A group of people listening to John Björkman in the woods, with dramatic stones in the background.
Folklorists visiting the Devil's Nest! #nefk2025
A group of people listening to John Björkman in the woods, with dramatic stones in the background.
Folklorists visiting the Devil's Nest! #nefk2025
The #nefk2025 is over for me, tomorrow two excursions. I enjoyed! So much clever, intelligent and nice people! ☺️Best of times! These conferences reminds me, why I love ethnology, and well, and folkloristics! 🤩😅☺️ And the rain stopped! And Sauna was good!
Sign with "Nordic Disco in the Dark".
This is an absolutely wonderful thing to have at a conference #nefk2025
Collage of impressions from the panel room.
First session today, I went to "Navigating sameness and difference: Everyday experiences of inclusion and exclusion". Wide range of topics! From black metal nazis to Spanish slugs, stereotypes of Swedish Finns, & mixed-citizenship couples. #nefk2025 #ethnology #folkloristics #migrationstudies
Woman by lectern, in front of a slide showing Transnational surrogacy and Nordic exceptionalism, with a map.
Last day of #nefk2025 & the keynote Sex and the (Nordic) State: Kinship, citizenship, and the production of illegitimacy, by the excellent Jenny Gunnarson-Payne.
Last panel of the day, on ever-changing traditions. We have discussed #novent , Lucia celebrations in California, Elf on the Shelf - and now we are listening to Sverker Hyltén-Cavallius' intermedial lullabies. #nefk2025
A woman pointing to a slide.
Our last paper is by Sanna Händén-Svensson. She recently delivered a PhD on The Great Lake Monster - as genius loci and kryptid. #nefk2025
A woman sitting on a chair in front of a slide, seen through a classroom door (the classroom is full, I am sitting outside).
@gurotekopp.bsky.social 's paper is titled "Watch your Drink!". She discusses how the police alludes to the monstrous transgression of violent and sexual crimes. #nefk2025 #folklore
A bearded man looking at a troll video on his slide.
Jakob Löfgren on (Eye)witnessing Trolls Online, and reconsidering the memorate genre. #folklore #nefk2025
A man reading his manuscript in front of slide showing e.g. Richard Dorsons book Bloodstoppers and Bearwalkers.
John Moe on Scandinavian legends of the supernatural in North America, adaptation of folklore in migration. #nefk2025
We are discussing how tradition and mythologies are messy, ever-changing, and alive today. BEST PANEL ❤️ #nefk2025
A slide showing an old book page and a list of Finnish terms.
Risto Järv on translation restructuring "Finnische Mythologie". #folkloristics #nefk2025
Slide showing the text "You will be bears and walk in wild places, until you take a child from a mother's womb and raise it to a grown man".
Audun Kjus on the man-bear narrative complex! #nefk2025
@sanitareins.bsky.social taking us into the forests of Latvia in a brilliant talk on fragmented demonological heritage #nefk2025
Screenshot of programme: 19.1 Nordic Monsters: supernatural beings in the past, present, and future
Today a double panel on Nordic monsters! #nefk2025
So, this happened. Trying out old games from the folklore #archives on a group of serious academics!
It worked!
#nefk2025 #academicsky
Very soon we are organizing a Game-lab! #nefk2025
Screenshot from conference programme: "14. Kvinnors liv och berättande Parallel session 1 Chair(s) Lina Metsämäki Sofia Wanström Kvinnors berättelser erbjuder en inblick i de kulturella, sociala och politiska strukturer som både formar och utmanas av deras erfarenheter. Genom att sätta fokus på kvinnors berättelser, deras livsvägar, relationer och positioner i samhället, vill denna panel belysa förståelser av att vara kvinna som både en levd verklighet och en kulturellt betingad kategori."
Now: a panel on women's lives and stories #nefk2025
A white man with beard and caps standing in front of a big screen.
Opening keynote of #nefk2025, Antti Lindfors on science and nsture imitation in contemporary self-care
A bottle of Wisby Lager, with ocean in the background.
Have been on a bus, then a train, and now a Big Boat to get to #nefk2025
In Turku, ready for #NEFK2025! Our panel on Nordic animal exceptionalisms will be tomorrow at 11.00. nefk2025.fi/scientific-p...
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So, in a few weeks I will be presenting a paper on the Kraken at #nefk2025. I have not really written it yet but it will be super cool? 🤞And the new Norwegian monster movie selling well is a nice inspiration!
Oooh the programme is out!
#nefk2025 #ethnology #folklore
Sacred Sites of Folk Belief in the Woods Join Dr. John Björkman, a newly appointed Doctor of Philosophy in Nordic Folkloristics, on a guided tour of mystical sites in the nearby Finnish forests—places explored in his dissertation.
Treating myself - signed up for the Sacred Forest Tour ❤️(Early Bird registration at the Nordic ethnology & #folklore conference in June #NEFK2025 ✅️ )
nefk2025.fi/registration registration is now! And early birds save some money on conference fees! Welcome to Turku! #nefk2025