Events
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 moreCollateral Data
23 April 2026 - 24 April 2026, Bergen, Norway
Call for papers Well-known ethnographic sources tend to present their data explicitly. However, as studies such as Dictionaries as a Source of Folklore Data (2020) have demonstrated, it is also possible... Read more