SIEF2021 panels. N.B. This does not include events, keynotes, film sessions – for those see website 12:45-12:45 Panel session [1] Heal01a Care as act of transgression I Health and Medicine Panel Convenors: Letizia Bonanno (University of Kent); Ahmad Moradi (Freie Universität Berlin) Discussant: Tatjana Thelen (University of Vienna IAS Paris) Sat 19th Jun, 12:45-12:45 The panel explores how rules and their transgressions shape relations of care.Given the substantial opacity of care as an array of practices, expectations and moral imageries, we draw attention to the ways in which relations of care are entangled with forms of violence and acts of transgression. Care and tyranny Author: Sjaak van der Geest (University of Amsterdam) The paper investigates the undesired transgressing of boundaries protecting intimacy and autonomy in situations of care, leading to violation of privacy, abuse of power and intensification of suffering. Rules transgression and sexual violence: exploring (un)careful pathways into and out of an arranged marriage in Tajikistan Author: Swetlana Torno (Heidelberg University) This paper traces how disregard of conventional engagement rules drives a young woman into an undesired marriage and entails the acceptance of physical abuse as an exit strategy. It provides insights on the entanglements of care, dependency, and violence while (un)doing kinship relations. Transgressing biopolitical difference through care; migrant and citizen mutual care relating in Greece Author: Ioanna Manoussaki-Adamopoulou (UCL) In a context were people are separated by varying legal rights and systems of care designed to separate, such as border-crossers and citizens, thinking-with and caring-with become acts of transgression of biopolitical difference, enacting equality in action by creating communities of mutual care. Transgressing professional boundaries in learning disability social care support Author: Carys Banks (University of Surrey) This paper explores how staff in UK learning disability support settings transgress rules, or not, around professional boundaries to engage emotionally with the people they support; individuals whose lives can be emotionally impoverished and for whom staff are often their main human contact. Drugs, harm reduction and Covid-19 - whom does care serve? Authors: Johannes Lenhard (University of Cambridge); Eana Meng (Harvard University) Drugs are an item of deviance and transgression; taking care of ‘addicts’ with for instance harm reduction is hence (still) a disputed kind of care. In this paper, we analyze how measures taken during the COVID-19 pandemic further intensified the blurry lines between care and coercion. 15:00-15:00 Panel session [2] Heal01b Care as act of transgression II Health and Medicine Panel Convenors: Letizia Bonanno (University of Kent); Ahmad Moradi (Freie Universität Berlin) Discussant: Tatjana Thelen (University of Vienna IAS Paris) Sat 19th Jun, 15:00-15:00 The panel explores how rules and their transgressions shape relations of care.Given the substantial opacity of care as an array of practices, expectations and moral imageries, we draw attention to the ways in which relations of care are entangled with forms of violence and acts of transgression. When transgressions contain multitudes: water quality monitoring, standards and regulations, and slow violence across the water infrastructure of Jerusalem Author: Emilie Glazer (UCL) This paper examines water quality monitoring in Jerusalem as an act of care, where the transgression of standards and regulations can nurture historical relations of care, forge new bonds, and crystallise forms of slow violence. What constitutes both care and transgression is brought into question. 1 Unruly care: breaking rules for care in an eating disorders treatment centre in Italy Author: Giulia Sciolli (University of Cambridge) The paper explores 'rule breaking' in an Italian eating disorders treatment centre. It suggests that patients’ everyday transgressions of rules, far from being simply acts of resistance to care that boycott treatment, end up generating more care, a kind of unruly care with double-edged consequences. Prayer meetings during lockdown: tangible transgressions and intangible forms of care Author: Marketa Dolezalova (University of Leeds) This paper discusses prayer meetings in private homes of Roma Pentecostals in England during the Covid-19 pandemic when visiting other households was not permitted, and asks what forms of care can exist in situations where rules are transgressed and which create increased risk of virus transmission. 