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Dear Colleagues,

The Call for Panels for the 11th international SIEF congress has been 
extended until Oct 21, 2012.

The SIEF 2013 Congress proposes to examine the stakes and implications 
of circulation. Circulation and its semantic siblings – flow, exchange 
and mobility – are the buzzwords around which interdisciplinary 
conversations across the humanities and social sciences are organized at 
the present moment, superseding the previous decade’s buzzword 
globalization, which in turn superseded postmodernity, which superseded 
nationalism and ethnicity – eventually taking us back to the concepts 
around which our fields were constituted, including transmission and 
diffusion. In fact, ethnologists and folklorists as well as cultural 
anthropologists have been thinking and writing about circulation, flow, 
exchange, travel, and mobility for a century and half.

This legacy bears revisiting. We are witnessing an unprecedented growth 
of networks, of new infrastructures and channels that circulate 
knowledge, expressions, images, and information at previously 
unthinkable speeds, ranges and intensities. This calls for a renewed 
interest in how cultural forms and expressions are produced, retained, 
contested or consumed via these new circuits.

The questions raised by this new state of affairs affect every subfield 
of the ethnographic disciplines, and both age-old and emergent 
theoretical foci. For example:

¨ Cultural transmission: How do the political, economic, and logistical 
complexities of circulation affect the constitution and codification of 
meanings?

¨ Participation and collective creativity: Does intensified circulation 
enable more and better participation by communities and individuals, or 
does it raise participation's costs?

¨ Local communities: Have enhanced speed and new media degraded the 
quality of cultural interaction and exchange in existing communities, or 
have they contributed to promoting the local?

¨ Democracy and social justice: Does circulation suffocate or give rise 
to political possibilities?

¨ Aesthetic form and the nature of media and remediation: Are some kinds 
of circulation or certain cultural forms more viable than others?

¨ Cultural and social economies: How do different economies of 
circulation (commoditization, luxury goods, the culture and tourism 
industries, voluntary associations, open-access organizations, forms of 
the gift economy) affect its forms?

¨ Ideologies and identities: What mediations, mobilities, or imaginaries 
contextualize these processes?

¨ Cultural property, heritage policy, and other forms of cultural 
protection: What restricts the travel of cultural forms and what 
promotes their circulation?

¨ Migration studies: How does the travel of these forms relate to the 
movements of people?

Such questions stand as an open invitation to various theoretical and 
empirical interventions. As a thematic touchstone for panels and 
presentations, the Congress theme should be used to help imagine 
informed and engaging entry points into theory or into current 
interdisciplinary conversations, while standing on firm ground in 
ethnology, folkloristics or cultural anthropology.


SIEF is the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore, an 
international scholarly organization founded in 1964. The major purpose 
of the organization is to facilitate cooperation among scholars working 
within socio-cultural anthropology, folklore studies and adjoining fields.


Please go to the congress website to find out more about the Call for 
Panels and the abstract submission process:
http://www.siefhome.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=195&Itemid=81 


The organising team,
Eli, Rohan and Triinu
W: www.siefhome.org
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