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The Katharine Briggs Lecture and Book Award 2024

  • 12/11/2024
  • 18:00-22:00
  • Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regents Park Road, London NW1 7AY

Doc Rowe

The Katharine Briggs Lecture 2024 is jointly hosted this year by The Folklore Society and The English Folk Dance and Song Society

Tuesday 12 November, 17:30-22:00

at Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regent’s Park Road, London NW1 7AY

Our lecturer this year is

Dr Doc Rowe

‘Transmission, Transformation and Trends: Historic and Contemporary Approaches to our Cultural Traditions’

An illustrated lecture with photos and film clips from six decades of documenting seasonal events, song and dance performances.

The lecture begins at 18:00, with doors open from 17:30.

The Katharine Briggs Award: After the lecture, we will announce the winner of this year’s Katharine Briggs Award for recent books on folklore studies, and all the books entered for the award will be on display.

There will also be a special presentation to Prof. Ronald Hutton; there will be music; there will be snacks and drinks, and we will raise a toast to Doc Rowe for his imminent 80th birthday.

Tickets are £6.00 (£4.00 for Folklore Society members with the Discount Code–log in to the Members Only area to get the code) from The English Folk Dance and Song Society’s box office: https://www.efdss.org/whats-on/61-conferences/14065-katharine-briggs-2024?