Our next live Folklore Archives Webinars session on 4th of April 2022 at 18:00-19:30: 

Eija Stark

Docent, Development manager

Finnish Literature Society

"From genre analysis to examination of everyday narratives. A short history of the vocabulary" uses in the Folklore archives of the Finnish Literature Society

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Meeting ID: 815 7760 1220

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Our next live Folklore Archives Webinars on 9th of March 2022 at 18:00-19:30: 

Dr. Dani Schrire

The Program for Folklore and Folk-Culture Studies and the Program in Cultural Studies. Director of the Folklore Research Center. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Dr. Tom Fogel

The Ephraim E. Urbach Post-Doctoral Fellowship, the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture. The Folklore Research Center, Mandel Institute of Jewish Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

"Negotiating archival media and folklore documentation in a community setting"

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The SIEF Working Group on Archives has partnered with SAMLA to organize a series of online webinars during the academic year of 2021-2022. The first main theme of this year's webinars will be various ethnographic thesauri used to describe materials in tradition archives. The second theme will focus on folklore archives education, which will present the opportunity to discuss the content and format of courses on folklore archives taught around the world, share experiences, and discuss innovative approaches to teaching such courses.

We are pleased to announce our first speaker, Críostóir Mac Cárthaigh och Jonny Dillon (National Folklore Collection, Dublin), who will present with a seminar titled "Folklore vocabularies, classification systems and digital publishing".

It will take place on November 15th, 6 PM (CET) on Zoom: click here for the link.

SAMLA is an infrastructure project aiming to digitalize all the main ethnological and folkloristic archives in Norway, and provide a one-door solution to accessing the material. SAMLA unites three tradition archives: the Folklore Archives at the University of Oslo, the Norwegian Ethnological Research at the Norwegian Museum of Cultural History, and the Ethno-Folkloristic Archives at the University of Bergen.

Folklore and tradition archives have been busy documenting everyday life and cultural expressions related to the pandemic, as well as continued working on other archival projects. Projects presented in the poster provide a sample of our work. We encourage you to be curious, learn about these projects, and explore them following this link: https://sites.google.com/ualberta.ca/sief2021-wga/poster

16-06-2021

SIEF2021 15th Congress

BREAKING THE RULES? POWER, PARTICIPATION, TRANSGRESSION

Helsinki, Finland,  19-24 June 2021

https://www.siefhome.org/congresses/sief2021/index.shtml

SIEF2019 14th Congress "Track Changes: Reflecting on a Transforming World" will take place in Santiago de Compostela, Spain from 14 to 17 April. 

SIEF Working Group on Archives will be presented at the poster session on Wednesday at 16.30–18.15, University of Santiago, Faculty of Economics and Business administration, Foyer. 

Instead of a usual poster, this year the WG will present  ‘Ask the Archivist’ poster. For this, in addition to board members present, we welcome volunteers to stand at the poster and answer archiving related questions. Please apply by e-mail traditionarchives@gmail.com or to WG's co-chairs Maryna Chernyauska or Ave Goršič during the Congress. 

10-04-2019

The American Folklore Society has announced the award of 2018 Brenda McCallum Prize which seeks to promote works of excellence and innovation that further the cause of preservation, organization, curation, or enhanced public access and use related to folklife archival collections.

The winner of the Brenda McCallum Prize in 2018 is the collective work "Visions and Traditions. Knowledge Production and Tradition Archives" edited by the Network's members Lauri Harvilahti,  Audun Kjus, Clíona O'Carrol, Suzanne Österlund-Pötzsch, Fredrik Skott, and Rita Treija. 

We congratulate the authors and editors on a work the Committee agreed was forward-looking, cutting edge, and tightly focused on central matters of folklore and folklife archiving, history, theory, and practice. Committee members also saw the work as propelling folklore archives into the modern era of disciplinary shifts by claiming a firm foothold in academic conversations accessible to archivists, folklorists, and folklore-archivists. It also offered numerous interesting case study examples for contemplation. – American Folklore Society / Archives & Libraries Section Prize Committee 

Congratulations!

9-04-2019