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.
News
Vote Folk: EFDSS would like your support on two campaigns.
Folklore query? Ask the folklorists.
Register with the Yahoo! Talking Folklore group set up by Steve Roud.
Or send your enquiry to The Folklore Society using our Contact Form.
JStor passwords
Back issues of our journal Folklore 1878-2004: Folklore Society members can have individual password access to JStor's online archive of Folklore as part of their subscription to Folklore.
For more information, contact enquiries@folklore-society.com.
NB: It can take a couple of weeks to arrange access to JStor while your subscription is being processed, and it's worth checking your bulk/spam folder if you're expecting an email from JStor."
Coming up
24 July and Exhibition until October 2010
White Horses and Hill Figures
A Day School, 24 July, and Exhibition until October 2010 at the Wiltshire Heritage Museum.
More details.
4-5 September 2010,
Death in Legend & Tradition: - a Folklore Society Legendary Weekend
Brompton Cemetery, London SW10
23 to 24 September 2010
From Coronation to Chari-Vari: The Many Uses of Ritual and Ceremony in the Early Modern World
Birkbeck College, University of London
More details here: http://www.history.ac.uk/events/event/1866
4 - 7 July 2011
International Play Association (IPA) 2011 world conference
Playing into the Future - surviving and thriving
Cardiff, Wales UK
IPA 2011 conference website
EPIC Awards for Voluntary Arts
Nominations invited for Epic Awards, to recognise engagement, partnerships, innovation and creativity among voluntary arts groups. Deadline 10 October
More details here: www.epicawards.co.uk
Research Fellowship at the Museum of English Rural Life
AHRC-funded Collaborative PhD Studentship at Exeter University, UK
Project title: "The practices of carnival: communities, culture and place"
More information.
Calls for Papers
2011 International Council for Traditional Music Conference, July 13-19, 2011 St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada
CALL FOR PAPERS deadline for submissions of papers: September 7, 2010.
For more information, go to http://www.mun.ca/ictm
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.
15 - 16 July 2011
"Mervyn Peake and the Fantasy Tradition: a Centenary Conference"
University of Chichester
CALL FOR PAPERS
More details here.
Call for Submissions
Elli Köngäs-Maranda Prize
American Folklore Society, Women’s Section
Deadline September 1, 2010
For more details, email yjmilspa@hacc.edu
She-Wolf: Female Werewolves, Shapeshifters and Other Horrors in Art, Literature and Culture
University of Manchester, 9th-10th September 2010
More details.
Submit abstract by 31 March to: hannah.priest@manchester.ac.uk
"People make places - ways of feeling the world"
The 10th international SIEF congress
Lisbon, Portugal, 17-21 April 2011
More details.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Conference: "Audio Archives: Preservation, Cataloguing, Research, Use"
14 to 17 September 2011, in Münster
For more information, E-Mail:
j.nune_01@uni-muenster.de
Societas Magica "Richard Kieckhefer Prize" for an unpublished article by a recent PhD.
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.
Death in Legend & Tradition: - a Folklore Society Legendary Weekend
4-5 September 2010, Brompton Cemetery, London SW10
For further information please contact Jeremy Harte at: JHarte@epsom-ewell.gov.uk
CHILDLORE: The Folklore Society's AGM Conference 2011
Friday 15 to Sunday 17 April 2011 at The University of Worcester
If you are interested in offering a paper on any aspect of Childlore, please send your abstract by 31 December 2010 to Mikel Koven mjkoven@googlemail.com or to enquiries@folklore-society.com.
More details about the conference will be available shortly.
Congratulations to Professor Jacqueline Simpson, former editor of our journal Folklore and current editor of our newslettter FLS news, on her appointment as Visiting Professor at the University of Chichester's Sussex Centre for Folklore, Fairy Tales and Fantasy
.We congratulate the winners of the following Folklore Society Awards:
THE PRESIDENT'S PRIZE 2010 was awarded to Alice Gleave for her essay "The Female Soldier in Street Literature and Oral Culture in the German-Speaking Lands, c. 1600-1950"
THE ESTELLA CANZIANI BURSARY 2010 was awarded to Maria Kastrinou Theodoropoulou to further her research into Syrian folk dance.
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).
