Kategoriarkiv: Konferenser

Call for papers: Etnologidagarna/Ethnology Days/Etnologian päivät 2027

Call for papers, Konferenser

Call for papers till Etnologidagarna 2027 är nu öppen – Verkningsfull etnologi: kulturella fenomen och erfarenhetsbaserad kunskap

13:e Etnologidagarna i Åbo, 11–12 mars 2027

Temat för de 13:e Etnologidagarna är den etnologiska forskningens genomslagskraft. Konferensen undersöker hur etnologisk forskning, dess metoder och den erfarenhetsbaserade kunskap den producerar, påverkar forskningsdeltagare, gemenskaper och samhället i stort. Forskningens genomslag kan uppstå både under och efter forskningsprocessen, genom samarbete med olika aktörer, och är inte alltid lätt att mäta eller entydigt definiera.

Panelerna närmar sig temat ur flera olika perspektiv, bland annat erfarenhetsbaserad kunskap, deltagande och kollaborativa metoder, urbanforskning, migration, relationer mellan människor och skog, museer, autoetnografi samt vardagliga praktiker. Diskussionerna behandlar frågor som hur forskningens genomslag kan förstås och utvärderas, hur erfarenhetsbaserad kunskap kan användas inom forskning och samhälle samt vilka möjligheter och utmaningar som är förknippade med samarbete, delaktighet och kunskapsspridning.

Vi inbjuder forskare och andra intresserade att skicka in förslag till konferensbidrag till panelerna. Presentationerna kan behandla arbetsgruppernas teman ur olika teoretiska, empiriska och metodologiska perspektiv. Tvärvetenskapliga ansatser och bidrag som bygger på varierande forsknings- och yrkeserfarenheter är också välkomna.

Call for papers till Etnologidagarna är öppen från 15 oktober till 30 november 2026.

Förslag till konferensbidrag (högst 250 ord) skickas direkt till kontaktpersonerna för den valda panelen. Observera att också arbetsgrupper utan individuella presentationer kan kräva förhandsanmälan. Panelbeskrivningarna presenteras på Ethnos webbplats. Förutom forskare uppmuntrar vi även magisterstuderande och yrkesverksamma som använder etnologiska perspektiv i sitt arbete att skicka in abstrakt baserade på egna projekt. Om du inte hittar någon lämplig arbetsgrupp för din presentation kan du skicka ett öppet förslag till konferenssekreteraren (seminarsecretary[at]ethnosry.org).

Förslaget ska innehålla presentationens titel, presentatörens/presentatörernas namn samt e postadress(er). Både förslaget och presentationen ska vara på det språk som anges i panelbeskrivningen.

Panelernas kontaktpersoner (eller, vid öppet förslag, konferenssekreteraren) meddelar beslut om antagning senast 6 december 2026.

 

Call for Papers for Ethnology Days 2027 Now Open – Empowering Ethnological Research: Cultural Phenomena and Experiential Knowledge

13th Ethnology Days in Turku, 11–12 March 2027

The theme of the 13th Ethnology Days is the impact of ethnological research. The conference will explore how ethnological research, its methods, and the experiential knowledge produced through research affect research participants, communities, and society more broadly. Research impact may emerge both during and after the research process, through collaboration with various actors, and is not always easily measurable or straightforward to define.

The panels will approach this theme from a variety of perspectives, including experiential knowledge, participatory and collaborative methods, urban studies, migration, human-forest relationships, museums, autoethnography, and everyday practices. Discussions will address questions such as how research impact can be understood and evaluated, how experiential knowledge can be utilized in research and society, and what opportunities and challenges are associated with collaboration, participation, and dissemination of knowledge.

We invite researchers and others interested in the topic to submit paper proposals to the panels. Presentations may address the themes of the working groups from a range of theoretical, empirical, and methodological perspectives. Interdisciplinary approaches and contributions drawing on diverse research and professional experiences are also welcome.

The call for papers for the Ethnology Days is open from 15 October to 30 November 2026.

Paper proposals (maximum 250 words) should be sent directly to the contact persons of the chosen panel. Please note that some panels are organized as discussion-style workshops and may require advance registration. Please check the panel description (abstract) for the registration procedure. See the panel descriptions under Workshops.

