Kategoriarkiv: Call for papers

Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries (DHNB) 2027

Call for papers, Konferenser

Dear colleagues,

We are excited to welcome you to the 2027 edition of the Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries (DHNB) conference in Umeå, Sweden. DHNB is a forum for cross-border collaboration in digital scholarship, bringing together participants from academia and cultural heritage institutions across the humanities, social sciences, and the arts.
The submission deadline is approaching, and we invite you to submit your abstract by 30 October 2026. 
With DHNB2027, the theme Human(ities) in the Loop emphasizes not only our disciplines’ long tradition of methods that do indeed put many different kinds of “humans” in the loop, but also the many loops that our disciplines study, before and beyond AI.
We particularly welcome contributions that reflect on the role of the humanities in understanding not only AI-related changes, but also transformations driven by digital perspectives, methods and practices, in particular how they impact and influence our everyday life, teaching and research practices.
Submission deadline: 30 October 2026
Conference dates: 1-5 March 2027
Location: Umeå University, Sweden
DHNB2027 is hosted by Humlab at Umeå University in collaboration with DIGSUM.
Read the Call for Papers: DHNB2027 Call for Papers
We look forward to receiving your submission and welcoming you to Umeå in March 2027!
Best regards,
The DHNB2027 Organising Committee through
Evelina Liliequist, Associate Professor in Digital Humanties and Deputy Director at Humlab, Umeå University

Call for papers: Etnologidagarna/Ethnology Days/Etnologian päivät 2027

Call for papers, Konferenser

Call for papers till Etnologidagarna 2027 är nu öppen – Verkningsfull etnologi: kulturella fenomen och erfarenhetsbaserad kunskap

13:e Etnologidagarna i Åbo, 11–12 mars 2027

Temat för de 13:e Etnologidagarna är den etnologiska forskningens genomslagskraft. Konferensen undersöker hur etnologisk forskning, dess metoder och den erfarenhetsbaserade kunskap den producerar, påverkar forskningsdeltagare, gemenskaper och samhället i stort. Forskningens genomslag kan uppstå både under och efter forskningsprocessen, genom samarbete med olika aktörer, och är inte alltid lätt att mäta eller entydigt definiera.

Panelerna närmar sig temat ur flera olika perspektiv, bland annat erfarenhetsbaserad kunskap, deltagande och kollaborativa metoder, urbanforskning, migration, relationer mellan människor och skog, museer, autoetnografi samt vardagliga praktiker. Diskussionerna behandlar frågor som hur forskningens genomslag kan förstås och utvärderas, hur erfarenhetsbaserad kunskap kan användas inom forskning och samhälle samt vilka möjligheter och utmaningar som är förknippade med samarbete, delaktighet och kunskapsspridning.

Vi inbjuder forskare och andra intresserade att skicka in förslag till konferensbidrag till panelerna. Presentationerna kan behandla arbetsgruppernas teman ur olika teoretiska, empiriska och metodologiska perspektiv. Tvärvetenskapliga ansatser och bidrag som bygger på varierande forsknings- och yrkeserfarenheter är också välkomna.

Call for papers till Etnologidagarna är öppen från 15 oktober till 30 november 2026.

Förslag till konferensbidrag (högst 250 ord) skickas direkt till kontaktpersonerna för den valda panelen. Observera att också arbetsgrupper utan individuella presentationer kan kräva förhandsanmälan. Panelbeskrivningarna presenteras på Ethnos webbplats. Förutom forskare uppmuntrar vi även magisterstuderande och yrkesverksamma som använder etnologiska perspektiv i sitt arbete att skicka in abstrakt baserade på egna projekt. Om du inte hittar någon lämplig arbetsgrupp för din presentation kan du skicka ett öppet förslag till konferenssekreteraren (seminarsecretary[at]ethnosry.org).

Förslaget ska innehålla presentationens titel, presentatörens/presentatörernas namn samt e postadress(er). Både förslaget och presentationen ska vara på det språk som anges i panelbeskrivningen.

Panelernas kontaktpersoner (eller, vid öppet förslag, konferenssekreteraren) meddelar beslut om antagning senast 6 december 2026.

