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Folklore and the Digital: One-day Online Conference

  • 29/03/2025
  • 09:30-17:30
  • online

Folklore and the Digital: One-day Online Conference

Saturday 29 March, 09:30-17:30 GMT

Following on from our ‘Digital Folklore’ conference in June 2024, we are holding a one-day online conference ‘Folklore and the Digital’, looking at the digitisation of folklore collections, large language models, digital tools in preserving folk traditions and creating new ones, social media and digital communities.

Programme
09:50 Intro

10:00-11:30: Session 1: The Pros and Cons of Digitising Folklore
Stuart Dunn: Digital Humanities (title TBC)
Ioana Baskerville: ‘The New Life of Archival Objects. Between Digitized Folklore and Digital Living Heritage.’
Stephen Miller: ‘”Print is much safer than MS.” A.W. Moore (1893): The Fate of the Internet 1.0 Researcher and their Remains.’

12:00-13:00: Session 2: Digitising Folklore of, and for, Children
Julia Bishop: ‘Digitising the Opie Collection.’ (Title TBC)
Archita Banerjee: ‘Folktales On The Digital Platform: Means To Subversion Through Digitization.’

13:30-14:30: Session 3: Digital Communities: Politics and Religion
Gabriel Tamaș: ‘Building a Religion: The Role of Digital Communities in the Revival of Religious Beliefs.’
Henrik Olinder: ‘When Politicians Comment on Rumours in Social Media: A Crisis Communication Aspect.’

15:00-16:30: Session 4: Large Language Models, Computational Analysis and Folktales
Will Lamb: ‘Generating Gaelic Traditional Narrative Type Texts Using Large Language Models.’
Monica Marion, et al.: ‘Traditional Genres in Digital Space: Exploring Folktale Variation with Computational Methods in the “Decoding Hidden Heritages” Project.’
Julie-Anne Meaney: ‘Large Language Models in Low-Resource Settings: Applications for Gaelic and Irish Folklore.’

16:30-17:00: Doc Rowe: Fifty years of Filmed Footage … Finally Digitised!

The Abstracts will soon be available to download

Tickets £30 (£20 for FLS members with the Promo Code)

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