[Gandur] Kallað eftir fyrirlestrum fyrir SIEF ráðstefnuna í Zagreb 2015: "Utopias, Realities, Heritages: Ethnographies for the 21st Century"

[Valdimar Tryggvi Hafstein]

*SIEF 2015 Congress in Zagreb: Call for papers is open!*

The 12th international congress of SIEF (International Society for
Ethnology and Folklore) will be held in Zagreb, Croatia from 21-25 June
2015. The call for papers closes 14 january 2015. Submit your paper
abstract to one of 108 accepted panels with themes ranging from food to
heritage, from the body to the archives, from religion to the home, from
gender and sexuality to narrative migration and borders, and from
narrative to digital culture.

For the call for papers, workshops, and posters, and the full list of 108
panels and their description, see: 
http://www.siefhome.org/congresses/sief2015/cfp.shtml

More than 800 ethnologists, folklorists, anthropologists, cultural
historians, and other colleagues from all over Europe and beyond will meet
to present their research and share during four days of keynotes, panels,
papers, posters, meetings, and parties. The congress theme is “Utopias,
Realities, Heritages. Ethnographies for the 21st century” (see more
below).

For general information on the SIEF congress in Zagreb:
http://www.siefhome.org/congresses/sief2015/index.shtml

*The congress host country and city: Zagreb, Croatia*
Zagreb is an excellent point of departure for excursions to the rest of
the country and, following the Congress, spending a moment at some of the
Adriatic resorts outside the high season. To plan your trips consult:
www.croatia.hr, www.mint.hr and www.zagreb‐touristinfo.hr.

After two decades of state independence, Croatia, the youngest member
state of the European Union, is still undergoing political and economic
transformation and recovery from the difficult period of the 1990s.
Located at the juncture of Central and Southeast Europe, Croatia and
Croats perceive themselves at the crossroads of the Mediterranean, Central
European (Alpine, Pannonian) and Balkan cultural spheres. Throughout
history Croatia has been under Venetian, Austrian, Hungarian, Ottoman and,
more recently, Yugoslav political influences.

Iconic places exhibit the country’s multilayered cultural and political
history: Dubrovnik and Split on the Adriatic coast, Istrian coastal towns
and interior villages, the old town of Zagreb, which stands in sharp
contrast with the hectic downtown area of the modern city and the less
renowned northeastern area – Slavonia and Baranja – which has recently
been developing village tourism based on ecologi‐ cal production. Croatia
is also famous for its thousand islands (e.g. Kornati, Hvar, Korčula,
Mljet), crystal-clear seawater, pebble beaches, sailing opportunities,
pristine nature (e.g. Plitvice and Krka lakes), good wines, well preserved
cultural heritage...