June 18 - 21 2012
32nd Nordic Conference of Ethnology and Folkloristics

The old wharf, "Bryggen"
Call for papers
The following panels are selected by the Conference Comittee, and Call for paper opens.
Deadline is 15 January 2012.
Please address abstracts to panel convenors with a copy to panel@bergen2012.no.
Panels with selected abstracts are posted on this home page before 15 February 2012.
| 01_Heimo & Latvala: | History Culture and Selected Pasts |
| 02_Blaakilde: | Aldringens kulturelle dynamikker |
| 03_Ekström: | Vad är maritim etnologi ? |
| 04_Fortier & Touraille: | Gendering body and sexuality: the making of unequal desires |
| 05_Ågotnes & Heiret: | Kulturelle forskjeller og sosial ulikhet |
| 06_Jönsson: | Skratt och humor. En session om et allvarligt ämne |
| 07_Klinkmann et al: | Identitet, etnicitet, minoritet...? Om intersektionalitet och hanteringsstrategier i debatter och kulturmöten |
| 08_KPFF: | Kvinnor gör rum |
| 09_Lappi & Ruotsala: | Shaping places through cultural encounters |
| 10_Lindelöf: | Sports, women and the cultural dynamics of difference |
| 12_Graden: | Embodying the North |
| 13_Nilsson & Hansson: | Medical transgressions: changing boundaries in health care and biomedicine |
| 14_Zackariasson: | Permeable boundaries? Categories, conflicts and belonging in young people's everyday life |
| 15_Palmgren et al: | Rum för kroppen |
| 16_Petterson et al: | Mobility of Expertize Knowledge. Transfer, transgression and transitions |
| 17_Olsson: | Practices of contestation: producing Cultural Knowledge "from below" |
| 18_Vallström & Lennartsson | "Plocka russinen ur kakan eller missa jesusbarnet i krubban?" Om etnologers användning av historiskt material |
| 19 Hauan & Brenna | Museer og ulikheters kulturelle dynamikk |
Important dates:
| • Call for panels opens | 25 October 2010 |
| • Panel session proposals are being sent to the Conference Committee by | 1 June 2011 |
| • Panel selection is made by the Conference Committee by | 23 June 2011 |
| • Call for paper opens | 23 June 2011 |
| • Abstracts are addressed to panel convenors by | 15 January 2012 |
Panels with abstracts are posted online by 15 February 2012.
Call for panel
We hereby invite colleagues, both individuals and research groups, to propose panels directed at the general theme of the conference.
All proposals will be reviewed by the Conference Committee, and there will be made a selection.
Call for papers opens immediately after the panel selection has been posted online. Abstracts will be sent to the panel convenors, who are responsible for the selection and the organization of their panel.
Convenors forward the programme for their panel session to the Conference Committee, which reviews the composition of the panels, and may move contributions between panels.
The program will run over four days, starting with an opening event with key note speakers Monday afternoon, followed by two and a half days (Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday morning) with panel sessions and concluding with key note speakers.
Panels are to be sent to panel@bergen2012.no