invite proposals for working papers on themes of interdisciplinarity and involvement in folklore research, from its potential, prospects, and pitfalls to its implementations in practice. Papers may have an empirical, methodological, or theoretical emphasis. To propose a paper, kindly submit your name, affiliation, contact information, and a short motivational statement about how participation is relevant for you and a biographical note, along with a title and abstract at: https://elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/135786/lomake.html .

A copy of your paper will be required in advance for circulation within the group.

Important dates:

  • Deadline for submissions: 31 October 2025
  • Notification of decisions; 15 November 2025
  • Registration: 15 December 2025
  • Participation fees due: 1 May 2026
  • Working papers due: 15 June 2026

More detailed instructions will be provided with acceptance notifications.

Please note that the FFSS is not a conference. Consequently, the participation fee is not simply for site costs and coffee for one or two days. Although we are attempting to keep costs as low as possible, the fee will include participants’ travel between Helsinki and Tvärminne and accommodation for all nights at Tvärminne with breakfast, lunch and dinner. Foreign participants will therefore only be responsible for their own accommodation for the night before the event in Helsinki (16th August) and the night after the return to Helsinki (21st August).

Contact Information

Any questions may be addressed to: ffsummerschool2026@gmail.com .

Current information on the event will also be available at
>> Folklore Fellows’ Summer School 2026

CFA: Inbjudan till antologi om tillitspraktiker i vardagen

Calls for abstracts,

Tillitspraktiker, såsom att lämna ytterdörren olåst, låta grannen ta hand om post, blommor och husdjur, eller lämna sina tillhörigheter obevakade i sovsalen, på tåget och kaféet, har sedan länge varit en självklar del av nordisk vardagskultur. Vi litar på varandra och varandras goda avsikter, samt har en stark tradition av att lita på samhällsinstitutioner och välfärdssystem.

I och med de senaste årens ökade digitalisering, AI och deep fake, eskalerande gängvåld och bedrägerier, säkerhetspolitisk och social oro, krig och konflikter samt ekonomisk kris, är villkoren för tillit mellan människor samt mellan samhälle och individ i förändring. Delar av samhällskontraktet tycks krackelera – också i de nordiska länderna.

Trots detta fortsätter vi att utöva ett slags mikrotillit i olika sammanhang, både mellan enskilda personer och i relationen samhälle–individ. Exempelvis handlar vi begagnade saker på nätet, och varor och pengar byter ägare i en tillitsprocess med fördröjning, och från myndigheternas håll förväntas vi bidra till samhällets beredskap för kris och krig – inte minst genom att skapa och upprätthålla tillitsfulla relationer med våra grannar.
Syftet med denna antologi är att ur ett etnologiskt perspektiv och genom olika empiriska exempel från den nordiska kontexten, både i samtiden och kulturhistoriskt, utforska vardagens tillitspraktiker på mikronivå.

Redaktör för antologin är Karin S. Lindelöf, etnolog vid Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaper, Umeå universitet. Tillsammans med Annie Woube arrangerade hon en första workshop på temat tillit vid Nordiska etnolog- och folkloristkongressen i Reykjavik 2022 samt en uppföljande session i Åbo 2025. Nu inbjuds både de medverkande vid dessa tillfällen, samt övriga intresserade etnologer och folklorister att utforska vardagliga tillitspraktiker på mikronivå i en gemensam antologi.

Bidragsförslag i form av korta abstracts om ca 200 ord på svenska, danska, norska eller engelska, välkomnas senast 1 november 2025 via e-post: karin.s.lindelof(at)umu.se

Inbjudan som pdf

Striden om genus. Politik, vetenskap & social kamp (2025)

Antologier, Publikationer,

Redigerad av:  Annika Berg, Åsa Eriksson, Lena Gemzöe, Stina Malmén

I Striden om genus – Politik, vetenskap & social kamp uppmärksammas genusmotstånd i en vid betydelse. Forskare från en rad olika veten­skapliga discipliner lyfter fram historiska och samtida perspektiv på motstånd mot genusforskning, genuspedagogik och andra genus­relaterade frågor och företeelser. Detta slags motstånd har blivit alltmer iögonfallande i en tid när begrepp som »genusideologi« används av auktoritära politiska ledare och transnationella rörelser som söker begränsa kvinnors och hbtq-personers rättigheter, exempelvis genom inskränkningar i aborträtten eller förbud mot att verka för mångfald och inkludering. Men högljudda protester mot »genusideologi« hörs även från andra håll, också i länder som Sverige där det finns en bred uppslutning för jämställdhetsarbete.

