The International Scientific Conference “Contemporary Serbian Folkloristics 15” will take place in Tršić, October 2–4, 2024. The conference organizers are the Association of Serbian Folklorists, Scientific, Educational and Cultural Center “Vuk Karadžić” in Tršić, Cultural Center “Vuk Karadžić” in Loznica and University Library “Svetozar Marković” in Belgrade.
Thematic blocks:
1. Folklore and folkloristics in modern scientific and political discourse. Research topics and practices, concepts, curriculums, projects. Conceptual and meta-disciplinary conflicts within folkloristics. Influence of digital technologies on research topics, approaches, and methodologies. Analysis of political priorities and agenda which condition the status of folkloristic research (perception, evaluation, financing). Critical and engaged approaches. Investing discipline authority into ideological projects. “Useability” of scientific findings. Dilemmas with regard to perspectives, status, and identity of the scholarship.
2. Challenges of multiculturalism and inclusion, the questions of representation, minority rights, promotion of cultural diversity. Interdisciplinary challenges. Criticism and reinterpretation of classic philological narratives from the aspect of political correctness. Agenda and consequences analysis in the application of political correctness to classical folklore research, including the question of ethics, authenticity, and censorship. Implications of such approaches to the understanding of cultural heritage and collective identities.
3. Investigation of political control and manipulation of folklore tradition processes, including censorship, political ideologization and usage of folklore for propaganda means. Inventing tradition and the mechanisms of consolidation of social groups (political, warrior, sports fan, refugee, guest worker, migrant folklore). Ethnocultural phenomena of modern popular culture—market manipulation, marketing strategies, and the commercialization of traditional cultural patterns. Intangible cultural heritage between political and market instrumentalization and intellectual responsibility. Analysis of political approaches and strategies in the concepts of safeguarding and preservation of intangible cultural heritage.
4. Contemporary folkloristics — ongoing research presentation.
The title of the paper, with a short abstract (up to 200 words) and a biography (up to 100 words) should be sent no later than May 1, 2023 to the address folkloristika15@gmail.com.
Download the application form here.
The confirmation of participation will be sent by June 1, 2024 and the Program of the International Scientific Conference CSF15 will be announced until September 15, 2024.
The registration fee is 6,000 RSD (€50). For the Association od Serbian Folklorists members who have paid the membership fee for the current year, the registration fee is 4,000 RSD (€35). The conference pack includes transportation from Belgrade to Tršić (a round trip), accommodation and meals.
Program Committee
Dejan Ajdačić, PhD, Institute of Classical and Slavonic Studies of the Faculty of Philology, University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland
Prof. Andey Moroz, PhD, Faculty of Philology of Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
Suzana Marjanić, PhD, Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research, Zagreb, Croatia
Prof. Ana Vitanova Ringačeva, PhD, Faculty of Philology, “Goce Delčev” University, Štip, Northern Macedonia
Barbara Ivančič Kutin, PhD, Institute of Slovenian Ethnology SRC SASA, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Prof. Jelenka Pandurević, PhD, Faculty of Philology, University of Banja Luka, Banja Luka, the Republic of Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Danijela Petković, Institute for Literature and Art, Belgrade, Serbia
Danka Lajić Mihajlović, SASA Institute of Musicology, Belgrade, Serbia
Prof. Miloš Milenković, PhD, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
Miroslava Lukić Krstanović, PhD, SASA Institute of Ethnography, Belgrade, Serbia
Bojan Jović, PhD, Institute for Literature and Art, Belgrade, Serbia
Biljana Sikimić, PhD, SASA Institute for Balkan Studies, Belgrade, Serbia
Prof. Slobodan Naumović, PhD, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, Serbia
Organizing Committee
Prof. Jelenka Pandurević, PhD, Faculty of Philology, University of Banja Luka, Banja Luka
Ana Janjić, PhD, Grammar School “Svetozar Marković”, Jagodina
Bojan Jović, PhD, Institute for Literature and Art, Belgrade
. Aleksandar Jerkov, PhD, University Library “Svetozar Marković”, Belgrade
Smiljana Đorđević Belić, PhD, Institute for Literature and Art, Belgrade
Aleksandra Purić, director of the Scientific, Educational and Cultural Center “Vuk Karadžić”, Tršić