 

Call for Papers for Ethnology Days 2027 Now Open – Empowering Ethnological Research: Cultural Phenomena and Experiential Knowledge

13th Ethnology Days in Turku, 11–12 March 2027

The theme of the 13th Ethnology Days is the impact of ethnological research. The conference will explore how ethnological research, its methods, and the experiential knowledge produced through research affect research participants, communities, and society more broadly. Research impact may emerge both during and after the research process, through collaboration with various actors, and is not always easily measurable or straightforward to define.

The panels will approach this theme from a variety of perspectives, including experiential knowledge, participatory and collaborative methods, urban studies, migration, human-forest relationships, museums, autoethnography, and everyday practices. Discussions will address questions such as how research impact can be understood and evaluated, how experiential knowledge can be utilized in research and society, and what opportunities and challenges are associated with collaboration, participation, and dissemination of knowledge.

We invite researchers and others interested in the topic to submit paper proposals to the panels. Presentations may address the themes of the working groups from a range of theoretical, empirical, and methodological perspectives. Interdisciplinary approaches and contributions drawing on diverse research and professional experiences are also welcome.

The call for papers for the Ethnology Days is open from 15 October to 30 November 2026.

Paper proposals (maximum 250 words) should be sent directly to the contact persons of the chosen panel. Please note that some panels are organized as discussion-style workshops and may require advance registration. Please check the panel description (abstract) for the registration procedure. See the panel descriptions under Workshops.

In addition to researchers, we also encourage master students and professionals applying ethnological perspectives in their work to submit abstracts based on their own projects. If you do not find a suitable working group for your presentation, you may submit an open paper proposal to the conference secretary (seminarsecretary[at]ethnosry.org).

The paper proposal should include the title of the presentation, the name(s) of the presenter(s), and email address(es). Both the proposal and the presentation must be in the language specified in the panel description.

Contact persons of the panels (or in case of open panel proposal the seminar secretary) will notify of the acceptance by 6 December 2026.

 

Etnologian päivien 2027 esitelmäkutsu on auki – Vaikuttava etnologinen tutkimus – Kulttuuriset ilmiöt ja kokemuksellinen tieto

XIII Etnologian päivien teemana on etnologisen tutkimuksen vaikuttavuus. Päivillä tarkastellaan, miten etnologinen tutkimus, sen menetelmät ja tutkimuksessa tuotettu kokemuksellinen tieto vaikuttavat tutkittaviin, yhteisöihin ja laajemmin yhteiskuntaan. Vaikuttavuus voi rakentua tutkimusprosessin aikana ja sen jälkeen, yhteistyössä eri toimijoiden kanssa, eikä se aina ole helposti mitattavissa tai yksiselitteisesti määriteltävissä.

Päivien työryhmissä teemaa lähestytään monipuolisesti esimerkiksi kokemustiedon, osallistavien ja yhteistoiminnallisten menetelmien, kaupunkitutkimuksen, muuttoliikkeen, metsäsuhteen, museoiden, autoetnografian sekä arkisten käytäntöjen näkökulmista. Työryhmissä pohditaan muun muassa, miten tutkimuksen vaikuttavuutta voidaan ymmärtää ja arvioida, miten kokemuksellista tietoa voidaan hyödyntää tutkimuksessa ja yhteiskunnassa sekä millaisia mahdollisuuksia ja haasteita yhteistyöhön, osallisuuteen ja tiedon välittämiseen liittyy.

Kutsumme tutkijoita ja muita aiheesta kiinnostuneita jättämään esitelmäehdotuksensa työryhmiin. Esitykset voivat käsitellä työryhmien teemoja erilaisista teoreettisista, empiirisistä ja menetelmällisistä näkökulmista. Tervetulleita ovat myös monitieteiset lähestymistavat ja erilaiset tutkimus- ja työelämäkokemukset.

Etnologian päivien esitelmäkutsu on auki 15.10.–30.11.2026. 

Esitelmäehdotukset (enintään 250 sanaa) lähetetään suoraan työryhmien yhteyshenkilöille. Mukana on myös työpajatyyppisiä työryhmiä. Tarkistathan niiden ilmoittautumiskäytännön työpajan kuvauksesta (abstraktista). Katso kuvaukset kohdasta Työryhmät.

