Årsarkiv: 2026

Ethnologia Fennica: Call for book reviews and conference reports

Call for book reviews and conference reports

Call for book reviews and conference reports

Ethnologia Fennica invites book reviews and conference reports from scholars working in ethnology and related fields. We publish reviews and reports in English and ask authors to keep their texts to a maximum of 1,500 words. We maintain a list of suggested books below. We also welcome suggestions from contributors.

How to propose a review or report:

Please contact the subeditors Katariina Murtolahti (katariina.m.murtolahti(at)utu.fi) and Alicja Staniszewska (staniaz(at)jyu.fi) by 30 June 2026. Tell us what you would like to review or report on, or send your questions.

Deadline: Please submit completed book reviews by 31 August 2026.

Submission process: Please submit your manuscript through the journal website: https://journal.fi/ethnolfenn/about/submissions. You can also find the style and submission guidelines there.

Publication: Accepted texts will be published at the earliest in Issue 2/2026.

List of suggested books:

Ainiala, Terhi, Silja Laine, Päivi Leinonen, Pia Olsson, and Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, eds. 2025. Tekojen kaupunki. Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seuran toimituksia 1502. Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura.

Alanko, Teija. 2025. Kultaköynnös ja unelma: huonekasvien historiaa. With SKS Kirjat. Kirjokansi 415. SKS Kirjat.

Hafstein, Valdimar Tr, and Jón Þór Pétursson. 2026. ‘Heirloom Cultures and Heritage Branding: The Creamy Case of Icelandic Skyr’. Elements in Critical Heritage Studies, ahead of print, February. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009530286.

Hämäläinen, Niina, Tarja Kupiainen, Riikka Taavetti, and Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, eds. 2024. Joustavat sukupuolet – muuntuvat merkitykset. Kalevalaseuran vuosikirja 103. Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura.

Karhu, Hanna. 2024. Tutkimuspolkuja Yksityisarkistoihin. Finnish Literature Society / SKS.

Karjula, Emilia, Jaana Kouri, and Tiina Mahlamäki. 2024. Luovaa kirjoittamista tutkijoille. With Vastapaino (kustantamo). Vastapaino.

Klemettinen, Pasi. 2025. Tietäjät, noidat, samaanit: kansanuskon maailmassa. With SKS Kirjat. Kirjokansi 413. SKS Kirjat.

Koivunen, Tuija, Eveliina Saari, Mervi Hasu, and Tampere University Press, eds. 2025. Työn arjen tarinat: työelämän etnografiaa. Tampere University Press.

Kortti, Jukka, Mari Viita-aho, Rami Mähkä, Aleksi Marti, and Gaudeamus oy, eds. 2024. Kertomuksia kansakunnasta: Suomi ja suomalaisuus muuttuvassa historiakulttuurissa. Gaudeamus.

Lähdesmäki, Tuuli, Satu Kähkönen, Rita Paqvalén, Johanna Turunen, Humanistis-yhteiskuntatieteellinen tiedekunta, and taiteen ja kulttuurin tutkimuksen laitos Musiikin. 2024. Kenen kulttuuriperintö? : tunteet, tilat, teot. Vastapaino. https://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/103310.

Latva, Otto. 2026. Yksisarvinen maailman myyteissä ja tarinoissa. With SKS Kirjat. Kirjokansi 429. SKS Kirjat.

Linkola-Aikio, Inker-Anni, Pigga Keskitalo, Rosa Ballardini, and Melanie Sarantou, eds. 2025. Digital Indigenous Cultural Heritage. R. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-76941-2.

Lönnqvist, Bo, Anna-Maria Åström, Susanne Österlund-Pötzsch, and Svenska litteratursällskapet i Finland, eds. 2024. Naturen och platserna. Vardagens föränderliga rum under 1900-talet 1. Svenska litteratursällskapet i Finland ; Appell Förlag.

Mäkelä, Heidi Henriikka, Outi Valo, and Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, eds. 2025. Aineeton kulttuuriperintö: käsite, käytäntö, politiikka. Tietolipas 296. Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura.

Markkanen, Airi. 2024. Culture of the Finnish Roma. Finnish Literature Society / SKS.

