16th European International Scientific Conference of Folk Culture: call for papers and abstracts (till October 31st)

IOV Science and Research Commission for Europe, IOV Italian Section, University of Molise, Italy, Department of Humanities, Social and Educational Sciences and Center of Research BIOCULT organize IOV 16th European International Scientific Conference of Folk Culture “Intangible Cultural Heritage on the Move. Debates, Processes, Perspectives”. The conference will be held from March 21st to 22th, […]

IOV 15th European International Scientific Conference of Folk Culture: call for abstracts

IOV Science and Research Commission for Europe, IOV Latvian Section, Latvia National Centre for Culture and The Ethnographic Open-Air Museum of Latvia organize IOV 15th European International Scientific Conference of Folk Culture “Intangible cultural heritage in European social space: artistry and cultural practices”. The conference will be held from September 3rd to 4th, 2023, in […]

Report on the scientific conference “Lost/Looked for/Tamed Cultural Heritage”

Report on the scientific conference Lost/Looked for/Tamed Cultural Heritage, Kielce, 4-6 July 2019 This scientific conference was organized by The School of Pedagogy and Art of Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce, The Polish Section of International Organization of Folk Art (IOV/UNESCO) and The Museum of Toys and Play in Kielce. Its interdisciplinary considerations focussed on […]

Program of the Conference: Lost/Looked for/Tamed Cultural Heritage

Program of the Conference: Lost/Looked for/ Tamed Cultural Heritage Kielce, Poland, 4th to 6th July 2019 Place of the conference: Faculty of Pedagogy and Art, Krakowska street 11 Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce     DAY: 4 July 9.00 – 9.30 – opening of the conference: (CEART A) prof. UJK dr hab. Sławomir Koziej, Dean […]

Between Folk Culture and Global Culture in Contemporary Europe

From November 23rd to 26th, 2017 the Chair of IOV-Austria, Prof. Mag. Hans J. Holz and the Chair of IOV-Poland and of the Scientific and Research-Commission for Central and Eastern Europe, Prof. Dr. Anna Brzozowska-Krajka, organised together this important scientific conference of IOV in memoriam of Alexander Veigl, the founder of IOV, at the 10th […]

Professor Anna Brzozowska-Krajka’s Ethnoculture in Diaspora

Professor Anna Brzozowska-Krajka’s Etnokultura w diasporze. Między regionalizmem a amerykanizacji? (Ethnoculture in Diaspora. Between Regionalism and Americanization, price Lublin: Maria Curie-Sklodowska University Press, bronchi 2012, clinic pp. 352) is a pioneering monograph in Polish and American cultural studies. It deals with various aspects of functioning of Polish immigrants’ folk culture in the context of American […]