UPCOMING EVENTS

Joint message from Archives and Cultural Heritage and Property WGs – Spring SIEF Newsletter

ARCHIVES OF TRADITIONAL CULTURE: 100 + 10
The Cultural Heritage and Property (CHP) and Archives (WGoA) working groups were delighted to receive funding of 2000 Euros from SIEF for its support for digital streaming and other expenses of the Archives of Latvian Folklore’s conference, Archives of Traditional Culture: 100 + 10, to be held 29–31 October 2024 in Riga as a hybrid in-person and online convening. The conference is also supported by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Latvia, the State Culture Capital Foundation, Latvian National Commission for UNESCO, and Riga City Council. The conference, which celebrates the Archive’s 100th anniversary, will deal with both historical and contemporary documentation and address a diverse range of issues relating to the past, present, and future of archives of traditional culture. Maryna Chernyavska, co-chair of the WGoA, will be one of the keynote speakers. She will discuss the role of folklore archives in shaping societal memory about past and present. The other keynoter will be Sanita Rainsone, who will focus on the collaborative aspects of folklore archives and their digital futures in the emerging era of artificial intelligence.
The organizing committee can be reached by email. Registration is currently open for individuals presenting at the conference, and more details on the programme and general registration will be available in due course.

PAST 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.

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.