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

Food, Feasts, Festivities, & 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.

Call for Abstracts

We invite scholars, researchers, educators, students, and other interested parties to submit an abstract for the conference. Considerations are open to topics that revolve around the theme, “Food, Feasts, Festivities, & Folklore,” under (but not limited to) the following domains: anthropology & human society studies, folklore & cultural studies, indigenous foodways, and tourism & heritage studies. As the theme for the 15th SIEF Ritual Year Working Group Conference aims to highlight the meanings ascribed and values attributed to food, the conference welcomes presentations and panel proposals that relate to food production, food preparation, food consumption, and their connections to feasts, festivities, folklore, taboos, rituals, deities, legends, magic, homeopathy, heritage, religion, and other related fields.

Submission Instructions

Abstracts should be submitted in English
Should not exceed 300 words (excluding the title and list of references)
The name of the author/s must not appear on the abstract
Include 3-5 keywords
A maximum of 3 abstracts may be submitted per person, whether as a sole author or co-author

Important Dates

Conference Date
December 11-13, 2024
Abstract Submission Deadline
July 14, 2024

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