The 15th Conference of the SIEF Ritual Year Working Group:
Food, Feasts, Festivities, & Folklore

December 11-13, 2024

Folklore Studies Program
College of Social Sciences & Philosophy
University of the Philippines Diliman

Food, Feasts, Festivities, and Folklore

The 15th Conference of the Société Internationale d´Ethnologie et de Folklore (SIEF) Ritual Year Working Group (RYWG) will be held at the University of the Philippines in Diliman, Quezon City, the Philippines from December 11-13, 2024. The RYWG was established in 2004 at the 8th Société Internationale d’Ethnologue et de Folklore Congress and aims to investigate and surface the intricate connections between the life cycle and the year cycle.

For its 15th Conference, RYWG partners with the Folklore Studies Program of the College of Social Sciences & Philosophy of the University of the Philippines Diliman.
The theme for the 15th SIEF Ritual Year Working Group Conference revolves around the importance and meaning of food. The conference aims to highlight the centrality of gustatory experiences and gastronomical practices in various ethnolinguistic groups around the world. Papers that relate to food production, food preparation, food consumption, and their connection to feasts, festivities, folklore, taboos, rituals, deities, legends, magic, homeopathy, heritage, and religion, among other things are welcome at the conference. The target date of the conference is on December 11-13, 2024. The conference will be composed of paper presentations, exhibits of heritage food items, demonstrations, and kwentuhan with food culture bearers. 

Keynote Lecture

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KEYNOTE SPEAKER

MARTIN F. MANALANSAN IV

Rutgers University - New Brunswick

Filipino Cuisines: 
Cooking National Fictions & Diasporic Aspirations

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Plenary Lectures

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HANAFI HUSSIN

University Malaya

Rice, Rituals, and Festivals among Communities in Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia

ABSTRACT
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MARIA BERNADETTE ABRERA

University of the Philippines Diliman

The Indigenous Foods and Food Rituals at Christmas

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IGE RAMOS

Ugnayan Center for Filipino Gastronomy

Comida Semana Santa: The Cultural Significance of Caviteño Bacalao in 21st Century Cavite City

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Key Dates

We invite scholars, researchers, educators, students, and other interested parties to attend the conference. To register, please visit https://bit.ly/rymanila_reg.

Payment instructions is posted on this link: https://bit.ly/4cubP9R

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    November 4 (Monday)

    Registration and Payment Deadline for Paper Presenters

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    December 2 (Monday)

    Registration and Payment Deadline for Participants (Monday)

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    December 11-13 (Wednesday to Friday)

    Conference Dates