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SIEF is an international organization that facilitates and stimulates cooperation among scholars working within European Ethnology, Folklore Studies, Cultural Anthropology and adjoining fields. SIEF organizes large international congresses and smaller workshops. Read more about SIEF...

Eight thematical Working Groups are active within SIEF which organize their own congresses and workshops.

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WEB SITE LAUNCH
This website was recently redesigned and gently restructured aimed at making it more useful to members. Please note the addition of:

  • The members directory - use this online tool to look up contact details and academic interests of colleagues within SIEF. While you're there, why not update your own record?
  • Our Facebook account.
  • The Calendar - a permanent news feature for upcoming events in our fields. Submit your own events announcements to .
  • The new SIEF logo. Read more about the SIEF logo.
  • Young Scholar Prize Winner of 2013: Ruth Goldstein.

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11th SIEF CONGRESS TARTU 2013
The 11th international SIEF congress will take place in Tartu, 30th June to 4th July 2013.

Over 450 anthropologists, ethnologists, folklorists and others interested in European culture will gather in Estonia for four exciting days of keynotes, parallel panels, ethnographic films, book fair and a congress banquet. Read more..

LATEST NEWS:
Keynote names and abstracts posted.
Panel timetable created - date and start times now visible on panel pages.
Register, book accommodation, travel and excursions now >>