Konferensen om akademisk frihet kommer att hållas i Lilla Studion på Kulturhuset Stadsteatern på Sergels torg i Stockholm den 3 december 2024.
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NEFK 2025 – call for panels, round table discussions and workshops now open!
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
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
CFP: Artefacta Conference 2025
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
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: 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.
Save the date: NEFK June 11-14 2025
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
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.
CFP: 13th International Conference of Young Folklorists “Dark Side of Folklore and Folkloristics”
Since the beginning of time, the existence of the light was inseparable from the darkness. In folklore material of various cultures, darkness could take the shape of a mythological being or to be perceived as looming threat and danger. It could inhabit words, deeds, and wishes, enabling people to believe in dark magic, curses, actions that could bring harm and misfortune. It could also be attributed to the violence and crimes that took place in the community, as well as be seen as a power that can influence people to make questionable or condemnable choices.
However, sometimes even an academic approach cannot or would not cast enough light onto the matters of certain topics, leaving particular parts in the darkness. This kind of modus operandi might even alter the views on traditions and folklore nationwide, as (un)consciously silencing disagreeable subjects might leave a wrong impression of it not existing in the first place.
13th International Conference of Young Folklorists invites scholars to explore topics that in traditional cultures were considered uncomfortable, immoral, a taboo, hid in the darkness not only because of people who did not wish to converse in them, but also by folklorists who seemed to deem them disagreeable, improper, not worthy to write down. Potential themes include but are not limited to the following subject areas:
- Processes of demonisation and alienation in traditional folklore;
- Mythological beings and demons in archival folklore material;
- Fear, disgust, and other uncomfortable emotions within folklore;
- Historical contexts of collecting controversial or “forbidden” folklore material;
- Political and/or personal censorship of “inappropriate” folklore;
- Negatively charged spaces and places in traditional narratives;
- Decolonization of historical narratives;
- Conspiracy theories, doomsday narratives, and urban legends in (digital) ethnography;
- Rethinking of crime and violence in folklore;
- Tracking of the queer ethnography;
- Taboo topics in contemporary fieldwork;
- Geopolitics, national politics, and folklore.
Since this topic is relevant not only in folklore studies, but also in anthropology, oral history, cultural heritage and religious studies, as well as other related disciplines, participants from other fields are also welcome to join the conference. The working language of the conference is English.
Please submit abstracts of 350 words, along with your name, institutional affiliation, email, and a brief biographical note (2–3 sentences) to the conference email yofovilnius24(@)gmail.com. The deadline for the abstracts is 13 February 2024. Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by 13 May 2024. There is no conference fee, however participants are expected to cover their travel and accommodation expenses.
The conference is organised by the Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore.
Fagkonferensen 24-26 januar 2024: Fest og høytid
Fest og høytid. Forening for kulturforsknings fagkonferanse
24.-26. januar 2024
Påmeldingsfrist 20 desember.
Vi er stolte over å være vertskap for Forening for kulturforsknings fagkonferanse, og denne gangen har konferansen temaet Fest og høytid. Et nytt blikk på markering, ritual, festival, feiring, sammenkomst og avskjed.
Vi inviterer til en fornya faglig diskusjon av festlige skikker, høytider og tradisjoner. Markeringer og høytideligheter er ofte konservative, og endringer kan skje sakte og nesten umerkelig. Samtidig kan nye tider kreve helt nye former og uttrykk. I festene og høytidene finner vi spennet i menneskelivet, fra sorg til glede og fra individ til kollektiv.
Til konferansen har det kommet inn innlegg fra kulturhistoriske forskere ved universiteter og museer i hele Norge. Over femti innlegg kommer til å bli presentert over tre dager, med temaer som spenner fra primstavens høytidsmarkeringer til Eurovision-fest, fotografienes rolle i høytidene. Vi skal diskutere julekort, kreppapir, sørgebind, kranselag, gravferder og mye, mye annet.
Dr. Kari Telste og Dr. Lizette Gradén er hovedtalere, og konferansen finner sted på IBSEN Teater og museum, Gjestestuene på Norsk Folkemuseum, og Norsk Maritimt Museum.