Tutkijoiden ohella toivomme maisterivaiheen opiskelijoita ja työelämässä etnologisia näkökulmia soveltavia lähettämään abstrakteja omista projekteistaan. Mikäli et löydä esitelmällesi sopivaa työryhmää, voit jättää avoimen esitelmäehdotuksen seminaarisihteerille (seminarsecretary[at]ethnosry.org).

Esitelmäehdotuksen tulee sisältää valittu työryhmä, esitelmän nimi, esitelmän pitäjän nimi/pitäjien nimet, sekä sähköpostiosoite/sähköpostiosoitteet. Esitelmäehdotuksen ja esitelmän tulee olla työryhmän kuvauksessa mainitulla kielellä.

Työryhmien yhteyshenkilöt (tai avoimien esitysten kohdalla seminaarisihteeri) ilmoittavat ehdotuksen hyväksymisestä 6.12.2026 mennessä.

Svenska etnologidagarna 2026

Call for papers, Konferenser

Välkomna till de Svenska etnologidagarna 2026 vid Stockholms universitet!

Svenska etnologidagarna är en återkommande mötesplats för etnologisk forskning och ett tillfälle att diskutera aktuella projekt, idéer och resultat med kollegor från hela landet. Vi hoppas samla forskare från universitet, högskolor, museer, arkiv, myndigheter och andra kulturarvsinstitutioner för två dagar av forskningsutbyte och samtal om aktuell etnologisk forskning. Förra hösten träffades vi på Södertörns högskola och nu är det Stockholms universitets tur att stå värd för mötet.

Vi välkomnar bidrag som presenterar pågående eller avslutade forskningsprojekt, metodologiska och teoretiska diskussioner samt empiriska studier från etnologins många forskningsfält.

Program

11 november – doktorandträff

12 november kl. 10.00–17.00 – forskningspresentationer
Gemensam middag på kvällen

13 november kl. 09.00–16.00 – forskningspresentationer

Plats: Stockholms universitet

Anmäl er presentation på konferensen genom att skicka in ett abstrakt till arrangörerna!

Abstrakt ska innehålla:

  • namn
  • institution/arbetsplats
  • titel på paper
  • en kort beskrivning av presentationens syfte, material och huvudsakliga frågeställning

Max 400 tecken.

Skicka ert abstract till: sed2026(at)erg.su.se

Deadline för abstract: 1 september 2026

Vi återkommer med information om lokaler, middag och eventuella konferenskostnader.

Välkomna!

Helena Hörnfeldt, Anna Fredholm, Markus Idvall, Lars Kaijser, Marie Steinrud, Ebba Vikdahl

CFP: Museums and Emotional Sustainability in a Time of Polycrisis

Call for papers, Konferenser

17-18 September 2026, University of Helsinki, Finland

In an era defined by overlapping social, political, and ecological crises, museums are faced with new dilemmas that call them to re-think their societal role and agency, both in the past and in the present. Therefore, tools for emotional sustainability are needed.

This conference invites you to thought-provoking discussions and presentations on how museums can address affective polarization, strengthen individual and collective resilience, navigate the emotional labour of museum professionals, and to reflect on the broader societal impact of emotional sustainability. The invited keynote speakers for the conference will be professor Angela Failler and Marzia Varutti, PhD.

The language of the conference is English.

Important days:

  • The deadline for submissions of abstracts: April 30, 2026
  • Notification of acceptance: June, 2026
  • The programme will be released: June, 2026
  • Registration opens: June, 2026

Call for papers:

Societies today are confronted by many sociopolitical and ecological challenges ranging from climate change to intertwined forms of oppression and sociocultural upheaval. In such a time of polycrisis, museums are faced with new dilemmas that call them to re-think their societal role and agency, both in the past and in the present.  Therefore, tools for emotional sustainability are needed. Emotional sustainability is a dimension of social sustainability, and it refers to the capacity to maintain and support emotional well-being within social environments. It involves the ability to recognize and manage emotions to foster healthier, more resilient individuals and communities.

