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Time zone: Europe/Prague

- Meeting with Working Group leaders
OREA Congress Hotel Brno, Křížkovského 458, 603 73 Brno-střed
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Uncertain relations: Limits and possibilities

Opening ceremony and keynote lecture by Marilyn Strathern

Chair: Karolína Pauknerová

Marylin Strathern portrait

The convenors have set out the multivalent character of ‘uncertainty’ as at once opening up terrains riddled by catastrophe, reminding us of a quality of being lived with every day, and promising alternative paths and possibilities. This talk offers one way in which to key in to this complex field. It proposes to interrogate the notion of uncertainty through another multivalent notion, ‘relations’. Might our ability to perceive relations -- activate them, embody them and enquire with them -- help us acknowledge the role that uncertainty plays in our lives? Might thinking of relations as uncertain in their capacities and effects throw light on what we ask from knowledge practices in order to enlarge and/or shrink the world in which we live? From global crises to fieldwork encounters, presenting certain ways of thinking uncertainty through relations hopes to sketch something of the broader themes of this conference.

Marilyn Strathern is Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology at Cambridge. Her research career began with work on kinship and gender relations, with a Melanesian emphasis, and she is best known for The gender of the gift (1988). She subsequently pursued anthropological approaches to assisted conception, intellectual property and audit cultures. While a recent book is Relations: an anthropological account (2020), her most sustained address to uncertainty (apropos the comparative method) is to be found in Partial Connections (1991).

Attribution: Carletti for Balzan Prize


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The screening will be followed by a discussion with Ivo Bystřičan and Lukáš Likavčan

Two musicians, two field recordists and a philosopher venture on a mission to discover the sound of climate collapse. They visit places in the Icelandic and Czech landscapes that have been marked by industry as well as those seemingly left untouched by human activity. Using recording technology, they give voice to the physical places where significant power generating, natural, and political processes are taking place. The sound is a consequence of events that occurred in the past and that are pointing towards the future. Right now it is being decided whether the future will be inevitably destructive.

Although still impossible to see within the invisible landscapes, we can already hear it coming if we listen carefully. What language and in what voice will the matter with a non-human face speak to us if we try to listen? What will appear if we venture inside? What testimony does it bear to the oppressive climate future? And what does it whisper about us, the Earthlings? In the tangle of infrastructures, the politics of a catastrophe are imperceptibly enacted. Places with the potential of producing power and livelihood under the vault of the climate crisis start to provide testimony about us, themselves, and the times past and future.

Duration (in Minutes): 47
Year of Production: 2022
Director: Ivo Bystřičan

Ivo Bystřičan is documentary filmmaker, story-editor and screenwriter. He directed several feature documentary films like Copper Age (2010), My Last 150 000 Cigarettes (2013), Byeway (2014), Mr. Chytil´s Crime (2014), Middle Dusk (2015) and many others. 

Curated by Michal Pavlásek (Institute of Ethnology, Czech Academy of Sciences)

- Session 1
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Guided city tour through the broader city centre thematising the history of Brno and its multiethnic character in the 19th and 20th century.

The city of Brno was multi-ethnic in its history – it was inhabited mainly by Czechs, Germans and Jews. Most of the Jewish population disappeared from the city in 1941 and 1942 in connection with the Holocaust, the German population in 1945-1946 in connection with the forced displacement of Germans from Czechoslovakia after the end of World War II. However, traces of the city's multicultural history remain in the landscape of Brno, traces that show attentive pedestrians the city's multicultural history. The walk is supposed to inform the participants about this "memory of the city".

approx. 2 hours
Guide: Mgr. Jana Nosková, Ph.D.
meeting place: Kino Scala (Moravské náměstí 127)
Capacity: 20

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National Institute of Folk Culture, Strážnice, Czech Republic, PhDr. Martin Novotný, Ph.D.

The workshop will take place throughout the day in the the area between the buildings A - B - D.

The mixture consisting of clay, water and chopped straw is one of the basic building materials and has found wide application in vernacular architecture. The workshop will present one of the outputs of applied research of the National Institute of Folk Culture and will focus on the manual production of adobe bricks. It was the most typical element of the presented building tradition.

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Centre of Traditional Technologies (CETRAT), Příbor, Czech Republic, PhDr. Václav Michalička, Ph.D., Petra Vidomusová, Mgr. Monika Chromečková.