Norum, Roger, Veera Kinnunen, Niina Hämäläinen, and Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, eds. 2025. Käänteet ja kierrot: kulttuuriset ympäristömuutokset pohjoisessa. Kalevalaseuran vuosikirja 104. Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura.

Olsson, Pia;Ainiala, Terhi;Schulman, Helena;Mäkelä, Hilla, ed. 2026. Kokemustieto kaupunkikehittämisessä : Menetelmäopas. http://hdl.handle.net/10138/625754.

Sulkunen, Irma. 2025. Elias Lönnrot ja hänen pitkä varjonsa. With SKS Kirjat. Kirjokansi 397. SKS Kirjat.

Tim Burger, Usman Mahar, Pascale Schild, and Anna-Maria Walter. 2024. Multi-Sided Ethnographer: Living the Field Beyond Research. Transcript Verlag.

Ylijoki, Oili-Helena, Johanna Hokka, Elisa Kurtti, Pia Olsson, and Tiina Suopajärvi. 2024. Tiede ja tunteet: tutkimustyön arki ja arvot kilpailuyliopistossa. With Gaudeamus oy. Gaudeamus.

 

Seminar: Is the Polis a Fiction? Citizenship, sovereignty, borders

Event, Seminarium

Seminar: Is the Polis a Fiction? Citizenship, sovereignty, borders (prof. Mark Devenney)
Is the Polis a Fiction? Citizenship, sovereignty, borders
Thinking the political in dialogue with Jenny Erpenbeck’s Go, Went, Gone

Guest lecturer: Professor of Political Theory Mark Devenney, University of Brighton.
Chair: Professor of Ethnology Jenny Gunnarsson Payne, Södertörn University.

This workshop on the political fictions constitutive of Europe will be arranged at the Centre for Baltic and East European Studies. Professor of Political Theory Mark Devenney draws on his current work within the Horizon Europe project The Cartography of the Political Novel in Europe (CAPONEU), where he is rethinking the political. His most recent research focuses on the fictions that sustain our democratic imaginaries, and the ability of certain novels to tease and dissect even our most precious of political ideals.

For this lecture he will focus on the notions of sovereignty and citizenship, drawing on the recent novels of Jenny Erpenbeck. In particular he discusses the notion of the fictional certificate, the Fiktionsbescheinigung, used to register and control immigrants to Germany. The certificate is deemed fictional as opposed to real for a very specific reason – it maintains the refugee in an indeterminate legal space, a form of inclusive exclusion, in which they are subject to the law but not subjects of the law. This in-between state is necessary for a legal order that must draw its own limits – it cannot pretend the body that has arrived does not exist for fear it will be lost to the bureaucratic procedures that determine status and in all likelihood removal. By the same token the refugee cannot become a legal person with rights – because this would require recognition under the UN convention that obliges the German state to consider asylum. Erpenbeck’s novel Go, Went, Gone compels us to consider that the sovereign determination of citizenship is itself a fiction, a contingent imaginary that polices the distinction between fact and fiction. Drawing on Hobbes’ recognition that sovereignty is ‘artificial’ Devenney imagines a democratic politics beyond these fictions – without however invoking something more real that sits beneath the fictions. What this leaves us with is the centrality of fiction to the very thinking of politics.

Time: 2pm-4pm
Date: Monday 13 April
Place: F819, floor 8 in the F-building (”F-huset”) at Södertörn University

Everyone is welcome!

Please email jenny.gunnarsson.payne(at)sh.se to receive a link to sign up.

This workshop is co-arranged by the multi-disciplinary research platform Contested Democracy and the national research school Future of Democracy. It is funded by The Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities.

Mediehistoriskt arkiv Symposium 2026: Networks, Infrastructures, Systems, and Other Media Connectors. A Marcus Wallenberg Symposium

Event, Konferenser, Symposium

CONFERENCE
Start date: Thursday 15 October 2026
Time: 09:00
End date: Friday 16 October 2026
Time: 17:00
Location: Department of Culture and Aesthetics

Welcome to the third of the recurring symposia organised by the Swedish scholarly association Mediehistoriskt arkiv (Media History Archives). Previous events have been held at Uppsala University and Lund University. This year, the symposium is hosted by the Department of Culture and Aesthetics, Stockholm University.

