Folklore Without Borders: November Meeting
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...
Dracula Returns: A Conference and Celebration. Call for Papers
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...
Announcing the National Folklore Survey
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 Far from being outdated and trivial, folklore is, he says, ‘very much alive and thriving on social media’.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...
The Katharine Briggs Award 2024: Short List
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...
Being Human Festival: Fangs and Folklore
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,...
Mermaids: Fish, Flesh or Fowl?
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: Online Course
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...