The Centre of Traditional Technologies Příbor focuses its research activities mainly on the rural area of the Western Carpathians. One of the CETRAT’s core missions is the active preservation of technologies to replace the extinct intergenerational transmission. Experiments play an important role in the Centre of Traditional Technologies. CETRAT focuses on experiments that can serve primarily for the needs of ethnological interpretations. The workshop will introduce a project focused on traditional nettle fibre processing.

- Coffee/tea
Ground floor of B (for buildings A & B); 2nd & 3rd floor of D (for buildings C,D,G)
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Learn about their aims, work, events, research
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The screening will be followed by a discussion with Pavel Borecký

The vibration of machines echoes across the desert. Ever since Jordanian nomads settled in the spectacular landscape of Wadi Rum, they grew dependent on complex water infrastructure. The source is right below their feet, yet they struggle to meet basic needs. In the meantime, deep water extraction feeds private large-scale farms, animates visionary development and secures the growing urban population. Bedouins, farmers and city dwellers: all expect to have a fair share, but digging for “blue gold” unleashes an environmental timebomb.

Duration (in Minutes): 77
Year of Production: 2020
Director: Pavel Borecký

Pavel Borecký (Prague, 1986) is a social anthropologist, audiovisual ethnographer and film curator. Pavel’s latest films Solaris (2015) and In the Devil's Garden (2018) focused on the consumption culture in Estonia and the question of decolonisation in the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic. Living Water is his first feature documentary film.

Curated by Michal Pavlásek (Institute of Ethnology, Czech Academy of Sciences)

- Session 2
- Lunch
Academic Canteen, Moravské náměstí, Moravském nám. 617/9
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Come and hear the advice on how to get published in the academia from experienced journal editors!

(If your badge indicates you should eat in the Canteen in the second shift 14:00-15:00, please instead grab one of the lunch boxes at the main venue and proceed to the meeting.)

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Plenary I: Uncertain Terrains in the Everyday

Abstract
This plenary session is meant to address uncertainties that underpin our global situation in politics, health, and the environment, which to a great extent inform the current Zeitgeist, by relating to the myriad of ways in which such uncertainties impact our everyday. Ethnologists and folklorists alike have been able to address the various coping mechanisms with such uncertainties in everyday life, the meanings of these for individuals and societies as well as how these may be manipulated “strategically” or negotiated “tactically”. We shall also discuss the different scripts and narratives that emerge from and develop in reaction to current uncertainties – that range from attempts in providing sound explanations, through expressions of hope and creative solutions to those that reflect fear and feed anxieties. Finally, we shall reflect on the challenges our disciplines face in studying the uncertain in the everyday.

Plenary speakers (in alphabetical order):
Michał Buchowski - Department of Anthropology and Ethnology at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland
Andrea Kitta - English Department, East Carolina University, USA

Chair:
Dani Schrire - Program for Folklore and Folk-Culture Studies, Cultural Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

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The walk will lead through the centre of Brno and will focus primarily on objects and places that are associated with the Jewish population from the Middle Ages to the 20th century.

During the walk, we will visit objects associated with Jewish architects of the Middle Ages, we will also look at the place where the Jewish quarter and synagogue were located in the Middle Ages, and we will end the walk in one of the villas owned by a Jewish textile industrialist.

approx. 2 hours
Guide: Mgr. Michal Doležel
meeting place: Moravské náměstí, Statue of Jošt
Capacity: 20

- Coffee/tea
Ground floor of B (for buildings A & B); 2nd & 3rd floor of D (for buildings C,D,G)
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The screening will be followed by a discussion with Zdenka Sokolíčková

A young anthropologist, Zdenka, moves with her husband and three sons to Svalbard, Norway, to study how life is changing in polar regions. She has received a prestigious two-year grant to carry out extensive research on the impact of globalization on the inhabitants of the world's northernmost town, Longyearbyen. After falling in love with her new home, Zdenka discovers that more than icebergs and permafrost are vanishing in the Arctic. Through conducting interviews with residents, she begins to perceive how heterogeneous the small local community actually is, while also revealing tensions that lie beneath the surface. Zdenka then has to work out the extent to which she can get involved in the local community that she only originally intended to observe.

