From 13 to 16 June, the Department of Folkloristics at the University of Iceland, the Icelandic Association of Ethnology and Folklore, and the Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies hosted the hybrid conference of the International Society for Folk Narrative Research. Taking its cue from the conference title, the event focused on the many roles,…
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From 10 to 12 June 2026, Charles University in Prague hosted the international student conference Choosing the Past: The Manifestation of History in a Changing Public Sphere. The aim of the conference was to reflect on how various actors shaping the public sphere select, represent and ideologically transform the past and history. Students whose research…
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The conference in Marseille, dedicated primarily to the material culture of the Balkans, also featured a strong focus on heritage-related themes. One of the highlights was the panel Museums in the Balkans since the 1990s: The Invisible, the Silent and the Loss, where researchers discussed museum representations of violent conflicts that, by overlooking or only…
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Interdisciplinary Workshop for PhD Students and Early Career Researchers In what ways do contemporary and past political projects mobilize emotions and affect? How do emotions become part of cultural policy and anchors for diverse social identifications? What do analyses of emotionality from a historical perspective tell us about the social constuction of emotions, and how…
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“No one any longer believes that America is the great melting pot. Ethnicity is the word. We now know that we are not all one, that our diverse origins and backgrounds persist in spite of the best efforts of educators…” With these words, S. Dillon Ripley, president of the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural…
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VANDA – Vienna Anthropology Days is a yearly conference, organized by the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Vienna. The conference happened between September 23 and September 25 and hosted thirty-four panels (four of them as Young Scholars’ Forum) and five open sessions. The presentations were very diverse and were coming…
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In the first week of July 2024, a summer school Sensory Heritage and Sensitive Memories in the Balkans took place in Sofia and Plovdiv. The summer school was organized by the French School in Athens, in collaboration with the University of St. Kliment Ohridski in Sofia and the Paisii Hilendarski University in Plovdiv. The program…
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Reflections on heritagization of food among Afghan refugees in Albania and their “hosts” The article, published in Slovenian, examines how Afghan refugees in Shëngjin, Albania, preserve and adapt their cultural and especially culinary practices by establishing small restaurants that serve traditional Afghan dishes. These efforts contrast with the prevailing view of refugees merely as guests,…
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52nd congress of the Interntional Ballad Conference took place from May 13 to May 17, 2024. The congress, organized by the Kommission für Volksdichtung was held in the medieval town of Vitré in Upper Brittany, France. The French Center for Intangible Cultural Heritage (Maison des Cultures du Monde-Centre français du Patrimoine Culturel Immatériel), and the…
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