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Presentation of SIEF:s Food WG

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Presentation of SIEF:s Food WG. We look forward to welcome new members during the conference!

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SIEF Francophone WG Poster

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Le Français : langue historique de la SIEF

La SIEF a trois langues officielles (Anglais, Allemand et Français) mais en pratique la grande majorité de nos membres ont travaillé uniquement en Anglais dans les derniers congrès parce que l'Anglais est de toute évidence devenue la langue principale des échanges scientifiques internationaux dans le monde. Pourtant, à cause de cette situation, beaucoup de chercheurs qui préfèrent communiquer en Français ou ne parlent pas suffisamment bien Anglais pensent qu'ils ne peuvent plus participer à nos congrès.

Encourager la recherche francophone en ethnologie

Le nouveau groupe de travail francophone permettra à plus d'ethnologues et de folkloristes de participer aux congrès de la SIEF. Le fait d'encourager les gens à organiser des sessions francophones permettra à la SIEF d'atteindre plus de membres à travers l'Europe mais aussi dans d'autres parties du monde. Nous pensons que le fait d'encourager la recherche francophone au sein de la SIEF sera un bon encouragement pour des collègues de l'Est et du Sud de l'Europe, de la Méditerranée, mais aussi des pays Arabes, d'Afrique, du Québec et des Antilles par exemple.

Objectifs du groupe de travail

* aider les chercheurs francophones à rejoindre la SIEF

* organiser des rencontres et des sessions thématiques dans les congrès de la SIEF

* discuter les apports spécifiques des travaux francophones pour l'ethnologie et le folklore

* encourager les traductions et les comparaisons dans différentes langues

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NCWG Poster

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NCWG Poster

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SIEF WG Cultural Heritage and Property (2019-2021)

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SIEF WG Cultural Heritage and Property (2019-2021)

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Poster for the SIEF 15th congress (Helsinki, 2021) by the board of the Young Scholars Working Group

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Poster for the SIEF 15th congress (Helsinki, 2021) by the board of the Young Scholars Working Group, including mentoring programme, YSWG panel, working group meeting, etc.

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The working group 'Ethnology of Religion' was founded in 1989 in Stockholm, initiated by the Swedish ethnologist Nils-Arvid Bringeus. The object of the working group is to study religion and religiosity as it is practiced in everyday life, in the past as well as in the present.

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The working group 'Ethnology of Religion' was founded in 1989 in Stockholm, initiated by the Swedish ethnologist Nils-Arvid Bringeus. The object of the working group is to study religion and religiosity as it is practiced in everyday life, in the past as well as in the present. We focus on 'popular', 'folk' or 'vernacular' religion and less on the traditional institutional religions. Our interest is reflected in the themes of the organized conferences and includes also new religious movements, alternative and invisible religions as well as new spiritualities.

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Description and activities of the SIEF WG Place Wisdom

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SIEF Working Group on Place Wisdom aims to establish a repository of multi-media, ethnographically-inflected records relating to understandings of place that contest conventional divisions between culture and nature. Members of 'Place Wisdom' have been working on themes "Waterscapes", "Scales of Home in Today's Europe", "Sacred Places/ Routes", and "Forestscape".

The research agenda of the working group is situated at the interface of human ecology, geography, anthropology, art, archaeology, performance studies, literature, linguistics, futures research and philosophy.

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The poster provides an overview of the working group and what it does.

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The BASE Working Group draws together researchers from across the Arts and Humanities who are interested in the felt dimensions of social life.

The working group members hail from multiple disciplines including anthropology, ethnology, folklore, theatre and performance studies, and geography. What we share is an interest in the situated practice that characterises everyday life - how bodies are conditioned, affects appear and the senses are tuned, often in a particular material environment, and/or emotional norms, the body as a symbol or a metaphor, and newly arising issues of being and becoming, bodily experiences and potentialities.

We consider the study of the body, affects, senses, and emotions open to various theoretical and epistemological approaches and thus welcome inspiration from and collaboration with neighbouring disciplines

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Poster - Working Group on Migration and Mobility

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Poster - Working Group on Migration and Mobility

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This poster comprises The Ritual Year Working Group's activity

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Based on the general topic of ritual activities, customs and festive celebrations throughout the yearly calendric cycle, The Ritual Year WG was established on 29 April 2004, at the 8th SIEF congress in Marseille. Initiated by Emily Lyle, the inaugural meeting was held on 11 July 2004, at the Department of Celtic and Scottish Studies, University of Edinburgh.

Many conferences, projects and publications have been the direct result of our WG, which has, over the years, maintained warm, personal friendships among its members.

In recent years, the working group has shared its accomplishments by creating a newsletter, a virtual library and an active webpage.

The Ritual Year Working Group is always open to new members and invites them to contact us.

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Description and activities of the SIEF WG Space-lore and Place-lore

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The relationship of ethnology and cultural anthropology towards the notions of space and place in the history of our discipline has been manifold and is offering a multitude of theoretically and methodologically different approaches. People and their communities shape many spaces and places, that in turn influence them and their culture. Both scientific and popular concepts of space, place, locality or landscape have become extremely diverse in the course of the 20th century and political and natural, social, symbolical, religious, ethnic, linguistic and other borders criss-cross our lives, continuously shaping the space and place of our lives producing a distinctive regionalism and regional consciousness. By exploring the unique contexts and reactions to the preservation, removal, and transformation of spaces and places impacted by variety of sociocultural processes, we can learn much about the ways in which contested histories and futures are mediated through built and natural environments, and the emotions that they inspire.

Our working group wishes to examine these themes, mainly in ethnological and anthropological case studies, with a global and local outlook or comparative approach. We welcome all those researchers who wish to deal with spatial experience from any relevant disciplinary angle (European ethnology, geography, sociology, cultural studies, urban studies, anthropology, heritage studies, etc.).

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The SIEF Working Group of Archives builds a much-needed network between folklore or tradition archives, between scholars working in these archives and scholars working on them.

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Archives of ethnology, folklore and in related fields (e.g. folklore archives, ethnological archives, oral history archives, sound archives, archives of cultural and literary history, cultural heritage archives) serve as a crucial part of the world's social memory and cultural heritage. The SIEF Working Group of Archives builds a much-needed network between these archives, between scholars working in these archives and scholars working on them. These archives encompass historical and cultural heritage dimensions and function therefore also as repositories of knowledge in and of our field(s). The concept of the 'archive' is taken broadly as it includes also collections of materials which are gathered randomly, formal organizational archives of research institutions, and 'research data' of the collections and personal archives of individual researchers.

The mission of the working group is to bring together practitioners and theorists in archival research and in the relevant fields of the humanities. The working group will accommodate representatives of various disciplines (just to name a few: archivists, folklorists, ethnologists, historians) working in archives and people from the same professions working on archives.

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