Duration (in Minutes): 83
Year of Production: 2022
Director: Veronika Lišková

Veronika Lišková has been working as a film director, documentary script editor, and curator. Her feature-length debut Daniel’s World premiered at Berlinale in 2015. In 2022, she completed her second feature documentary The Visitors (CZ-NR-SK) which had its world premiere at the Semaine de la critique in Locarno.

Curated by Michal Pavlásek (Institute of Ethnology, Czech Academy of Sciences)

- Session 3
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SIEF’s Working Groups take the opportunity the congress provides to meet, share news, discuss future plans, register new members, and elect their boards. They fly the SIEF flag between congresses and provide specialised platforms for conversation and cooperation. SIEF members interested in joining a working group (there are no fees) are warmly invited to attend.

Feminist Approaches to Ethnology and Folklore
Place Wisdom
Archives
Cultural Heritage and Property
Museums and Material Culture
Bodies, Affect, Senses, Emotions (BASE)
Digital ethnologies and folklore

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Tribute to Jana Ševčíková

The screening will be followed by a discussion with Jana Ševčíková and Galina Šustová

A documentary which was filmed over a period of five years describing the spiritual roots of the inhabitants of a forsaken Romanian village in the Danubian basin. As descendants of Russian emigrants of a minority faith who settled in the area during the 17th century, they were able to preserve not only their original beliefs but also their language. Despite various changes in the villagers’ lives, time seems to have frozen the “natural” inflections of birth, marriage and death. The protagonists are bound by their strict religious faith, both imprisoned and exalted by the cyclical rhythm of religious festivals and daily rituals. These are, at the same time, a natural part of life in the village and give an inner sense to the most ordinary of tasks. Jaromír Kačer’s black-and-white camera creates a smooth composition highlighting the primeval spiritual gestures which transform the inhabitants’ daily grind into a symbolic deliberation on the transience of time.

Duration (in Minutes): 46 min
Year of Production: 2001
Director: Jana Ševčíková

With films that reflect on life in contemporary Eastern Europe, Czech filmmaker Jana Ševčíková has distinguished herself as a practitioner of poetic documentary. A graduate of the Prague Film Academy, her thesis film, Piemule (1984), offers a frank examination of Czech émigrés in Romania during the final years of Ceausecu‘s totaltitarian regime. She has produced films independently, such as Jakub (1992), and received state funding from the Czech Ministry of Culture. Her films have been shown at festivals in Berlin, Strasbourg, Karlovy Vary and Cracow. Praised throughout Europe, Ševčíková‘s intimately crafted works challenge the distanced conventions of ethnographic filmmaking.

Curated by Pavel Borecký (Graduate School of the Arts and Humanities, University Bern)

- Session 4
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National Institute of Folk Culture, Strážnice, Czech Republic, PhDr. Martin Novotný, Ph.D.

The workshop will take place throughout the day in the area between the buildings A - B - D.

The mixture consisting of clay, water and chopped straw is one of the basic building materials and has found wide application in vernacular architecture. The workshop will present one of the outputs of applied research of the National Institute of Folk Culture and will focus on the manual production of adobe bricks. It was the most typical element of the presented building tradition.

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Centre of Traditional Technologies (CETRAT), Příbor, Czech Republic, PhDr. Václav Michalička, Ph.D., Petra Vidomusová, Mgr. Monika Chromečková.

The Centre of Traditional Technologies Příbor focuses its research activities mainly on the rural area of the Western Carpathians. One of the CETRAT’s core missions is the active preservation of technologies to replace the extinct intergenerational transmission. Experiments play an important role in the Centre of Traditional Technologies. CETRAT focuses on experiments that can serve primarily for the needs of ethnological interpretations. The workshop will introduce a project focused on traditional nettle fibre processing.

