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SUMMARY:LUCIS Summer School on Philology and Manuscripts from the Muslim World
DESCRIPTION:The Leiden University Centre for the Study of Islam and Society (LUCIS) will offer its fourth Summer School (August 23-September 2\, 2022) on Philology and Manuscripts from the Muslim World\, with lectures by experts\, hands-on classes and much practice with manuscripts from its famous collection of oriental manuscripts. The course is meant for graduate students (MA and PhD) and researchers.
URL:https://americanfolkloresociety.org/event/lucis-summer-school-on-philology-and-manuscripts-from-the-muslim-world/
CATEGORIES:In-Person Gathering,Non-AFS event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20220901T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20220902T170000
DTSTAMP:20260404T054140
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SUMMARY:"The Circle of Life” – Birth\, Dying\, and the Liminality of Life since the Nineteenth Century
DESCRIPTION:Birth and dying are the only life events that everyone experiences – without anyone being able to tell about them. As existential transitions in human life they have a profound significance for every society. Surprisingly\, in historical research they are usually considered in isolation. Anthropologists and ethnologists\, on the other hand\, have been interpreting them as entangled practices for a long time\, as envisioned in the concept of liminality and rites of passage by Arnold van Gennep and Victor Turner. In observing that cultures have different approaches to these phenomena\, they observed that their functions depended on the specifics of a given society and its cultural beliefs and performances. \n\n\n\nHowever\, rites of passage and liminal stages do not only have a cultural dimension. Rather\, they are connected with historical change. This can be seen in modern societies where processes such as secularisation\, modernisation\, scientification\, and rationalisation had a major impact on (religious) systems of beliefs as well as everyday life. Therefore\, these processes also influenced the meaning of liminality and rites of passage that are subjects to public discourses\, political decisions\, and legal requirements. To give but two examples: So-called ‘pro-life’ groups try to alter the definition of the beginning of life\, in order to prepone the moment the state is obligated to protect this life. The Heartbeat Law in Texas or the decision of the Polish Constitutional Tribunal from October 2020\, but also historical discourses like the pre-referendum debates in the Republic of Ireland in the early 1980s show how impactful these discussions about the liminal stage of conception could be in modern societies. In a similar vein\, debates on euthanasia have triggered a broad international controversy on when life ends – and on how people can die “with dignity” in the light of medical opportunities to prolong the life of terminal patients further and further. While the ethical and legal legitimacy of mercy killings is still disputed in most countries\, passive forms of euthanasia are generally accepted\, even in Catholic societies. \n\n\n\nBecause they are subjects to individual and intimate aspects of human life as well as because of their relevance for societies\, the thinking and arguing about liminality and rites of passage tend to be discussed in a controversial manner. The stages of conception\, birth(-giving)\, and dying show exemplarily the general ambivalence liminality and rites of passage can create in political discussions as well as their complex legal implications. \n\n\n\nTopics will include\, among others\, the following questions: \n\n\n\nHow do modern\, especially pluralist\, societies deal with the above mentioned liminal stages at the beginning and end of human life;Which factors and processes have influence on changes in understanding and interpreting these stages;How do modern societies and their diverse subgroups react to social change\, shifts in values\, and scientific innovation with regard to the liminal stages of conception\, birth(-giving)\, and dying;Which notions\, ideas\, and (legal) traditions influence the legislative regulation of these stages?