14:00-15:45 Panel session [3] Body04a Bodies in protest: corporeal aesthetics of rule-breaking I Bodies, Affects, Senses, Emotions Panel Convenors: Raul Acosta Garcia (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München); Jeannine-Madeleine Fischer (University of Konstanz) Mon 21st Jun, 14:00-15:45 The act of protesting by rule-breaking in public is legitimised by the bodies of those doing so. In this panel, we will discuss ethnographically informed investigations into the aesthetic qualities of collective performances that enhance the significance of protesting social assemblies. With your shield or on it: symbolism and materiality of shields in contemporary protest Author: Jerald Iverson (University of Tartu) Protestors often perform their demonstrations within the framework of cultural narratives of knights and nobility, adopting shields as a projection of the individual’s identity. These devices bear the symbols that embody their ideology, even as they are used to protect their body from harm. Revolting bodies: on the performativity and rituality of Colombian "tropeles" at the National University of Colombia Author: Leonie Männich (Philipps-Universität Marburg) This paper puts forth an understanding of Colombian tropel as a bodily practice that beyond its form as a violent encounter and based on a performative understanding of it allows us to recognise its subversive potential stimulating reflection processes, questioning capitalism and power structures. Fire women, from hell claiming for political and gender rights Author: Judit Castellví (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) Under the sparks of fire dressed up as devil, women defend their place in folklore somehow at the risk of reproducing gender stereotypes. Likewise, on their disguise many of them, exploiting their public visibility and breaking the rules, wear symbols to claim for political and gender rights. Digi01a Reconsidering the rules of ethnographical and oral history research in times of global crises and digital ubiquity I Digital Lives Panel Convenors: Anne Heimo (University of Turku); Marija Dalbello (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey) Mon 21st Jun, 14:00-15:45 Digital technologies and the current global crises have had major consequences for research. The panel welcomes papers, which explore how these changes generate new, innovative methodological approaches, solutions, and best practices for future historical, ethnographical and oral history research. Confined fieldworks, confined bodies: between the (im)possible fieldwork and traditional dance Author: Julia Popcheva (Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethnographic Museum at Bulgarian Academy of Sciences) The paper reveals how during the Covid-19 crisis, a participant observation has been transformed to a virtual one. It focuses upon the online transition of social and cultural activities of folklore dancing groups during the confinements in 2020 thus providing highly desired sense of a community. Online bodies: challenging the rules of ethnographical research studying embodied experiences Author: Varvara Redmond (University of Warsaw) I research the narratives around a ritual impurity (nidda) in Judaism. During menstruation a married woman and her husband are expected to sleep separately, cannot touch each other in any way or pass objects. I conduct digital discourse analysis in a couple of women’s Jewish Facebook groups. How to interview female cyclists in different countries if live meetings and travelling are off limits Author: Minna Uusivirta (University of Turku) When meeting people and travelling abroad has been restricted, researchers are in a new situation. I study the experiences of the first female cyclists that participated in the Olympic games and need to seek new solutions on how to make transnational research in five different countries. 2 Blended fieldwork at the time of Covid Author: Giovanna Palutan (Università degli Studi di Padova) The contribution stems from an ongoing ethnographical research on food practices of hospitality toward refugees in the public space. Through a case study based on a digital cooking workshop carried out by refugees hosted in the town of Padua, Italy, it aims to explore the digital domain as feasible terrain for ethnographical research in the Covid 19 era. Wandering through a foggy landscape – exploring new ways of teaching oral history and ethnographic methods during the COVID-19-pandemia Author: Kirsti Salmi-Niklander (University of Helsinki) The paper explores challenges in teaching ethnographic fieldwork and oral history interviews during the COVID-19-Pandemia. Based on recent teaching experiences, I will reflect ethical and methodological challenges and the solutions that digital technologies can provide. Env04a New rules for the engagement with nature: human ecology and emerging heritage futures (SIEF Working Group on Place Wisdom) I Environment Panel Convenors: Katriina Siivonen (University of Turku); Ullrich Kockel