Museums of varied kinds can play a central role in emotional sustainability both on an individual, professional, and societal level. By engaging in public debates, museums and different associated actors, such as audiences, artists, and varied communities, can build collective spaces and affective affordances for emotional sustainability. Through their exhibitions and other activities museums seek to act as counter forces against affective polarization, thereby potentially supporting more resilient societies. On the other hand, historically they have and still can increase polarization and produce societal ill-being, especially for minorities.

Emotional sustainability is also connected to issues within the museum institutions, and to the museum professionals’ capabilities for navigating the affective demands of their work and for employing emotional labour to cope with challenging situations. Museum professionals may experience ethical and affective strains when dealing with their institutions contested histories and emotional legacies, when caring for the collections is inadequate due to limited resources, or when their personal values conflict with the museum’s policies or realities.

Find the full call for papers here

CFP: Perinteentutkimuksen päivät 2026

Call for papers, Konferenser

Esitelmäkutsu: Perinteentutkimuksen päivät 2026

Ensi kertaa järjestettävät Perinteentutkimuksen päivät kokoaa yhteen alan piirissä toimivia tutkijoita keskustelemaan alan ajankohtaisista asioista. Tapahtuman tarkoituksena on edistää vuorovaikutusta folkloristiikan ja perinteentutkimuksen sekä esimerkiksi kulttuuriperinnön, kansanmusiikin ja muistitietotutkimuksen eri vaiheiden tutkijoiden ja opiskelijoiden kesken. Perinteentutkimuksen päivien ohjelmassa on kutsuttujen puhujien paneelikeskustelu ja esitelmiä. Tapahtuman järjestää Suomen Kansantietouden Tutkijain Seura (SKTS).

Ensimmäiset Perinteentutkimuksen päivät pidetään Helsingissä Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seuran tiloissa 12.–13.11.2026. Päivillä ei ole erityistä teemaa, vaan toivotamme kaikki alan tutkijat lämpimästi tervetulleeksi ehdottamaan omaa aihettaan. Lähetä noin 250 sanan esitelmä- tai paneeliehdotuksesi viimeistään sunnuntaina 24.5.2026 lomakkeella tämän linkin kautta: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/e/mb1JgQcTj5

Perinteentutkimuksen päivien 2026 osallistumismaksu on SKTS:n jäsenille 40 €, opiskelijoille, eläkeläisille ja työttömille 10 € sekä muille 60 €. Osallistumismaksuilla katetaan puhuja- ja kahvituskustannuksia.

Perinteentutkimuksen päivät 12.–13.11.2026, SKS:n juhlasali, Helsinki
Esitelmäehdotusten DL 24.5.2026
Esitelmäehdotusten hyväksymisistä tiedotetaan 30.6.2026 mennessä.
Lisätiedot: www.kansantietoudentutkijat.fi/toimintaa/perinteentutkimuksen-paivat/

Ystävällisin terveisin
järjestelytoimikunta

Viliina Silvonen, SKTS johtokunta, Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, Itä-Suomen yliopisto
Tuukka Karlsson, Helsingin yliopisto
Heidi Henriikka Mäkelä, SKTS esimies, Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, Sibelius-Akatemia
Karina Lukin, Helsingin yliopisto
Sonja Mutanen, SKTS johtokunta, Itä-Suomen yliopisto

Call for Papers – International conference: Ethnography of silence(s)

Call for papers, Konferenser
Department of Anthropology and Cultural Studies is proud to host the international conference “Ethnography of silence(s)” at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Primorska, Slovenia. The faculty is located by the Adriatic Coast in an old and beautiful Mediterranean bilingual town of Koper/Capodistria, just 15 km from the city of Trieste/Trst and 18 km from a picturesque township of Piran/Pirano.

September 1-3, 2026, Faculty of Humanities, University of Primorska, Titov trg 5, 6000 Koper/Capodistria, Slovenia

The conference addresses silence in ethnographic research, with a central question of how to understand, interpret, and methodologically grasp silence in its diverse aspects.

