CALL FOR PAPERS Dracula Returns: a conference and celebration Derby Museums 15–18 May 2025 In 1924, at the world premiere in Derby, Dracula stepped onto the stage. He was charming and suave, a different vampire to the monster of Bram Stoker’s novel. When the curtain rose, Hamilton Deane’s adaptation debuted Dracula in evening dress and...
In Charlie Cooper’s new series Myth Country (streaming on BBC I-player) the actor and writer reveals his passion for folklore and how the peculiar rituals and traditions of this country ‘bring people together’. Far from being outdated and trivial, folklore is, he says, ‘very much alive and thriving on social media’. The National Folklore Survey...
We are pleased to announce the short list for the Katharine Briggs Award 2024 SHORT LIST (alphabetical by first author surname) Willem de Blécourt and Mirjam Mencej (eds), Werewolf Legends (Palgrave Macmillan). Cecily Gilligan, Cures of Ireland: A Treasury of Irish Folk Remedies (Merrion Press). François-Marie Luzel, The Midnight Washerwoman and Other Tales of Lower Brittany; ed. & transl. Michael Wilson (Princeton University Press). Peter...
The workshop will be held at the Institute of European Ethnology and Cultural Analysis at LMU Munich on May 22 and 23, 2025, in collaboration with the Gabriele d’Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara. Organised by: Frauke Ahrens (Institute for European Ethnology and Cultural Analysis, LMU Munich), Fabiana Dimpflmeier (Department of Letters, Arts and Social Sciences, Gabriele...
Saturday 16 November 2024, 10:30 – 14:30, Derby Museum and Art Gallery Did Bram Stoker read any folklorists in order to write Dracula? What did he invent outright and what did he develop? How old is traditional belief in Vampires? Where do the stories come from? Explore these and other questions in three workshop sessions,...
Sophia Kingshill examines the complex family tree of the mermaid, from ancient images to modern media. Mythology, symbolism, romance and lechery, with a touch of fraud and a taste of salt. Friday 18 October, 7pm Emma Mason Gallery, Eastbourne Folklorist Sophia Kingshill, author of Mermaids: Lust & Legends of a Rebel Sisterhood and Liz Overs with traditional songs...
A History of Folklore: an online course from The Folklore Society Ever wondered where ‘folklore’ comes from? Who were the founders of our subject and how does their influence still shape what folklorists do today? Where are folklore studies going now? Then come and join in a new 10-week A History of Folklore course run...
Alice Gomme: Game Collector By Amara Thornton (Co-Investigator, Beyond Notability project) In March 2024 ‘Five Stones for Alice’ premiered in London, at a workshop held at the Society of Antiquaries in Burlington House–the very same site, in fact, that hosted the International Folklore Congress in 1891. Alice Gomme was a pivotal part of the organisation...