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

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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

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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

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XII Ethnology Days: Call for panels

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CALL FOR PANELS IS OPEN – VOICES AND PRACTICES IN RESEARCH
XII Ethnology Days in Helsinki, 14–15 March 2024

Abstract

Giving voice to research participants has been a central, albeit criticized, principle in ethnological research. Making different experiences visible and bringing them into dialogue with one another is an important goal for ethnologists. ‘Small’ topics and everyday perspectives are familiar to other fields in cultural studies as well. Highlighting everyday life and the practices of everyday life is the basis for the social impact of cultural studies.

Researchers, research participants, those who apply research methods and results, and other interested parties all possess unique voices. The meanings of our research change and can be re-evaluated in different contexts and over long periods of time. For us researchers, it is important to understand the ways in which we influence the world through our studies. Where and how are the voices of our research heard? Whose voices are heard, and who listens to them? What kind of research is valuable? Can research be too ‘small’ to be heard and considered beyond academia? At Ethnology Days 2024, we will reflect on the voices of ethnological research – strong and muted, empathetic and critical, constructive and challenging – both in the past and today.

We invite proposals for panels that consider different perspectives, discussions and temporalities related to the topic of research impact. The panels can cover, for example, the different ways and contexts of influencing others with our studies; research visibility in traditional or social media; and the construction and demolition of ideas, understandings and identities within research and heritage work.

In addition, we are interested in the voices within research and heritage processes. What kind of voices we hear, identify or interpret in fieldwork, research materials or heritage work? What methods can we use to make different voices heard? Are some voices ignored, and what do the silences tell us? Make your voice heard, and send your panel proposal (max. 350 words abstract) by 15.9.2023 to Seminar Secretary Salli Ritola, email: seminarsecretary(a)ethnosry.org

Speakers

Fataneh Farahani is a professor of ethnology in the Department of Ethnology, History of Religions and Gender Studies at StockholmUniversity. The distinctive contributions of her work include applying gender and sexuality to the field of migration studies, integrating race and translocational understandings in the field of masculinities studies, analysing the field of epistemology and knowledge production through the lens of race and gender, and integrating critical race and whiteness studies in the study of hospitality and hostility within the field of migration.

Sharon Macdonald is the Alexander von Humboldt professor of social anthropology at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, where she directs the Hermann von Helmholtz Centre for Cultural Techniques. She has worked on the practices and politics of memory, heritage and identity, especially in Europe. Her recent research has included examinations of how much we can keep collecting from the past, of how diversity and difference are – and could be – dealt with in museums, and of the potential of artistic approaches in ethnographic work on heritage.

Tytti Steel is an ethnologist and docent (associate professor) at theUniversity of Helsinki. In her research, she has focused on variousaspects of working life. She has a special interest in gender research, intersectionality and action research. Currently, she is working on two projects: (1) the post-pandemic work situations of healthcare workers with minority backgrounds and (2) gig work and the platform economy within the cultural sector.