Events
Online Talk: From a Cornfield to the Gothic: an Appreciation of the Scarecrow
21 October 2025 19:00 - 20:30
Speaker: Juliette Wood
From a Cornfield to the Gothic: An Appreciation of the Scarecrow A Folklore Society online talk by Juliette...Revisiting Oral Narrative: Anthropology, Folklore and History
23 October 2025 10:00 - 17:00
‘Revisiting Oral Narrative: Anthropology, Folklore and History’ Ninth ‘Folklore and...CANCELLED Online Talk: Sally the Seal, Roboto, and Other Traditional Helper Figures in Family Life
4 November 2025 19:00 - 20:30
Speaker: Simon Gall
Sally the Seal, Roboto, and Other Traditional Helper Figures in Family Life A Folklore Society online...The Katharine Briggs Lecture and Book Award 2025
11 November 2025 18:30 - 20:30
The Folklore Society’s Katharine Briggs Lecture and Book Award 2025 will take place on Tuesday...Online Talk: On Social Life and Stories: Traditional Tale-Telling in 1970s Rural Iceland
1 December 2025 19:00 - 20:30
Speaker: Rosemary Power
On Social Life and Stories: Traditional Tale-Telling in 1970s Rural Iceland A Folklore Society Online...The Hooden Horse of Kent
16 December 2025 19:00 - 20:30
Speaker: James Frost
The hooden horse was associated with the Christmas house-calling custom of hoodening in East Kent. It...CALL FOR PAPERS: 'Folklore on the Move' The Folklore Society’s Annual Conference 2026
5 June 2026 - 7 June 2026
CALL FOR PAPERS – ‘Folklore on the Move’ The Folklore Society’s Annual Conference...Non-Folklore Society events, notices and calls for papers
Call for abstracts: To a special issue of the journal Arv – Yearbook of Nordic Folklore
30 September 2025 - 16 December 2025
We invite articles that study changes in the interaction patterns between human beings and beings that are more than human. Supernatural beings come in many sizes and shapes, from the largest dragon... Read moreFolklore Fellows’ Summer School 2026: Call for submissions
30 September 2025 - 16 December 2025, Helsinki and Tvärminne
11th Folklore Fellows’ Summer School 'Interdisciplinarity and Involvement: Enduring and Emerging Sites of the Vernacular' This week-long event gathers young folklorists with a team of instructors... Read moreTraditional Tunes and Popular Airs Conference 2025
8 November 2025 - 9 November 2025, Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regent's Park Road, London NW1 7AY
A two-day conference bringing together researchers working on ‘traditional’ and ‘popular’ tunes as transmitted and transformed in all manner of musical styles and genres, performance... Read more