Other Folklore Events and Calls for Papers

• Start date: 12th Jun 2025
• End date: 13th Jun 2025
• University of Manchester and Online

We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the international conference on Spontaneous Memorials, which is organised by the Institute for Cultural Practices, University of Manchester, on 12-13 June 2025 (in person and online). The conference aims to explore sociocultural, psychological, curatorial, digital and research methodology dimensions of spontaneous memorials. In particular, it...

• Start date: 11th Jun 2025
• End date: 14th Jun 2025
• Åbo Akademi University and Turku University in Turku, Finland

NEFK2025 – ”Nordic 2.0 and beyond” The 36th international Nordic Ethnology and Folklore Conference will take place at Åbo Akademi University and Turku University in Turku, Finland. It is time to meet again at the Nordic Ethnology and Folklore Conference. The 36th edition of the conference aims to reconnect with the roots of NEFK. We...

• Start date: 2nd Jul 2025
• End date: 5th Jul 2025
• Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, Aškerčeva 2, Ljubljana, Slovenia

The Agency of the Dead in the Lives of Individuals: Reasons, Triggers, and Contexts. International interdisciplinary conference July 2 – 4, 2025 Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, Aškerčeva 2, Ljubljana, Slovenia CALL FOR PAPERS Contrary to pre-modern European societies, and many contemporary non-Western societies, where the dead were considered members of the community and...

• Start date: 21st Jul 2025
• End date: 22nd Jul 2025
• Durham Castle

The Medieval and Early Modern Students Association (MEMSA) at Durham University is delighted to announce our Call for Papers for our 19th Annual Conference on the theme of ‘Illuminating Nature: Explorations of Science, Religion, and Magic.’ CALL FOR PAPERS “Magic is natural, for nature itself is magic.” – Paracelsus The medieval and early modern world...

• Start date: 25th Sep 2025
• End date: 26th Sep 2025
• Tartu, Estonia

We invite submissions for this recurrent conference, encouraging young folklorists to explore and redefine the theoretical frameworks that guide our discipline. This conference seeks to engage participants in a dialogue with “humble theory”, outlined by Dorothy Noyes (2016) as a theoretical and methodological approach, born in the “middle territory between grand theory and local interpretation”....