- Coffee/tea
Ground floor of B (for buildings A & B); 2nd & 3rd floor of D (for buildings C,D,G)
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Tribute to Jana Ševčíková

The screening will be followed by a discussion with Jana Ševčíková and Galina Šustová

In 1988, an earthquake killed at least 25.000 people in the Armenian city of Gyumri, a third of them children. Jana Ševčíková explores life after and with the disaster, meets survivors and their children. The latter, born after the incident, are often regarded by their parents as reincarnations of their dead siblings. Ševčíková, however, does not see them as proof of some primitive faith in reincarnation, nor does she ever fall prey to esoteric exaggeration. She takes her protagonists very seriously, showing how differently they cope with the double burden of their own and those strangers’ unlived lives. Although the dead are not just addressed directly in short messages, but are also present in all statements and images, Ševčíková manages first and foremost to endow the living with individuality. Again and again we see them dance, self-absorbed and free of the burden of responsibility for a few moments. By means of sparsely used archive material, a meticulously executed soundtrack, bizarre images of life among the ruins and very intense encounters, the film creates an almost unreal atmosphere somewhere between bottomless grief and the banality of daily life which simply goes on – even in a city where memory is part of everyone’s daily business, which got stuck between life and death 20 years ago.

Duration (in Minutes): 68 min
Year of Production: 2008
Director: Jana Ševčíková

With films that reflect on life in contemporary Eastern Europe, Czech filmmaker Jana Ševčíková has distinguished herself as a practitioner of poetic documentary. A graduate of the Prague Film Academy, her thesis film, Piemule (1984), offers a frank examination of Czech émigrés in Romania during the final years of Ceausecu‘s totaltitarian regime. She has produced films independently, such as Jakub (1992), and received state funding from the Czech Ministry of Culture. Her films have been shown at festivals in Berlin, Strasbourg, Karlovy Vary and Cracow. Praised throughout Europe, Ševčíková‘s intimately crafted works challenge the distanced conventions of ethnographic filmmaking.

Curated by Pavel Borecký (Graduate School of the Arts and Humanities, University Bern)

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Plenary II: Methodological Uncertainty

Abstract
Every day culture is in many cases a communal exploration of the unusual, the unexpected, the scary, risky, and frightening, a human response to experienced, imagined, narrated, and performed uncertainties (Ellis). When we lack trust in information, or have poor access, we turn to each other, communally negotiating uncertain situations by hybridizing present-day and inter-generational knowledge (Tangherlini).

Folklore and Ethnology, with their person- and practice-centred ethnographic approaches, offer some of the most powerful approaches to understanding this ‘tempting, treacherous border areas between the known and unknown parts of life’ (Palmenfelt). But how are our methodologies responsive to uncertainty? How can established ethnographic methods cope with and adapt to new challenges? What innovative approaches can we devise for highly fluid situations? As individuals confront and live with what is perceived as instability, how can our fields help us understand the mechanisms involved and, following an activist model, press them into service in building resilient communities?

Plenary speakers (in alphabetical order):
Tatiana Bužeková, Department of Ethnology, Comenius University, Slovakia
Eerika Koskinen-Koivisto, Department of History and Ethnology, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Kyrre Kverndokk, Cultural Studies Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion, University of Bergen, Norway
Tim Tangherlini, Department of Scandinavian, University of California – Berkeley, USA

Chair:
Soňa Gyárfáš Lutherová, Institute of Ethnology and Social Anthropology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia

- Lunch
Academic Canteen, Moravské náměstí, Moravském nám. 617/9
- Coordination meeting of university department representatives
D22, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Arna Nováka 1
- Session 5
- Coffee/tea
Ground floor of B (for buildings A & B); 2nd & 3rd floor of D (for buildings C,D,G)
- Meet Working Group members at their posters
Building D, Room D21
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Tribute to Jana Ševčíková

The screening will be followed by a discussion with Jana Ševčíková and Galina Šustová

Six young people are going through different stages of blindness. Energy, sarcasm and spontaneity allow for a captivating immersion into their inner world. "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger, at least for a while" becomes the film’s central message not only for them, but for us all. All supported by black and white images with excellent sound and music collage.

Duration (in Minutes): 78 min
Year of Production: 2022
Director: Jana Ševčíková

With films that reflect on life in contemporary Eastern Europe, Czech filmmaker Jana Ševčíková has distinguished herself as a practitioner of poetic documentary. A graduate of the Prague Film Academy, her thesis film, Piemule (1984), offers a frank examination of Czech émigrés in Romania during the final years of Ceausecu‘s totaltitarian regime. She has produced films independently, such as Jakub (1992), and received state funding from the Czech Ministry of Culture. Her films have been shown at festivals in Berlin, Strasbourg, Karlovy Vary and Cracow. Praised throughout Europe, Ševčíková‘s intimately crafted works challenge the distanced conventions of ethnographic filmmaking.

