The 16th international SIEF congress took place in Brno, the second largest city of the Czech Republic, the country, where SIEF forerunner Commission internationale de l’art populaire has been founded. After almost 100 years SIEF returned to Central Europe, a region where many uncertainties worth of ethnological, folklore and related research arises and overlaped for centuries. There were 998 delegates in attendance with 97 panels convened and 669 papers presented.

Photo: Pavel Gabzdyl

In the current times of various threats, vivid and vibrant auspices of the Masaryk University in Brno will provide a unique opportunity to demonstrate that inspiration for our work can flow in various directions and not only along the current hegemonic axes, to search for connections and bridges rather than divisions and to contribute to a balanced scholarly collaboration across established borders of any kind.

This was the intention of three local partners which have agreed on a joint initiative to host the congress: the Institute of Ethnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, the Department of European Ethnology of the Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University and the National Institute of Folk Culture.

SIEF2023 congress was held under the auspices of:
President of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Rector of Masaryk University
Minister of Culture of the Czech Republic

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