The 19th Congress of the International Society for Folk Narrative Research (ISFNR) took place in Riga from 17 to 21 June. The central theme of Folk Narratives in a Changing World stimulated reflections and presentations of diverse research addressing the central theme from different perspectives. Marjeta Pisk presented her paper Weather proverbs in a changing…
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The 7th biennial conference of the Association of Critical Heritage Studies (ACHS) took place in Galway, Ireland, from June 3-6, 2024, under the theme Custodianship. The organisers and invited speakers demonstrated a diverse understanding, approach and presentation of heritage (for example, instead of a keynote speaker, a stand-up performance and a presentation of stop-motion animations…
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SIEF – The International Society for Ethnology and Folklore – organised the 16th Biennial Congress under the title Living Uncertainty, which took place at Masaryk University in Brno from 7 to 10 June 2023. The congress venue was chosen deliberately, as it was in the Czech Republic that the predecessor of SIEF, the Commission…
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The conference From Desperation to Hope: Meanings and Effect of Group Singing was held at the Estonian Literary Museum in Tartu from November 29 to December 1, 2022. Folklorists, ethnomusicologists, and heritage scholars discussed various aspects of the impact of group singing in times of communal crisis. Research ranged from traditional communal singing of different…
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How and why to heritagise in a young city? What temporal distance is necessary to critically evaluate the beginnings and the development of a new city? These questions arose as we drove along the silhouette of Kromberg Castle and the Church of the Holy Trinity through the industrial area, past the former large factories, the…
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Organised by Charles University in Prague, the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences and supported by the SIEF Working Group on Cultural Heritage and Property, the conference “Religion, Cultural Heritage and Social Change in Central and Eastern Europe” took place in Warsaw on 4–5 July 2022. In addition to the…
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Local and national in the folk/national/folklore songs of the Goriška Brda region When a cultural practice comes to be interpreted as heritage in the broadest sense, namely when it is recognised as worthy of a focused effort to preserve it for posterity, this establishes a basis for its protection (Hafstein 2007: 128). From the very…
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An autumn landscape filled with falling leaves. The vast hills of Goričko merging seamlessly into Porabje. On the first day of our fourth walking seminar, an exploratory hike through Goričko and Porabje, we started along the Slovenian-Austrian-Hungarian tri-border, observing how the same historical events can be labelled and understood differently. In the light of understanding…
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The Institute of Ethnomusicology ZRC SAZU organized an online lecture by Matej Santi, a native of Trieste who studied violin and musicology in Trieste, Klagenfurt and Vienna. He is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Music and Performing Arts of Vienna, where he is involved in the research project Telling Sounds. His main research…
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On 1 and 2 October 2020, the Institute of Ethnomusicology of ZRC SAZU organized an international scientific conference entitled Večjezičnost v folklori/ Multilinguality in Folklore, which, due to the current situation, was held simultaneously online and in the Prešeren Hall of the ZRC SAZU. The symposium was divided into three interwoven thematic panel discussions. Among…
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