SEEFA and Folklorica

[nataliek at UALBERTA.CA]

Dear List members,

My turn to apologize for hitting the return button by mistake.  While I do so,
let me take a moment to second Rouhier-Willoughby's call for papers to SEEFA
sponsored sessions at AAASS and her call for article submissions to 
Folklorica.

On the topic of Folklorica - from humble beginnings, it has grown to be a
first-rate journal.  Thanks to the leadership of Faith Wigzell, our 
editor, the
articles are of top quality.  The journal appears in hard copy.  We used to
publish twice a year, but plan to go to a once-a-year, book-size format in
2006.  After the journal has come out in print, we put it up on the SEEFA web
page.  Hits come from all over the world.  Readership includes not only the
North Americas and East Europe.  Many, many hits are from West Europe: 
Germany,
France, Belgium, England, the Netherlands.  There are hits from South America
and Asia, most notable Korea and Japan.  So, if you want to get your work out
there, do consider supbmitting to Folklorica.

I urge participation in our organization also.  These days when everyone,
historians, sociologists, specialists in government and politics, and so on,
uses personal narratives, and the oral interview, and case studies, it is
especially useful to see where all of these approaches began, namely with
folklore and anthropology.  Verdery said that anthropologists have looked at
the third world and are now beginning to look at the FSU and Europe.  Well,
folklorists have been there all along.  Folklore work on Russia, Ukraine,
Poland, the Balkans, and the other parts of East Europe and Eurasia has a long
tradition and is of the highest quality.  The volume of archival materials is
enormous and the opportunities for fieldwork are good.  So, do join us.


Natalie Kononenko
Kule Chair of Ukrainian Ethnography
University of Alberta
Modern Languages and Cultural Studies
200 Arts Building
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2E6
Phone: 780-492-6810
Web: http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/uvp/

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