URL:https://americanfolkloresociety.org/event/the-circle-of-life-birth-dying-and-the-liminality-of-life-since-the-nineteenth-century/
CATEGORIES:Conference,In-Person Gathering,Non-AFS event,Virtual,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20220906T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20220909T170000
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SUMMARY:ISFNR Committee on Charms\, Charmers and Charming 2022 Conference: Charms\, Canonical and Non-Canonical
DESCRIPTION:At various times and places\, alongside the texts and practices based on the canons of science and religion\, other unofficial but widely practiced traditions have existed. The traditions of charms and folk medicine feature traits of both ‘high’ cultures and peripheral otherness\, in practices that have interacted over time. Historically\, their co-existence has often been peaceful and complementary\, though at times violent as well. Traditions practiced by the masses could be banned and persecuted. This clash was based on the values of different cultures\, religions\, and ethnic groups\, as well as economic considerations. At the same time\, the antagonism between these values enriched tradition\, whether that be the clashes between official religion and folk religion\, permitted and forbidden medicine\, correct and deluded texts and practices\, or so on. Priests\, monks and educated doctors have fought for the right to heal the people; church canons\, prayers\, and the cult of saints have influenced folk traditions; the development of conventional medicine has changed local traditions\, while local conditions have determined the regional peculiarities of official religion and conventional medicine. \n\n\n\nThis conference aims to focus on canonical and non-canonical texts and practices\, their coexistence and interaction over time. The conference also invites discussion on terminology and methodology of the discipline\, analogue and digital resources\, and future perspectives. \n\n\n\nThe conference will take place in Riga at the National Library of Latvia as an in-person event with the option of some papers being presented virtually.
URL:https://americanfolkloresociety.org/event/isfnr-committee-on-charms-charmers-and-charming-2022-conference-charms-canonical-and-non-canonical/
LOCATION:National Library of Latvia
CATEGORIES:In-Person Gathering,Non-AFS event,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20220906T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20220907T160000
DTSTAMP:20260404T054140
CREATED:20220813T204227Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220829T175823Z
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SUMMARY:Communicating Sustainability: An International Gathering for Sustainability Activists
DESCRIPTION:In collaboration with the University of Glasgow in Scotland and the Universidade Federal de Sergipe in Brazil\, the MA in Cultural Sustainability at Goucher College invites you to explore the issues complicating and supporting sustainability work across sectors. This two-day gathering will begin with case studies and conversations hosted by each regional campus. On the second day\, colleagues in Scotland and Brazil will join for a virtual international conversation. Whether your focus is cultural\, environmental\, economic\, or social\, join us to share your experiences\, challenges\, solutions\, and stories. To view the schedule of speakers and join the conversation hosted by Goucher College\, register through the link below. \n\n\n\nRegistration closed August 15\, 2022\, but there are still plenty of virtual spots available and a few in-person registrations spots. Contact event organizers for additional information.
URL:https://americanfolkloresociety.org/event/communicating-sustainability-an-international-gathering-for-sustainability-activists/
CATEGORIES:Conference,In-Person Gathering,Non-AFS event,Virtual
ORGANIZER;CN="Goucher College":MAILTO:Amy.Skillman@goucher.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20220909T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20220911T170000
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CREATED:20220329T165455Z
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SUMMARY:International Interdisciplinary Conference on 'Intimacy\, Violence\, and Power'
DESCRIPTION:The link between intimacy and violence has been highlighted by the #MeToo movement of women who have come out about the sexual violence they have suffered. The theorist John Shotter has pointed out\, in his delineation of ‘joint action’\, that being ‘in hate’ is as intimate as being ‘in love’. This might go some way towards explaining domestic abuse which often takes place in private. Crucially\, the link involves various forms and dimensions of power which enable the commitment and perpetration of violent acts. Whereas public forms of violence are easily identifiable\, denounced and sometimes prosecuted\, it is not so with those committed in private which evade the normative force of the public eye and where the dynamics of power are often complex and sometimes multi dimensional. This is probably why some rape cases\, including some of those associated with the #MeToo movement\, get mired in controversy and uncertainty. \n\n\n\nViolence in cultural practices is often undertaken in seclusion: initiation rites including circumcision\, say\, or\, more extremely\, female genital mutilation. This is true also for violent expressions of public power. An example was South Africa’s apartheid state invading the private sphere of individuals by breaking in on sexual acts it defined as ‘ The increasing deployment of state power in the form of legislations for example against homosexuals and reproductive rights in conservative societies across the world entails similar violence against the private sphere. This has also come to the fore during the lockdowns that have accompanied the COVID 19 pandemic. But violent deployment of power can take less spectacular and more innocuous forms especially in the kinds of private contexts within which sexual abuse occurs. Examples of this would include the power of seduction as well as different forms of psychological manipulation and conversational brutality\, the dynamics of which often remain opaque. These can have extreme and far reaching effects because they draw on the perpetrators’ intimate knowledge of their subjects and circumstances as is sometimes dramatized in literary and cinematic works of all genres. \n\n\n\nGoing beyond the realm of human relationships\, it is important also to recognize the impact of violating and disrupting convention; of radical deviations from extant conditions or patterns of stability or generic form such as those which characterize formal uses of language. In this regard\, linguistic and epistemological violence remains a vexed issue that manifests across pedagogical\, psycho-social and epistemological contexts. Furthermore\, the symbolism of violence in its varying forms\, remains a topos for fertile interdisciplinary exploration.
