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Since 2004, yearly conferences in the SIEF Ritual Year Working Group have focused on issues such as rituals in general, ritual diversity, the ritual year and history, gender in rituals, masking and mumming, or ritual performances. However, no special attention has yet been devoted to the spatial shapes of rituals or to the places where they are performed.This panel would like to question the ways individual&#160;life-cycle or collective rituals and calendric&#160;festivals contribute to the emotional making of places.&#160;How do the spatial shapes of rituals contribute to&#160;reinforce their emotional meaning in the eyes of the&#160;people performing them? Are there any differences&#160;between religious and secular rituals regarding their relations to space? What changes can be observed regarding ritual places when comparing the pre-modern,&#160;modern and postmodern eras? Why and how a specific&#160;ritual does or does not correlate with a specific&#160;place? In short, what part do rituals and their&#160;values play in the making of places?&#160;Case studies concerning different ritual shapes and places are welcome together with more theoretical or methodological presentations. First, contributors can describe the different ways of using places in rituals such as processions, ritual perambulations or circumambulations, dual or multiple oppositions, ritual scrums, ritual crowd gatherings, etc. Second, they are encouraged to report on the ways the accepted knowledge in folklore and/or anthropology has dealt with these data in the past. Third, they are invited to propose new tools and theoretical models to address the ritual making of places.Convenors    Laurent Fournier (University of Nantes)      Irina Sedakova (Institute of Slavic Studies) Les propositions de communication se font directement en ligne sur le site Internet du 11e Congr&#232;s de la Soci&#233;t&#233; Internationale d&#8217;Ethnologie et de Folklore&#160;:http://www.nomadit.co.uk/sief/sief2011/panels.php5?PanelID=740Un r&#233;sum&#233; court (300 caract&#232;res) et un r&#233;sum&#233; plus long (250 mots) sont demand&#233;s.La session P204 &#171;&#160;Ritual places through the ritual year / Les lieux et l&#8217;organisation spatiale des rites annuels&#160;&#187; pourra accueillir jusqu&#8217;&#224; 12 communications en anglais ou en fran&#231;ais. Les communications rejet&#233;es pourront &#234;tre dirig&#233;es vers d&#8217;autres sessions du congr&#232;s. Le programme d&#233;finitif du congr&#232;s sera &#233;tabli en d&#233;cembre 2010.Tous les participants au congr&#232;s doivent &#234;tre membres de la SIEF &#234;tre &#224; jour de leur cotisation pour 2011 (20 &#8364;). Cependant, il est possible de soumettre une proposition avant de cotiser. La cotisation sera r&#233;clam&#233;e au moment de l&#8217;acceptation de la proposition.Les frais de voyage, d&#8217;h&#233;bergement et d&#8217;inscription au congr&#232;s sont &#224; la charge des participants. Un syst&#232;me de bourses est mis en place pour les ressortissants des pays &#224; devises non convertibles. Les renseignements seront disponibles aupr&#232;s des organisateurs du congr&#232;s.Date limite le 15/10/2010