[Gandur] SIEF 2013 í Tartu: Kallað eftir fyrirlestrum (skilafrestur rennur út 18. janúar )

[Valdimar Tryggvi Hafstein]

SIEF eru Evrópusamtök þjóðfræðinga (Societé Internationale d´Ethnologie et
de Folklore). Þau halda alþjóðlega ráðstefnu annað hvort ár, en síðast
mættu 15 íslenskir þjóðfræðingar, mannfræðingar og landfræðingar á
ráðstefnu SIEF í Lissabonn í fyrra.

Nú er kallað eftir ágripum frá fræðimönnum sem vilja taka þátt í
ráðstefnunni í Tartu í Eistlandi 30. júní til 4. júlí 2013. Skilafrestur
rennur út 18. janúar.

Kveðja,
Valdimar
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SIEF2013: 11TH SIEF INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS
Tartu, Estonia, 30 June - 4 July, 2013

The 11th international SIEF congress will take place in Tartu, 30th June
to 4th July 2013. We aim to gather 500 ethnologists, folklorists,
anthropologists and others interested in European culture for four
exciting days of keynotes, parallel panels, ethnographic films, book fair
and a congress banquet.

The Call for papers is now open and will close on 18th January 2013.

All proposals must be made via the bespoke on-line facility that SIEF is
using to handle all proposals. Proposals should not be sent by email.
Please browse the list of accepted panels and make your proposal to an
appropriate panel here: http://www.nomadit.co.uk/sief/sief2013/panels.php5

There will also be a film programme and a poster session.

The SIEF 2013 Congress proposes to examine the stakes and implications of
circulation. Circulation and its semantic siblings – flow, exchange and
mobility – are the buzzwords around which interdisciplinary conversations
across the humanities and social sciences are organized at the present
moment, superseding the previous decade’s buzzword globalization, which in
turn superseded postmodernity, which superseded nationalism and ethnicity
– eventually taking us back to the concepts around which our fields were
constituted, including transmission and diffusion. In fact, ethnologists
and folklorists as well as cultural anthropologists have been thinking and
writing about circulation, flow, exchange, travel, and mobility for a
century and half.

This legacy bears revisiting. We are witnessing an unprecedented growth of
networks, of new infrastructures and channels that circulate knowledge,
expressions, images, and information at previously unthinkable speeds,
ranges and intensities. This calls for a renewed interest in how cultural
forms and expressions are produced, retained, contested or consumed via
these new circuits.

The questions raised by this new state of affairs affect every subfield of
the ethnographic disciplines, and both age-old and emergent theoretical
foci. For example:

¨ Cultural transmission: How do the political, economic, and logistical
complexities of circulation affect the constitution and codification of
meanings?

¨ Participation and collective creativity: Does intensified circulation
enable more and better participation by communities and individuals, or
does it raise participation's costs?

¨ Local communities: Have enhanced speed and new media degraded the
quality of cultural interaction and exchange in existing communities, or
have they contributed to promoting the local?

¨ Democracy and social justice: Does circulation suffocate or give rise to
political possibilities?

¨ Aesthetic form and the nature of media and remediation: Are some kinds
of circulation or certain cultural forms more viable than others?

¨ Cultural and social economies: How do different economies of circulation
(commoditization, luxury goods, the culture and tourism industries,
voluntary associations, open-access organizations, forms of the gift
economy) affect its forms?

¨ Ideologies and identities: What mediations, mobilities, or imaginaries
contextualize these processes?

¨ Cultural property, heritage policy, and other forms of cultural
protection: What restricts the travel of cultural forms and what promotes
their circulation?

¨ Migration studies: How does the travel of these forms relate to the
movements of people?

Such questions stand as an open invitation to various theoretical and
empirical interventions. As a thematic touchstone for panels and
presentations, the Congress theme should be used to help imagine informed
and engaging entry points into theory or into current interdisciplinary
conversations, while standing on firm ground in ethnology, folkloristics
or cultural anthropology.