SIEF Summer School 2026 06/11/2025

The Living Things, Lasting Forms, Narratives Summer School reconceives heritage as an ongoing, co-creative process in which material forms, narrative genres and living practices—human and more-than-human—mutually sustain one another.

The local organizer of the SIEF Summer School 2026 will be the Hellenic Folklore Research Centre, Academy of Athens and the Museum of Modern Greek Culture. The Summer School will take place 4-11 October 2026.

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Thank you for joining us at the 17th Biennial congress of SIEF2025 - Unwriting

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Online Reading Club

In 2025, the WG for Museums and Material Culture launched a new Reading Club to encourage more regular meetings and discussions about recent research. The club will generally convene once a month, with meetings held online. For each meeting, we will read a selected article or similar material of interest, but you can also join without preparation, as the discussions usually move on to cover more general issues.View details >>

XXXVth Eurethno Workshop (Council of Europe)

5th conference of the SIEF Francophone Working Group
16th conference of the SIEF Ritual Year Working Group

Campus Carlone, Nice, France, 24-27 October 2026 – Université Côte d’Azur – LAPCOS UPR 7278. Organized by the LAPCOS UPR 7278 research unit and the department of ethnology-anthropology of the Côte d’Azur University, together with the FER-Eurethno network (Council of Europe), the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF) and the French Society for Ethnology (SEF). View details >>

New issue of Ethnologia Europaea, Vol. 55, no. 1

The current issue of Ethnologia Europaea, volume 55, no. 1, features three articles, an ethnographic snapshot and two in memoriam appreciations. It is not a special issue, but readers will quickly identify the strong Nordic content within these pages. Thematically, some readers might feel that hybridity is equally back in the centre ring as a significant conceptual harmoniser.

New Issue of Cultural Analysis, 23:1 (2025)

Encountering Uncertainties in Ethnology and Folklore
Guest Editors: Hande Birkalan-Gedik, Katre Kikas, Konrad J. Kuhn

This special issue, Encountering Uncertainties in Ethnology and Folklore: Actors – Milieus – Strategies, presents papers dealing with uncertainties in fieldwork and archives.

New Issue of Cultural Analysis, 23:2 (2025)

The Power of Examples
Guest Editors: Anne Eriksen, Kyrre Kverndokk

The special issue presents a collection of articles that bring the study of examples into the fields of cultural analysis, ethnology, and folklore studies. Concentrating on the three aspects performativity, epistemology, and narrative, as well as the relations between them, the texts explore the function, power, and rationality of examples and exemplarity. They demonstrate how examples are put to work in different cultural contexts, how their authority and cultural power are established, and how examples may be challenged, changed and renegotiated.