A Report on the First Asia Regional Youth Congress
“A Taste of Asia,” was the theme of the first IOV Asia youth congress, which took place in Sarawak, Malaysia this past February. The idea to organize youth at a regional level was conceived in the 3rd IOV Youth World Congress Sweden in 2012. Delegates in the congress saw a need for more youth to […]
Professor Anna Brzozowska-Krajka’s Ethnoculture in Diaspora
Professor Anna Brzozowska-Krajka’s Etnokultura w diasporze. Między regionalizmem a amerykanizacji? (Ethnoculture in Diaspora. Between Regionalism and Americanization, price Lublin: Maria Curie-Sklodowska University Press, bronchi 2012, clinic pp. 352) is a pioneering monograph in Polish and American cultural studies. It deals with various aspects of functioning of Polish immigrants’ folk culture in the context of American […]
3rd IOV Youth Congress
The International Organization of Folk Art (IOV) has been in existence for 35 years in 2012. In the General Assembly which was held in Volos, ailment Greece in 2007, the presence of the young members inspired the proposal by IOV President Carmen Padilla to initiate the establishment of the IOV Youth. This resulted in the […]
IOV World Youth Congress 2012
Meeting another person for the first time is a fine experience. You fumble for words, looking for a topic of conversation that both can pick up, while testing each other’s opinions in search of similarities and differences. Meeting one hundred people for the first time in one week is bewildering. There are many topics of […]
