INFORMATION LETTER

Ethnology Institute of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

Folk Art Department
Lviv City Public Organization
«The Association of Critics and Art Historians»

V International Interdisciplinary Correspondence Conference

«Folk Art of the ХХІ Century: Actual Research Directions»
Dedicated to the 30th Anniversary the Independence of Ukraine

October 29, 2021

Lviv, Ukraine

The National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Ethnology Institute of the NAS

of Ukraine, Folk Art Department, the Association of Critics and Art Historians invite
proposals for participation the art historians and critics, ethnologists, social
anthropologists, cultorologists, sociologists, philologists, museum workers, designers,
folk art masters and scholars in other related disciplines and fields of study
researching the folk art of the end of the XX — early XXI centuries.
The Conference Aim — to popularize of national features and spiritual value
of folk art, to discover and investigate its current problems, to direct scientific
research into creative practices` needs of the XXI century.
The conference participants will discuss of such issues:
1. Folk art in interdisciplinary discourses: theory, methodology, terminology.
2. Location and the role of folk art in the cultural space of the XXI century:
centers, masters, artistic ideas.
3. Folk art in educational institutional practices.
4. Folk and academic art: relationships and interactions.
5. Preservation and popularization of the museum's and private collections of
folk art.
6. Reviews, events, anniversaries.

Conference languages: Ukrainian, English.

 Participation in the conference: correspondence.

The Application (Annex 1) and the Abstract should be sent by August 29,
2021, to the e-mail folkarts.lviv@gmail.com with the mark «Conference». Abstracts
should be prepared in accordance with the sample (Annex 2). Following the
conference, it is planned to publish the Proceeding of Abstracts.
Scientific papers written in accordance with the requirements of the academic
journal «The Ethnology Notebooks» (B category) (№1-2022) should be sent to the e-
mail address of the editorial office ethnolog@gmail.com. The requirements:
http://nz.ethnology.lviv.ua/avtoram/.

Conference committee:
Lyudmyla Herus — candidate of art studies (Ph. D), senior researcher, the
head of the Folk Art department of the Ethnology Institute of NAS of Ukraine,
ludmilagerus@gmail.com
Olena Nykorak — professor, doctor of art studies, leading researcher at the
Folk Art department of the Ethnology Institute of NAS of Ukraine,
olenanykorak@gmail.com
Olena Kozakevych — candidate of art studies (Ph. D), researcher at the Folk
Art department of the Ethnology Institute of NAS of Ukraine,
kozakevych.olena@gmail.com
Tetiana Kutsyr — candidate of art studies (Ph. D), researcher at the Folk Art
department of the Ethnology Institute of NAS of Ukraine, sonechko_29@ukr.net