Årsarkiv: 2025

Humlab Talk: Humour scandals and humour literacy in the digital world

Humlab Talk: Humour scandals and humour literacy in the digital world
4 September, 2025
at 13:15 – 14:45 (UTC+2/CEST)

Humour is one of the universal phenomena in culture that flourishes also in the digital space. Memes follow scandals and scandals follow memes. In this talk, I will give examples of politically incorrect humor (trigger warning!) and discuss them in the light of the contemporary context of cancel culture. The diverse reactions to humour are exceedingly discussed in social media, making this the forum where ideas about humour are formulated and challenged. It is clear that humor cannot be muzzled, because it is like a dragon from fairy tales: the more heads you chop off, the more grow in its place. I will introduce the idea of humour literacy and give an overview of the first results of an ongoing EU project HUMLIT

Liisi Laineste is a Researcher Professor at the Department of Folkloristics of the Estonian Literary Museum, where she leads the working group of humour research. Her main research object is folk humor and its online manifestations. She has published articles and edited books and journal issues on ethnic humour, internet folklore and online communication, many of which represent an interdisciplinary angle and combine folkloristics with linguistics, psychology, sociology or communication studies. She has a standing interest in digital humanities.

This is a hybrid event with the possibility to participate on-site or online.

If you want to participate through Zoom, you will need to register.

Elore etsii ehdotuksia numeron 2/2026 tai 1/2027 teemaksi

Elore on kaksi kertaa vuodessa ilmestyvä folkloristiikan ja lähialojen verkkolehti (JUFO 2), jota julkaisee Suomen Kansantietouden Tutkijain Seura ry. Eloren julkaisukielet ovat suomi ja ruotsi. Artikkelien toimittamisessa käytetään asiantuntija-arvioijia. Vuoden 2026 toinen numero ilmestyy joulukuussa, ja vuoden 2027 ensimmäinen numero ilmestyy kesäkuussa.  

Teemanumero kokoaa yhteen valittua aihetta käsitteleviä vertaisarvioituja artikkeleja (vähintään kolme, pituus 6000–8000 sanaa), ja sisältää myös teemanumeron toimittajien kirjoittaman saatteen. Teemanumeroon voi sisältyä myös katsausartikkeleja, hanke-esittelyjä tms. Teemanumeron kirjoittajien valinta voidaan toteuttaa joko avoimena kirjoituskutsuna tai kutsumalla kirjoittajiksi aihealueen asiantuntijoita. Teemanumero toimitetaan yhteistyössä lehden päätoimittajien kanssa. Päätoimittajat vastaavat referee-menettelyyn tarjottujen artikkelien arviointiprosessista (etsivät arvioijat ja hoitavat yhteydenpidon kirjoittajiin prosessin aikana) sekä kirjoittavat pääkirjoituksen.

Teemanumeron toimittajat vastaavat

  • kirjoittajakutsun lähettämisestä tarvittaessa
  • arviointiin lähetettävien käsikirjoitusten valinnasta ja toimittamisesta
  • ei-referee artikkelien kommentoinnista ja arvioinnista
  • teemanumeron johdannon laatimisesta

Numerossa voidaan julkaista myös teeman ulkopuolisia artikkeleja ja katsauksia, joiden toimituksesta vastaa Eloren artikkelitoimitus.

Lähetä ehdotuksesi teemanumerosta Eloren päätoimittajille viimeistään 30.9.2025.     Teemanumeroesityksestä tulisi käydä ilmi seuraavat tiedot:

  • teemanumeron otsikko
  • teemanumeron toimittajien nimet, organisaatiot ja yhteystiedot
  • kuvaus ehdotetusta teemasta ja sen ajankohtaisuudesta
  • lista mahdollisista teemanumeroon tulevista artikkeleista (jos jo tiedossa)

Päätoimittajat tekevät päätöksen teemanumerosta lokakuussa 2025 toimituskuntaa kuultuaan. Teemanumeron aikataulusta sovitaan tarkemmin toimittajien kanssa, mutta artikkelikäsikirjoitusten tulisi olla valmiita arviointikierrokselle viimeistään elokuun 2026 puolivälissä (mikäli teemanumero 2/2026) tai tammikuun 2027 puolivälissä (mikäli teemanumero 1/2027).

Stiftelsernas post doc-pool höstansökan 15.8-15.9

I augusti–september kan nydisputerade forskare som åker utomlands från Finland ansöka om ett stipendium från Stiftelsernas post doc-pool för en utlandsvistelse för åtminstone ett läsår – med alla kostnader inkluderade. Av en motiverad orsak kan också kortare vistelser på minst 6 månader stödas och kompletterande finansiering beviljas.