In addition to researchers, we also encourage master students and professionals applying ethnological perspectives in their work to submit abstracts based on their own projects. If you do not find a suitable working group for your presentation, you may submit an open paper proposal to the conference secretary (seminarsecretary[at]ethnosry.org).

The paper proposal should include the title of the presentation, the name(s) of the presenter(s), and email address(es). Both the proposal and the presentation must be in the language specified in the panel description.

Contact persons of the panels (or in case of open panel proposal the seminar secretary) will notify of the acceptance by 6 December 2026.

 

Etnologian päivien 2027 esitelmäkutsu on auki – Vaikuttava etnologinen tutkimus – Kulttuuriset ilmiöt ja kokemuksellinen tieto

XIII Etnologian päivien teemana on etnologisen tutkimuksen vaikuttavuus. Päivillä tarkastellaan, miten etnologinen tutkimus, sen menetelmät ja tutkimuksessa tuotettu kokemuksellinen tieto vaikuttavat tutkittaviin, yhteisöihin ja laajemmin yhteiskuntaan. Vaikuttavuus voi rakentua tutkimusprosessin aikana ja sen jälkeen, yhteistyössä eri toimijoiden kanssa, eikä se aina ole helposti mitattavissa tai yksiselitteisesti määriteltävissä.

Päivien työryhmissä teemaa lähestytään monipuolisesti esimerkiksi kokemustiedon, osallistavien ja yhteistoiminnallisten menetelmien, kaupunkitutkimuksen, muuttoliikkeen, metsäsuhteen, museoiden, autoetnografian sekä arkisten käytäntöjen näkökulmista. Työryhmissä pohditaan muun muassa, miten tutkimuksen vaikuttavuutta voidaan ymmärtää ja arvioida, miten kokemuksellista tietoa voidaan hyödyntää tutkimuksessa ja yhteiskunnassa sekä millaisia mahdollisuuksia ja haasteita yhteistyöhön, osallisuuteen ja tiedon välittämiseen liittyy.

Kutsumme tutkijoita ja muita aiheesta kiinnostuneita jättämään esitelmäehdotuksensa työryhmiin. Esitykset voivat käsitellä työryhmien teemoja erilaisista teoreettisista, empiirisistä ja menetelmällisistä näkökulmista. Tervetulleita ovat myös monitieteiset lähestymistavat ja erilaiset tutkimus- ja työelämäkokemukset.

Etnologian päivien esitelmäkutsu on auki 15.10.–30.11.2026. 

Esitelmäehdotukset (enintään 250 sanaa) lähetetään suoraan työryhmien yhteyshenkilöille. Mukana on myös työpajatyyppisiä työryhmiä. Tarkistathan niiden ilmoittautumiskäytännön työpajan kuvauksesta (abstraktista). Katso kuvaukset kohdasta Työryhmät.

Tutkijoiden ohella toivomme maisterivaiheen opiskelijoita ja työelämässä etnologisia näkökulmia soveltavia lähettämään abstrakteja omista projekteistaan. Mikäli et löydä esitelmällesi sopivaa työryhmää, voit jättää avoimen esitelmäehdotuksen seminaarisihteerille (seminarsecretary[at]ethnosry.org).

Esitelmäehdotuksen tulee sisältää valittu työryhmä, esitelmän nimi, esitelmän pitäjän nimi/pitäjien nimet, sekä sähköpostiosoite/sähköpostiosoitteet. Esitelmäehdotuksen ja esitelmän tulee olla työryhmän kuvauksessa mainitulla kielellä.

Työryhmien yhteyshenkilöt (tai avoimien esitysten kohdalla seminaarisihteeri) ilmoittavat ehdotuksen hyväksymisestä 6.12.2026 mennessä.

SIEF2027: Call for panels is open

Call for panels, Konferenser, ,

Theme: Frontiers: hidden, visible, mobile

SIEF2027 in Bolzano, Italy, 3-6 August 2027 “Frontiers: hidden, visible, mobile” “Frontiers” speak to the current global situation, which is affected by the return of nationalist ideologies, imperialist domination, colonial expansionism and wars. This puts into question the value of tolerance, democracy, and international law, suggesting that these have been illusions. It is timely to address the ambiguities, contradictions and paradoxes embedded in the notion of frontiers, reimagining them to envision and shape a better future for terrestrial life.