Silence does not merely denote the absence of speech or voice; it can also function as a powerful medium of communication. It may be filled with words, affects, emotions, or it can be embedded in bodily memory practices or embodied memory. In ethnographic research, which traditionally focuses on observation and verbal expression, silence has not yet been fully explored.

Read more here

Deadline for submissions: February 14, 2026. Notification of acceptance: March 2026.

Format: in person. No Participation Fee.

Call for Papers: 15th International Conference of Young Folklorists, Ljubljana 2026

Call for papers, Konferenser

The 15th International Conference of Young Folklorists will take place in Ljubljana, Slovenia, October 1–3, 2026.

The theme of the conference is:

TRANSCENDING BOUNDARIES
CONNECTING WORLDS

The keynote speakers are assoc. prof. dr. Kaarina Koski, University of Turku, assoc. prof. dr. Tok Thompson, University of Southern California, and assoc. prof. dr. Jaka Repič, University of Ljubljana.

Please submit an abstract of up to 250 words via the Registration Form by 28 February 2026. Notifications of acceptance or rejection will be sent out by March 20, 2026.

There is no conference fee, but participants are expected to cover their travel and accommodation expenses. This is an in-person conference, a hybrid or virtual participation is not possible. Each speaker will be allotted 20 minutes to present, followed by 10 minutes of discussion. The working language of the conference is English.

Read more here

 

CFP: ’Folklore on the move’ The Folklore Society’s Annual Conference 2026

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CALL FOR PAPERS – ‘Folklore on the Move’
The Folklore Society’s Annual Conference 2026, in collaboration with the Elphinstone Institute, University of Aberdeen.
In-person conference: Friday, 5 June to Sunday, 7 June 2026, at the King’s College, University of Aberdeen, Scotland.
Online conference day: Wednesday, 10 June 2026.

The vitality of folklore depends on the movement of people and/or ideas. Some forms of folklore can be defined directly through their relations to movement, whether practically – e.g. certain cultural forms of Roma and Traveller communities, migrants, showpeople, sailors, etc. – or performed, e.g. tales of years-long quests, ballads of departure, or myths whose characters move between supernatural and physical realms. We can also consider the movement of individual items: a lullaby moves intimately from one generation to another; an online meme is sent to thousands via social media; a tag is spray-painted across a city; dance steps are called from the stage as partners and groups move around the floor.

The movement of disciplinary ideas and methodologies and how these have shaped Folklore and adjacent fields is worthy of contemplation, as well. More specifically, the connection between folklore and movement has interested folklorists going back at least to Julius Krohn’s historic-geographic method, which attempted to track the movement of folklore across place and time. Later, Reidar Christiansen pointed to the migratory nature of legends, while Carl von Sydow reminded us of the cultural changes that folklore undergoes as it moves, and Linda Dégh considered the ‘conduits’ of interest that are necessary for the sharing of folklore.

At a time when folklore and related symbols have been co-opted by some to delineate stringent identity boundaries, the Elphinstone Institute and The Folklore Society are pleased to work together to highlight the movement of folklore and the interconnectedness of people. This is not to imply that all folklore is benevolent, nor to neglect the movement inherent to the discipline’s problematic colonial histories. We hope to encourage nuanced discussions of folklore and movement through a variety of lenses and from a wide range of participants.

We welcome academic and non-academic presentations of 20 minutes from tradition bearers, archivists, activists, museum workers, artists, event co-ordinators, folklorists and others interested in speaking on contemporary or historical aspects of ‘folklore on the move’.

Deadline for proposals: Sunday, 14 December 2025.

Read more here

Swedish STS conference 2026: Cross-Pollinations, Contamination, Collaboration

Call for papers, Konferenser

Welcome to the 20th anniversary of the Swedish STS Conference that will be held at the Niagara building in Malmö, 10-12 juni 2026, and is hosted by Malmö University in collaboration with Lund University.

The Swedish STS Conference is an open, widely advertised, biennial conference, organised since 2006. It is an interdisciplinary meeting place for researchers interested in issues related to technology and science in society as approached from social science and humanities perspectives, and while it gathers researchers at all levels of their careers, it is planned and coordinated to particularly appeal to doctoral students and early career researchers, with special sessions and events catering to the concerns of junior colleagues.

