“Folk Art in the Contemporary – Practices and Challenges” Conference on 23–24 April 2026 at Lund University, Sweden
“Folk Art in the Contemporary – Practices and Challenges” Conference on 23–24 April 2026 at Lund University, Sweden

Summary/Abstract: Lund University and the SIEF Folk Art and Vernacular Creativity Working Group – with the generous support of the Gulli och Nils Strömboms Foundation – organized an international conference entitled “Folk Art in the Contemporary – Practices and Challenges” at Lund University on 23–24 April. The event continued the scholarly events started in Split 2024 and was followed by a three-part panel at the SIEF 2025 Congress in Aberdeen. The participants reconsidered academic terminology on folk arts, folklorism, folkish arts, vernacular arts, popular arts, etc., drawing on inductive insights and case studies from ethnology, cultural anthropology and museology.

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