DEAGENCY CONFERENCES
DEAGENCY team is organizing international interdscipinary conferences related to the subject of the project research.
Learn more about the conference topics, programmes, speakers and books of abstracts below.
15th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF YOUNG FOLKLORISTS (YoFo)
"TRANSCENDING BOUNDARIES, CONNECTING WORLDS"
1-3 October 2026
Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
ERC project DEAGENCY and the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, invite you to the 15th international conference Young Folklorists (YoFo), entitled “Transcending Boundaries, Connecting Worlds”, which will take place from 1 to 3 October 2026 at the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Zavetiška ulica 5, Ljubljana. The internationally recognised conference, which will be held in Slovenia for the first time, represents an important platform for networking, knowledge exchange, and the presentation of the latest research by students, early-career researchers, and established scholars in the fields of folkloristics, ethnology, and anthropology.
The conference will focus on contemporary theoretical approaches in the social sciences and humanities that challenge established Western divisions, such as nature and culture, body and mind, reason and emotion, and life and death. Discussions will explore approaches including embodiment, affect, posthumanism, and new materialism, which emphasise relations, lived experience, and the agency of both human and non-human actors. Particular attention will be given to relationships between the living and the dead, and to the ways in which ancestral, guardian, and spiritual presences transform understandings of the boundaries between presence and absence, subject and object, and life and death.
3rd DEAGENCY INTERNATIONAL INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE
"COMMUNICATION WITH THE DEAD"
1-3 July, 2026
Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Organised by: ERC project The Roles of the Agency of the Dead in the Lives of Individuals in Contemporary Society (DEAGENCY, ERC № 101095729), Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
2nd DEAGENCY INTERNATIONAL INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE
" THE AGENCY OF THE DEAD IN THE LIVES OF INDIVIDUALS REASONS, TRIGGERS AND CONTEXTS"
July 2 – 4, 2025
Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Organised by: ERC project The Roles of the Agency of the Dead in the Lives of Individuals in Contemporary Society (DEAGENCY, ERC № 101095729), Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
1st DEAGENCY INTERNATIONAL INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE
"THE AGENCY OF THE DEAD IN THE LIVES OF INDIVIDUALS: EXPERIENCE AND CONCEPTUALISATION
August 30 - September 1, 2024
Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Organised by: ERC project The Roles of the Agency of the Dead in the Lives of Individuals in Contemporary Society (DEAGENCY, ERC № 101095729), Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
