Folklore for All
Date 17 August 2022 09:00 - 17:00
Location Online
One-day online Conference.
Saturday 17 September 2022, 09:00-17:00
Following the great success of our ‘Open Voices’ online conference in May, we are holding a follow-up one-day conference online looking at other traditions and folk practices, including: Wellington’s cones; elf-shots, magical darts in the Amazon, fairy tales, fairy seers in Romania, re-enactment groups, seasonal events, mumming, and the Dunmow Flitch, folklore and politics, and more. Speakers: Shabnam Ahsan, Joel Conn, Lucy Hornberger, Richard Jenkins, Robert McDowall, Anna Milon, Doc Rowe, Daniela Simina, James Andrew Whitaker, Simon Young
Tickets £20 (£10 for Folklore Society members with the Promo Code: log in to the Members’ Only area to get the Promo Code) via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/folklore-for-all-tickets-348902335277
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Programme
09:00: Meeting opens (enter the meeting with Eventbrite ticket)
09:45: Welcome
10:00-11:00 Folklore Groups: Politics, Community Events and Role Play
10:00 Robert McDowall: ‘Folklore and Political Orthodoxy—Are they Mutual Influences?’
10:30 Anna Milon: ‘Stories We Tell Together: Live Action Role Play as a Site of Reimagining Folklore.’
11:00 Lucy Hornberger: ‘The Dunmow Flitch 2022.’
11:30-12:00 Break
12:00-13:00 Seasonal Events and Fairy Traditions
12:00 Doc Rowe: ‘”We’ll Call Once More Unto Your House…”’
12:30 Daniela Simina: ‘Reclamation of Fairy Folklore and Traditions in Post-Communist Romania.’
13:00-14:00 Break
14:00-15:30 Elf-Shots, Magical Darts, and Wellington’s Cone
14:00 Simon Young: ‘Elf-Shots, Distribution and the Roud Question.’
14:30 James Andrew Whitaker: ‘Amazonian Magical Darts.’
15:00 Joel Conn: ‘The Joke of Wellington: A Statue, a Traffic Cone, and a Shifting Folk Practice in Glasgow’s City Centre.’
15:30-16:00 Break
16:00-17:00 Folklore for All
16:00 Shabnam Ahsan: ‘Whose Folklore is it Anyway? Diversity in the “English” Fairy Tales of Andrew Lang, Ruth Manning-Sanders and Radiya Hafiza.’
16:30 Richard Jenkins: ‘Looking for a Common Thread: Summing Up.’
17:00 Conference closes