Frontiers do not only refer to social boundaries and historical political borders as complex “borderscapes”. They also mean “horizons” of discovery and expansion in both a metaphorical (e.g. the frontiers of science) and a literal sense (the frontiers of colonization). Whether visible or hidden, borderscapes and horizons are inherently mobile in space and time. They remind us of colonial enterprises and violence, as well as of decoloniality as a frontier paradigm.

Starting from these possible understandings of frontiers, SIEF2027 invites ethnologists, folklorists, anthropologists, and scholars from adjacent fields, to explore the many ways of framing visible, hidden and mobile frontiers.

SIEF2027 will be hybrid: all panels and plenaries will be available to both face-to-face delegates and those online in Zoom, whether that be listening or presenting.
(*unless there are physical barriers to online access, e.g. a walking workshop)

The programme will run over four full days. Each day of the Congress will include a keynote/plenary event and a series of parallel panel sessions that discuss selected themes. There will be a closing plenary roundtable and the Young Scholars Prize lecture.

This congress has panels of various formats: panels, roundtables, workshops, combined formats

Read more about proposing your panel here

The Call for panels is open between 21 September and 2 November 2026.

XIII Ethnology Days: Call for Workshops 15.8-30.9 2026

Call for panels

Call for workshops is now open: Empowering Ethnological Research – Exploring Cultural Phenomena and Experiential Knowledge

Etnologian päivien työryhmäkutsu on auki: Vaikuttava etnologinen tutkimus – kulttuuriset ilmiöt ja kokemuksellinen tieto

Call for workshops är nu öppen: Verkningsfull etnologi – kulturella fenomen och erfarenhetsbaserad kunskap

The XIII Ethnology Days, Turku, March 11.–12, 2027

Research impact has also become an important dimension in the humanities, and research plans are often evaluated on this basis when applying for funding. However, impact can be understood in many different ways, and its assessment is often challenging unless it can be directly measured, as is rarely the case in qualitative research. Nevertheless, research in the humanities and social sciences—particularly the methods used within these fields—is empowering and influential in many ways, often emphasizing interaction between researchers and participants. For example, participatory methods, which aim to enable an active role for participants in research, are widely used across disciplines.

At the XIII Ethnology Days, we reflect on the impact of ethnological research from various perspectives. Impact can be understood as the broader benefit of research to society, as immediate effects on participants, and as collaboration between different actors. We ask why a cultural perspective is important and what experiential knowledge produced by ethnological research actually is. How do we engage in collaboration with research participants and societal partners, and how can ethnological research empower people?

We invite proposals for workshops for the XIII Ethnology Days. We encourage the workshops to ponder upon the effects of ethnological research and knowledge, and the benefits it produces. For example, participants may consider how research impact can be assessed when studying the experiences of individuals and local communities; how experiential knowledge can influence the surrounding world; and how it can be utilized at different levels of society. How is experiential knowledge shared via digital technologies and platforms, and how can researchers enhance digital participation? We also welcome workshops discussing the role of museums and other cultural organizations in conducting research and contemporary documentation as well as distributing knowledge.

Read more here. 

Save the date: XIII Etnologian päivät/ Etnologidagarna / Ethnology Days 2027

Konferenser

XIII Etnologian päivät

Vaikuttava etnologinen tutkimus – kulttuuriset ilmiöt ja kokemuksellinen tieto

11.-12.3.2027 | Turku
Turun Yliopisto, Arcanum

Työryhmäkutsu: 15.8-30.9.2026

Esitelmäkutsu: 15.10-30.11.2026

Järjestäjät: Ethnos ry, Turun Yliopisto, Åbo Akademi

XIII Etnologidagarna

Verkningsfull etnologi – kulturella fenomen och erfarenhetsbaserad kunskap

11-12 mars 2027 | Åbo
Åbo universitet, Arcanum

Call for Panels: 15 augusti – 30 september 2026

Call for Papers: 15 oktober – 30 november 2026

Organisatörer: Ethnos ry, Turun Yliopisto, Åbo Akademi

XIII Ethnology Days

Empowering Ethnological Research – Exploring Cultural Phenomena and Experiential Knowledge

11-12 March 2027 | Turku
University of Turku, Arcanum

Call for Panels: 15 August – 30 September 2026

Call for Papers: 15 October – 30 November 2026

Organizers: Ethnos ry, Turun Yliopisto, Åbo Akademi

Svenska etnologidagarna 2026

Call for papers, Konferenser

Välkomna till de Svenska etnologidagarna 2026 vid Stockholms universitet!

