The Folklore Society
Call for Papers
The Folklore Society AGM and Confererence 2010 Friday 26 to Sunday 28 March Leeds Trinity University College, Horsforth, Leeds
This year's subject will be 'The Supernatural.'
Offers of papers with a title and a 200 word summary should be sent to Dr Juliette Wood at WoodJ1@cardiff.ac.uk by 15 December 2009.
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Myth and Fairy Tale Call for Papers
Abstract/Proposals by 15 December 2009
Southwest/Texas Popular & American Culture Associations 30th Annual Conference
Albuquerque, NM February 10-13 2010
Hyatt Regency Albuquerque
330 Tijeras
Albuquerque, NM 87102
Phone: 1.505.842.1234
Fax: 1.505.766.6710
Panels now forming on topics related to all areas of myth and fairy tale and their connections to popular culture.
Special Areas of Interest Include:
The Special and Enduring Significance of "Little Red Riding Hood," "Cinderella," and "Snow White" in American Popular Culture--Where Fairy Tales and Myth Overlap,--Fairy Tale and Advertising-- Fairy Tale and Myth in the works of Francesca Lia Block-- Fairy Tales and Horror--Fairy Tale and/or Myth in Film-- Revisionist Myth and Fairy Tale--The Works of Angela Carter and Fairy Tale-The Works of Margaret Atwood and Fairy Tale and/or Myth--Fairy Tale in Contemporary Poetry--Myth in Contemporary Poetry--Fairy Tale and the Contemporary Novel--Myth and the Contemporary Novel--Fairy Tale in the music of Tori Amos-Disney-- Barbie and The Fairy Tale--Joseph Campbell--Vladimir Propp--Feminists and The Fairy Tale-Fairy Tale and/or Myth in the Popular Culture of Past Centuries-Children's Literature and Myth-Children's Literature and Fairy Tale-Myth and/or Fairy Tale in the Worlds of Television-Fairy Tale and/or Myth in Comic Books or Graphic Novels-Fairy Tale and/or Myth in Science Fiction
Scholars, teachers, professionals, and others interested in Myth And Fairy Tales are encouraged to participate. Graduate students are also particularly welcome. If you wish to form your own Myth or Fairy Tale-focused panel, I would be glad to facilitate your needs (Panels focused on one particular tale are especially encouraged). Also, if your work does not focus on Myth or Fairy Tale but fits within the broad range of areas designated for the upcoming conference on American & Popular culture, I still encourage you to participate. Please pass along this call to friends and colleagues.
Send 100-200 word abstracts and proposals for panels by 15 December 2009:
Melissa Morphew
Professor of English
Box 2146
Sam Houston State University
Huntsville, TX 77341-2146
Phone # 936-294-1944
eng_smm@shsu.edu
General information and online registration http://www.swtxpca.org (updated regularly)
Perspectives On Contemporary Legend
International Society for Contemporary Legend Research
Twenty-eighth International Conference
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
June 28 - July 1, 2010
The International Society for Contemporary Legend Research is pleased to announce that the 2010 Perspectives on Contemporary Legend Twenty-eighth International Conference is to be held at the Meertens Instituut in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Proposals for papers on all aspects of 'contemporary', 'urban', or 'modern' legend research are sought, as are those on any legend or legend-like tradition that circulate actively at present or have circulated at an earlier historical period. Previous discussions have ranged in focus from the ancient to the modern (including Internet-lore) and have covered diverse cultures worldwide (including our own academic world).
40th International Ballad Conference
Meertens Institute, Amsterdam, and Maritime Institute, Terschelling
5th-10th July 2010
The 40th International Ballad Conference of the Kommission für Volksdichtung is to be held in Amsterdam and Terschelling (Netherlands), Monday morning, 5 July, to Saturday morning, 10 July 2010.
The conference is being hosted by the Meertens Institute, Amsterdam.
Ballad conferences are open to ethnologists,(ethno-)musicologists, literary historians and other scholars. The main theme of this conference is WATER. We welcome papers on maritime, coastal and insular music cultures, shanties and other songs of sailors and fishermen, ballads about the sea, lakes, rivers, waterfalls, sources and fountains, rain and drought, beaches, banks and bridges, swimming, shipwrecks, drowning, floods, fishes, sea monsters, mermaids etc. Other possible issues include performance, literacy vs. orality, language and identity, and ballad history, preferably in connection with the main theme.
Papers will be limited to 20 minutes. Abstracts of up to 300 words, together with requests for technical equipment, should be submitted by 4 JANUARY 2010 to prof. dr Louis Peter Grijp. The author's address, affiliation and contact details should be clearly stated, together with a brief account of the author's career and research interests.
The conference will start in the Meertens Institute in Amsterdam and will be continued in the Maritime Institute Willem Barentsz at Terschelling, one of the West Frisian islands in the very North of the Netherlands.
For further information, contact the Conference Organisers: prof. dr Louis Peter Grijp (+ 31 20 4628536, louis.grijp@meertens.knaw.nl and drs Martine de Bruin (+31 20 4628513, martine.de.bruin@meertens. knaw.nl), P.O. Box 94264, NL-1090 GG Amsterdam, Fax + 31 20 4628555 Joan Muyskenweg 25, NL-1096 CJ Amsterdam
European Clerics and Vernacular Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century
University of Amsterdam, 8-10 July 2010