“Canadian Folklore and Ethnology at 50”
June 12-14, 2025

For its next annual meeting which will be hosted at the Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau, Quebec, the Association canadienne d'ethnologie et de folklore/Folklore Studies Association of Canada has chosen “Common Spaces” as its theme.

In December of 1975, the Folklore Studies Association of Canada / l’Association canadienne pour les études du folklore (as it was then known) was incorporated. While the expressive performances of Canadians had by then been studied in Canada for a century, the exercise was more of an “inventory science” (Zeller 2009), a de facto off-shoot of American or European academia, or a state-sponsored romantic nationalism. Building on the establishment of programmes at Université Laval and Memorial University of Newfoundland, and following disciplinarily named panels at meetings of the CSAA, the association was an effort to establish both a practical network for folklore / ethnology research and research dissemination in Canada but, perhaps, to forge a Canadian folkloristics, a Canadian ethnology, moving from collection to analysis, from description to explanation. As we reach our mid-century and meet at the Canadian Museum of History, we seek papers that engage with the history, present and future of folklore in Canada as well as the institutions like ACEF-FSAC that have attempted to advance the study and practice of folkloristics in Canada. Proposals on any other topic related to the fields of folklore and ethnology will also be taken into consideration.

Proposals

Proposals must be sent online using this form: https://forms.gle/BLyBi1ZtiPpxjtiF8. They must include:

- a title

- a summary of 1000 characters

- your name

- institutional affiliation

- contact details

Proposals due: March 1, 2025

Please note that presenters must be members of the Folklore Studies Association of Canada/ l’Association canadienne d’ethnologie et de folklore.  If your abstract is accepted, you will not be included in the program unless you have paid your membership for 2025. Please use the link below to complete your membership application and payment.

Membership

https://www.acef-fsac.ulaval.ca/en/join

• Students, unemployed, and underemployed: $40 membership.
• Regular members: $80 membership

Conference Registration

Registration fees for the 2025 FSAC/ACEF Annual Meeting

• $75 for students/unemployed/retired,
• $125 for regular members

Registration fees can be sent through PayPal on the FSAC/ACEF website at

https://www.acef-fsac.ulaval.ca/en/join

Information about accommodations will be available in the next few weeks.

Call for papers (PDF)