SIEF2019 14th Congress
Santiago de Compostela, Spain
14-17 April 2019
Track Changes: Reflecting on a Transforming World
The 14th international SIEF congress takes place in Santiago de Compostela, the capital of the autonomous community of Galicia in northwestern Spain and the destination of the Camino de Santiago (Way of St. James), one of the most important pilgrimage routes from medieval times. There could be no better place than Santiago de Compostela to host a conference for those well versed in the science and art of observing and analysing human tracks - ethnologists, folklorists, anthropologists and other trackers of culture. The congress' theme Track Changes: Reflecting on a Transforming World draws upon both the ethnological explorations of human life and its continual change as well as the transforming, yet constant, Camino.
The summary travel PDF can be downloaded here.
SIEF2019 Congress Programme is available for download
This congress programme details the panels, papers, posters, films, keynotes and events that form the SIEF 14th congress in Santiago de Compostela.
DOI: doi.org/10.22582/SIEF2019prg
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Plenaries of the Santiago de Compostela congress have been published in the leading Spanish journal Disparidades. You can also find links to videos of all plenaries and social events including Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett’s closing lecture.
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Source: Santiago de Compostela Convention Bureau
Conference Organisers
Main organising institution: Institute of Heritage Sciences, Spanish National Research Council (Incipit CSIC)
Host institution: University of Santiago (Area of Social Anthropology)
Organising institutions: SIEF, AGANTRO, University of Santiago, University of A Coruña, University of Vigo, UNED, UTAD, Meertens Institute
SIEF2019 Congress convenor: Cristina Sánchez-Carretero
Congress Administration in Galicia: Sonia García
Local Organising Committee
Ana Ruiz-Blanch (Incipit-CSIC), Beatriz Santamarina (U. Valencia),
Carlos Diz (U. da Coruña), Cristina Sánchez-Carretero (Incipit-CSIC),
Elena Freire (U. Santiago de Compostela), Fátima Braña (U. Vigo),
Guadalupe Jiménez-Esquinas (U. Santiago de Compostela), Joan
Roura-Expósito (Incipit-CSIC), José Antonio Cortés-Vázquez (U. da
Coruña), José Muñoz-Albaladejo (Incipit-CSIC), Luzía Oca (UTAD), Nieves
Herrero (U. Santiago de Compostela), Bibiana Martínez (U. Barcelona), Paula
Ballesteros-Arias (Incipit-CSIC)
Scientific Committee
Bernhard Tschofen, University of Zurich (Switzerland), Cristina
Sánchez-Carretero, CSIC (Spain), Cyril Isnart, CNRS (France), Ewa
Klekot, University SWPS (Poland), Fatima Braña, U. Vigo (Spain),
Francisco Cruces, UNED (Spain), José A. Cortés-Vázquez, U. da Coruña
(Spain), Nevena Škrbić Alempijević, University of Zagreb (Croatia),
Nieves Herrero, U. Santiago de Compostela (Spain), Peter Jan Margry, U.
Amsterdam-Meertens Institute (Netherlands), Sophie Elpers, Meertens
Institute (Netherlands), Xaquín Rodríguez Campos, U. Santiago de
Compostela (Spain), Xerardo Pereiro, UTAD (Portugal)
The Congress committees are assisted by the nomadic team of professional conference organisers, and membership administrators, NomadIT