Networks, infrastructures, systems, ecologies, and similar concepts have become central to media-historical studies. What these terms share is a function as media connectors. They link media across temporal, spatial, and disciplinary boundaries. Whether at a global or local scale or over longer or shorter time spans, research that engages with these concepts sheds light on how media operate within interconnected structures. Here, media should be understood in the widest possible sense, encompassing objects (such as photographic prints, books, or manuscripts), display devices (loudspeakers, projectors, digital screens), and storage media (film reels, vinyl records, cloud servers). It may also refer to elements within larger media systems, such as electronic signals, fibre-optic cables, and radio waves, or to media practices, including, for instance, the logistics of news agencies, the writing, sending and circulation of letters, or the collecting of digital and analogue photographs. Finally, it includes all the users, developers, artists, audiences, and distributors across different historical periods and cultural contexts.

By focusing on the broad and fundamental issue of media connectors, this symposium both wishes to reflect the diversity of media-historical research and to promote a methodological discussion that enables us to understand past and present media in new ways. We welcome contributions from scholars across disciplines who wish to engage with conceptual and empirical explorations of media connectors—their historical operations and effects as well as their epistemological implications. Possible points of inspiration include, but are not limited to:

  • Connections across borders, whether across different academic disciplines, national media landscapes, epistemic cultures, or political and cultural fields.
  • Relations between macro- and micro-levels, exploring how individual media elements function within larger infrastructural and systemic formations.
  • Temporal connections, considering old and new media interrelations, anachronisms, media parallelism, historical change, media persistence, and obsolescence.
  • The materiality of media infrastructures, including physical, technological, and logistical structures that enable media networks.
  • Alternative or counter-networks, exploring subversive, underground, or non-hegemonic media formations that challenge dominant infrastructures.
  • Relations between human and non-human agents in sustaining media infrastructures.
  • Aesthetics of media connectivity, considering how artistic forms reflect, critique, or experiment with media interconnections.
  • Meta-reflections on conceptual frameworks, analysing how networks, infrastructures, systems, and related concepts function as methodological tools and metaphors in media-historical research.

In addition, we welcome all other contributions of relevance to media-historical research.

Include the title of your paper, an abstract (max 250 words), and a short biographical note (max 100 words). The submission deadline is 1 April 2026. Notification of acceptance will be sent no later than 18 May 2026.

The symposium is free of charge and will be held in English.

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2 PhD scholarships in Ethnology at Saxo Institute

Utlysningar

Applications are invited for two PhD scholarships at the Saxo Institute, associated with the Centre for Sustainable Futures. The position will be part of the Carlsberg Foundation funded Semper Ardens Accomplish project: Tolerating Urban Animals. Techno-moral perspectives on killing and caring for other species. The chosen candidates will be employed at the Saxo Institute and enrolled at the PhD School of the Faculty of Humanities.

The scholarship is for 3 years starting on 1 September 2026 or after agreement.

The Tolerating Urban Animals project explores the use of technologies for managing undomesticated and feral urban animals. Through ethnographic fieldwork and archival studies in Denmark, Sweden and Norway, we follow the technological development and legislation on animal rights in the EU since the 1970s, to explore technologies and everyday practices of deterring, killing, or caring for animals. The project asks: Why, where and by whom, are certain technologies seen as adequate and morally appropriate in human-animal relations? How and why do technologies and moral conditions for managing urban animals shift or persist?

The two PhD projects will explore:

1) Technologies for caring examines how municipalities, residents, and NGOs have deployed technologies to attract and sustain animal presence, and how these practices are embedded in local knowledges, moral justifications, and cultural categories. Cases could include (but are not limited to) bee highways, hedgehog habitats, and bat-friendly street lighting. To contribute to main questions, it asks: What technologies are used in everyday life to attract what animals, and how do care efforts intersect with or challenge legal frameworks and environmental policies?

2) Technologies for making killable explores extermination technologies for pests and “problem animals,” focusing on everyday entanglements between interventions, animal biology, and shifting perceptions of an “intolerable nuisance”. Cases could include (but are not limited to) rats, Iberian snails, foxes, rooks, etc. To contribute to main questions, it asks: What discursive and technological means are used to make animals “killable”, and how are changing environmental conditions affecting the strategies and technologies employed?