Conference theme

The theme of the Swedish STS Conference 2026 is Cross-Pollinations, Contamination, Collaboration. With this theme, we aim to engage contributions to current situations in the world – as climate change, intelligent warfare, artificial intelligence, emerging infectious diseases and migration considerations. Different cultures, bodies, or technologies are part of a never-ending cross-pollination process, across seemingly unconnected theoretical domains, genres, and discursive communities. However, contamination always lures in the background, becoming a metaphor for interdependence, porosity, but also a space for discussion on conditions of (dis)ability and accessibility. Contamination also, in this context, becomes a way to decenter the human and interact with the world in more accountable and imaginative ways. A strength of the STS field that will be explored during the conference is its focus on the failures and successes, as well as following technological and scientific advances in all its different phases: inception, everyday use and death/demolition/extinction.

Collaborations characterise deeply how researchers in the field work. Interdisciplinarity is an everyday practice, including working across the “two cultures of science”. This division of science between natural and technical sciences versus social and humanities was identified by C.P. Snow already in 1959 as seriously hampering society’s ability to solve the world’s problems. For the field this carries the risk and the promise of cross-pollinations and contaminations with emerging new ways of doing science, innovative methods and models for engagement. As we face urgent challenges, the ability to reach out and interact across disciplines, and across the academia – society divide is a potential ground for building capacity for positive change. Thus, collaborations outside and inside Academia will be explored. We invite researchers to interrogate the values that underpin different modes of collaboration—what counts as legitimate knowledge, who gets to participate, and how boundaries are policed or transgressed. Further, contamination alludes to the imagined purity of science, at the same time as we know it is authentically implicated in what could be labelled contaminated practices. Having said this, without cross-pollination, contamination, collaboration with the wider society and various strategic stakeholders and communities, science risks losing its relevance and legitimacy.

We want presentations that open “Cross-Pollinations, Contamination and Collaboration” as keywords in science and technology. What forms of “Cross-Pollinations” can we see today? How are the developing in the future? How can we tackle “Contamination”? How are “Collaborations” forged, sustained and also broken down and abandoned?

Call for papers can be found here

Call for Papers: ISFNR 2026 Nature(s) in Narrative

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The ISFNR Interim conference in 2026 will be held in Reykjavík Iceland, June 13th to 16th. The conference will take place at the main campus of the University of Iceland, a walking distance from the vibrant city centre of Reykjavík. With nearly 24 hours of daylight,and plenty of geothermal pools to soak in, it’s the perfect place to recharge on all levels. The conference is hosted by the department of Folkloristics at the University of Iceland, the Icelandic Association of Ethnology and Folklore and The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies. This will be a hybrid event, so delegates will be able to participate either virtually or in person.

Theme

The conference engages 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. Subjects for discussion might include the following:

  • How do notions of nature relate to narrations of identity, heritage, the national and personal, the physical and the spiritual?
  • What comprehensions of “the natural” can be gleaned from storytelling, in its various cultural and social contexts, and in folk narrative research itself?
  • How has our narrative vocabulary and academic terminology borrowed from and conversed with the discourses of nature?
  • Does folk narrative entail a commons of sorts?
  • How do environment and disparate nature-cultural assemblages shape narrative, characters, flow, style and storytelling events?
  • How are human and non-human entanglements expressed, sensed, performed and reimagined in storytelling events?
  • How do narrators delineate “selves” from “the other” in the living world; the natural from the “unnatural” or supernatural; the mundane from the enchanted?
  • How are our conceptions of nature shaped and challenged by unusual “natural events” and climate crises, or urbanisation, technology, information disorder (fake news) and artificial intelligence?
  • What are the “natures” of archives and how are they shaped by narratives?
  • Do natures in narrative reveal aspects of the “natures” of narrative, its forms, functions and practice?

Call for Papers and Posters can be found here

Proposals must consist of:

  • a paper title
  • names and email addresses of any authors/co-authors
  • a short abstract of fewer than 300 characters
  • long abstract of fewer than 250 words

The call is open 20 Aug – 01 Oct 2025