Ethnologia Europaea – Journal of European Ethnology. New issue 47:2 out now.

We are very pleased to announce the new issue of Ethnologia Europaea, which is now available for purchase through the Museum Tusculanum Press website, mtp.dk.

Click here for more details about the issue on our website.

What’s in this issue

Ethnologia Europaea 47:2 opens with an in-depth analysis by Antti Lindfors of the ways that satire is intertwined with moral understandings, bringing recent discussions from the anthropology of ethics as well as emotions to the stand-up comedian’s stage in Finland and elsewhere.

Ethical issues are also at stake in Britta Lundgrens’ examination of how Swedish health-care providers involved in the threat of an epidemic as well as adverse side-effects of vaccinations face double-bind situations and deal with their own doubts.

Niels Jul Nielsen and Janus Jul Olsen explain how the neoliberal transformations in Denmark’s social welfare system have resulted from the loss of a perception of the working class as a potential threat to societal stability and peace.

Anastasiya Astapova’s article which provides the inspiration for this issue’s cover art, looks at the folklore of Potemkinism in Belarus, local attitudes and narratives around the ‘façade’ performance.

Finally, Jernej Mlekuž explores the symbolic complexity and material significance of the burek in Slovenia, one of the country’s most popular and yet disrespected foods.

Contents

5	Antti Lindfors Performance of Moral Accountability and the Ethics of Satire in Stand-up Comedy
22	Britta Lundgren Health Politics, Solidarity and Social Justice An Ethnography of Enunciatory Communities during and after the H1N1 Pandemic in Sweden
40	Niels Jul Nielsen & Janus Jul Olsen Flexicurity without Security An Inquiry into the Danish Flexicurity Model in a Neoliberal Era
57	Anastasiya Astapova When the President Comes Potemkinist Order as an Alternative to Democracy in Belarus

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About the journal

Ethnologia Europaea is a lively and interdisciplinary, peer‐reviewed journal with a focus on European cultures and societies. It carries material of great interest not only to European ethnologists and anthropologists, but also for sociologists, social historians and scholars involved in cultural studies.

An impression of the areas covered by the journal is reflected in some of the thematic topics of the issues recently published:

• Silence in Cultural Practices (2016)
• Muslim Intimacies (2016)
• Rage, Anger and other Don’ts (2015)
• European Ethnology Revisited (2014)
• Foodways Redux (2013)
• Imagined Families in Mobile Worlds (2012)
• Irregular Ethnographies (2011)

Ethnologia Europaea was founded and first published in 1967, with two issues now published annually. Since its beginning it has acquired a central position in the international and interdisciplinary cooperation between scholars inside and outside Europe. The journal is ranked A according to the European Science Foundation journal evaluation (European Reference Index for the Humanities initial list) and as a top-level (level 2) journal in the Norwegian model used in Norway and Denmark. The journal adheres to ERIH PLUS criteria.

Ethnologia Europaea is edited by associate professor Marie Sandberg of the Ethnology section at the University of Copenhagen and professor Monique Scheer of the Eberhard Karls Universität in Tübingen.

Editorial board

The journal’s editorial board consists of a range of highly profiled experts within the field:

• Beate Binder (Germany)
• Brita Brenna (Norway)
• Laurent Fournier (France)
• Valdimar Tryggvi Hafstein (Iceland)
• Renata Hryciuk (Poland)
• Renata Jambresiç Kirin (Croatia)
• Kyrre Kverndokk (Norway)
• Peter Jan Margry (The Netherlands)
• Máiréad Nic Craith (UK)
• Lotten Gustafsson Reinius (Sweden)
• Carin Ren (Denmark)
• Per-Markku Ristilammi (Sweden)
• Johanna Rolshoven (Austria)
• Klaus Schriewer (Spain)
• Dani Schrire (Israel)
• Laura Stark (Finland)
• Jean-Louis Tornatore (France)
• Bernhard Tschofen (Switzerland)

Guidelines for submission

Ethnologia Europaea welcomes submissions from European ethnology and all related fields, including social/cultural anthropology, human geography, sociology, cultural history, and cultural studies. If you are uncertain whether your article fits, we encourage you to send the editors a short abstract or outline by e-mail.

Manuscript submissions should be sent to:

Marie Sandberg, Associate professor
University of Copenhagen
Faculty of Humanities
SAXO Institute, Ethnology
Karen Blixens Vej 4
2300 København S, Denmark
sandberg@hum.ku.dk

Prof. Dr. Monique Scheer
Ludwig-Uhland-Institut für Empirische
Kulturwissenschaft
Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
Burgsteige 11 (Schloss)
72070 Tübingen, Germany
monique.scheer@uni-tuebingen.de

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Call for Papers, SCSC, Albuquerque, NM 1-4 November 2018

by Kathleen Comerford

Sixteenth Century Society and Conference

Call for Proposals

The Sixteenth Century Society and Conference (SCSC) is accepting proposals for individual presentation submissions and complete panels for its annual conference, 1-4 November 2018, in Albuquerque, New Mexico.  Proposals that address any topic within “the long sixteenth century” are invited.  The submission deadline is 15 April, 2018.

Abstracts (250 words or less) either for individual presentations or complete panels must be submitted online at www.sixteenthcentury.org/conference, using the links at left.  We ask that you make all requests for AV equipment at the time you submit your abstract, as we must schedule this in advance and cannot accommodate late requests due to increased costs.  Within four weeks after the 15 April deadline, the Program Committee will notify all those who submitted proposals of its decision. 

In recent years the Conference has welcomed poster sessions, and will again this year. Those who are interested in presenting poster sessions should submit their proposals as “papers” to the digital history track.  Before submitting poster proposals, please email conference@sixteenthcentury.org to obtain a poster session code. 

In addition to standard panels, the organizing committee will be accepting proposals for four types of alternate panels:

• Workshop Option A: Discussion of pre-circulated papers in a workshop format (limit of 4 participants).
• Workshop Option B: Analysis of thorny translation/paleography questions; pre-circulation not required (limit of 3 participants).
• Workshop Option C: Examination of a big issue or question with brief comments from presenters and lively audience participation (similar to roundtables with more audience participation; limit of 4 participants).
• Roundtables sponsored by affiliated societies.

Questions about formats should be directed to conference@sixteenthcentury.org

The SCSC, a not-for-profit scholarly organization, receives no governmental or institutional funding. In order to participate in this conference, delegates or their sponsoring institution/organization will need to fund their own travel and lodging expenses in addition to a per delegate registration fee (or discounted student fee).  There is a small fund for defraying costs for graduate students; the application procedure will be posted at http://www.sixteenthcentury.org/resources/travel/ after the Program Committee has completed its work.

The registration fee is used to pay for conference facilities and general events. By paying the fee, delegates become members in the SCSC and receive the Sixteenth Century Journal. Conference registration fees are non-refundable.  Participants who are uncertain if they can attend may want to register on-site, thereby eliminating the problem of having paid for registration and being unable to attend.  Advance registration discounts are available online until shortly before a meeting begins.  Please note that proposing a session or a paper indicates your commitment to attend. The Committee will not be able to accept every submission.