Organised by Island Dynamics in collaboration with UiT The Arctic University of Norway – Alta and the Center for Caribbean Studies at Hangzhou Normal University, this academic conference on ‘Knowing place through film’ asks how audiovisual media and arts interact with, are influenced by, and construct people (folk), place, and culture—including folklore, Indigenous knowledge, traditional ecological knowledge, and other ways of knowing that are commonly conceptualised as local or culturally specific. We invite presentations concerning how people, place, and culture are mutually constitutive and present in either particular artworks, at a broader level within communities or groups, or more broadly still from a comparative perspective
The conference will take place 9-11 February 2026, in Alta, Norway
Abstracts should be 150-200 words long. The deadline for abstracts is 31 August 2025. Abstracts will be considered on a rolling basis, so if you submit early, you can get a response early.
Interested authors are encouraged to submit papers to the peer-reviewed journal Folk, Knowledge, Place. Papers will need to match the journal’s theme and scope. Conference registrants who submit papers before 31 October 2025 will benefit from expedited editorial handling.
Organisation:
Organised by Island Dynamics in collaboration with UiT The Arctic University of Norway – Alta and the Center for Caribbean Studies at Hangzhou Normal University.
If you have any questions, please e-mail Adam Grydehøj at agrydehoj@islanddynamics.org.
Co-Convenors: Stine Agnete Sand (UiT The Arctic University of Norway – Alta) & Martin Schantz Faurholt (Editor Film Education).
Organised by: Island Dynamics, in collaboration with UiT The Arctic University of Norway – Alta & Center for Caribbean Studies at Hangzhou Normal University.
Link to the conference: https://folkknowledgeplace.org/post/3087-knowing-place-through-film-and-audiovisual-media