Soundscapes and Folklore in East Asia
Soundscapes and Folklore in East Asia ‘Folklore and Anthropology in Conversation’ The Eighth Folklore Society – Royal Anthropological Institute Joint Seminar Date: Thursday 24 October, 2024 Time: 10.00am to 5.00pm Location: 50 Fitzroy Street, London W1T 5BT Call for Papers The seminar series ‘Folklore and Anthropology in Conversation’ encourages empirical and conceptual dialogue between the two related disciplines of folklore...
Digital Folklore hybrid conference
Digital Folklore The Folklore Society’s Annual Conference, a hybrid conference in collaboration with the Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London Friday 28 to Sunday 30 June 2024 Online and at King’s College London, Strand, London WC2B 4BG, UK Digital and networked technologies offer a wealth of new modes of folklore genre, performance and transmission....
Water in Legend and Tradition: the 18th Legendary Weekend of The Folklore Society Saturday 31 August and Sunday 1 September 2024 St Peter’s by the Waterfront, College Street, Ipswich IP4 1BF, UK CALL for PAPERS, Presentations or Performances: Deadline 1 July Cry me a river! The tears of the Virgin would fill a bottomless pool, down...
Estella Canziani Post-graduate Bursary for Research 2024
We are pleased to announce that bursaries for 2024 have been awarded to the following post-graduate students: Jessica Lloyd, for research on ‘The Randwick Wap: Folk Custom and Continuity’ Sophie Parkes-Nield, for research on ‘Thankstide: The Calendar Custom as Narrative Device in Contemporary Fiction’ Siobhan Scarlett O’Reilly, for research on ‘The Impact of Liminal Space...
An exhibition on folklorist John Francis Campbell is currently on at The National Library of Scotland. In 1859 Campbell and a team of helpers travelled across the western Highlands and Islands of Scotland, meeting storytellers and collecting Scottish Gaelic folktales. Until then, many of these folktales had been almost unknown beyond the Highlands. The exhibition...
UK Government Consultation on Intangible Cultural Heritage
The UK Government is proposing to ratify the UNESCO Convention on Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) and, accordingly, the Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) is inviting participation in a public consultation via an online survey and online roundtable discussions. The survey, which closes at the end of February 2024, can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/2003-unesco-convention-for-the-safeguarding-of-the-intangible-cultural-heritage/consultation-on-the-2003-unesco-convention-for-safeguarding-of-the-intangible-cultural-heritage...
Folklore Society President’s Prize 2023
We congratulate Xinrui Xie, winner of The Folklore Society President’s Prize 2023, for her essay ‘Shadowed Maternity: The Perpetuating Ambivalence Towards Motherhood in Ubume Narratives’
Dr Gillian Bennett (1939-2023)
We are very sad to learn of the death of Dr Gillian Bennett, former editor of our journal Folklore from 1994 to 2002, scholar of contemporary legends, supernatural beliefs, ghost narratives, history of folklore scholarship, women folklorists, and author of numerous publications, including her wonderful Traditions of Belief (1987). She will be much missed by all...