Working within either of these two frames, applicants are encouraged to propose a concrete project with up to 8 months ethnographic fieldwork, specifying which Scandinavian contexts, time period, central actors, field sites etc. they envision. Applicants may attach proposals for both projects, if relevant (each max 4800 characters). The ideal candidate has a background in ethnology, anthropology, recent history, science and technology studies, or has extensive knowledge of more-than-human studies. Fluency in a Scandinavian language and ethnographic fieldwork experience are prerequisites. Experiences with archival fieldwork and/or public dissemination (e.g. podcast) is an advantage.

Last day to apply: 8 april 2026

Read the full job post here

 

Call for Applications: Co-Editor-in-Chief at Ethnologia Europaea – Journal of European Ethnology

Call for editors

Ethnologia Europaea – Journal of European Ethnology invites applications for the position of co-editor-in-chief, beginning January 1, 2027. Ethnologia Europaea is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal focusing on European cultures and societies, past and present. The journal was first published in 1967, and since then it has established itself internationally as a leading journal in European Ethnology and related fields.

Ethnologia Europaea is one of the flagship journals of the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF) and part of the Berghahn Open Anthro Subscribe-to-Open initiative (BOA-S2O). It publishes material of great interest for European ethnologists, folklorists, socio-cultural anthropologists, as well as cultural historians and cultural studies scholars worldwide. The journal is published biannually, usually with one non-thematic issue and one guest-edited themed issue.

Shadowing of the current editor’s duties would begin in May 2026.

The key duties of the co-editor-in-chief include:

  • editing journal manuscripts via the journal’s Open Journal Systems platform
  • implementing and safeguarding the principles of double-blind peer review
  • coordinating special theme issues together with guest editors
  • maintaining all contacts with the authors and the reviewers during the peer review, copyediting, and production process
  • joining editorial board meetings online and representing the journal at SIEF congresses

Applicants should have a background in European ethnology, folklore, or cultural anthropology. They should be based at a European university or research institution. Preference will be given to senior scholars. Applicants should also have experience with SIEF’s work and organizational structures

If you are interested in this position, please submit your CV, a short statement of no more than 500 words describing your own work within European ethnology, your interest in the position, as well as any relevant background information related to your experience with editing. Please send your application as a single PDF to  by April 15, 2026.

The co-editor-in-chief position of Ethnologia Europaea is honorary, and the role is initially set for three years, subject to confirmation by the SIEF board.

RJ Sabbatical 2026

Utlysningar

Riksbankens Jubileumsfond utlyser varje år projektstöd för en utlandsvistelse för lektorer och professorer i syfte att avsluta långt kommen forskning inom humaniora och samhällsvetenskap.

Område: Humaniora och samhällsvetenskap
Ansökning öppnar: 09 mars, kl 09:00
Ansökning stänger: 30 mars, kl 15:00
Område: Humaniora och samhällsvetenskap
Söks av: Enskild forskare som är tillsvidareanställd vid svenskt lärosäte
Beviljas för: 6–12 månader
Beslut: 22 oktober
RJ Sabbatical kan starta: 1 december 2026–1 januari 2028

Chef för forskningsfinansiering vid SLS

Utlysningar

En tjänst som chef för forskningsfinansiering vid Svenska Litteratursällskapet i Finland utlyses.

Ur utlysningen:

På SLS arbetar vi med att bevara, producera och sprida kunskap om den svenska kulturen i Finland. Vi är en av de stora privata finansiärerna av samhällsvetenskaplig och humanistisk forskning i Finland, och upprätthåller en betydande arkiv- och förlagsverksamhet.

Vår forskningsfinansiering riktas genom öppna utlysningar till både forskargrupper och enskilda forskare inom humaniora och samhällsvetenskaper, i alla skeden av forskarkarriären. Under de senaste åren har forskningsfinansieringen vuxit betydligt, och vi utvecklar våra finansieringsformer kontinuerligt.

Vi söker en chef för vår forskningsfinansiering vars uppgifter bland annat är att

  • bereda SLS utdelning av vetenskapliga stipendier och understöd tillsammans med SLS sakkunnigorgan
  • leda teamet av koordinatorer som arbetar med forskningsfinansiering och fungera som närmaste chef för våra nämndforskare
  • bistå forskningschefen i att koordinera, följa upp och förverkliga forskningsfinansieringen i enlighet med SLS strategi
  • administrera SLS vetenskapliga nämnders arbete och ansvara för samarbetet med förtroendevalda
  • ha ett övergripande utvecklingsansvar för våra stipendieprocesser

Befattningen är en tillsvidareanställning med början 1.9.2026 eller enligt överenskommelse.