URL:https://americanfolkloresociety.org/event/international-interdisciplinary-conference-on-intimacy-violence-and-power%ef%bf%bc/
CATEGORIES:Conference,Non-AFS event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20220909T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20220909T170000
DTSTAMP:20260404T054140
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SUMMARY:Attitudes towards Gender-Inclusive Language: A Multinational Perspective
DESCRIPTION:Gender-neutral and gender-inclusive language is currently being discussed in the public sphere\, and views on the subject have increasingly been voiced by individuals as well as organisations. These include state institutions\, private associations\, subject specialists such as linguists\, and private individuals / laypeople. Views of and attitudes towards gender-neutral language cover a abroad spectrum between extreme ends\, and even subject specialists hold conflicting views. \n\n\n\nSome academic research on attitudes towards gender-neutral language has been conducted and published. However\, a multinational/multilingual\, comparative perspective is still missing. To address this shortcoming\, this international conference will bring together researchers studying attitudes towards gender-neutral language in different languages and countries.
URL:https://americanfolkloresociety.org/event/attitudes-towards-gender-inclusive-language-a-multinational-perspective/
CATEGORIES:Conference,Non-AFS event,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20220912T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20220914T170000
DTSTAMP:20260404T054140
CREATED:20220303T182250Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220303T182251Z
UID:9846-1662969600-1663174800@americanfolkloresociety.org
SUMMARY:Summer School in Global and Trans-national History: What is European History in the 21st Century?
DESCRIPTION:The Department of History at the European University Institute (EUI) will host its eighteenth Summer School in Global and Transnational History\,  on September 12-14 2022\, in an online format. This year\, the theme will be What is European History in the 21st Century? \n\n\n\nIn the nearly half century since the EUI History Department was established\, the contours of European history have shifted away from nation-based or comparative approaches. The department now defines itself a center for the study of transnational\, global and comparative history. All of these approaches are implicitly about creating a new history of Europe\, but how are they accomplishing this goal? What is the outlook for the future of this project? This summer school is devoted to asking\, “What is European History in the 21st Century?” As historians call for the decolonization of history\, and\, simultaneously\, face the historical distortions encouraged by resurgent populist nationalisms\, reflection on the possibilities and problems of European history have never seemed more urgent. Should European history bring to the centre of its narratives\, peoples and societies who are traditionally considered marginal to Europe? How can European History illuminate the global and transnational dynamics which have shaped the lives of differently situated Europeans? \n\n\n\nThe EUI Department of History\, situated in the hills of Florence\, is a major centre for the study of comparative and transnational European history and of European history in a global perspective. Its annual Summer School has established itself as an exciting and stimulating experience for postgraduate students.  \n\n\n\nThe Summer School will combine discussion of methodological issues in global\, transnational and comparative history with case studies by leading specialists from the European University Institute and other major universities.
