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Call for papers and posters for NEFK 2025

Call for papers, Konferenser,

NEFK 2025 – Nordic 2.0 and beyond

The call for papers and posters for NEFK 2025 – is now open!

CFP (papers och posters) till NEFK 2025 är nu öppen!

More information on the website. Mer information på hemsidan.

Theme: Nordic 2.0 and beyond (in Swedish below)

The 36th international Nordic Ethnology and Folklore Conference will take place 11–14 June 2025 in Turku, Finland.

It is time to meet again at the Nordic Ethnology and Folklore Conference. The 36th edition of the conference aims to reconnect with the roots of NEFK. We therefore invite all Nordic scholars, and scholars of the Nordic, to Turku/Åbo in Finland to expand our horizons once more.

We invite proposals for panels, posters, workshops, and roundtable discussions that explore contemporary perspectives on culture, cultural identities, representations, and socio-cultural changes in the Nordic region and beyond. How do we approach everyday life, traditions, history, and futures in times of migration, fluctuating borders, environmental change, and artificial intelligence? What is the role of academic scholarship, archives, museums, and art in problematizing identity policies, heritage, and power in contemporary societies? What kind of methodological challenges are we facing as we analyse society, including its values, conflicts, and inconsistencies?

The Nordic region is frequently viewed as a model welfare society. However, what is meant by referring to the Nordic, both historically and presently? Is it a geographic region, an imagined community, a way of life, or a theoretical framework? Finally, what could Nordic 2.0 and beyond be and become? Let us explore these and other questions together!

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Tema: Nordic 2.0 and beyond

Den 36:e Nordiska etnolog- och folkloristkonferensen äger rum 11–14 juni 2015 i Åbo, Finland.

Det är återigen dags att träffas på den Nordiska etnolog- och folkloristkonferensen och denna gång återknyter vi till NEFK:s ursprung. Vi bjuder därför in alla nordiska kollegor, och de som forskar om Norden, till Åbo, Finland.

Vi välkomnar förslag på paneler, postrar, workshoppar och rundabordssamtal som diskuterar samtida perspektiv på kultur, kulturella identiteter, representationer och sociokulturella förändringar inom och utanför Norden. Hur närmar vi oss vardagsliv, traditioner, historia och framtid i tider av migration, fluktuerande gränser, klimatförändring och artificiell intelligens? Vilken roll spelar akademisk forskning, arkiv, museer och konst i problematiseringen av identitetspolitik, kulturarv och makt i samtida samhällen? Vilken typ av metodologiska utmaningar står vi inför när vi analyserar kulturella processer, värderingar, konflikter och inkonsekvenser?

Vid sidan om denna breda ansats ser vi konferensen som en möjlighet att problematisera Norden som koncept, idé och praktik. Vad menas med Norden, både historiskt och i nutid? Är det en geografisk region, en föreställd gemenskap, en livsstil eller något helt annat? Slutligen, vad skulle Norden 2.0 kunna vara och bli? Låt oss utforska dessa och andra frågor tillsammans!

Call for Papers: Folklore and the Senses

Call for papers, Konferenser

The Folklore Society’s Annual Conference, in collaboration with the Department of Folklore and Ethnology, University College Cork, Ireland.

Friday 20 June to Sunday 22 June 2025

Hybrid conference, online and at University College Cork

We know the world through our senses, but how we sense is inflected by symbolism, tradition and belief—by folklore in other words. What does folklore tell us about our senses: sight, hearing, smell, touch, taste and, indeed, second sight?

How does folklore treat the instruments through which we sense—our eyes, ears, nose, skin, fingers, mouth, tongue…? What do tastes, smells and other sensory experiences mean in tradition? What happens when we are deprived of our senses, voluntarily or involuntarily? And what does folklore tell us when our senses stop making sense—experiences of things heard but not seen, seen but not heard? When must we, traditionally, refute the evidence of our senses? And of course what we ‘feel’ can be felt in more ways than one, through the heart for instance. Folklore is communication, but there are many ways to communicate: the kiss, the grip, the sign, the gesture… Can we talk about visual folklore, olfactory folklore, the touch or savour of folklore?

CALL FOR PAPERS

Papers of 20 minutes are invited on any topic related to folklore and the senses. Topics might include, but are not limited to:

Folklore of the material world and of embodied experience
Ethnography of the senses, ethnography of the fleeting or ephemeral
The role of the senses in folk custom and narrative
Haptic perception and communication in folklore
The senses, absences and erasures in documentation, archiving and dissemination

Deadline for proposals: Friday 31 January 2025

Read more here

NEFK 2025 – call for panels, round table discussions and workshops now open!