Curated by Pavel Borecký (Graduate School of the Arts and Humanities, University Bern)

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Guided city tour through the broader city centre thematising the history of Brno and its multiethnic character in the 19th and 20th century.

The city of Brno was multi-ethnic in its history – it was inhabited mainly by Czechs, Germans and Jews. Most of the Jewish population disappeared from the city in 1941 and 1942 in connection with the Holocaust, the German population in 1945-1946 in connection with the forced displacement of Germans from Czechoslovakia after the end of World War II. However, traces of the city's multicultural history remain in the landscape of Brno, traces that show attentive pedestrians the city's multicultural history. The walk is supposed to inform the participants about this "memory of the city".

approx. 2 hours
Guide: Mgr. Jana Nosková, Ph.D.
meeting place: Kino Scala (Moravské náměstí 127)
Capacity: 20

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All SIEF members are strongly encouraged to participate in the society’s General Assembly. The state of the society is discussed, reports from the SIEF board will be presented and the (re-)election of the SIEF Board takes place.

The following documents are relevant: the agenda, minutes of the last General Assembly, the list of candidates nominated for the new Executive Board, and a ​Call of the SIEF task force on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in European Ethnology and Folklore Studies (DEI) to be presented during the meeting. 

For more information on the elections see article 10 of SIEF’s bylaws.

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Come to hear the YSP keynotes: this year there were two prize winners!

Nikola Balaš won the SIEF Young Scholar Prize 2023 for his article Through a peephole: Vladimír Karbusický, the secret police and the scholarly ethos in socialist Czechoslovakia in History and Anthropology.

Camilo Leon-Quijano won the SIEF Young Scholar Prize 2023 for his article Why Do ‘Good’ Pictures Matter in Anthropology?, published in Cultural Anthropology. This article explores the relationship between photography and anthropology.

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SIEF’s Working Groups take the opportunity the congress provides to meet, share news, discuss future plans, register new members, and elect their boards. They fly the SIEF flag between congresses and provide specialised platforms for conversation and cooperation. SIEF members interested in joining a working group (there are no fees) are warmly invited to attend. 

Historical Approaches in Cultural Analysis

Narrative Cultures
Young Scholars
Food Research
Migration and Mobility

- Mentor and Mentee meeting - pre-registration only
B2.13, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Arna Nováka 1
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The screening will be followed by a discussion with Greta Stocklassa

What happens to life of the teacher and local activist Timo, the teenage Sami girl Maja, and Abdalrahman, a refugee from Yemen, when a mining town Kiruna, built on the world's largest and most modern iron ore mining tunnel, must be moved 3 kilometres to the east? How does the moving city move people’s lives, identities and ideals? Will the new Kiruna be a better place for a brand new society?

Duration (in Minutes): 87
Year of Production: 2019
Director: Greta Stocklassa

Greta was born in 1993 in Opočno, Czech Republic. She comes from Czech-Swedish family. At the beginning, she lived in Prague, then the family moved to Stockholm in 2005. In 2013 she started studying in Prague at documentary department FAMU. Identity is the main theme through her films. Her The Still Life of Vera was premiered at Short Joy at IDFF Jihlava and screened at Vision du Reel, Neisse Film Fest or DOK.Fest München. In 2015 she made it to the short list of student film prize Mag- nesia Award (Czech Lions).

Curated by Jaroslava Panáková (Institute of Ethnology and Social Anthropology, Slovak Academy of Sciences)

- Session 6
- Coffee/tea
Ground floor of B (for buildings A & B); 2nd & 3rd floor of D (for buildings C,D,G)
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The screening will be followed by a discussion with Viera Čakányová

In this philosophical film essay, the extremes of nature are reflected through the advancements of A.I. and modern technologies. In this confrontation, Self is overseen in sake of posthumanistic, non-anthropocentric reflections.

