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Bernadotte Programme Scholarships 2027
📍Sweden
Up to two SEK 125,000 scholarships for postdoctoral researchers from outside Sweden working on Swedish folk culture in a broad sense. Projects should engage at least two participating Royal Academies and involve 4–6 months of research at a Swedish institution in 2027.
Deadline: 30/09/2026
https://gustavadolfsakademien.se/posts/de-kungliga-akademierna
#PostdoctoralResearch #FolkCulture #InterdisciplinaryResearch
Because of my recent “peasant-mania” („Chłopomania” in Polish) obsession, I discovered something called Urzecze some time ago. I came across it while digging into the genealogy of my ancestors. On both sides of my family - my mother’s and my father’s - it turned out that our ancestors were Urzeczanie, and the region where my family has lived “forever” is actually a historical microregion called Urzecze.
Urzecze is a forgotten Warsaw/sub-Warsaw microregion stretching from the area of Mokotów all the way to Góra Kalwaria. Its culture was revived by Dr. Maurycy Stanaszek (Polish anthropologist, historian, and researcher).
When I learned about this region, I contacted Dr. Stanaszek and shared my family tree with him, which confirmed my earlier suspicions. I also gave him the oldest family photographs I managed to find at home.
Suddenly, I realized that some old family house was actually a typical example of Urzecze architecture, or that my grandfather making a living in his youth by weaving wicker baskets and fishing in the Vistula River was also a very typical Urzecze occupation. Some expressions I remembered older people using in my childhood turned out to be part of the Urzecze dialect.
These people were deeply connected to the Vistula River - and back then, the Vistula was basically a highway. They made their living through fishing, river transport, and draining wetlands along the riverbanks, something they had done for centuries. And most of them were actually… immigrants.
They arrived here by sailing down the Vistula at the end of the 17th century from areas that are now Latvia, Estonia, Finland, northern Germany, Western Pomerania, Pomerania, and the Netherlands. They knew how to drain marshlands, so the Polish nobility hired them on contracts. They lived under Olęder law and were free people.
One beautiful thing about Urzecze was how open it was - you only had to settle there to become one of them ❤️
And somehow, all of this was forgotten. Why? It feels as if the generation born after World War II completely cut itself off from this culture.
I honestly feel like I’ve fallen down a rabbit hole 😂 but at the same time, it’s such an amazing adventure. Last weekend, I went to the Urzecze Festival to learn more about the culture. It was a pretty surreal experience, because some of the traditions presented there reminded me of my childhood at my grandparents’ house (they also lived in Urzecze, on the same street as my parents, just a few houses away).
I’m definitely going to keep digging into this history. I still have several Urzecze festivals ahead of me, as well as other events connected more broadly with traditional peasant culture. I’ll definitely come back with more fun facts 😂
I also already have a few ideas for projects connected to all of this. I’m completely obsessed at this point - and I need to make use of it 😂
I’m attaching a photo showing women wearing traditional Urzecze folk costumes.
Like this post please if you found it interesting - I’ll know there’s someone here who wants to read more of this stuff :P
#Urzecze #PolishHistory #Genealogy #FolkCulture #Vistula #Wisla #WarsawHistory #Mazowsze #Poland #HistoriaPolski #KulturaLudowa #Historia #Chlopomania #Roots #FamilyHistory #TravelThroughHistory #Heritage #Ethnography #DiscoverPoland #TraditionalCulture #ForgottenHistory #SlavicCulture #Photography #PolishTraditions #Microhistory #polishculture #peasant #slavic
Scottish Traditional Music Hall of Fame Services to Community 2025 Inductees Announced
Congratulations to all the inductees, and especially to Paul Murray whom I knew a little when I was at FolkSoc and who was always generous with his time and enthusiasm for helping student folkies.
Anybody wanna know about a 1960s adventure play-park in the Gorbals, run by Glaswegian folk singer Matt McGinn, which the council tried to shut down but failed cause like all the kids in the Gorbals marched on City Chambers?
Aye aye. 🧵 1/5
#Glasgow #Scotland #FolkCulture #FolkMusic #Protest #WorkingClassHistory #LabourHistory
Trying to work through my thinking on this, does anyone have any good suggested reading on #FolkMusic #FolkCulture, diaspora and arts funding by embassies, diaspora arts funds or soft power initiatives?
Everything from folk culture research, funding for festivals or overseas dance troupes, etc. Thinking about states that are trying to rehabilitate their image, or to push a certain conception of 'their' folk culture over others.
#SoftPower #ArtsFunding #diaspora
I've updated my thesis title - probably not for the last time but I like it for now:
Hegemony and counter-hegemony in the Scottish Folk Revival: a critical folklore study of 'Gramsci in action'
Shit, sounds real.
#Hegemony #Gramsci #Marxist #Folklore #FolkCulture #FolkMusic #Folk #FolkSong #Revival #Scotland #Scottish #Culture #CulturalStudies #CriticalFolklore #PhD #PhDStudent #PhDLife
In the south of France, it is common to make an brew of thyme, garlic cloves, broth and - honey for flue, olive oil for upset stomach.
More generally, it is common to take hot milk with lemon and honey for coughing.
What herbal remedies are really typical of where you live?
#folkcustom #folkculture #traditionalrecipe #herbaltea #herbalremedies #naturalremedy