Congratulations to Steve Roud, who has been awarded The Folklore Society’s Coote Lake Medal for outstanding research and scholarship. Here you can see him being presented with the medal by FLS President David Hopkin on 28th June 2024 at our Digital Folklore conference, with Caroline Oates, FLS Librarian, looking on.
We have a terrific line-up of speakers on the programme for our Digital Folklore hybrid conference, 28-30 June 2024, online and in-person at Kings College London, Strand, London WC2B 4BG, UK For more information, and to download the programme and booking form, please visit: https://folklore-society.com/event/digital-folklore-conference/ Programme Friday 28 June 13:00: Registration, Kings College London, Strand...
Exciting news from Folklore Fellows Communications: ‘This is a quick note to inform you that we have launched our long-planned Open Access site for Folklore Fellows Communications volumes that are beyond the embargo period. ‘Since 2021, the publisher of the FFC series is the Kalevala Society Foundation (est. 1911), a highly esteemed institution of research...
The March 2024 issue of Country Living magazine has a feature on Doc Rowe’s recording and archiving of seasonal events: read a summary here, or subscribe for the whole article Also, the May 2024 issue of BBC Countryfile Magazine has a piece on Doc’s ’60 years documenting the strange rituals of Britain’: the magazine is available in newsagents...
Soundscapes and Folklore in East Asia ‘Folklore and Anthropology in Conversation’ The Eighth Folklore Society – Royal Anthropological Institute Joint Seminar Date: Thursday 24 October, 2024 Time: 10.00am to 5.00pm Location: 50 Fitzroy Street, London W1T 5BT Call for Papers The seminar series ‘Folklore and Anthropology in Conversation’ encourages empirical and conceptual dialogue between the two related disciplines of folklore...
Water in Legend and Tradition: the 18th Legendary Weekend of The Folklore Society Saturday 31 August and Sunday 1 September 2024 St Peter’s by the Waterfront, College Street, Ipswich IP4 1BF, UK CALL for PAPERS, Presentations or Performances: Deadline 1 July Cry me a river! The tears of the Virgin would fill a bottomless pool, down...
We are pleased to announce that bursaries for 2024 have been awarded to the following post-graduate students: Jessica Lloyd, for research on ‘The Randwick Wap: Folk Custom and Continuity’ Sophie Parkes-Nield, for research on ‘Thankstide: The Calendar Custom as Narrative Device in Contemporary Fiction’ Siobhan Scarlett O’Reilly, for research on ‘The Impact of Liminal Space...
An exhibition on folklorist John Francis Campbell is currently on at The National Library of Scotland. In 1859 Campbell and a team of helpers travelled across the western Highlands and Islands of Scotland, meeting storytellers and collecting Scottish Gaelic folktales. Until then, many of these folktales had been almost unknown beyond the Highlands. The exhibition...