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$500 Bounty for English “Vampire”
29 December 2025 - 31 December 2027
A journal editor is offering $500 to anyone who can find the earliest use of the word vampire in English. Anthony Hogg, president of the Vampire Studies Association and editor of the Journal of Vampire... Read moreCall for Contributions: A Sourcebook for Histories of Weather and Weathering
27 April 2026 - 5 September 2026
We invite contributions to this sourcebook, which aims to present and analyse a diverse range of primary sources that reveal embodied, scientific and cultural knowledges in histories of weather and weathering.... Read moreWhitby Hand of Glory Folklore Festival
1 May 2026 - 3 May 2026, Flowergate Hall, Whitby, England, YO21 3BA
The inaugural Whitby HAND OF GLORY Folklore Festival, 1/2/3 May 2026. Performance, music, workshops, retail, literature, art, poetry and more. All events will be free to attend (access subject to capacity)... Read moreHoax: A Ghost, a Witch and a Princess in the Age of Enlightenment
7 May 2026 , Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London, WC1R 4RL
Here lies Fanny Lynes, who, after death, became the notorious scratching ghost of Cock Lane, London. Here swings Mary Bateman, the Yorkshire Witch and apocalyptic prophetess who died a murderer. Here... Read moreUCL Special Collections Open Morning: Magic and Western Esotericism
15 May 2026 , UCL Object Based Learning Laboratory, Wilkins Building, Main Campus Gower Street London WC1E 6AE
UCL's next Open Morning will showcase items related to the history of magic and western esotericism, and includes items from The Folklore Society Library and Archives Join us in UCL's Object... Read moreEncounters with Landscapes
22 May 2026 , Oxford
An inaugural evening of short films, talks and conversation about landscape and the relationship between people and place, hosted by Northern Earth, the long-running quarterly exploring the relationships... Read moreLolly Willowes at 100
29 May 2026 - 30 May 2026, University College London
The international conference, ‘Lolly Willowes at 100’, to mark the centenary of Warner’s best-known novel, Lolly Willowes, will be held at University College London on Friday 29 May and... Read moreSussex Retold: Sounds, Sites, Stories conference
19 June 2026 , University of Sussex
Artists, story-tellers, scholars, land-workers and policy-makers will gather at the University of Sussex to share work and ideas at a creative conference, Sussex Retold: Sounds, Sites, Stories, on... Read moreMythos as MythUs summer school
20 June 2026 - 30 June 2026, Athens and Naxos island, Greece
The Mythos as MythUs summer school studies myth and popular narrative, from antiquity to the present, as humanity’s long-shared voice in response to times of crisis and distress that impact entire... Read more