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The Ritual Year Newsletter No.2/July 2016 The Ritual Year Newsletter No.2/July 2016 CONTENTS 1. LETTER FROM THE CHAIRS 2. EVENTS OF THE RITUAL YEAR WORKING GROUP OVER THE PAST SIX MONTHS 2.1. The 12th Annual Conference of The Ritual Year Working Group: Regulating Customs (Findhorn, Scotland, United Kingdom, 8-12 January 2016) 2.2. The IUAES Inter-Congress: World Anthropologies and Privatization of Knowledge: Engaging Anthropology in Public (Dubrovnik, Croatia, 4–9 May 2016) 2.3. International conference: Festivals and Rituals in the Urals-Volga Region: Traditions and Innovations in Contemporary Culture (Samara, Russia, 23–25 June 2016) 3. FUTURE EVENTS OF THE RITUAL YEAR WORKING GROUP 3.1. The 13th SIEF Congress: Ways of Dwelling: Crisis – Craft – Creativity (Göttingen, Germany, 26-30 March 2017) 3.2. The 30th Workshop of the FER-Eurethno Network (Council of Europe): Cataloging European Festivals. Comparisons and New Methods of Study (Aix-en-Provence and Marseille, France, 8-10 September 2016) 4. PUBLICATIONS OF THE RITUAL YEAR WORKING GROUP 4.1. Recent publications 4.2. Past publications 5. NEWS FROM OUR MEMBERS 6. OTHER PUBLICATIONS OF INTEREST 7. CALL FOR PAPERS 8. MEMBERSHIP DIRECTORY 1. LETTER FROM THE CHAIRS Dear Members, Welcome to the second annual newsletter of the SIEF Ritual Year Working Group, a group of scholars, teachers, students and other interested parties dedicated to the research of the Ritual Year, past and present, in all its manifestations, ranging from ancient cosmological patterns to life rituals and rural annual festivals, and the invented seasonal traditions established to meet the demands of modern urban society. As noted at the start of the last newsletter (see https://www.siefhome.org/wg/ry/newsletter.shtml), our Working Group has now been running for twelve years, ever since its establishment in Marseilles in 2004, Working Group conferences taking place annually alongside smaller panels that have been organised as part of the larger SIEF congresses. The aforementioned annual conferences have to date resulted in a total of 11 published volumes of the Working Group‘s annual peer-reviewed yearbook, “The Ritual Year” (ISSN 2228-1347), which includes a range of articles based on conference papers. Two further volumes are on their way. The most recent (twelfth) conference took place at Findhorn in Scotland (in January 2016), and preparations are already underway for a Ritual Year panel at the next SIEF Congress in Göttingen, Germany, on 26-30 March 2017. The aim of the Newsletter is to provide members with information about the various activities of the Working Group over the past six months, in the form of conference activities and publications by the Working Group as a whole and its members, as well as providing information about forthcoming conferences relevant to our interests. 1 As the Newsletter indicates, this has been another active year for the Working Group. In addition to the highly successful annual Working Group conference in Findhorn, members have taken part in at least two other international conferences directly relating to our activities: the IUAES Inter-Congress in Dubrovnik in May, and another conference on Festivals and Rituals in the Urals-Volga Region which took place in Samara, Russia in June. Here they not only convened panels but also presenting papers on a wide range of subjects. The Newsletter also contains information about a new publication based around papers presented as part of “The Ritual Year” panel at the 12th SIEF congress in Zagreb, and four other books written or edited by members of the Working Group. As always, we would like to express our thanks to all Working Group members for their continuing interest, their enthusiastic academic work, their organisation of the aforementioned conferences and panels, their editing and proofreading of the Ritual Year volumes, and not least for the warmth and friendship that clearly characterises and feeds our ritual academic family. We look forward to meeting you all again in person at at least one of the gatherings that will be taking place over the next year. Irina Sedakova and Terry Gunnell 2. EVENTS OF THE RITUAL YEAR WORKING GROUP OVER THE PAST SIX MONTHS 2.1 The 12th Annual Conference of The Ritual Year Working Group: Regulating Customs (Findhorn, Scotland, United Kingdom, 8-12 January 2016), by Irina Stahl The 12th Annual International conference of the SIEF working group on The Ritual Year took place in Findhorn, Morayshire, Scotland, on 8-12 January 2016, under the general title of Regulating Customs. The academic event was organized by Thomas McKean, with the assistance of conference committee members: Frances Wilkins; Athanasios Barbalexis; and Marlene Hugoson, under the auspices of the Elphinstone Institute, University of Aberdeen. Photo: Arūnas Vaicekauskas The conference was timed to to coincide with the main ritual attraction of the region – The Burning of the Clavie at Burghead, a nearby fishing village and site of a major first-millennium Pictish fortification. The Clavie is a fire festival marking Aul Eel (Old Yule), which takes place on 11 January, according to the Julian calendar. 