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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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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From the 31st of August to the 1st of September 2023, the Swiss Association for the Studies of Science, Technology & Society (STS-CH) organized an international conference and invited empirical, methodological, and theoretical contributions from the field of STS fostering exchange between various disciplines. The conference addressed the questions of how diverse knowledge regimes shape…
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Established in 2006, the Ethnography and Qualitative Research Conference has become a recognized scientific meeting for social researchers interested in ethnographic inquiry. The 9th Ethnography and Qualitative Research Conference took place in Trento, Italy from 7-10 June 2023 and has been organized by the University of Trento. At the conference, Špela Ledinek Lozej and Nataša…
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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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On Wednesday, May 24, 2023, the Slovenian Migration Institute at ZRC SAZU together with collaborating institutions organized a scientific conference Migration and Social Transformation in Comparative Perspective after World War II in the Xcenter in Nova Gorica. At the conference organized in the framework of the eponymous project, in addition to the plenary presentation by…
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ZRC SAZU research program Heritage on the Margins together with the Institute of Ethnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences are organizing the 1st conference of the Association of Critical Heritage Studies (ACHS)Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) Chapter. The conference will be held on the 29th and 30th of November 2023 at ZRC SAZU in Ljubljana. See the call and apply
Between 4 and 7 December 2022, the 6th Biennial Conference of the Association of Critical Heritage Studies (ACHS) took place at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile in Santiago. It was organised by the Center for Intercultural and Indigenous Studies and dedicated to interculturalities and their relationship to heritage with the aim “to gain an…
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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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