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.

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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

Read the call here

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

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

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!