From 31 August to 3 September, an international conference concerning field research, a basic tool of classical ethnography and modern ethnology, took place in Sirogojno, Serbia. It was organized by the Ethnographic Institute of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (Etnografski institut SANU, Belgrade) and the open-air museum in Sirogojno. Miroslav Válka brings his report from the conference on behalf of the Czech participants. Already for nineteen years, a festival of folk culture called “Koliesko” or “Meeting of young Folklorists”, as it is also called, has been taking place in Kokava nad Rimavicou, Central Slovakia. A workshop of students of ethnology is part of the festival. It is organized within a project called “Days of traditional culture” (Dni tradičnej kultúry) realized by the National Centre of Culture in Bratislava (Národné osvetové centrum) and the municipality of Kokava nad Rimavicou. This year was aimed at practical and theoretical topics of current ethnology. Both Slovak and Czech students took active part in the workshop. and Tento abstrakt se týká 2 posledních zpráv z konferencí uvedených v oddílu Materiály