Stiftelsernas post doc -pool är en stipendiereserv som grundats av medlemsstiftelser av Stiftelser och fonder rf. Den är avsedd för doktorer vill arbeta utomlands. Poolen syftar till att främja internationaliseringen av den finländska forskningen genom att erbjuda unga forskare heltäckande finansiering från en och samma källa för en forskningsperiod utomlands på 6–24 månader. Ansökan till Stiftelsernas post doc-pool ordnas två gånger om året: våransökan 1.1–31.1 och höstansökan 15.8–15.9.

Ansökan om post doc-poolens stipendier är öppen 15.8–15.9.2025. Läs mer och sänd in din ansökan på post doc-poolens webbplats.

Birgit Rausing Professor of Medical Humanities, with focus on empathy and compassion in a clinical context

Lund University is announcing a position as full professor, to focus primarily on research, but also on education in the field of medical humanities. The professor will be employed by the Department of Experimental Medical Science, Faculty of Medicine, Lund University. The position is linked to Birgit Rausing Centre for Medical Humanities. We welcome applicants from a wide range of academic backgrounds. Given the interdisciplinary profile of the position, applicants will be assessed by representatives from a number of academic disciplines. The position includes a start-up package of SEK 1 million per year for the first three years.

Read more here

Last day to apply: 31 October 2025

 

Postdoctoral position in international migration studies at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen

The Saxo Institute, Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen (UCPH), invites applications for a postdoctoral position in international migration studies from 1 January 2026.

The position is a fixed-term position for 24 months.

The postdoc will be based at the Institute’s interdisciplinary Centre for Advanced Migration Studies (AMIS). We seek a strong candidate with a dynamic profile in the broad, international field of migration studies, who can document an impressive track record of humanities and/or social science research on questions relating to the topics described in the REGENDERING research project below.

The postdoctoral position is part of the research project REGENDERING, financed by the Independent Research Fund Denmark, studying the changes in gender norms and practices among Ukrainian women displaced without male kin in Denmark after the Russian 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

Investigating the growing phenomenon of “feminized displacement” (women fleeing without men) to the EU, this project focuses on gender by following Ukrainian women’s re-settlement in Denmark, studying how they re-establish everyday structures, create possibilities, and orient themselves toward the future through relations with kin (family and acquaintances) and through encountering Danish institutions locally and Ukrainian institutions transnationally. The project aims to develop a novel analytical framework to understand processes of “re-gendering,” combining concepts on the re-making of life after war, relatedness with kin, institutions and the state, and intersectionality.

The postdoc project focuses on women displaced with children and applies qualitative, visual and ethnographic methods in studying their everyday life, local and transnational relations and encounters with the Danish welfare state (Work-package 2).

In two other sub-studies of the larger research project, the focus is on gender norms and practices among Ukrainian women displaced without children and welfare state actors, working with displaced Ukrainian women.

Read more here

Last day to apply:  7 September 2025

Glad sommar! Happy summer!

Den nordiska portalen börjar så småningom gå i sommartempo. Detta innebär att inlägg publiceras med lite längre intervall och i ett långsammare tempo. Det går fortfarande att skicka epost till etnofolk@abo.fi under hela sommaren, men svaret kan dröja lite längre än vanligt. I augusti är vi tillbaka som normalt.

Vi på Etnologi och folkloristik i Norden önskar er alla en riktigt glad sommar!

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The Nordic portal is slowly transferring to a summer pace. Because of vacation time, there will be less updates on this page than normally. You can still send in your suggestions and information to the email etnofolk@abo.fi, but responses will be slower than usual. We will be back to normal in August.

We at Ethnology and Folkloristics in the Nordic countries wish you all a very happy summer!

Elore Vol 32 No 1

Eloren kevään 2025 numero on vapaateemainen ja sisältää neljä tutkimusartikkelia. Artikkelien aiheet ulottuvat ihmistieteellisestä eläintutkimuksesta arkiston herättämiin affekteihin, pelejä koskevaan muistitietoon ja Elias Lönnrotin tekstualisaatiostrategioihin. Anna Helle analysoi ihmisen ja muunlajisten suhdetta evakkoteemaisessa sarjakuvassa ja romaanissa. Siiri Savinotko esittelee arkistojen materiaalis-affektiivisia vaikutuksia käyttäjiinsä. Jaakko Suominen, Maria Garda ja Tytti Suominen luotaavat pelipostmortem-dokumentteja muistitietotutkimuksesta käsin. Venla Sykäri näyttää, kuinka Elias Lönnrot hyödynsi runolaulajien innovaatioita Kalevala-työssään. Artikkelitarjonnan täydentävät Tuire Liimataisen, Samira Saramon ja Pihla Siimin katsaus siirtolaisuusarkiston toiminnan laajentumisesta ja kirja-arviot sekä ajankohtaisosaston kaksi tekstiä.