2 The conference consisted of 25 papers organized into five panels: Transitions, Regulation and Control, Adaptations, Negotiating Oppositions, and Creating Identities, Creating Traditions. Scholars from 13 countries dealt with field research data from various world regions and time periods, encompassing ethnography, cultural anthropology, sociology, history, religious studies, folklore, and linguistics. Additional papers were delivered by MLitt students at the Elphinstone Institute. Photos: Arūnas Vaicekauskas During their stay, conference participants had the opportunity to experience the local culture and history of the area, in addition to listening to traditional Scottish storytelling, and Gaelic and Scots songs. After the conference, they enjoyed a day-long excursion around Morayshire, which ended with the Burning of the Clavie through the streets of Burghead. As usual, the publication of the papers presented has been planned and a call for papers is to be expected in the near future. Photo: Skaidrė Urbonienė Photos: Arūnas Vaicekauskas 3 More information about the conference and the papers presented can be found in the detailed conference review by Tom McKean and Irina Sedakova, published in the last issue of the Revista Română de Sociologie [Romanian Journal of Sociology] (1-2/2016), at: http://revistadesociologie.ro/en/sites/default/files/10-viatast.pdf 2.2 The IUAES Inter-Congress: World Anthropologies and Privatization of Knowledge: Engaging Anthropology in Public (Dubrovnik, Croatia, 4–9 May 2016), by Nina Vlaskina On May 4–9, 2016, the beautiful city of Dubrovnik (Croatia) hosted one of the most important scientific events of the year within the field of humanities: the Inter-Congress of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES), dealing with World Anthropologies and Privatization of Knowledge: Engaging Anthropology in Public. It included keynote lectures, poster sessions, 146 panels with 695 papers from all over the world, scheduled meetings of several councils and commissions, along with ethnographic film screenings and a social programme. Participants of the Congress presented various examples reflecting the successful collaboration of scholars, businesspeople, social activists, and government representatives as well as narrow in- depth studies within the different sub-disciplines of anthropology. At the plenary session on Futures of Anthropology Photo: Nina Vlaskina The programme of the Congress included discussions which were divided into several groups of problematic issues with a particular thematic accent each working day. The first day was devoted to the geographic diversity of anthropologies discussing the concepts of the centre and the periphery, marginal societies, and different spaces and landscapes like the beach or the steppes, islands, and urban areas and activities typical of each of them. On this day, Nevena Škrbić Alempijević, a member of The Ritual Year working group, assisted by Tanja Bukovčan organized Panel 431 on Body and Performances in Urban Spaces: Applying Cultural Anthropology in Cultural Policies? Here she presented a paper entitled: Performing Art, Making the city: A Case Study of Zagreb focusing on observing how different agents imagine, use and redefine the city with their performances. The majority of the next day (May 5) focused on the general topics of migration, mobility and displacement, the privatization of knowledge, and different issues concerning heritage preservation and management, and the museum and tourism industry. 4 The agenda for the panels on May 6 included a variety of discussions on applied anthropology, health issues, the opposition of the rural and the urban as well as different forms of artistic expression. On this day, two members of The Ritual Year working group delivered presentations: Jaka Repič convened the Panel 501: Art and Mobility together with Juan Carlos Radovich and Nadia Molek and talked about Art and Mobility in Slovenian Diasporas of Argentina and other countries. He juxtaposed the life trajectories and production of artists and their social contexts to explore the correspondence between art and different meaningful places. Miha Kozorog presented a paper on Resisting Institutionalized Boredom with Punk Music and Art: Notes on the Bosnian-Herzegovinian Refugees’ Struggle in Slovenia in the 1990s as part of Panel 562: Music and Society: Resistance and
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