Living Uncertainty
The 16th Congress of the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (Sief)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2606807 |
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| Authors | Siarhiej Makarevich (0000-0001-5126-9286, University of Tartu), Alexandra Forra (Centre for Research in Anthropology ; NOVA University of Lisbon, School of Social Sciences and Humanities), Alexandra Filipa Santos Cousinha de Vasconcelos Forra (0000-0003-1967-0613, University of Lisbon) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 204-207 |
| Publication date | 2023-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1736-6518 • E-ISSN: 2228-0987 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.2478/jef-2023-0025 |
| OpenAlex | W4389541355 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
The 16th Congress of the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF) took place in Brno, Czechia, from 7 to 10 June 2023 bringing together researchers, teachers, students, archivists, as well as museum and heritage professionals representing European ethnology, folklore studies, cultural anthropology, and adjoining fields.The Congress is a biennial event that showcases the state of research in the fields, facilitates scholarly exchange, provides a forum for discussions and reflections, and offers the possibility to build professional networks.The choice of Czechia as the host country signifies SIEF's symbolic return home, referring to the congress on folk art in Prague in 1928, which is described as "a seminal event in the history of folklore" (Rogan 2012: 609) as among other successes it resulted in the establishment of La Commission Internationale des Arts Populaires, the predecessor of SIEF.This time, the local organising committee represented by the Institute of Ethnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, the Department of European Ethnology of the Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University, and the National Institute of Folk Culture, welcomed almost 1,000 participants to Brno, Czechia's second largest city and a prominent centre of education and research.The theme of the 2023 Congress, Living Uncertainty, emerged as a response to a multitude of crises that the world has been going through recently.Armed conflict, the pandemic, climate change, recession, social and political instability, forced migration, growing inequality, all of which are just some examples of contexts that directly involve diverse manifestations of uncertainty and can lead to pernicious outcomes that effect every member of society and act at both global and local scales.Given their
Art · Ethnology · Folklore · Humanities · Sociology · Anthropology · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies · History
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