Svenska etnologidagarna är en återkommande mötesplats för etnologisk forskning och ett tillfälle att diskutera aktuella projekt, idéer och resultat med kollegor från hela landet. Vi hoppas samla forskare från universitet, högskolor, museer, arkiv, myndigheter och andra kulturarvsinstitutioner för två dagar av forskningsutbyte och samtal om aktuell etnologisk forskning. Förra hösten träffades vi på Södertörns högskola och nu är det Stockholms universitets tur att stå värd för mötet.

Vi välkomnar bidrag som presenterar pågående eller avslutade forskningsprojekt, metodologiska och teoretiska diskussioner samt empiriska studier från etnologins många forskningsfält.

Program

11 november – doktorandträff

12 november kl. 10.00–17.00 – forskningspresentationer
Gemensam middag på kvällen

13 november kl. 09.00–16.00 – forskningspresentationer

Plats: Stockholms universitet

Anmäl er presentation på konferensen genom att skicka in ett abstrakt till arrangörerna!

Abstrakt ska innehålla:

  • namn
  • institution/arbetsplats
  • titel på paper
  • en kort beskrivning av presentationens syfte, material och huvudsakliga frågeställning

Max 400 tecken.

Skicka ert abstract till: sed2026(at)erg.su.se

Deadline för abstract: 1 september 2026

Vi återkommer med information om lokaler, middag och eventuella konferenskostnader.

Välkomna!

Helena Hörnfeldt, Anna Fredholm, Markus Idvall, Lars Kaijser, Marie Steinrud, Ebba Vikdahl

Save the date: NEFK 14-16 June 2028, Oslo

Konferenser, ,

The Nordic Ethnology and Folklore Conference will be held in Oslo in 2028. The conference is organized by the research group in cultural history, museology, and heritage studies at the University of Oslo.

The tentative plan is that the main conference will be held from Wednesday to Friday, 14–16 June 2028. Research school will be held on the days before, Monday to Tuesday, 12–13 June, with registration and social event in the evening of Tuesday, 13 June. The day after the conference, 17 June, a day of excursions is planned.

12–13 June: Research School
Evening 13 June: Social event and registration
14–16 June: Conference
17 June: Excursions

More information about the conference theme and other details will come.

HOLD AV DATOEN(E) FOR NEFK OSLO 2028

Den tentative planen er å ha forskerskole mandag–tirsdag (12.–13. juni), registrering og sosial sammenkomst tirsdag kveld 13. juni og at selve konferansen holdes onsdag til fredag 14.–16. juni, med avreise og eventuelle ekskursjoner 17. juni.

Faggruppen for kulturhistorie, museologi og kulturarvsstudier ved Universitetet i Oslo arrangerer konferansen og mer informasjon om tema og annet vil komme.

 

CFP: Museums and Emotional Sustainability in a Time of Polycrisis

Call for papers, Konferenser

17-18 September 2026, University of Helsinki, Finland

In an era defined by overlapping social, political, and ecological crises, museums are faced with new dilemmas that call them to re-think their societal role and agency, both in the past and in the present. Therefore, tools for emotional sustainability are needed.

This conference invites you to thought-provoking discussions and presentations on how museums can address affective polarization, strengthen individual and collective resilience, navigate the emotional labour of museum professionals, and to reflect on the broader societal impact of emotional sustainability. The invited keynote speakers for the conference will be professor Angela Failler and Marzia Varutti, PhD.

The language of the conference is English.

Important days:

  • The deadline for submissions of abstracts: April 30, 2026
  • Notification of acceptance: June, 2026
  • The programme will be released: June, 2026
  • Registration opens: June, 2026

Call for papers:

Societies today are confronted by many sociopolitical and ecological challenges ranging from climate change to intertwined forms of oppression and sociocultural upheaval. In such a time of polycrisis, museums are faced with new dilemmas that call them to re-think their societal role and agency, both in the past and in the present.  Therefore, tools for emotional sustainability are needed. Emotional sustainability is a dimension of social sustainability, and it refers to the capacity to maintain and support emotional well-being within social environments. It involves the ability to recognize and manage emotions to foster healthier, more resilient individuals and communities.

