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Katharine Briggs Lecture and Awards Shortlists

— Posted on 16th November 2021
Tonight, 16 November 2021, at 6 pm, The Katharine Briggs Lecture, online:
Prof. Ian Russell: “‘Peace o’er the World:’ Christmas Carolling in the Hope Valley.”
More details:  https://folklore-society.com/event/the-katharine-briggs-lecture-and-awards-2021/
 
 
After the lecture, we will announce the winners of this year’s Katharine Briggs Award and our Non-Print Media Award.
The Katharine Briggs Award 2021 Shortlist (alphabetically):
  • Lesley Coote, Storyworlds of Robin Hood: The Origins of a Medieval Outlaw (Reaktion Books)
  • Julian Goodare and Martha McGill (eds.), The Supernatural in Early Modern Scotland (Manchester University Press)
  • Jonathan Y. H. Hui, Vilmundar saga viðutan. The Saga of Vilmundur the Outsider (Viking Society for Northern Research)
  • Raphael Chijioke Njoku, West African Masking Traditions and Diaspora Masquerade Carnivals: History, Memory, and Transnationalism (Boydell and Brewer)
  • Donna Schatt and Patrick Ryan, Story Listening and Experience in Early Childhood (Palgrave Macmillan)
  • Vaughn Scribner, Merpeople: A Human History (Reaktion Books)
  • Marek Tuszewicki, A Frog Under the Tongue: Jewish Folk Medicine in Eastern Europe, translated by Jessica Taylor-Kucia (The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization)
And here is the Non-Print Media Award Shortlist:
  • Leafield Lass, sung by Freda Palmer (Musical Traditions)
  • Won’t You Buy My Pretty Flowers? sung by Charlie Bridger (Musical Traditions)
  • Margaret Fay Shaw’s Hebridean Odyssey, presented by Fiona Mackenzie (Yamal Productions/BBC Radio 3)
  • Henry Glassie, Fieldwork, documentary by Pat Collins (Southwind Blows/Harvest Films)
  • Iorram [Boat Song], documentary by Alastair Cole (Tongue Tied Films)