Striden om genus synliggör aktuell forskning om antigenuspolitik och bidrar också med nya infallsvinklar, empiri och analyser. Här förklaras fenomenet och placeras i ett större sammanhang, med exempel hämtade från flera olika länder och politiska kontexter.

Medverkande: Annika Berg · Moa Bladini · Emil Edenborg · Åsa Eriksson · Hillevi Ganetz · Lena Gemzöe · Lucas Gottzén · Yulia Gradskova · Jenny Gunnarsson Payne · Karin Hansson · Helena Hill · Thaïs Machado-Borges · Stina Malmén · Ulla Manns · Lena Martinsson · Diana Mulinari · Malin Sveningsson · Eva-Maria Svensson · Helena Tolvhed · Soheyla Yazdanpanah

Boken är utgiven på Appell förlag

CFA. Arv: Metamorphosis – studies in changing relations between people and supernatural beings

Calls for abstracts

Write about supernatural beings for the journal Arv!

Call for abstracts:
METAMORPHOSIS – STUDIES IN CHANGING RELATIONS BETWEEN PEOPLE AND SUPERNATURAL BEINGS

To a special issue of the journal Arv – Yearbook of Nordic Folklore, we invite articles that study changes in the interaction patterns between human beings and beings that are more than human.

Supernatural beings come in many sizes and shapes, from the largest dragon to the tiniest gnome. As variable are their attitudes, inclinations and habits, and their relations with the human world, ranging from indifferent, to beneficial, to deeply malevolent. What is more, this gamut of variability, including shapes, inclinations and human relations, is subject to historical changes.

While the concept of metamorphosis is applicable to many aspects of monster studies, for instance to how supernatural beings may have the power to alter their appearances, or to how their origin stories may contain mythical alterations, or to how they can disturb and change the fate of a person who happens to cross their path, the title for this publication marks the specific intention to orchestrate analytical close encounters with significant changes in the human/monster interaction patterns, when you for instance can see that people start describing supernatural beings in different genres, sorting them in different categories, experiencing different kinds of encounters with them, or placing their images in different locations and on different objects.

We want articles that use a range of research strategies for describing, exploring and interpreting these kinds of changes and leave you at liberty to apply the theoretical and methodical approaches that you prefer. This whish for methodical and analytical plurality is motivated by how the supernatural beings themselves are multi-faceted and moldable, and on the assumption that no single approach can hold them.

Abstract deadline: December 15th, 2025. Abstracts (250–500 words) should include: working title, description of source materials and main analytical objectives.

Send to: audun.kjus(at)norskfolkemuseum.no
Timeframe: Abstract deadline December 15th, 2025. Editorial replies by January 15th, 2026. Article deadline September 15th, 2026. Publication in 2027.

We look forward to reading your abstract!
Audun Kjus, Ida Tolgensbakk, Jakob Löfgren and John Moe
(guest editors)

Spritmuseums stipendium för forskning kring svensk alkoholkultur

Stipendium, Utlysningar

Spritmuseum i Stockholm drivs av Stiftelsen Vin & Sprithistoriska Museet. Stiftelsen utlyser årligen stipendier för att främja vetenskaplig forskning rörande bruk och vanor inom svensk alkoholkultur.

Forskningen skall bedrivas inom svensk alkoholkultur med inriktning på traditioner, attityder och dryckesmönster. Även forskning inom exempelvis media, teknik- och tillverkningshistoria samt ekonomi och politik kan komma ifråga.

Stipendiet delades ut för första gången 1998 och vänder sig till studenter, doktorander och disputerade. Den sammanlagda stipendiesumman uppgår till totalt 250 000 kr.

Sista ansökningsdag 1 oktober 2025

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Thesis defence: Anna Marlene Karlsson. ”The Future is a Foreign Country : The Presence of the Future in Contemporary Norwegian Cultural Heritage Policies and Practices”

Disputationer, Doktorsavhandlingar, Publikationer

Hvilken rolle spiller fremtiden i norsk kulturminnesektor?

