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Folklore, Learning and Literacies
- Friday 24 to Sunday 26 April 2020
- UCL Institute of Education, 20 Bedford Way, London WC1H 0AL
Photo: Marc Armitage
The Annual Conference of the Folklore Society, and Annual General Meeting 2020. Keynote speaker: Prof. Michael Rosen: “‘Don’t say that!’ – how my parents negotiated Yiddish.” (Friday 24th) In this talk, Michael Rosen explores how his parents who had both come from Yiddish-speaking households, retained many Yiddish phrases and words and passed them on orally. Michael...
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Wiki Loves Love 2020 (Folklore)
- Start date: 1st Feb 2020
- End date: 29th Feb 2020
- https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Love_2020_(Folklore)
Wiki Loves Love (WLL) is an international photographic contest organized by Wikimedia community to document love testimonials in various cultures and regions of the world. The theme for this year is Folklore which invites users round the world to upload images and videos about their own folklore. 20 Winners will get prizes starting from $400....
Broadside Day
- Date: 22nd Feb 2020
- Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regents Park Road, London NW1 7AY
The event runs from 9.30am - 5.30pm. Tickets £20
The Broadside Day is the annual one-day conference for people interested in street literature in all its fascinating aspects – broadsides, chap books, songsters, woodcuts, engravings, last dying speeches, catchpennies, wonder-tales, almanacs, fortune tellers, and all kinds of cheap printed material sold to ordinary people in the...
John Malchair’s ‘Third Collection of Tunes’ and other 18th century tune books at the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library by Alice Little
- Date: 26th Feb 2020
- Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regents Park Road, London NW1 7AY
Lecture starts at 7.30pm.
John Malchair (1730-1812) was a violinist and artist in Oxford, who spent his ‘leasure howers’ collecting music from Wales, Ireland, Scotland, and further afield. His tunebooks contain over 500 tunes, mostly country dance tunes and the melodies for songs, many of which are still played today. His sources for his collection included printed books, fri...
Dreaming Valleys
- Start date: 14th Mar 2020
- End date: 14th Mar 2020
- Birchcliffe Centre, Hebden Bridge
A day of engagements with history, topography and folklore. Tickets £20 adv., £22 door, cash only
Kelly Starling: Dancing with Ghosts: Journeys to Robinwood Mill
Alison Cooper: Geography of Grief: Pilgrimage through the Pennines
Dr Jennie Bailey: An Artery to a Heart: mapping the Rochdale Canal
Mark Valentine: Northern Soul: Lost weird writers of the North
Andy Roberts: ...
Maud Karpeles, adventurer and folk song collector: a reconsideration of her 1929 and 1930 Newfoundland field explorations by Anna Guigné
- Date: 25th Mar 2020
- Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regents Park Road, London NW1 7AY
Lecture starts at 7.30pm
In 1929, Londoner Maud Karpeles, a proponent of the early twentieth century British folk song and folk-dance revival movement, journeyed to the Dominion of Newfoundland to document British folk songs in England’s oldest colony. From 14 weeks of fieldwork, carried out between 1929 and 1930, Karpeles acquired close to 200 songs and dances, later publishin...
CFP: RAI2020 – Folklore, Geography and Anthropology: ways of knowing water/landscape/climate in the Anthropocene
- Start date: 4th Jun 2020
- End date: 7th Jun 2020
- British Museum, SOAS, RGS - London, UK
The Royal Anthropological Institute’s 2020 conference will be held 4 to 7 June 2020 at the British Museum, Clore Centre, SOAS, Senate House and Royal Geographical Society. It includes a panel bringing together scholars from folklore studies, anthropology and geography. This panel explores Other kinds of water/landscape/climate knowledge from scholars outside the hard geo-sciences,...
Folklore Fellows` Summer School 2020 “The Violence of Traditions and the Traditions of Violence”, Call for Applications
- Start date: 17th Aug 2020
- End date: 23rd Aug 2020
- University of Eastern Finland (UEF), Joensuu
The 10th Folklore Fellows` Summer School is hosted by the School of Humanities at the University of Eastern Finland (UEF) in Joensuu, 17-23 August 2020.
Folklore Fellows` Summer School 2020 "The Violence of Traditions and the Traditions of Violence" will provide the participants with an inspirational forum for learning and critical discussion on the violence of traditions and the...
Archives, Access, Ethics and Fraud
- Start date: 21st Oct 2020
- End date: 23rd Oct 2020
- Meertens Institute, Amsterdam
A SIEF Archives Working Group Conference 'Archives, Access, Ethics and Fraud' will take place in Amsterdam, October 21 – 23, 2020.
The Call for Papers can be found here: http://www.theomeder.nl/SIEF2020/CfP.pdf.
The deadline for abstracts is April 1st, 2020....
