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.
Anmälan till konferensen Kulturarv i kreativa processer är nu öppen. NCK:s (Nordiskt centrum för kulturarvspedagogiks) vårkonferens 2023 går av stapeln 28-29 mars på Jamtli i Östersund.
Sista anmälningsdag är tisdag 14 mars 2023.
Registration for the 3rd International Artefacta Conference is now open.
It will close on 13 February 2023.
Follow this link to register:
https://konsta.utu.fi/Default.aspx?tabid=88&tap=14532
The registration fee is 80 euros. In addition, it is possible to choose
a conference dinner of 85 or 71 euros.
The conference reception will be held on 16 February 2023. The reception
is free for all participants.
The conference dinner will be held on 17 February 2023. The venue is the
Brewery Restaurant Koulu (https://www.panimoravintolakoulu.fi/?lang=en).
The food will be served in a buffet, and it will include vegetarian,
fish, and meat options.
More information about the Artefacta conference can be found on the conference website here.
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.
’Europe Uncertain’. Marie Sandberg and Alexandra Schwell are organising this roundtable at the upcoming SIEF conference in Brno, 7.-10.th of June 2023: Submissions welcome!
This roundtable invites contributions to the study of Europe and Europeanisation, asking: what does ’the European’ entail in European ethnology, and how can we approach Europe as an uncertain, unstable, and fragile construct that raises questions about its analytical potential and usefulness?
Deadline January 10, 2023.
Kort om konferensen:
”På NCK:s vårkonferens som går av stapeln 28 – 29 mars 2023 på temat Kulturarv i kreativa processer vill vi djupdyka i mötet mellan kreativitet och kulturarv och undersöka hur detta möte öppnar upp för nya former av pedagogik och lärande. Vad händer när kulturarv används av konstnärer och kulturarbetare och tar sig nya uttrycksformer? Hur kan kulturarvsinstitutioner använda sig av kreativa uttryck som bildkonst, teater, poesi, spel eller dans för att både förmedla och medskapa? Vilka maktförhållanden och förgivettagna sanningar utmanas i mötet mellan det kunskapsbaserade och det konstnärliga?”
Intresse för att hålla presentation kan anmälas fram till 31 januari 2023.
The conference will be held in Rovaniemi 21-23 March 2023.
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”. ”
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:
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.
The Czech Technical University
Dates: December 1-3, 2022
Formats: Online
Abstracts: October 20, 2022
Themes: Art, Art History, Media, Cultural Studies, Architecture, Urban Design
Queen’s University Belfast | Cape Peninsula University of Technology | National University of Singapore
What makes a city livable? Transport, housing, health and environment. Matters of culture, entrepreneurship, crime and safety. Affordability and education. Depending on whose ‘livability index’ you look at, it may include design quality, sustainability and the digital infrastructures of the smart city. Other criteria applied may encompass food access, job opportunities or walkability. Inclusivity and the politics of participation also come into play. Discrimination in all its forms is key. The past two decades have seen an exponential rise of livability measures. Reflecting increased urbanity globally, they risk making the notion of the city ever more contested. For example, affordable housing is a neighbourhood issue. It is often linked to other questions: walkability, transport access, food deserts, and poor-quality public space. The design of our neighborhoods and buildings is connected to public health, mental wellbeing and the ‘economics’ of healthy cities. This conference examines the livability of the city from these diverse perspectives.