Call for panels, Konferenser

NEFK 2025 – Nordic 2.0 and beyond

CFP (paneler, rundabordssamtal och workshops) till NEFK 2025 är nu öppen!
The call for panels, roundtables and workshops for NEFK 2025 – is now open!

Mer information på hemsidan. More information on the website
https://nefk2025.fi

Tema: Nordic 2.0 and beyond (in English below)

Den 36:e Nordiska etnolog- och folkloristkonferensen äger rum 11–14 juni 2015 i Åbo, Finland.

Det är återigen dags att träffas på den Nordiska etnolog- och folkloristkonferensen och denna gång återknyter vi till NEFK:s ursprung. Vi bjuder därför in alla nordiska kollegor, och de som forskar om Norden, till Åbo, Finland.

Vi välkomnar förslag på paneler, postrar, workshoppar och rundabordssamtal som diskuterar samtida perspektiv på kultur, kulturella identiteter, representationer och sociokulturella förändringar inom och utanför Norden. Hur närmar vi oss vardagsliv, traditioner, historia och framtid i tider av migration, fluktuerande gränser, klimatförändring och artificiell intelligens? Vilken roll spelar akademisk forskning, arkiv, museer och konst i problematiseringen av identitetspolitik, kulturarv och makt i samtida samhällen? Vilken typ av metodologiska utmaningar står vi inför när vi analyserar kulturella processer, värderingar, konflikter och inkonsekvenser?

Vid sidan om denna breda ansats ser vi konferensen som en möjlighet att problematisera Norden som koncept, idé och praktik. Vad menas med Norden, både historiskt och i nutid? Är det en geografisk region, en föreställd gemenskap, en livsstil eller något helt annat? Slutligen, vad skulle Norden 2.0 kunna vara och bli? Låt oss utforska dessa och andra frågor tillsammans!

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Theme: Nordic 2.0 and beyond

The 36th international Nordic Ethnology and Folklore Conference will take place 11–14 June 2025 in Turku, Finland.

It is time to meet again at the Nordic Ethnology and Folklore Conference. The 36th edition of the conference aims to reconnect with the roots of NEFK. We therefore invite all Nordic scholars, and scholars of the Nordic, to Turku/Åbo in Finland to expand our horizons once more.

We invite proposals for panels, posters, workshops, and roundtable discussions that explore contemporary perspectives on culture, cultural identities, representations, and socio-cultural changes in the Nordic region and beyond. How do we approach everyday life, traditions, history, and futures in times of migration, fluctuating borders, environmental change, and artificial intelligence? What is the role of academic scholarship, archives, museums, and art in problematizing identity policies, heritage, and power in contemporary societies? What kind of methodological challenges are we facing as we analyse society, including its values, conflicts, and inconsistencies?

The Nordic region is frequently viewed as a model welfare society. However, what is meant by referring to the Nordic, both historically and presently? Is it a geographic region, an imagined community, a way of life, or a theoretical framework? Finally, what could Nordic 2.0 and beyond be and become? Let us explore these and other questions together!

Call for panels and other formats for SIEF2025: Unwriting, a hybrid congress

Call for panels, Konferenser

The 17th international SIEF congress will take place at the University of Aberdeen in Aberdeen, Scotland

The call for panels is open 02 Sep-07 Oct 2024

Theme: Unwriting

Linguistic, discursive, and reflexive writing has long been a core activity for ethnographers, whether in the field or behind the desk. Ethnology, Folklore, and Anthropology were seen as interpreting the oral ’Other’ into the written modern world, with inscription becoming a measure of fact and truth – ’Can I have that in writing?’ These acts of mediation often carry with them an innate sense of superiority over the subject and source, even in disciplines that have lionised the oral and material vernaculars from their inception.

Unwriting is a powerful tool with which to retract, or rewrite, some of what has been inscribed or recorded, allowing us to reshape that which power has imposed and presenting an opportunity for those who have often only been written about.

SIEF2025 invites ethnologists, folklorists, anthropologists, and scholars from adjacent fields to do some unwriting: redo, seek or restore social justice, dismantle hegemonic frameworks which limit us to predetermined paths towards predictable conclusions. We ask for new ways of honouring and ceding space to bottom-up research and analysis, an opportunity for Indigenous and insider scholars to take centre stage, facilitating more equitable scholarly texts for all.

The ’discursive turn’ and ideas of ’writing culture’ helped to deconstruct academic writing, highlighting the politics of text and connections with practices, institutions, and spaces that produce discipline, hierarchy, and power. Unwriting further suggests a constructive, or even activist role focusing on practices, materiality, and life, while supporting decolonial, feminist, and more-than-human perspectives. It asks us to revisit the consequences of casually accepted paradigms, confronting the unseen, unheard, untellable, or untouched. It invites us to explore undocumented social and material practices of unwriting in practice-based, multi-media, multi-sensual research, incorporating the input of valued partners.

