The Folklore Society

The Katharine Briggs Lecture and Folklore Award 2008

Tuesday 11 November, 6.30 p.m.
at The Warburg Institute, Woburn Square, London WC1H 0AB.

This year's lecture is "Giving Folk back to the Folk",
by Malcolm Taylor, OBE, Librarian of the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library.

From 7.30 p.m., there will be a wine reception and buffet supper for Folklore Society members and invited guests, during which we will announce the winner of this year's Katharine Briggs Folklore Award.

For more details, call 0207 862 8564 or use the Contact Form on this site.

The Supernatural Diegesis in Popular Fiction

Annual Conference of the Association for Research in Popular Fictions
Saturday 22nd-Sunday 23rd November 2008, Dean Walters Building, Liverpool John Moores University

Papers on: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Torchwood; Victorian narrative fiction; Victorian visual culture; Children's fiction and the supernatural; Supernatural book covers; Contemporary supernatural fiction; Detective fiction and the supernatural.

£25 full-time staff; £15 postgraduates/part-time staff.
To book a place, contact Nickianne Moody, ARPF

BFE One-Day Conference

Saturday 15 November 2008, at the Elphinstone Institute, University of Aberdeen

Sacred Singing and Musical Spirituality

Contact: frances.wilkins@abdn.ac.uk

'What to Do with Folklore?'

An International Interdisciplinary Symposium
Ljubljana, 24-29 September 2009

For more details, contact gni@zrc-sazu.si

38th International Ballad Conference
(SIEF, Kommission für Volksdichtung)

School of Welsh, Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales, UK
Monday, 28 July - Saturday, 2 August 2008

For further information, contact the Conference Organiser: Dr E. Wyn James, School of Welsh, Cardiff University, Humanities Building, Colum Drive, CARDIFF, CF10 3EU, Wales, UK. Tel. +44 (0) 29-2087-4843; Fax: +44 (0)29-2087-4604; Email: Ballads@cardiff.ac.uk; Website

Place, Writing & Voice

School of Humanities, University of Plymouth, and the Cornwall Audio Visual Archive
5-6 September 2008

Speakers include Nick Groom, Tim Fulford, Richard Kerridge, Heike Roms, Mike Pearson, Brycchan Carey, Philip Schwyzer

This conference presents a series of talks about 'the local', through consideration of the written and spoken word. It will consider a range of localities in South West Britain, Italy, Alaska, and India, for example, exploring connections between the local, national, and global environment, as well as between the written and oral.

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Churches in Legend and Tradition: the 3rd Legendary Weekend of The Folklore Society

Saturday 20th and Sunday 21st September 2008 in the Bishop's Palace at Wells, a spacious complex of mediaeval buildings, with its own holy well in the grounds.

Speakers include: Janet Dowling on Giants in Churches; David Phelps and Valerie Dean on The Martyrdom of St. Ethelbert; Mark Lewis on The Sacred Threshold; David Hunt on Church Legends of Georgia; John Clark on London Churches and their Foundation Legends; Bob Trubshaw on The Minds of Medieval Masons; Chloe Cockerill on Unicorns in Churches; and Graham Jones on Saints and Churches.

The conference cost is £30, and cheques (payable to Folklore Society Enterprises) can be posted to Jeremy Harte at Bourne Hall, Spring Street, Ewell, KT17 1U.

For more information, contact JHarte@epsom-ewell.gov.uk

Ritual Year And Gender Conference 22-26 June 2008

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Societé Internationale d'Ethnologie et de Folklore (SIEF) Ritual Year Working Group announces a call for papers for 'The Ritual Year and Gender Conference' to be held in Cork, Ireland, 22nd - 26th June 2008. This will be the fourth international conference in the series on the theme of the ritual year and organized by the Folklore and Ethnology Department, University College Cork. Those who would like to offer a paper are invited to submit abstracts of up to 200 words before Friday 16th November 2007 to butler.jennifer@gmail.com.

Société International d'Ethnologie et de Folklore
SIEF's 9th Congress, 16th-20th June 2008 in Derry, Northern Ireland

SIEF's working group on the ethnology of religion proposes a panel called Rethinking the Sacred.

The group is seeking new members and invites you to join.

The National Centre for English Cultural Tradition (NATCECT, Sheffield University) is proposing a panel called England and Saint George: Representations of Englishness in the 21st Century

From Folk Culture to National Culture

11-12 April 2008
A two-day workshop led by Dr David Hopkin, at the University of Oxford, Faculty of History.

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The Museum Ethnographers Group Annual Conference and AGM

10-11 April 2008, University of Oxford, Pitt Rivers Museum

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The Folklore Society AGM and Conference: "Folktales Revisited"

Friday 4-Saturday 5 April 2008, at The Warburg Institute, University of London

Conference Programme and Abstracts of Papers

The Compass of Story: The Oriental Tale and Western Imagination

28 & 29 March 2008

Convened by Marina Warner, FBA, University of Essex The British Academy, 10 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1

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