Autor: Antonio Matijas

During the 2014 jubilee year SIEF not only celebrates, but also spreads its wings. On 12 September the members present in Amsterdam participated in a successful golden jubilee and reflected on SIEF’s past and future. Two months later SIEF celebrated again its birthday at the meeting of the American Folklore Society in Santa Fe. Colleagues from our American counterpart organization were invited to join SIEF and come to Zagreb, while for the first time representatives of the board of SIEF were invited to the AFS board to sound out what common ground could be found for the future.

Skup poslijediplomskih studenata etnologije i kulturne antropologije

The Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research (IEF), academic host, joins with Korčula’s Tourist Board and other local representatives, to welcome all participants of the 28th symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Ethnochoreology. This is the second symposium that the IEF in Zagreb along with local hosts on Korčula have collaborated to make possible an ethnochoreology gathering on the historically rich island of Korčula, along the Adriatic coast of Croatia. In the year 2000, the 21st symposium was a record-breaking event in its attendance welcoming new dance researchers into the Study Group, and again in this 28th biennial meeting, the Study Group has another record-breaking number of participants, many of them international students participating in their first meeting, to mingle with senior members who participated in the 21st symposium.

Envisaged as a follow-up to the topic discussed the previous year (“Feminist Critique of Knowledge Production”), this year’s course will be devoted to the concept of “Feminist Knowledge in Action”, its pertinence and shortcomings when set against the current pressure to legitimize all intellectual work in performative terms of usefulness, functionality and practicality, let alone “efficiency, efficacy and effectiveness”