[Gandur] Call for Papers - We are the Folk: Rethinking Folklore in the Twenty-First Century

[Rósa Þorsteinsdóttir]

Dear colleagues,

Please find enclosed the call for papers for the international conference ´We Are The Folk: Rethinking Folklore in the Twenty-First Century’, to be held at Universidade Nova de Lisboa on the 22nd, 23rdand 24th October, 2014. Proposals will be accepted until 31 May 2014.

We would appreciate if you could circulate this call to relevant mailing lists and colleagues. Many thanks.

All best wishes


Call for Papers
 
We are the Folk: Rethinking Folklore in the Twenty-First Century
 
Lisbon
22, 23 and 24 October 2014
 
Anthropologist and folklorist Alan Dundes would turn eighty this year. Inspired by this date, the Instituto de Estudos de Literatura Tradicional (IELT), at Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal, is organising an international conference that will take his proclamation “Who are the folk? Among others, we are!” at face value and explore its implications from a wide range of disciplines, from science to humanities and the social sciences, to the visual and performative arts, philosophy, and politics, amongst others.

The manner in which folklorists study what they see as the creativity and richness of the ways people put meaning in their existence has often been taken as too static and decontextualized. The notion of “folklore” carries profoundly contradictory meanings and connotations. In Portugal, it has particularly been the case as a result of the interest in “popular culture” for propaganda purposes associated with the Estado Novo regime. Nonetheless, folklore’s appeal on the public is undeniable. Its presence in everyday life takes on many forms and appears in the vitality and diversity of social practices that call for renewed, less reductive approaches. This conference wishes to confront different perspectives and terminologies associated with the studies of culture, evaluating the practicality of the concept of folklore, the multiplicity of its meanings and its capacity to integrate interactions between traditional and contemporary expressions and appropriations in particular social, cultural and historical contexts.
 
Drawing on the growing interest cultural heritage has raised in the public sphere, and, simultaneously, on recent advances in the study of the uses of culture and memory, it is crucial to rethink the concept of folklore as well as the complexity of its manifestations and its impact on an increasingly interdisciplinary and participatory research.
 
Keynote Speakers: Alison Dundes Renteln, Christian Bromberger, Jorge Freitas Branco, Mário Correia, Pertti Anttonen e Tok Thompson.
 
We welcome proposals in Portuguese or English dealing with all aspects of Folklore, focusing on (but not limited to) the following topics:
 
- Folklore Genres: Tales, Proverbs and Legends
- Folklore and Identity
- Folklore and Popular Culture
- Folklore and Cultural Heritage
- Folklore and Modernity
- Folklore Materialities
- Folklore and Tourism
- Folklore and Literature
- Folklore and Music
- Folklore and History
- Folklore and Environment
- Folklore and Law
- Human/animal bond in Folklore
- Gender and Folklore
- Children’s Folklore
- Folklore and the Contemporary Arts
- Transgressive Folklore
- Monstrosity in Folklore
- Editing Folklore
- Folklore and Translation
- Folklore Archives
- Folklore in the Digital Age
 
Please include the following information with your proposal:
• the full title of your paper;
• a 250 word abstract;
• your name, e-mail address, institutional affiliation and position;
• a short 150 word bionote;
 
The deadline for proposals is 31st May 2014. Participants will be notified of acceptance by 1st July 2014.
Inquiries and proposals should be sent to the following e-mail:wearethefolk2014 at gmail.com
 
Organising Committee
Anabela Gonçalves
Carolina Vilardouro
Oriana Alves
Sara Graça da Silva
 
Scientific Committee
Ana Paula Guimarães
Jean-Yves Durand
José Luís Grosso
Luísa Medeiros
Sara Graça da Silva
Vera Marques Alves

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Cumprimentos,
Carolina Vilardouro
Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Instituto de Estudos de Literatura Tradicional - patrimónios, artes e culturas
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1069-061 Lisboa, Portugal
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