Summary
- Topic Workshop — Workshop: "Transnational Folklore"
- When to (Europe/Berlin / UTC200)
- Where Munich — Germany
- Sign up till Apr 30, 2025
- URL https://www.ekwee.uni-muenchen.de/aktuelles/veranstaltungen-neu/workshop-trans-folklore/index.html
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Description
Workshop: Transnational Folklore. Rethinking the Nineteenth‑Century History of Folklore Studies
The workshop will be held at the Institute of European Ethnology and Cultural Analysis at LMU Munich on May 22 and 23, 2025, in collaboration with the Gabriele d’Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara and with the support of BEROSE International Encyclopaedia of the Histories of Anthropology.
22.05.2025 – 23.05.2025
Organised by: Frauke Ahrens (Institute for European Ethnology and Cultural Analysis, LMU Munich), Fabiana Dimpflmeier (Department of Letters, Arts and Social Sciences, Gabriele d’Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara), and Christiane Schwab (Institute for European Ethnology and Cultural Analysis, LMU Munich)
The historiography of folklore studies has been traditionally conducted within national frameworks – not least because the interest in popular traditions and nationalism were deeply intertwined, with each fuelling and shaping the other in significant ways. However, as folklore developed as a field of study with its own institutions and methodologies throughout the nineteenth century, it was also shaped by transnational exchange. By the end of the century, along with the formation of folklore societies and journals in many countries across Europe and beyond, international congresses were held in Paris, London, and Chicago. Numerous individual scholars, e.g. the Italian Giuseppe Pitrè, the German Reinhold Köhler, the American Thomas F. Crane, or the Spaniard Antonio Machado Álvarez, among many others, fostered a web of transnational relationships which supported the construction of a shared theoretical and methodological framework of folklore research.
As part of the project "Actors ‒ Narratives ‒ Strategies: Constellations of Transnational Folklore Research, 1875‒1905", funded by the German Research Foundation, we are planning a workshop to explore ‘transnational folklore’ in nineteenth-century Europe and beyond. Together with fellow scholars in European ethnology, folklore studies, sociocultural anthropology, history, and related fields, we aim to investigate how transnational processes influenced the development, professionalisation, and systematisation of folklore theories and practices. Challenging established histories of folklore, our goal is to reveal alternative framework analysis and approaches by examining the new insights offered by a transnational perspective in understanding folklore knowledge production and circulation.
To participate, please register by April 30, 2025: transnational.folklore[ at ]ekwee.uni-muenchen.de
