We're starting in February!

February marks the start of another series of seminars presenting the work of the Institute of Ethnology.

Preliminary program for 2026

9. 2. 2026, Brno, DANIEL SOSNA: Not Letting Go: Toil and Salvage within Waste Underflows

2.3. 2026, Praha, LAURA MAFIZZOLI: Foibe: Populism and Collective Memory in Istria

13. 4. 2026, Brno, ZDENĚK VEJVODA: Strukturální analýza tanečních melodií: výsledky a využití v analytické a ediční práci s českým hudebním folklorem

4. 5. 2026, Praha, STANISLAV HORÁČEK: Archeologie a ontologická diference: revize fenomenologických základů

8. 6. 2026, Brno, OGNJEN KOJANIĆ: Concrete Dreams in a Marshy Landscape: Transformations of the Environment in the Pančevo Marshes under Yugoslav Socialism

7. 9. 2026, Praha, ROSE SMITH: Curating Restriction and Liberation: Iron Curtain Memory in the Czech Borderlands

5. 10. 2026, Brno, MARIANA SABINO-SALAZAR: Claiming 'Gypsy' Spirit, Speaking for Roma: Between Cultural Reclamation and Ethnic Mimicry in Contemporary Brazil

2. 11. 2026, Praha, ANNA KOLÁŘOVÁ: Deeply Rooted: Vegetation, Remembrance Practices, and Touristification of Former Settlements in the Bohemian Borderlands

7. 12. 2026, Brno, JANA KRČMÁŘOVÁ: Beyond the Farmer’s Hand: Re-centering the ‘Silent Others’ in the Early Industrial Agricultural Landscape

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