URL:https://americanfolkloresociety.org/event/summer-school-in-global-and-trans-national-history-what-is-european-history-in-the-21st-century/
CATEGORIES:Non-AFS event,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20220913T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20220914T170000
DTSTAMP:20260404T054140
CREATED:20220329T173104Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220329T173106Z
UID:10542-1663056000-1663174800@americanfolkloresociety.org
SUMMARY:Emotions and Holocaust Studies
DESCRIPTION:The persecution and murder of six million Jews during the Holocaust provoke various powerful emotions (grief\, despair\, pain\, hope\, etc.). These personal sentiments and feelings play a significant role in motivating people to be interested in the Holocaust and are a driving force in fictional representations and academic debates. Yet Holocaust Studies has focused so far primarily on historical facts\, structures\, and institutions\, rather than studying the emotions experienced during and after the events. Scholars who pay attention to emotions\, usually explore the role of fear and antisemitic hatred in Nazi propaganda and the rise of antisemitism throughout Europe\, but rarely discuss the emotions of victims or the feelings that motivated people to become rescuers or other historical actors. \n\n\n\nRecent scholarship on the history of emotions has helped us broaden our understanding of historical events and how they continue to shape our lives. These studies point to the functions of emotions in guiding people’s understanding of and reactions to the situations they are in\, influencing decision-making processes\, contributing to the making and breaking of social relationships\, and informing memories and moral orientations. The study of emotions brings to light how feelings shaped the history of Jews and non-Jews during and after the Holocaust; it also reveals cultural and social patterns that continue to affect people’s lives today. Such an approach can help us understand the ways in which trauma and loss were integrated into people’s lives. This workshop offers a platform to integrate these insights into Holocaust Studies. \n\n\n\nA follow-up in-person event is planned at Goethe University\, Frankfurt in early 2023.
URL:https://americanfolkloresociety.org/event/emotions-and-holocaust-studies/
CATEGORIES:Non-AFS event,Virtual,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20220914T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20220916T170000
DTSTAMP:20260404T054140
CREATED:20220411T192659Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220411T192700Z
UID:10687-1663142400-1663347600@americanfolkloresociety.org
SUMMARY:Translation Spaces – Spaces in Translation
DESCRIPTION:The aim of the conference is methodological reflection on and historical examination of the connection between the translational and the spatial turn in research settings devoted specifically to the Early Modern period. The focus will thus be on an early epoch of globalization during which the ‘old’ world took increasing interest in non-European regions and cultures. Spurred on by Europe’s exponentiated multilingualism and territoriality\, European translation cultures resonated worldwide by way of the bidirectional channels of colonialism in the Early Modern period. In the process\, they interacted with translation cultures elsewhere\, in turn bringing about reactions and sparking new developments within Europe. \n\n\n\nWhere were translations carried out and received in the period under investigation? What spaces do those translations describe and stage\, using what techniques? What regions were associated with—or disassociated from—one another through translations? Taking this question complex as its point of departure\, the conference will seek to gain new insights from the interweave of translation studies and topological research in the cultural studies field from two perspectives:
URL:https://americanfolkloresociety.org/event/translation-spaces-spaces-in-translation/
CATEGORIES:Conference,In-Person Gathering,Non-AFS event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20220914T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20220915T160000
DTSTAMP:20260404T054140
CREATED:20220705T181353Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220705T181355Z
UID:11614-1663160400-1663257600@americanfolkloresociety.org
SUMMARY:Praying on the Pitch: Football\, Religion and Social Identities (Online Short Course)
