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CFP: International Conference of Young Folklorists

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DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 15 MAY 2023
The 12th International Conference of Young Folklorists
Beyond the Field: Fieldwork in the 21st Century
September 13–15, 2023, Riga, Latvia

Folklore studies have relied on firsthand encounters as a source of data since the 19th century when the first folklorists set out to collect oral lore from European peasantry. Since then, the discipline and the ways of human communication have changed tremendously; however, even in today’s digital environment, communication between folklore scholars and their informants has not lost its importance. Reflexivity has become an integral part of the discipline and the ethical principles of fieldwork have advanced considerably. The power relations in fieldwork have been transformed by applying collaborative ethnography as a methodological framework. Thus, folk performers are not seen as a mere source of information, but rather as fieldwork collaborators and co-creators of knowledge. The practical aspect of fieldwork has developed alongside technological advancements allowing the folklore collectors to capture their informants on various media.

Moreover, the proliferation of digital technologies, social media platforms, and other virtual spaces of the 21st century have inevitably modified how we define ’the field’ itself. The global Covid-19 pandemic made researchers adapt to online interactions as the key form of communication, since the mobility of researchers was limited. The devastating Russian invasion of Ukraine has suspended fieldwork, disrupted research, and brought the future into uncertainty and precariousness for many. This poses the challenges of fieldwork during warfare and socio-political crises, questioning the ethical responsibilities that come with it.

Despite the constantly changing world around us, folklore scholars still prefer the firsthand observation of informants and communities in their habitats and documentation of their knowledge as the main research method. The 12th International Conference of Young Folklorists welcomes proposals for papers on various fieldwork-related topics. Potential themes include but are not limited to the following subject areas:

– Historical perspectives and contexts of the fieldwork-based data collection;
– Fieldwork materials in folklore archives;
– Emotions, body, and fieldwork;
– Fieldwork at the time of crisis and unstable political contexts;
– Landscape and fieldwork: cultural heritage and the Anthropocene;
– Posthuman approaches and other-than-human interaction in the field;
– Feminist and queer ethnography;
– Ethical challenges of documenting sensitive and controversial data;
– Professional responsibility: informed consent and representation;
– Challenges and opportunities of digital ethnography and working in the virtual field;
– Managing intersectional identities in at-home ethnography;
– Scholars and community: the power dynamics of the fieldwork.

Since fieldwork as a method is relevant not only in folklore studies, but also in anthropology, oral history, cultural heritage studies, and 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 rigayofo(@)gmail.com.
The deadline for the abstracts is 1 May 2023 (extended to 15 May). Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by 1 June 2023. There is no conference fee, but participants are expected to cover their travel and accommodation expenses.

The conference is organized by the Archives of Latvian Folklore, Institute of Literature, Folklore and Art, and will be held at the National Library of Latvia

CfP: Language, gender and sexuality: theoretical and methodological perspectives 12-13th October 2023

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Language, gender and sexuality: theoretical and methodological perspectives 12–13th October 2023
University of Helsinki, Finland.
First Call for Papers

The intersections of language, gender and sexuality have become central topics of interest for researchers from many fields, but gender and sexuality categories are often handled in a simplistic manner, for example as fixed binary variables. However, these are both complex categories which require new theoretical understanding and methodological orientations. With the aim of bringing together both national and international scholars interested in language and gender and/or sexuality, we are organizing a two-day conference on October 12 and 13, 2023 at the University of Helsinki. All presentations will be given in person.

The call for papers for the conference is open to all scholars focusing on language. In particular, we hope to receive abstracts on studies utilizing queer theories or feminist approaches (e.g., intersectional feminism), but we welcome abstracts on any topics related to language and gender and/or sexuality. Both established and younger researchers are encouraged to participate. Possible topics include but are not limited to:

queer (linguistic) theory/methods
corpus linguistic approaches to studying language and gender/sexuality
ethnographic approaches to studying language and gender/sexuality
construction of gender and sexual identities in discourse
queer and trans sociophonetics

With these themes in mind, we have invited two plenary speakers, who will both also lead a methodological workshop:

Dr. Lucy Jones, University of Nottingham:
Plenary: Constructions of identity and embodiment in the discourse of trans youth
Workshop: Doing ethnography in queer and trans linguistics: Issues, concepts, and reflections

Dr. Frazer Heritage, Manchester Metropolitan University:
Plenary: Lavender corpus linguistics: taking stock and moving forward
Workshop: Corpus approaches to language and sexuality: tackling methodological challenges

Submission details:

Abstracts should be 250 words in length (excluding references), and they can be written in English or Finnish. Likewise, accepted papers can be presented either in English or Finnish.
All abstracts should be submitted via email langgegesex(@)helsinki.fi by May 11th. Instructions for the abstract layout are provided on the website: https://www.helsinki.fi/en/conferences/language-gender-and-sexuality-theoretical-and-methodological-perspectives/call-papers

Notification of acceptance will be sent in early June.

The conference is funded by the Helsinki Institute for Social Sciences and Humanities. There is no registration fee for presenters.

Please contact langgesex(@)helsinki.fi  if you have any questions.