Unwriting works in interdependent symbiosis with writing. In a world of surveillance, we examine the forms of our communications – verbal, in small delimited groups, with encrypted messaging – due to fears of being seen (read). Here, unwriting becomes a mechanism of security, safety, control, all the while avoiding outside control, but when can this engender (self)censorship?

Unwriting is a call to action, a call to reflect on how we have been doing things and how they can be done differently. In contrast with the sometimes dark histories of our academic traditions, we have a chance to create new, embedded, and relational visions, distancing ourselves from skewed, hegemonically generated accounts of the past. By unwriting, we consider what it takes to undo some of what writing’s power has imposed, particularly as we cede space to AI and its algorithms.

Ultimately, unwriting challenges us to create anew in multidimensional ways.

We welcome panels, roundtables, workshops, screenings, and innovative formats focusing on topics including but not limited to,

  • How can unwriting redress power relations, colonialism, globalisation, heteronormativity, and other hegemonies?
  • How could we unwrite legal, social, and political understandings of inclusion and exclusion?
  • How does unwriting relate to ethnographic description, inscription, and transcription?
  • How can unwriting knowledges encourage diverse, applied, or artistic interventions and interpretations?
  • How does our digital world unwrite?
  • How do we tell unwritten histories? How do we write the untellable?
  • How can unwriting challenge notions of gender, genre, embodiment, affect, and performance?
  • How does unwriting afford new formations, transformations, and narrations of multivalent cultural knowledge and heritage?
  • In what ways might AI unwrite the process of writing itself?
  • How can Indigenous knowledge unwrite?
  • How might unwriting illuminate multi-species entanglements, human-animal relationships, environmental engagement, and the climate crisis

Read more here

CFP: Artefacta Conference 2025

Call for papers, Konferenser

The Fourth International Artefacta Conference will take place at the University of Helsinki, in Helsinki, Finland, on 13-14 February 2025.

At the core of the Artefacta Conferences are objects and artefacts, as well as the materiality and material culture related to them. The theme of the 2025 conference is “Resolutions”, including all of the various complexities and viewpoints connected with it. This multifaceted term allows us to approach our research topics from various perspectives. Through the theme of resolutions, we can engage in specific and detailed analysis, or approach it with a broader view. Resolutions in museum contexts can be understood as decision-making processes concerning objects and collections, along with the curation of an exhibition – from selecting the display and scope, to the story that is presented to the audience. Resolutions can also refer to the disappearance or easing of, for example, attitudes that currently are addressed in postcolonial research. Resolutions can also refer to the disappearance of habits, heritage or object types. Determination is one synonym for resolution; for instance, how determination is visible in an object or research method, craft or through action. Resolution can also be a solution or an answer to a problem.

The Organising Committee welcomes abstract proposals related to the theme “Resolutions” from all over the world and from interdisciplinary perspectives, including the fields of material culture studies, history, archaeology, anthropology, heritage science, conservation, craft science, art history, museology, ethnology, design and beyond.

The Call for Papers can be found here

Deadline for submission: 2 September 2024

SIEF 2025

Konferenser

The SIEF2025 Congress  will be held in Aberdeen, Scotland June 3-6 2025, hosted by Elphinstone Institute, University of Aberdeen.

CFP: Perspectives on the revitalization of minority languages/Perspektiv på revitalisering av minoritetsspråk 20-22 nov 2024

Call for papers, Konferenser

Call for Papers: Perspectives on the revitalization of minority languages

November 20-22, 2024
Location: Södertörn University
Organizers: Institute for Language and Folklore and Södertörn University
Södertörn University (SH) and the Institute for Language and Folklore (Isof) invite you to a conference on perspectives on the revitalization of minority languages. Language revitalization is an increasingly urgent issue in our time, both in the Nordic region and in Europe as well as worldwide. During 2022-2024, SH and Isof both have specific government assignments on the revitalization of the national minority languages.

The conference wants to highlight both experiences and research to enable the problematization of revitalization as a concept, idea and practice. We also want to open a discussion on how activism and research can mutually benefit each other.

Please register and upload your abstracts (max 200 words) by May 13, 2024.

See attached pdf for more information

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Call for Papers: Perspektiv på revitalisering av minoritetsspråk

Datum: 20-22 november 2024
Plats: Södertörns högskola
Arrangörer: Institutet för språk och folkminnen och Södertörns högskola

Södertörns högskola (SH) och Institutet för språk och folkminnen (Isof) bjuder tillsammans in till en konferens om perspektiv på revitalisering av minoritetsspråk. Språkrevitalisering är en allt mer angelägen fråga i vår tid såväl i Norden och i Europa som världen över. SH och Isof har båda under 2022-2024 särskilda regeringsuppdrag om revitalisering av de nationella minoritetsspråken.

