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- Convenors:
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Jón Þór Pétursson
(University of Iceland)
Arnika Peselmann (Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg)
Mathilde Lamothe (University of Pau)
- Stream:
- Workshops, films and posters
- Location:
- A111
Short Abstract:
The SIEF-Young Scholar Working Group invites everyone to a workshop discussion of the current situation of young scholars and their expectations for the future. We will address the various challenges facing scholars in their early careers and in their everyday practice as they learn their trade.
Long Abstract:
The SIEF-Young Scholar Working Group invites everyone to a workshop discussion of the current situation of young scholars and their expectations for the future. We specifically want to address the various challenges facing scholars in their early careers and in their everyday practice as they learn their trade. We wish to share our experience from the academic field of ethnology, folklore and cultural anthropology by exchanging thoughts on what has helped us on our way, climbing up the educational ladder, and what ideas can we come up with to promote best practice?
We would therefore like to discuss the various institutional structures (or the lack of them) of our disciplines and how they have helped or hindered our academic voyage. This includes different educational programs of the disciplines, working conditions and funding, as well as teaching and other institutional participation. What options are available on a national and institutional level when it comes to selecting programs to study?
Our overarching aim is to explore the opportunities for further collaborations across national borders and the institutions that have programs in our respective disciplines. That would entail the possibilities of joint degree programs, allowing students to move between institutions and to specialize within specific field of studies. Such exchange programs could be immensely valuable in terms of gaining experience, strengthening international networks as well as our respective fields.
Finally, how can we as a working group facilitate solutions to these and other questions that matter to young scholars?
Accepted paper:
Session 1Jón Þór Pétursson (University of Iceland)
Paper short abstract:
In the presentation I will explore possibilities of collaboration across national borders, institutions and disciplines and contribute to a discussion about how we can learn from various universities and institutions, programs, framework of studies, and everyday practices.
Paper long abstract:
Last autumn the SIEF Interactive Map of University Departments and Programs in European Ethnology, Folklore Studies, and (Europeanist) Anthropology was launched on the SIEF homepage. For the first time it was possible to get an overview, and therefore a more holistic picture, of the different fields that form SIEF. Furthermore, through the interactive map one can directly visit the homepages of various program that are given within respective institutions. That is a great beginning! But how can we build on that and let the map further our interests?
In the presentation I will explore possibilities of collaboration across national borders, institutions and disciplines, as students often seem rather isolated professionally when it comes to disciplines and institutions. Obviously, students at an advanced level often go to other countries as exchange students, but this collaboration sometimes lacks in depth and variety. The specific topic for this discussion will be how to expand existing collaboration to include joint degree programs and thus opportunities to divide our study to accommodate different interests.
I also want to discuss the possibilities of creating small clusters around specific topics that could strengthen the various disciplines. Lastly, I will talk about my experience within two universities in Iceland and Sweden respectively. By doing that I hope to contribute to a discussion about diverse approaches and what we can learn from various universities and institutions, programs, framework of studies, and everyday practices.