DESCRIPTION:This online short course\, which is offered by Aga Khan University’s Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations\, analyses football’s relation to the religious world. Too often in the past\, football has been defined narrowly as a sort of secular religiosity\, with no appreciation of the complex social identities within the sport. This course will explore how religious practice intersects and overlaps with the beautiful game.  The course will use both a historical framework to highlight the longevity and intricacies of this relationship\, and an approach that posits football as an analytical window for examining broader geopolitical and social forces. In particular\, it will examine whether football can be viewed as a vehicle for the socio-political integration of marginalized groups into wider society\, and the extent to which religious belonging is a facilitator or obstacle for any tensions that arise. \n\n\n\nCourse Aims \n\n\n\nThe course will examine the following questions: \n\n\n\n• What is the view among religious organizations on the role of football in society? \n\n\n\n• Is the global and growing interest in football a challenge to religion\, or a positive force for religious organizations? \n\n\n\n• How does football contribute to nationalist discourses that exclude certain religious practices from its purview? \n\n\n\n• Can the sport be used for the socio-political integration of marginalized groups into wider society\, and to what extent is religious belonging used as a vehicle to ameliorate tensions that arise? \n\n\n\nCourse Convenor \n\n\n\nProfessor Leif Stenberg is the Dean of the Aga Khan University’s Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations (AKU-ISMC). His latest research has been on the various intersections between football\, religion and social identities. He recently organised an AKU-ISMC conference on the topic in May 2022\, with an edited volume forthcoming in 2023. Professor Stenberg has recently published a co-edited a volume with Professor Philip Wood on the politics of studying Islam entitled What is Islamic Studies? He is also the author of AKU-ISMC’s new book\, Poet and Businessman: Abd al-Aziz al-Babtain and the Formation of Modern Kuwait. \n\n\n\nDate and Time \n\n\n\nSeptember 14-15\, 2022\, 1:00-4:00 (London Time). \n\n\n\nTickets \n\n\n\n£75 professionals | £45 students\, AKU alumni and staff. \n\n\n\nLearn more
URL:https://americanfolkloresociety.org/event/praying-on-the-pitch-football-religion-and-social-identities-online-short-course/
CATEGORIES:Non-AFS event,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20220919T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20220921T170000
DTSTAMP:20260404T054140
CREATED:20220324T181023Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220324T181024Z
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SUMMARY:Moving Jewish Film (Hi)stories Between Europe and Latin America
DESCRIPTION:Jewish culture and history exist in continuous movements\, temporary locations\, and frequent transits. Multilingualism is as much part of it as the experience of migration. While Jews emigrated from Spain and Portugal to Central and South Americas early as the fifteenth century escaping the Spanish Inquisition\, mass emigration waves occurred some three hundred years later. In the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth century exposed to anti-Semitic pogroms\, suffering poverty and starvation\, Jewish communities formerly situated in Central Europe decided to look for new opportunities in the South. Undeniably the biggest threat to European Jewry was National Socialism. Persecuted by the Nazi regime\, they arrived in Latin American countries in great numbers from the 1920s onwards. Well educated\, creative\, politically outspoken\, impoverished\, and traumatized\, the newly arrived immigrants became an important part of local cultures and communities. These dynamics were disrupted yet again in the wake of dictatorships in the 1970s and 1980s in Latin America: Alongside others who had to flee political and cultural repression\, many Jewish intellectuals and artists returned to Europe. \n\n\n\nOscillating around the numerous stops between the two continents\, film is an important medium that gives expression to Jewish life\, memories and experiences of migration\, trauma\, resistance\, and resilience. In Argentina or Mexico\, artists whose parents sought refuge from the calamities of the Holocaust redrew their family’s movements inspired by objects\, photos\, stories\, or songs. Utilizing experimental\, narrative and documentary formats\, Jewish filmmakers investigate the legacy of Nazism and link traumas of the Holocaust and of repressive regimes across space and time. Filmmakers for who Jewishness involves making real and imaginary connections between Europe and Latin America include Narcisa Hirsch\, Daniel Burman\, Ariel and Rodrigo Dorfman\, Alejandro Springall\, and Guita Schyfter. Directors such as Peter Lilienthal\, Jeanine Meerapfel or Alejandro Jodorowsky\, who were born or grew up in Uruguay\, Argentina\, or Chile\, have become mediators of a transnational film culture in Europe. \n\n\n\nWithin a growing body of projects and publications that conceptualizes Jewish Latin American cinema\, our project zooms in on Jewish filmmaking that bridges Latin America with Europe – an important direction that has not been given much scholarly consideration yet. The workshop\, to take place in September 2022\, aims to map Jewish film as transcultural and cross-continental mediator.