Konferensen vill synliggöra både erfarenheter och forskning för att möjliggöra problematisering av revitalisering som begrepp, idé och praktik. Vi vill även öppna för en diskussion om hur aktivism och forskning ömsesidigt kan gynna varandra.

Anmälan med abstrakt (max 200 ord) skickas senast den 13 maj 2024.

Se bifogad pdf för mer information!

Save the date: NEFK June 11-14 2025

Konferenser,

Nordic 2.0 and beyond
The 36th Nordic Ethnology and Folklore Conference in Turku/Åbo, Finland
June 11–14 2025
Organisers: Åbo Akademi University and Turku University

It is time to meet again at the Nordic Ethnology and Folklore Conference. The 36th
edition of the conference aims to reconnect with the roots of NEFK. We therefore invite all Nordic scholars, and scholars of the Nordic, to Turku/Åbo in Finland to expand our horizons once more.

We invite proposals for panels, posters, workshops, and roundtable discussions that explore contemporary perspectives on culture, cultural identities, representations, and socio-cultural changes in the Nordic region and beyond. How do we approach everyday life, traditions, history, and futures in times of migration, fluctuating borders, environmental change, and artificial intelligence? What is the role of academic scholarship, archives, museums, and art in problematizing identity policies, heritage, and power in contemporary societies? What kind of methodological challenges are we facing as we analyse society, including its values, conflicts, and inconsistencies?

The Nordic region is frequently viewed as a model welfare society. However, what is meant by referring to the Nordic, both historically and presently? Is it a geographic region, an imagined community, a way of life, or a theoretical framework? Finally, what could Nordic 2.0 and beyond be and become? Let us explore these and other questions together!

Deadlines for proposals will be announced shortly

Conference language: Scandinavian and English

Workshop for doctoral students: June 10
Excursions: June 14

Contact: etnofolk@abo.fi

 

Nordic 2.0 and beyond
Den 36:e Nordiska etnolog- och folkloristkonferensen i Åbo, Finland
11–14 juni 2025
Arrangörer: Åbo Akademi och Åbo universitet

Det är återigen dags att träffas på den Nordiska etnolog- och folkloristkonferensen och denna gång återknyter vi till NEFK:s ursprung. Vi bjuder därför in alla nordiska kollegor, och de som forskar om Norden, till Åbo, Finland.

Vi välkomnar förslag på paneler, postrar, workshoppar och rundabordssamtal som diskuterar samtida perspektiv på kultur, kulturella identiteter, representationer och sociokulturella förändringar inom och utanför Norden. Hur närmar vi oss vardagsliv, traditioner, historia och framtid i tider av migration, fluktuerande gränser, klimatförändring och artificiell intelligens?
Vilken roll spelar akademisk forskning, arkiv, museer och konst i problematiseringen av identitetspolitik, kulturarv och makt i samtida samhällen? Vilken typ av metodologiska utmaningar står vi inför när vi analyserar kulturella processer, värderingar, konflikter
och inkonsekvenser?

Vid sidan om denna breda ansats ser vi konferensen som en möjlighet att problematisera Norden som koncept, idé och praktik. Vad menas med Norden, både historiskt och i nutid? Är det en geografisk region, en föreställd gemenskap, en livsstil eller något helt annat? Slutligen, vad skulle Norden 2.0 kunna vara och bli? Låt oss utforska dessa och andra frågor tillsammans!

Deadline för paneler etc. meddelas inom kort

Konferensspråk: skandinaviska och engelska

Workshop för doktorander: 10 juni
Exkursioner: 14 juni

Kontakt: etnofolk@abo.fi

CfP: Reimagining Europe: Decolonizing Historical Imaginaries, Disciplinary Narratives in Folklore and Ethnology and Beyond

Call for papers, Konferenser

We warmly invite you to the conference on “Reimagining Europe: Decolonizing Historical Imaginaries, Disciplinary Narratives in Folklore and Ethnology and Beyond” from June 13th to 14th, 2024 in Marburg, Germany.

The conference will take place hybrid and is organized by the SIEF working group Historical Approaches in Cultural Analysis and the Herder Institute for Historical East Central European Research in collaboration with the Chair of European Ethnology/Cultural Studies at the University of Marburg.

The call for papers can be found in here. The deadline for abstract submission is February 29, 2024.

We are particularly pleased about the participation of young scientists. It is possible to apply for travel grants.

Poster HACA Marburg