Liz Overs in Performance Hosted by The Folklore Society at 50 Fitzroy Street, London W1T 5BT Friday 13 December 2024, 19:30 Liz Overs performs songs from her first solo album, Nightjar, joined by guitarist David Tomlins. A mix of traditional and original songs, Nightjar is fully acoustic, recorded mostly live in the studio with Neill MacColl...
Dr Doc Rowe, ‘Transmission, Transformation and Trends: Historic and Contemporary Approaches to our Cultural Traditions’ Tuesday 12 Nov 2024, 6:00pm – 10:00pm Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regent’s Park Road, London NW1 7AY The Folklore Society’s annual Katharine Briggs evening is jointly hosted this year by The Folklore Society and The English Folk Dance and Song...
Folklore Without Borders: November Meeting 14-15 November 2024 Online and at 50 Fitzroy Street, London W1T 5BT The Folklore Society are hosting a two-day symposium for the Folklore Without Borders research network on Thursday 14 and Friday 15 November. The symposium will be blended and take place online and in person at the Royal Anthropological...
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 Far from being outdated and trivial, folklore is, he says, ‘very much alive and thriving on social media’.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 and Judges’ comments on the short-listed entries (in alphabetical order by first author/editor surname) Willem de Blécourt and Mirjam Mencej (eds), Werewolf Legends (Palgrave Macmillan). This is an engrossing collection of legends concerning werewolves from across Europe, using different...
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,...