Conference website: https://www.helsinki.fi/en/conferences/language-gender-and-sexuality-theoretical-and-methodological-perspectives

Organizers:
Pekka Posio, Jarmo Jantunen, Laura Hekanaho, Meri Lindeman, Sanni Surkka and Annina Pura


CFP: Discourses in/of disruption

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The Call for Papers for the twelfth instalment of the interdisciplinary discourse studies conference Diskurs – interdisziplinär in Dresden, Germany, from November 16th to 17th, 2023 i snow open. The main conference language this year is English, and we especially invite discourse researchers from beyond Germany to submit abstracts (by April 30th, 2023).

The theme of the conference is discourses in/of disruption. Please read more on the attached flyer.

CFP: Colloquium ”Silenced Sources, Heritage, and the Oral-Literary Continuum”

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Colloquium Silenced Sources, Heritage, and the Oral-Literary Continuum – Rewriting the Margins of the National

28–31 June 2023
Helsinki, Finland
CFP 15 Feb 2023

Proposals with a short abstract of fewer than 300 characters, a long abstract of fewer than 250 words, and a short biographical note should be sent by 15 February 2023 at
https://bit.ly/silenced-sources-proposal (Google Forms).

The full CFP with more details is attached as PDF.

Theme

Notions of culture, heritage and literature are formed in historical processes entangled with values and institutionalized power that are constantly challenged by countermoves in society and art. Not only are the notions intrinsically contested in this manner. Similar ideologically motivated dialogues determine the formation of historically specific, empirically observable cultures, folklore collections, heritage regimes and literary fields. The colloquium Silenced Sources, Heritage, and the Oral-Literary Continuum – Rewriting the Margins of the National focuses on the making of national cultures and canonized regimes of folklore, literature, and cultural heritage in Northern Europe during the long 19th century.

In the context of Romantic Nationalism, the conceptual and ethnographic invention of folklore and oral poetry laid the basis for creating elite cultures and literatures – within and across national borders. The practices of dismissal, integration and transformation were strategic in the mediation between oral and literary forms of artistic expression. Rather than simple transformation of the oral into the literary, the processes of textualization and heritagization consist of phases of decontextualization and recontextualization that set the elements of cultural practices into novel symbolic and political articulations.

19th century developments in the nationalization of culture and society continue to be a significant topic in the humanities and social sciences. This constant scholarly attention reflects the contemporary concern for upsurging cultural and political movements in Europe that have produced ideological visions of national pasts and political agendas based on them. The colloquium focuses on the diverse textualization practices that have laid the ground for the notions and narratives of allegedly national pasts. Setting the processes of using, transcribing, editing, and publishing oral and literary traditions into a larger national and transnational context deepens the understanding of the creation of nations, heritages, and canons, i.e., building culture and ascribing it the meaning and value of ‘national’.

Topics

We invite researchers on e.g., folklore, literature, cultural heritage, and history to delve on topics such as
– The interaction between oral and written cultures and evaluation of hybrid forms of expression
– The institutional actors and ideological premises in the cultivation of the oral-literary interface (e.g., in the context of archives)
– Epistemological issues related to documentation, textualization and editing
– The formation of values and notions linked to national heritages and literatures
– Documentation, editorial and textualization practices – omissions, silences, editorial decisions, and issues of representation in the field, the archive, research, and the literary field
– Processes of heritagization and canonization of folklore and expressive traditions
– Hidden sources and muted expressive genres on the fringes of cultural canons
– The criteria for marginalization or canonization of folklore, such as genre, area, content, social group
– Cultural appropriation, folklore, and national cultures

The colloquium will be organized in cooperation with The Finnish Literature Society, The Kalevala Society Foundation and the Folklore Department, University of Helsinki.

Anthropology Conference 2023: Call for papers

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The conference will be held in Rovaniemi 21-23 March 2023.

About the conference:
”Relations and beyond: conference of the Finnish Anthropological Society

Relations have been called ”the master concept of anthropology”, yet recent advances have also drawn our attention to the question of un-related or post-relational beings, things and phenomena. Either way this shows how relation and relationality are too central to anthropology to become outdated. The concept has gained new relevance with the changes which anthropology as a discipline has been going through in recent decades. Among such developments are our increased awareness of the anthropocene, beyond-human ethnographies, renewed interest in ethics and co-creation of knowledge, and connected to that the limits of relations and the question of ”what comes next”, hence ”un-relations” or ”post-relations”. ”

Call for papers

We invite paper abstract submissions to the conference of the Finnish Anthropological Society. The general topic of the conference is “Relations and beyond”. You should send your abstract directly to the organiser of one of the panels listed below and cc’d to finnanthro(at)ulapland.fi. We have tentatively indicated in bold to whom to send abstracts in each panel, among the co-conveners, to avoid potential overlaps for those who are co-convening in more than one panel. This does not indicate any hierarchy among the co-conveners, nor how they organise themselves, we’ve only bolded the first name in the list.

The abstracts should contain the following information:

  • name of the panel to which submitted
  • title of the paper
  • name(s) and contact address(es) of the author(s)
  • paper abstract (max. 250 words)

Paper abstract submission deadline: 30.11.2022

Call for papers and posters: SIEF2023

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The Call for Papers and Posters for SIEF2023 16th Congress Living Uncertainty in Brno, Czech Republic, is now open and will close on 10 January 2023!

SIEF2023 will be a fully face-to-face congress. You can find out about the congress fees on the Registration page.

Please read the instructions on how to propose a paper or a poster on the Call for Papers and Posters page and then submit your contribution via the links on panel pages (not by email).

The calls close on 10 January 2023, at 23:59 CET.