SIRI MÆLAND, PhD, senior Researcher, born in Stavanger, Norway in 1974
Siri Mæland — Norsk senter for folkemusikk og folkedans
Current position: Dr Siri Mæland, senior researcher in traditional dance at the Norwegian Centre for Traditional Music and Dance (Sff), an archive for traditional music and dance, a research centre, an accredited NGO for UNESCO's 2003 Convention of Safeguarding ICH. I am a longstanding associate partner in Choreomundus – the International Master in Dance Knowledge, Practice and Heritage. I teach and supervise regularly at the BA and MA levels, and am part of the research groups at NTNU (the Norwegian University for Technology and Natural Sciences), Choreomundus, and USN (the Norwegian University of South-East Norway). I am currently the External Examiner in the Ethnochoreology Program at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick. I am an active board and research group member of the Nordic Association for Folk Dance Research, with our latest publication in 2024: “The Nordic Minuet: Royal Fashion and Peasant Tradition” https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0314.
I am happy to be re-nominated for the ViceChair position. The ICTMD Study Group of Ethnochoreology has been the most important international academic and scholarly network for me and continues to be so. The symposium is the heart of our group: to foster intercollegial, intercultural, and intergenerational scientific exchange in the fields of ethnochoreology and the anthropology of dance. However, the group is growing, the world is in change, and we need to continue to discuss and develop inclusive and fruitful meeting places and dissemination for all of us – in person, digitally, in smaller sub-study groups, in more parts of the world. As I stated four years ago: my priority in the work would be to safeguard the dancing academic milieu of the Study Group, in which academic strengths meet the knowledge production of dance practitioners, anthropologists meet ethnochoreologists, ideologues meet relativists, professors meet students, and where the love for dance diversity unites us.

ICTMD, and Study Group of Ethnochoreology involvement:
- I am a member since 2005 (ICTM in Sheffield) and have attended the symposium annually since 2006.
- I am a member and co-chair of the Sub-Study Group on Dance Analysis since 2008
- In the last five years I have had the opportunity to attend three ICTMD World Conferences (Bangkok, Lisbon, Ghana). I served as our Study Group’s representative in the last two of these, and made important connections with new members, other Study Groups, the ICTMD Secretariat, and board members.