UPCOMING EVENTS

The American Folklife Center of the Library of Congress will present a webinar, Community-driven Archives: Local Needs/Global Practices in Safeguarding Living Cultural Heritage through Zoom on Friday, 8 September 2023, 10:30 – 14:30 U.S. Eastern time (GMT-4), 16:30 – 20:30 Central European time. The American Folklife Center is organizing this webinar with support from SIEF and the American Folklore Society. It will include roundtables discussing community-guided documentation and archival preservation work from international perspectives. considering issues of ethics and equity, community self-representation and ownership, access and the roles of cultural specialists including folklorists, ethnologists and ethnomusicologists in enabling community co-creation in archives. This event has particular relevance to the global project of safeguarding intangible cultural heritage, highlighting the need for maintaining repositories of ICH documentation for the present and future use of source communities.

Registration in advance is required

Further details are available here

This event is presented by the American Folklife Center with support from the American Folklore Society and the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore

Event schedule (U.S. Eastern Time GMT-4):

• 10:30: Welcome and introduction to the American Folklife Center


• Roundtable 1) 11:00 - 12:30: Documenting living traditions and the changing roles of archives: a global view
  Moderator: Robert Baron, Goucher College
  Anthony Seeger, Professor Emeritus UCLA and Curator Emeritus Smithsonian Institution
  Shubha Chaudhuri, Associate Director General (Academic), Archives and Research Centre for Ethnomusicology, American Institute of Indian Studies
  Maryna Chernyavska, Digital Archivist, University of Alberta Archives, Libraries and Museums Andy Kolovos, Associate Director and Archivist, Vermont Folklife Center


• Roundtable 2) 13:00 - 14:30: Community-driven Archives in Action: Approaches and Impacts
  Moderator: Michelle Stefano, American Folklife Center
  Michelle Caswell, Professor, UCLA, Co-Director, UCLA Community Archives Lab
  Ashley Minner, Artist, Folklorist, Assistant Curator for History and Culture, Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian
  Patrick Maundu, Kenya Resource Centre for Indigenous Knowledge, National Museums of Kenya
  Junious Brickhouse, Founder and Executive Director, Urban Artistry, Inc.

PAST EVENTS

Representation of SIEF as an Accredited Non-Governmental Organization at the 9th session of the General Assembly of States Parties to the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, and at the ICH NGO Forum workshops and meetings, UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, 5-7 July 2022.

Religion, Cultural Heritage and Social Change for Central-Eastern Europe, Warsaw, July 4 – 5. Co-sponsored by the CFH Working Group with funding from SIEF, and by the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Sciences.

Representation of SIEF as an Accredited Non-Governmental Organization at the 15th session of the UNESCO Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, and at the ICH NGO Forum workshop and symposium, Online, 14-19 December 2020.

Representation of SIEF as an Accredited Non-Governmental Organization at the 16th session of the UNESCO Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, and at the ICH NGO Forum workshop and symposium, Online, 13-18 December 2021.

Call for papers, sponsored by the SIEF Working Group on Cultural Heritage and Property, for the Special Issue of Slovak Ethnology, volume 69, number 4/2021 (open access), on the topic of Professional, Academic, or Public Engagements and Entanglements of Intangible Cultural Heritage. Abstracts by 30 June 2021, full papers by 31 August 2021.

ICH and higher education (Heri07) [Roundtable]. Breaking the Rules? Power, Participation, Transgression. SIEF 15th Congress. Helsinki, Finland, 19–24 June 2021.

ICH on the ground: the fine art of rules and measures (Heri08). Breaking the Rules? Power, Participation, Transgression. SIEF 15th Congress. Helsinki, Finland, 19–24 June 2021.

Nommer/Normer: approches pluridisciplinaires du patrimoine culturel immatériel. Conference of the Osmose project, sponsored by the SIEF Working Group on Cultural Heritage and Property. Paris, France, 25-26 November 2021.

Representation of SIEF as Accredited Non-Governmental Organization at the 14th session of the UNESCO Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, and at the ICH NGO Forum workshop and symposium, Bogota, Colombia, 7–14 December 2019.

UNESCO and entanglements of intangible cultural heritage (Heri02). Track Changes: Reflecting on a Transforming World.SIEF 14th Congress. Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 14–17 April 2019.

Intangible Cultural Heritage in National Laws: a Dialogue with the 2003 UNESCO Convention. Concluding conference of the Osmose project, sponsored by the SIEF Working Group on Cultural Heritage and Property. Paris, France, 14 February 2019.

Representation of SIEF as Accredited Non-Governmenal Organization at the 13th session of the UNESCO Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage. Port Louis, Mauritius, 26 November – 1 December 2018.

Intangible Cultural Heritage in National Laws: a Dialogue with the 2003 UNESCO Convention. Presentation of the Osmose project at UNESCO, sponsored by the SIEF Working Group on Cultural Heritage and Property. Paris, France, 6 June 2018.

Labels and Other Legal Mechanisms of Intangible Cultural Heritage. Seminar of the Osmose project, sponsored by the SIEF Working Group on Cultural Heritage and Property. Paris, France, 10 November 2017.

Intangible Cultural Heritage in Nature: Spaces, Resources and Practices. Seminar of the Osmose project, sponsored by the SIEF Working Group on Cultural Heritage and Property. Rīga, Latvia, 8 September 2017.

Imperatives of participation in the heritage regime: statecraft, crisis, and creative alternatives (Heri03). Ways of Dwelling: Crisis - Craft - Creativity. SIEF 13th Congress. Göttingen, Germany, 26–30 March 2017.

Intangible Cultural Heritage: National Law and Subjective Rights. Seminar of the Osmose project, sponsored by the SIEF Working Group on Cultural Heritage and Property. Rīga, Latvia, 29 June 2015.

Heritage as social, economic and utopian resource (Heri006). Utopias, Realities, Heritages. Ethnographies for the 21st century. SIEF 12th Congress. Zagreb, Croatia, 21–25 June 2015.

The Transformations of Culture into Heritage. Commodification, Mediatization, Governmentalization. 5th Meeting of the SIEF Working Group on Cultural Heritage and Property. Bergen, Norway, 6, 7 March 2014. See also the call for papers.

Theorizing heritage fractures, divides and gaps (P32), Cultural heritage, status and mobility (P38), Conceptual circulation of intangible cultural heritage in national policies and laws (P47), Normative aspirations in regulating cultural heritage and property (Roundtable) (P63). Circulation. SIEF 11th Congress. Tartu, Estonia, 30 June – 4 July 2013

Local Impact of Heritage-Making. 4th Meeting of the SIEF Working Group on Cultural Heritage and Property. Barcelona, Spain, 13–14 September 2012. See also the call for papers.

Heritage and Individuals. 3rd Meeting of the SIEF Working Group on Cultural Heritage and Property. Pori, Finland. 14–17 September 2011.

Making heritage, making knowledge (P312). People make places. SIEF 10th Congress. Lisbon, Portugal, 18–21 April 2011.

Heritage and Power. 2nd Meeting of the SIEF Working Group on Cultural Heritage and Property. Portugal, 16–17 September 2010.

Conference on Cultural Heritage and Property. Tartu, Estonia, 4 August 2009.