The Folklore Society
A learned society devoted to the study of all aspects of folklore, including: traditional music, song, dance and drama, folkloric narrative, arts and crafts, customs and belief, popular religion, folk medicine, children's folklore, traditional sayings, proverbs, rhymes and jingles.
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JStor passwords
Folklore Society members who have already paid their subscription for 2010 will shortly receive details about setting up or renewing their access to JSTOR.
Please contact enquiries@folklore-society.com if you have any queries.
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Coming up
23-24 July 2010
University of Exeter, Cornwall Campus
"Mysticism, Myth, Nationalism" Conference
Download the flyer here.
Calls for Papers
'Open Graves, Open Minds: Vampires and the Undead in Modern Culture'
University of Hertfordshire April 2010
More Details here.
Conference: 'A Good Send Off: Local, Regional & National Variations in How the British Dispose of the Dead'
19 June 2010 in Bath, England.
Further details here.
Charms, Charmers and Charming
June, 24-25, 2010
International conference at the Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania
Read the call for papers
International Society for Contemporary Legend Research.
Perspectives on Contemporary Legend 28th International Conference
Meertens Institute, Amsterdam, 28 June - 1 July 2010.
More information.
Contact: theo.meder@meertens.knaw.nl
40th International Ballad Conference of the Kommission für Volksdichtung (SIEF)
Amsterdam and Terschelling, Netherlands, 5th-10th July 2010
More information.
Visit website.
European Clerics and Vernacular Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century
University of Amsterdam, 8-10 July 2010
Read the Call for Papers.
Chichester University Research Administrator
Chichester University needs a Research Administrator to support the project of a Sussex Centre for Folklore, Fairy Tales and Fantasy.
More information.
The English Folk Dance & Song Society (EFDSS)
EFDSS is delighted to announce that it has become one of Arts Council England's Regularly Funded Organisations and will receive £400,000 of funding over two years. The funding will enable EFDSS to become a national development agency for folk music and set up a number of exciting new initiatives that will benefit the folk sector.
For further information, please contact EFDSS Marketing Director, Nick Hallam, at nick.hallam@efdss.org.
The Folklore Society AGM and Confererence 2010 “The Supernatural”
CALL FOR PAPERS
Friday 26 to Sunday 28 March
at Leeds Trinity University College, Horsforth, Leeds
Societas Magica "Richard Kieckhefer Prize" for an unpublished article by a recent PhD.
Seasonal events filmed by Doc Rowe
ANNOUNCING: H-Folk: H-Net Network on Folklore
http://www.h-net.org/~folk
A project organised by The American Folklore Society in partnership with The Folklore Society and other organisations
New Book:
"Charms, Charmers and Charming", edited by Jonathan Roper:
Papers from the Second International Charms conference.
Dr Jacqueline Simpson, former President of The Folklore Society, in the persona of Madame Jezebel de Bellegrue, Head of the Guild of Seamstresses, with Terry Pratchett at the Discworld Convention, August 2008.
Terry Pratchett and Jacqueline Simpson are joint authors of The Folklore of Discworld, which was published by Doubleday in September 2008.
The Folklore Society Post-Graduate Research Bursary
The Folklore Society announces a competition for The Folklore Society Post-Graduate Bursary for Research for the Academic Session 2009-2010. See the Post-Graduate Bursary page for more details.
"The Pearly Festival" by Estella Canziani (mid-1930s).
