We welcome you to the 2026 interim ISFNR conference in Reykjavík, Iceland, June 13th to 16th.
We will engage 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.
Kulturforskningsdagarna, som anordnats sedan 2003, ordnas för tolfte gången i december 2025 i Åbo. Temat för dagarna är ”Röra”.
Blandningar, kombinationer, kopplingar och sammansättningar har alltid varit ett centralt intresse inom kulturforskningen. Utgångspunkten är att kulturer alltid är hybrider, ande och materia i salig röra. Temat ”Röra” hänvisar till både världens tillstånd och sinnestillstånd.
Konferensens huvudtalare är
Under konferensdagarna ordnas även en paneldiskussion om kulturforskningens rörighet under rubriken ”Kulttuurintutkimus sekaisin”. Deltagarna är Hanna Kuusela, Kaisa Murtoniemi, Leena-Maija Rossi och Heikki Uimonen, ordförande Olli Löytty.
Begreppet röra avspeglar även kulturforskningens mångdisciplinära forskningsfält och dess beröringspunkter med ett flertal forskningsämnen. Till konferensen inbjudes förslag på föredrag och arbetsgrupper om exempelvis följande teman, på finska, svenska och engelska. Vi välkomnar även presentationer som bryter med traditionella föredragsformer samt framställningar som kombinerar vetenskap och konst.
Deadline för förslag till individuella presentationer: Fredag 16.5.2025
Läs mer här: https://sites.utu.fi/kultut2025/
Early bird registration for NEFK is closing soon!
The registration fee includes attendance in the daily programme, materials, coffee and lunch on the conference days as marked in the programme, as well as the Welcome reception on Wednesday, 11 June.
EARLY BIRD – Until 15 March 2025
Registration closes 1 June 2025
LiU Humanities welcome scholars and students of all disciplines to this conference on the contribution of qualitative, interpretative, collaborative and critical research to the ways in which we know of and with culture, society, technology, medicine and nature in different strands of research.
Date: 16-17 October 2025
Location: Arbetets museum, Norrköping
Deadline for papers: New extended deadline 10 April 2025
Call for papers
While traditional humanities disciplines and topics have become deeper and broader over the years, they have also been enriched by interdisciplinary, integrative or new humanities that cut across disciplines and problem-based themes such as the LiU Department of Thematic Studies. But despite the nowadays diverse, adaptive, and rich humanities, there seems to be a recurring debate on the value of the humanities not the least in relation to the distribution of funding for research and education. There is, hence, an imperative need for a comprehensive discussion of the role, nature and place of the humanities in academia and in society at large.
This conference aims at showing the power of various humanities by displaying research initiatives that provide the crucial social, cultural, existential, ethical, philosophical, and political dimensions of how human life is entangled with history, language, interaction, science, nature and technologies.
Scholars within all fields that identify with, or wish to pursue collaboration with, qualitative, interpretative and critical research are invited to present ongoing or planned initiatives.
SIEF2025 Aberdeen: Registration opening 10 March
Early bird registration for SIEF2025 will open next week, the registration costs have now been finalised so you can find them on the registration page
Theme: Threats, Rumors and Legends in Contemporary Society
42 nd conference – International Society for Contemporary Legend Research
Hosted by The Institute for Language and Folklore, The Mid Sweden University and
Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency.
Stockholm, Sweden | 23-27 June, 2025
The International Society for Contemporary Legend Research is pleased to announce that the 2025 Perspectives on Contemporary Legend 42nd International Conference will be held in Stockholm. This will be the first time the conference takes place in Sweden.
The conference’s theme is based around threats and rumors and contemporary legends understood in a broad sense. On this occasion, the conference offers all interested speakers and attendees the opportunity to present and discuss current research, as well as other topics of, for example, contemporary legends, conspiracy theories, fakelore, folk horror, digital folklore, and rumors.
The three selected topics (Threats – Rumors – Contemporary Legends) provide a broad framework that includes both discourses, narratives and practices from bottom-up and top-down perspectives as well as the actors associated with them. It can also include different aspects of crisis, for individuals as well as for larger communities.
Submit an Abstract
We invite scholars and researchers to submit their abstracts for presentation. No more than 250–300 words.
The conference will be organized as a series of seminars at which most attendees will present papers. Concurrent sessions will be avoided so that all attendants can hear all papers. Presentations will be 20 minutes, with an additional ten minutes for discussion. Proposals for papers on all aspects of contemporary, urban, or modern legend research are sought, as are those on any legends, traditions and stories that circulate actively at present or have circulated at an earlier historical period.
Proposals for special panels, seminars and any other related areas to contemporary legend and folklore are encouraged.
Deadline March 17
Read more at the website: https://contemporarylegend.org/meetings/perspectives2025/
Konferenstemat Feministiska koalitioner för levbara världar riktar vår gemensamma analytiska blick mot några av dagens mest akuta utmaningar såsom klimatkris, militarisering, ojämlikhet, kolonialism, rasism, konservatism, hot och hat mot hbtqi+ och genus. Behovet av kritiska analyser av makt och ojämlikhet är akut. Därför har genusforskningen en viktig roll att fylla både som en kritisk röst i samtiden och förmedlare av kunskap för levbara världar och liv: det som ger hopp och skapar förändring såsom koalitioner, aktivism och kritiska granskningar av historien och dess status quo.
Vi behöver ställa frågorna om var, när och för vem levbara och blomstrande världar skapas, och erbjuda möjliga svar. Ledord för konferensen är relationalitet och återuppblomstring. Detta är begrepp som särskilt utvecklas inom urfolkskunskaper och urfolksstudier och som lyfter det arbete som hela tiden görs för att skapa världar bortom repression. Med inspiration från de här begreppen vill vi öppna för samtal och utbyten kring att skapa förändring, levbara samtider och framtider och feministiska utopier. Vi vill samtidigt understryka betydelsen av konferensens lokalisering i Staare/Östersund i det sydsamiska området. Gaskeuniversiteete/Mittuniversitetet är med sina två campus det enda universitetet i det sydsamiska området på den sida Saepmie som överlappar Sverige.
G25 är den sjätte nationella konferensen för genusforskning i Sverige. Tidigare konferenser har organiserats av Göteborgs universitet (g12), Umeå universitet (g14), Linköpings universitet (g16), Göteborgs universitet (g19) Karlstads universitet (g22).
Sista dag att skicka in abstrakt är 3 mars 2025 – deadline förlängd till 11 mars
Lär mer här: https://www.miun.se/Forskning/forskargrupper/fgf/konferens-g25/
Biennial International Conference for the Craft Sciences (BICCS 2025)
Call for abstracts: 4 April 2025
Save the conference date: 22-24 October 2025
The Craft Laboratory calls for craft research presentations and welcomes papers, posters, exhibitions and performances.
Look up the session themes on the portal biccs.dh.gu.se
Call for Papers:
14th International Conference of Young Folklorists
“Humble Theory and Power of the Vernacular”
September 25–26, 2025
University of Tartu, Estonia
Dorothy Noyes (Ohio State University)
Mariya Lesiv (Memorial University of Newfoundland)
·How can folklorists cultivate a theory that is rooted in practice and ethnography?
·In what ways can humble theory help us navigate our disciplinary identity?
·How might our historical and institutional contexts shape our theoretical aspirations and practices?
·How does humble theory hold up in digital realms and realities shaped by algorithms and AI?
We welcome case studies that exemplify the application of humble theory in folkloristic practice, original research findings, and theoretical reflections on the issue. We also encourage papers that address our traditional topics, such as transmission, performance, and differentiation.