Anna Marlene Karlsson disputerer 12.9.2025 for ph.d.-graden ved Universitetet i Bergen med avhandlingen «The Future is a Foreign Country: The Presence of the Future in Contemporary Norwegian Cultural Heritage Policies and Practices».

Tid: 12.9.2025 – 09.30–13.00

Sted: Digitalt (Zoom Webinar)

Avhandlingen er tilgjengelig i BORA.

Denne avhandlingen utforsker fremtidens rolle i den norske kulturminnesektoren. Selv om bevaring av kulturminner ofte fremstilles gjennom et generasjonsperspektiv – som en plikt overfor både tidligere og fremtidige generasjoner – finnes det lite kunnskap om hvordan ulike måter å tenke om fremtiden på påvirker kulturminnepolitikk og -praksiser.

Målet med avhandlingen er å undersøke hvilke verdier, antakelser og fortellinger som ligger til grunn for fremtidsrettet tenkning i den norske kulturminnesektoren. Ved å benytte diskursteori og logikperspektiv som inngang, gjennomfører avhandlingen en omfattende analyse av nasjonale stortingsmeldinger fra Klima- og miljødepartementet, strategidokumenter og rapporter fra Riksantikvaren, samt en kvalitativ spørreundersøkelse blant medlemmer av lokalhistorielag.

Studien identifiserer hvordan fremtidstenkning påvirker kulturminnesektoren, men også hvordan dagens forståelse av kulturminners funksjon og verdi former hvilke handlinger som anses som mulige. Den viser hvordan forestillinger om kontinuitet, ansvar, usikkerhet og endring strukturerer og påvirker bevaringspolitikk og strategier. Avhandlingen observerer at selv om fremtiden ofte implisitt påkalles for å legitimere bevaringspraksiser, finnes det mulige konflikter mellom langsiktige mål og kortsiktige politiske hensyn. En manglende anerkjennelse av dette kan begrense sektorens evne til å møte utfordringer knyttet til klimaendringer, samfunnsmessig transformasjon og fremtidig usikkerhet på en fleksibel og konstruktiv måte.

En sammenligning med perspektiv fra de frivillige viser en større vektlegging av personlige og lokale aspekter ved bevaring og forvaltning av kulturminner, samtidig som mange av de samme logikkene og antakelsene om kulturminner deles med den offentlige forvaltningen.

Avhandlingen bidrar til debatten om de etiske og politiske sidene ved fremtidsrettet bevaring og forvaltning av kulturminner i møte med samtidige utfordringer. Den etterlyser en mer eksplisitt, reflektert og pluralistisk fremtidstenkning i kulturminnepolitikk og -praksis, som avhandlingen viser ofte hindres av rådende forestillinger om kulturminner som et uttrykk for sammenheng, stabilitet og kontinuitet.

Abstract in English: 

This thesis explores the role of the future in the Norwegian heritage sector. While cultural heritage preservation is often framed through an intergenerational perspective – as a duty towards both past and future generations – there is a lack of knowledge about the impact different ways of thinking about the future have on cultural heritage policies and practices.

The objective of this thesis is to explore the values, assumptions, and narratives that underpin future-oriented thinking in the Norwegian heritage sector. Using a discourse perspective and the method of logics of critical explanation, the thesis conducts a comprehensive analysis of national white papers from the Ministry of Climate and Environment, strategy documents and reports from the Directorate for Cultural Heritage, as well as a qualitative survey among members of local historical organisations.

The study identifies how future thinking impacts the heritage sector, but also how current understandings of the functions and values of cultural heritage informs what actions are perceived as possible. It demonstrates how notions of continuity, responsibility, uncertainty, and change structure and influence preservation policies and strategies. The thesis observes that while the future is often implicitly invoked to legitimise preservation practices, there are potential conflicts between long-term goals and short-term policy aims. A failure to recognise this can limit the ability of the sector to respond to the challenges of climate change, social transformation, and future uncertainty in a flexible and productive way. A comparison with volunteer perspectives reveals a larger focus on personal and local aspects of heritage preservation and management, while at the same time sharing some of the underpinning logics and assumptions about cultural heritage with the official heritage management.

The thesis contributes to important debates about the ethical and political aspects of future-directed heritage preservation and management in facing current challenges. It calls for more explicit, reflective, and pluralistic future thinking within the heritage sector, which the thesis demonstrates is often hindered by prevailing notions of cultural heritage as representing coherence, stability, and continuity.