The conference "Socialist Folkloristics: A Disciplinary Heritage" programme is here!

The topics that will be covered in conference are connected with the impact of the Socialist heritage on the development of folkloristics in the post-Socialist countries; the role of the Socialist regimes of knowledge in the organization of folklore archives, ethnographic collections and other institutional representations of folklife; the contribution of folkloristics and related disciplines to resistance and dissent in the former USSR and the Soviet bloc countries; history of folkloristics and ethnography in the light of Soviet postcolonialism and other themes.