Museums of varied kinds can play a central role in emotional sustainability both on an individual, professional, and societal level. By engaging in public debates, museums and different associated actors, such as audiences, artists, and varied communities, can build collective spaces and affective affordances for emotional sustainability. Through their exhibitions and other activities museums seek to act as counter forces against affective polarization, thereby potentially supporting more resilient societies. On the other hand, historically they have and still can increase polarization and produce societal ill-being, especially for minorities.

Emotional sustainability is also connected to issues within the museum institutions, and to the museum professionals’ capabilities for navigating the affective demands of their work and for employing emotional labour to cope with challenging situations. Museum professionals may experience ethical and affective strains when dealing with their institutions contested histories and emotional legacies, when caring for the collections is inadequate due to limited resources, or when their personal values conflict with the museum’s policies or realities.

Find the full call for papers here

CFP: Perinteentutkimuksen päivät 2026

Call for papers, Konferenser

Esitelmäkutsu: Perinteentutkimuksen päivät 2026

Ensi kertaa järjestettävät Perinteentutkimuksen päivät kokoaa yhteen alan piirissä toimivia tutkijoita keskustelemaan alan ajankohtaisista asioista. Tapahtuman tarkoituksena on edistää vuorovaikutusta folkloristiikan ja perinteentutkimuksen sekä esimerkiksi kulttuuriperinnön, kansanmusiikin ja muistitietotutkimuksen eri vaiheiden tutkijoiden ja opiskelijoiden kesken. Perinteentutkimuksen päivien ohjelmassa on kutsuttujen puhujien paneelikeskustelu ja esitelmiä. Tapahtuman järjestää Suomen Kansantietouden Tutkijain Seura (SKTS).

Ensimmäiset Perinteentutkimuksen päivät pidetään Helsingissä Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seuran tiloissa 12.–13.11.2026. Päivillä ei ole erityistä teemaa, vaan toivotamme kaikki alan tutkijat lämpimästi tervetulleeksi ehdottamaan omaa aihettaan. Lähetä noin 250 sanan esitelmä- tai paneeliehdotuksesi viimeistään sunnuntaina 24.5.2026 lomakkeella tämän linkin kautta: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/e/mb1JgQcTj5

Perinteentutkimuksen päivien 2026 osallistumismaksu on SKTS:n jäsenille 40 €, opiskelijoille, eläkeläisille ja työttömille 10 € sekä muille 60 €. Osallistumismaksuilla katetaan puhuja- ja kahvituskustannuksia.

Perinteentutkimuksen päivät 12.–13.11.2026, SKS:n juhlasali, Helsinki
Esitelmäehdotusten DL 24.5.2026
Esitelmäehdotusten hyväksymisistä tiedotetaan 30.6.2026 mennessä.
Lisätiedot: www.kansantietoudentutkijat.fi/toimintaa/perinteentutkimuksen-paivat/

Ystävällisin terveisin
järjestelytoimikunta

Viliina Silvonen, SKTS johtokunta, Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, Itä-Suomen yliopisto
Tuukka Karlsson, Helsingin yliopisto
Heidi Henriikka Mäkelä, SKTS esimies, Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, Sibelius-Akatemia
Karina Lukin, Helsingin yliopisto
Sonja Mutanen, SKTS johtokunta, Itä-Suomen yliopisto

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.

Read more here

Call for Papers – International conference: Ethnography of silence(s)

Call for papers, Konferenser
Department of Anthropology and Cultural Studies is proud to host the international conference “Ethnography of silence(s)” at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Primorska, Slovenia. The faculty is located by the Adriatic Coast in an old and beautiful Mediterranean bilingual town of Koper/Capodistria, just 15 km from the city of Trieste/Trst and 18 km from a picturesque township of Piran/Pirano.

September 1-3, 2026, Faculty of Humanities, University of Primorska, Titov trg 5, 6000 Koper/Capodistria, Slovenia

The conference addresses silence in ethnographic research, with a central question of how to understand, interpret, and methodologically grasp silence in its diverse aspects.

Silence does not merely denote the absence of speech or voice; it can also function as a powerful medium of communication. It may be filled with words, affects, emotions, or it can be embedded in bodily memory practices or embodied memory. In ethnographic research, which traditionally focuses on observation and verbal expression, silence has not yet been fully explored.

Read more here

Deadline for submissions: February 14, 2026. Notification of acceptance: March 2026.

Format: in person. No Participation Fee.