URL:https://americanfolkloresociety.org/event/moving-jewish-film-histories-between-europe-and-latin-america/
CATEGORIES:Non-AFS event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20220922T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20220924T170000
DTSTAMP:20260404T054140
CREATED:20220314T180610Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220314T180611Z
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SUMMARY:Student workshop at the Czech Academy of Sciences\, 22–24 September 2022
DESCRIPTION:All European societies had to respond to the major political upheavals\, wars and crises of the 20th century\, with some parallels and differences coming to light. In changing political systems – during the Nazi terror as well as under state socialism – musicians\, composers and audiences either sought to maintain their autonomy or opened up to political agitation. This workshop aims to explore how aspects of autonomy and agitation are reflected in the practice of composition and music making. To this end\, a comparative approach is taken by examining different repertoire from before\, during and after World War II.  \n\n\n\nPossible fields of research include but are not limited to:  \n\n\n\nPopular music including musical theater and film music Counterculture and resistance\, possibilities and limitations of cultural transfer Persecuted musicians during and after the Holocaust Cultural memory and forgetting\, the myth of Zero Hour (Stunde null) The Iron Curtain as a problem and a challenge in Europe: divided Germany\, Yugoslavia between the blocs\, Soviet and American influences The works of individual personalities such as Bohuslav Martinů or Dmitri Shostakovich Music history “from below”: everyday culture and media in transformation Youth cultures from swing youth to the emerging hippie movement The politics of folk music movements 
URL:https://americanfolkloresociety.org/event/student-workshop-at-the-czech-academy-of-sciences-22-24-september-2022/
CATEGORIES:In-Person Gathering,Non-AFS event
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20220922T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20220923T170000
DTSTAMP:20260404T054140
CREATED:20220329T172304Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220912T170445Z
UID:10538-1663833600-1663952400@americanfolkloresociety.org
SUMMARY:Religion and Welfare in the European Borderlands from the Late 19th Century to the Present
DESCRIPTION:The ERC SOCIOBORD and “Who cares in Europe?” Cost Action’s conference \n\n\n\nSocial assistance was originally designed according to religious norms. The supremacy of religious providers was then challenged by the emergence of statutory schemes of provision. During the last two decades one can observe a growing research interest in the role of religion in past and present developments of the modern welfare states and welfare regimes. This interest challenges and goes beyond the initial limitations of the secularization and modernization theses embedded in the earlier investigations into the modern European welfare. This revisionist merger of welfare and religious studies has brought fascinating insights into\, for example\, the long-term impacts of religious doctrines on shaping secularized national welfare regimes\, the importance of Christian parties in the mobilization for or against the specific sets of welfare strategies\, and the overall influence of religious/secular tensions to what are known as four major European models of welfare states. \n\n\n\nMost research on the entanglement between modern welfare regimes and religion is still done from the perspective of the central state in its various forms. This conference aims at bringing the flourishing field of the borderland studies as a promising third party to research on religion and welfare in the modern period.  \n\n\n\nCall for submissions
URL:https://americanfolkloresociety.org/event/religion-and-welfare-in-the-european-borderlands-from-the-late-19th-century-to-the-present%ef%bf%bc/
CATEGORIES:Conference,Non-AFS event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20220924T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20220924T170000
DTSTAMP:20260404T054140
CREATED:20220302T173058Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220302T173107Z
UID:9823-1664006400-1664038800@americanfolkloresociety.org
SUMMARY:The Schoharie River Center's First Annual Mayfly Film Festival
DESCRIPTION:The Schoharie River Center presents the first annual Mayfly Film Festival\, which seeks to curate an inspiring program of diverse films that are focused on the environment\, and our relationship with it. \n\n\n\nThe Mayfly is an insect that is very susceptible to pollutants. When researching water quality\, the presence of Mayflies can indicate that the water is clean or getting better.  \n\n\n\nThey believe that this sensitive and ancient species is a perfect mascot for our delicate environment. \n\n\n\nIssues may include: \n\n\n\nClimate ChangeEcologyPollutionToxinsWater QualityGreener LivingTraditional Crafts\, blacksmithing\, timber framing\, fiber arts\, etc.Science and ResearchGreen Space/ForestryWildlifeBiodiversityRecycling/Waste
URL:https://americanfolkloresociety.org/event/the-schoharie-river-centers-first-annual-mayfly-film-festival/
CATEGORIES:In-Person Gathering,Non-AFS event
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20220925T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20221009T170000
DTSTAMP:20260404T054140
CREATED:20220310T164403Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220310T164404Z
UID:10123-1664092800-1665334800@americanfolkloresociety.org
SUMMARY:World Folklore Festival - Cote D'Azur - Sanremo 2022
DESCRIPTION:A folk dance festival that includes Fragonard (General sponsor of the festival)\, Nice\, Monaco and Monte Carlo\, Sanremo and Cannes. \n\n\n\n\nLearn more here
URL:https://americanfolkloresociety.org/event/world-folklore-festival-cote-dazur-sanremo-2022/
CATEGORIES:In-Person Gathering,Non-AFS event
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