Newer Researchers in Folklore Studies Conference
Folklore Studies has a long history of scholarship that often goes unrecognised outside the ranks of Folklore scholars. It remains a minority discipline, even in countries where it has had a stronger academic recognition than it has in Britain. Despite its wide popular appeal, Folklore remains marginalised. The Folklore Society has been concerned for some...
Jacqueline Simpson on The Folklore of Discworld at the London Fortean Society
31st July 2014 – London Fortean Society—Jacqueline Simpson on the Folklore of Discworld The Vaults at Dirty Dicks, 202 Bishopsgate, London EC2M 4NR. 7.30pm for 8pm start. £3/£2 concessions. Tickets from http://forteanlondon.blogspot.co.uk/ Prof Jacqueline Simpson has written many books on folklore including The Folklore of Sussex, British Dragons, Scandinavian Folktales and The Lore of the Land...
Estella Canziani Post-graduate Bursary for Research 2014
We are very pleased to announce that this year’s Bursary was awarded to Cristina Elena Clopot to assist with her research project: “Liminal Identities for Migrants in Romania—A Case Study on Russian Lipovans”. Congratulations Cristina
New: Folklore Society Non-Print Media Award
We are pleased to call for entries for our newly established “Non-print Media Award”, a biennial prize of £150 for a non-print media publication (CD/DVD) on folklore. Eligible entries must be in English language, and published in the UK or Ireland in the two-year period between 1 June 2012 and 31 May 2014. For the purposes...
Congratulations to Max Bienkowski, winner of the 2013 President’s Prize.
The Katharine Briggs Award 2013
Doc Rowe We are delighted to announce that The Katharine Briggs Award 2013 was won by Karl Bell for his book The Legend of Spring-Heeled Jack: Victorian Urban Folklore and Popular Cultures, published by The Boydell Press. Congratulations Karl. The joint runners up were: Julia Bishop and Steve Roud, The New Penguin Book of English Folk Songs...
We are delighted to announce that the Estella Canziani Post-graduate Bursary for Research was awarded to Sara Marzagora towards her research into “Postcolonial Folklore in Contemporary Ethiopia.”
EFDSS launched this amazing new digital archive of folk song and related material, including The Folklore Society’s Ordish collection of folk play texts collected by Thomas Fairman Ordish: take a look here.