Duration (in Minutes): 73
Year of Production: 2019
Director: Viera Čakányová

Viera Čákanyová (1980) was born in Bratislava, Slovakia. She graduated from the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava in screenwriting and received a BA from the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague in documentary film. Her school films repeatedly won at the Famufest School Film Festival. Piranha (2007) – Best Film of Famufest 2007, Alda (2009) – Award for Best Director and Editor. Her films were also presented at several international festivals and won a number of awards. Under Underground (2006) – Honorary Diploma and Students Jury Award of the 14th International Film Festival Etiuda & Anima 2007, Krakow, Poland; 100 Days (2009) – The Grand Prix of Early Melons Film Festival 2010, Bratislava, Slovakia; The Grand Prix (Golden Dinosaur) of the 17th International Film Festival Etiuda & Anima 2010, Krakow, Poland; Best Camera, national competition of the 2nd Ostrava Kamera Oko International Cinematographers‘ Film Festival 2010, Ostrava, Czech Republic; Alda (2009) – Regard Neuf (Prize of the canton Vaud) for a first or second film by a filmmaker of the 16th Visions du Réel International Film Festival 2010, Nyon, Switzerland; The Golden Key Award for the best documentary work of a director under the age of 35 of the 27th Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival 2010, Kassel, Germany. Besides working on her own films, she also works as script editor and editor of independent film projects and makes documentary films for non-profit organizations and television.

Curated by Jaroslava Panáková (Institute of Ethnology and Social Anthropology, Slovak Academy of Sciences)

- Session 7
- Lunch
Academic Canteen, Moravské náměstí, Moravském nám. 617/9
- Coordination meeting of journal editors
B2.23, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Arna Nováka 1
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Teaching and Writing the Truth Today: Five Options
Chair: Jiří Woitsch

Bertold Brecht, wrote in his 1935 piece, Writing the Truth. Five Difficulties as follows: “It takes courage to say that the good were defeated not because they were good, but because they were weak.” In this talk I am exploring and analyzing the question, why are we so weak today even though we know that we are the good ones? We are losing the fight over defining values which is not an unfortunate accident. The recent rise of illiberalism and neo-fascism is not a natural catastrophe, it has its reasons and causes. And even earthquakes can be forecasted if one is attentive enough. During earthquakes, some well-built houses withstand the tremor, while others collapse. In my talk, I am interested in the reason for our sleepwalking, for our ignorance of the causes and reasons that lead to our becoming weak. We can only stop sleepwalking with a culture that comes from education. The talk discusses what education and educators can do today to write and teach the truth.

Andrea Pető is a historian and a Professor at the Department of Gender Studies at Central European University, Vienna, Austria, a Research Affiliate of the CEU Democracy Institute, Budapest, and a Doctor of Science of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Her works on gender, politics, Holocaust, and war have been translated into 23 languages. In 2018 she was awarded the 2018 All European Academies (ALLEA) Madame de Staël Prize for Cultural Values. She is Doctor Honoris Causa of Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden. Recent publications include: The Women of the Arrow Cross Party. Invisible Hungarian Perpetrators in the Second World War. Palgrave, Macmillan, 2020. And Forgotten Massacre: Budapest 1944. DeGruyter, 2021. She writes op-ed pieces for many international and national media about academic freedom and illiberal higher education.

- Coffee/tea
Ground floor of B (for buildings A & B); 2nd & 3rd floor of D (for buildings C,D,G)
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B2.13 with relay to C33, D22, B2.43

Precarity in and of our disciplines is a threat of which we are well aware and cannot ignore. We are privileged, as academics, but such privilege is distributed unevenly, leaving many posts and a growing number of scholars in precarious situations. This is mirrored in our fields of Ethnology, Folklore Studies, and Anthropology and, on a larger scale, in the Social Sciences and Humanities as a whole. Precariousness on both individual and disciplinary levels is renewed and strengthened by the normalisation of uncertainty through unreliable and inconsistent funding mechanisms, omnipresent audit cultures, short-term contracts, etc. At times, the growing precarity of our disciplines might seem inevitable, but it need not be like this.

The aim of the roundtable is to generate ideas on how to counter the trend of growing academic precarity. We aspire to seek possible ways forward, looking to build more resilient pathways for new scholars.

Closing plenary speakers (in alphabetical order):
Čarna Brković (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany)
Martin Fotta (Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic)
Roger Norum (University of Oulu, Finland)
Clara Saraiva (University of Lisbon, Portugal)

Chair: Monique Scheer (University of Tübingen, Germany)

- Closing ceremony
B2.13 with relay to rooms one floor above in B, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Arna Novaka 1
 
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