15SIEF-FFFF2024: The 15th Conference of the SIEF Ritual Year Working Group: Food, Feasts, Festivities, & Folklore University of the Philippines Diliman Quezon City, Philippines, December 11-13, 2024

The 15th Conference of the SIEF Ritual Year Working Group

Theme: Food, Feasts, Festivities, & Folklore

The 15th Conference of the Société Internationale d´Ethnologie et de Folklore (SIEF) Ritual Year Working Group (RYWG) will be held at the University of the Philippines in Diliman, Quezon City, the Philippines from December 11-13, 2024. The RYWG was established in 2004 at the 8th Société Internationale d’Ethnologue et de Folklore Congress and aims to investigate and surface the intricate connections between the life cycle and the year cycle. 

For its 15th Conference, RYWG partners with the Folklore Studies Program of the College of Social Sciences & Philosophy of the University of the Philippines Diliman. 

 The theme for the 15th SIEF Ritual Year Working Group Conference revolves around the importance and meaning of food. The conference aims to highlight the centrality of gustatory experiences and gastronomical practices in various ethnolinguistic groups around the world. Papers that relate to food production, food preparation, food consumption, and their connection to feasts, festivities, folklore, taboos, rituals, deities, legends, magic, homeopathy, heritage, and religion, among other things are welcome at the conference.

The target date of the conference is on December 11-13, 2024. The conference will be composed of paper presentations, exhibits of heritage food items, demonstrations, and kwentuhan with culture bearers. 

We invite scholars, researchers, educators, students, and other interested parties to submit an abstract for the conference. Considerations are open to topics that revolve around the theme, “Food, Feasts, Festivities, & Folklore,” such as (but are not limited to): anthropology & human society studies, folklore & cultural studies, indigenous food science & technology, and tourism & heritage studies.

As the theme for the 15th SIEF Ritual Year Working Group Conference aims to highlight the meanings and values ascribed to food, the conference will also welcome paper presentations and panel proposals that relate to food production, food preparation, food consumption, and their connection to feasts, festivities, folklore, taboos, rituals, deities, legends, magic, homeopathy, heritage, and religion, and other related fields.

About The Ritual Year Working Group

The working group on The Ritual Year was established at the 8th SIEF congress in Marseille, on 29 April 2004. Initiated by Dr Emily Lyle, the inaugural meeting was held on 11 July 2003, in the Department of Celtic and Scottish Studies, at the University of Edinburgh.

The Ritual Year working group provides a valuable forum for discussion. Our meetings encompass a wide choice of materials and approaches, and the focus may well change from conference to conference. Topics discussed include civic ritual and processions, community identity, masking and drama, carnival and reversal, reciprocity and exchange, computerized aids to calendrical research, sports, dance and music, contemporary popular use of religious images, cosmological roots, interfaces between the secular and the religious and between different religions, festival foods, and symbolism linked to the economic bases of society, especially as concerns agriculture.

https://www.siefhome.org/wg/ry/index.shtml

Submission Guidelines

• Abstracts must be written in English and should not exceed 300 words (excluding the title and bibliography)
• Include 3-5 keywords in your submission
• A maximum of three (3) abstracts may be submitted per person, whether as a sole author or co-author

Venue

Happening on 11-13 December, 2024, at the University of the Philippines Diliman, Quezon City, the conference will be composed of paper presentations, exhibits of heritage food items, demonstrations, and kwentuhan with culture bearers.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to rymanila2024@gmail.com