Välkommen med din ansökan senast 22.3.2026

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Vikarierande universitetslektor i kulturvård med inriktning mot konservering vid Göteborgs universitet

Utlysningar

Vid Institutionen för kulturvård bedrivs professionsförberedande utbildningar och forskning med inriktning mot kulturarvsfrågor, landskap och kulturmiljöer, byggnader, trädgårdar och föremål. Institutionen bedriver verksamhet på två orter; Göteborg och Mariestad. I Göteborg utbildas konservatorer och bebyggelseantikvarier. I Mariestad ges utbildningar med inriktning mot bygghantverk samt trädgårdshantverk och landskapsvård.

Anställningen är placerad i Göteborg och omfattar bland annat undervisning på kurs i professionella färdigheter för konservatorer, samlingsförvaltning och förebyggande konservering. Du ansvarar för planering av kursen och dess undervisningsmoment.

Typ av anställning: vakansvikariat under pågående rekrytering fr.o.m. 17 augusti t.o.m. 9 april 2027, eller tills dess rekryteringen är genomförd

Omfattning: ca 50% med varierande omfattning under perioden

Plats: Institutionen för kulturvård, Göteborg

Ansökan ska vara inkommen senast: 7 april 2026

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Ansök om fältinsamlingsarvode från SLS

Utlysningar

Svenska Litteratursällskapets arkiv utlyser fältinsamlingsarvoden 2–31.3.2026.

Är det dags för dig att skriva uppsats, pro gradu eller doktorsavhandling? Vill du samla in forskningsmaterial? Gör du intervjuer eller inspelningar, fotograferar eller filmar du det du tänkt analysera? Eller gör du annan dokumentation?

SLS beviljar mot ansökan arvoden för insamling av material inom humaniora och samhällsvetenskaper. Fältinsamlingsarvoden utlyses årligen i mars.

Du kan själv använda materialet i din forskning, men det arkiveras också i SLS arkiv för att kunna användas av andra. Vi erbjuder dig också inspelningsutrustning och handledning.

Arvodessumman är 1 300 euro och är skattepliktig.

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Sommarjobb kulturmiljö – förteckning och utredning arkivmaterial, Gävle

Utlysningar

Sommarjobb inom Trafikverkets samverkan med Statens museer för maritim, transport- och försvarshistoria. Handledning av uppgifterna ges av personal vid Järnvägsmuseet i Gävle och kulturmiljöutredare vid Trafikverket.

Huvuduppgifterna i tjänsten är att förteckna och sortera arkivmaterial hos Järnvägsmuseet i Gävle med relevans för Trafikverkets verksamhet. Huvudfokus kommer vara material från järnvägen och arbete i Trafikverkets IT-system Miljöwebb Landskap. Därtill kan det bli aktuellt med utredningsarbete kopplat till arkivens innehåll och användning i forskning och infrastrukturplanering med intervjuer.

Som person är du lösningsorienterad och har förmågan att sätta dig in i olika arbetsuppgifter och lösa de situationer som uppstår. Du har en god samarbetsförmåga, är engagerad och utför dina arbetsuppgifter på ett pålitligt sätt. Du motiveras av ett aktivt medarbetarskap där du på ett målmedvetet sätt tar ansvar för dina arbetsuppgifter samtidigt som du är uppmärksam på hur du är en del av och bidrar till helheten genom att samverka med andra.

Vi söker dig som har

  • goda kunskaper i svenska i tal och skrift
  • en pågående högskole- eller universitetsutbildning inom arkivvetenskap, etnologi eller kulturvård där du minst läst 5 terminer eller mer alternativt har slutfört sådan utbildning 2024 eller senare.
  • erfarenhet av arbete med koppling till kulturarvs- eller kulturmiljöområdet

Tidsperiod för sommarjobbet: 2026-06-01- 2026-08-31

Sista ansökningsdag: 9 mars 2026

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