The spring 2025 issue of Elore is open-themed and includes four research articles. The topics of the articles range from human-animal studies in the humanities to affects evoked by archives, memory-based knowledge about games, and Elias Lönnrot’s textualization strategies. Anna Helle analyzes the relationship between humans and other species in a comic and a novel with an evacuation theme. Siiri Savinotko presents the material-affective impacts of archives on their users. Jaakko Suominen, Maria Garda, and Tytti Suominen examine game postmortem documents from the perspective of oral history research. Venla Sykäri demonstrates how Elias Lönnrot utilized the innovations of rune singers in his Kalevala work. The selection of articles is complemented by a review by Tuire Liimatainen, Samira Saramo, and Pihla Siim on the expansion of the Migration Archive’s activities, along with book reviews and two texts in the current affairs section.

PhD Course, Stockholm University: Feminist Posthumanism and New Materialism, 7,5 credits

PhD course organized by the Gender Academy at Stockholm University: Feminist Posthumanism and New Materialism, 7,5 credits

Feminist Posthumanism and New Materialism are fields within the humanities and the social sciences that are becoming increasingly important for understanding the antropocentric world, its more-than-human relationships, and rethinking of bodies, arts and social meaning.

This course provides an introduction to the field of feminist posthumanism and new materialism, with a deeper exploration of its epistemological, ethical, and relational ontological approaches within a feminist theoretical context. The course highlights both points of divergence and interdisciplinary considerations within the field.

Throughout the course, discussions focus on posthumanism’s critical perspective on the anthropocentric and binary traditions of Western knowledge, its constructions of time and subjectivity, and the intra-actions between ecology, subjectivity, and ethics. Furthermore, the course examines new materialism’s reclamation of the materiality of the body, its integrated concept of nature, as well as interpretations of art and the digital in relation to social processes.

Last day to apply is 22 September 2025

Read more about the course here

SLS poddkurs Vetskap Essä

SLS erbjuder en möjlighet för forskare som vill nå ut till en bredare allmänhet genom satsningen Vetskap Essä. Under hösten 2025 arrangerar vi en kurs med både workshoppar och individuell handledning.

Workshopparna hålls i Helsingfors under tre hela arbetsdagar på SLS, Snellmansgatan 13. Kursspråket är svenska. Målet är att du spelar in en egen essä i studio under december – januari 2025. Ditt avsnitt publiceras senare i vår nya poddserie Vetskap Essä. Kurslärare är Jan Nåls, manusförfattare, forskare och överlärare i film och media vid yrkeshögskolan Arcada, där han undervisar i manus och regi.

Läs mer här

Ansökningstiden går ut 8.8.2025

Call for panels: ISFNR 2026 Nature(s) in Narrative

Nature(s) in Narrative

The ISFNR Interim conference in 2026 will be held in Reykjavík Iceland, June 13th to 16th.

The conference will take place at the main campus of the University of Iceland, a walking distance from the vibrant city centre of Reykjavík. With nearly 24 hours of daylight, and plenty of geothermal pools to soak in, it’s the perfect place to recharge on all levels.

The conference is hosted by the department of Folkloristics at the University of Iceland, the Icelandic Association of Ethnology and Folklore and The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies.

This will be a hybrid event, so delegates will be able to participate either virtually or in person.

Deadline for panel proposals is June 20,  2025

Read more here

Conference Theme

The conference engages broadly with the theme of nature(s) in narrative. We ask how narrative is entangled with nature in its various forms, situated in the micro and macro, the rural and urban, ranging from essentialist notions of the natural, the supernatural to non-binary assemblages of nature-culture. Subjects for discussion might include the following:

How do notions of nature relate to narrations of identity, heritage, the national and personal, the physical and the spiritual?
What comprehensions of “the natural” can be gleaned from storytelling, in its various cultural and social contexts, and in folk narrative research itself?
How has our narrative vocabulary and academic terminology borrowed from and conversed with the discourses of nature?
Does folk narrative entail a commons of sorts?
How do environment and disparate nature-cultural assemblages shape narrative, characters, flow, style and storytelling events?
How are human and non-human entanglements expressed, sensed, performed and reimagined in storytelling events?
How do narrators delineate “selves” from “the other” in the living world; the natural from the “unnatural” or supernatural; the mundane from the enchanted?
How are our conceptions of nature shaped and challenged by unusual “natural events” and climate crises, or urbanisation, technology, information disorder (fake news) and artificial intelligence?
What are the “natures” of archives and how are they shaped by narratives?
Do natures in narrative reveal aspects of the “natures” of narrative, its forms, functions and practice?