Other Folklore Events and Calls for Papers

• Start date: 13th Jun 2024
• End date: 14th Jun 2024
• Online and at the Herder Institut für historische Ostmitteleuropaforschung, Marburg – Germany

CALL FOR PAPERS: ‘Reimagining Europe’ Extended Deadline: 22 March Online and at Herder Institut für historische Ostmitteleuropaforschung (Marburg, Germany) Event dates: 13-14 June 2024 Europe can be approached from various angles: as a geographical, political, and economic historical entity; as an embodiment of cultural diversity rooted in national, regional, and local identities, histories, and languages;...

• Start date: 24th Jun 2024
• End date: 3rd Jul 2024
• History Museum of the University of Athens and Antiparos island

The Mythos as MythUs summer school program studies myth and popular narrative, from antiquity to the present, as being humanity’s voice, long-shared, with which to respond to harsh realities; to times of crisis; and to distress that impacts entire communities. In such times of transition and upheaval myth and narrative serve to ameliorate the inimical...

• Start date: 30th Jun 2024
• End date: 3rd Jul 2024
• Buxton, Derbyshire

Sacred springs and holy wells are found around the globe in Indigenous spiritual traditions and international faiths. These sites’ sacred topographies often make them nodes of Biocultural Diversity. This conference invites exchange about how these Sacred Natural Sites are understood across disciplines, and what their study can teach us for local ecosystem care and socio-ecological...

• Start date: 17th Jul 2024
• End date: 18th Jul 2024
• Mildred's Lane Projects. Beach Lake, Pennsylvania, USA.

July 17–18, 2024 | Hybrid in-person & online To be held at the arts residency Mildred’s Lane (Beach Lake, Pennsylvania) and online, the two-day conference will take place on July 17–18, 2024. This transdisciplinary symposium aims to convene art practitioners, researchers, theorists, and students interested in the broad spectra of ideas and methods emerging from...

• Start date: 26th Sep 2024
• End date: 27th Sep 2024
• Maison Française d’Oxford

Veiled Cities Haunted Urban Realities in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries A two-day international conference at the Maison Française d’Oxford, 26-27 September 2024 Organisers: Prof David Hopkin (University of Oxford); Prof Juliet Simpson (Coventry University) This call for papers is addressed to social, cultural and art historians of urban spaces between the nineteenth and twentieth...

• Start date: 9th Oct 2024
• End date: 23rd Oct 2024
• Vilnius, Lithuania

Since the beginning of time, the existence of the light was inseparable from the darkness. In folklore material of various cultures, darkness could take the shape of a mythological being or to be perceived as looming threat and danger. It could inhabit words, deeds, and wishes, enabling people to believe in dark magic, curses, actions...

• Start date: 26th Oct 2024
• End date: 27th Oct 2024
• Oxford Brookes University

British Academy Conferences bring together scholars and specialists from around the world to consider and evaluate new research in the humanities and social sciences. Vernacular architecture refers to locally specific forms of architecture, which are rooted in community, place and tradition, and that have been made without the involvement of architects. The international and interdisciplinary...