Other Folklore Events and Calls for Papers

• Start date: 24th Feb 2025
• End date: 25th Feb 2025
• online

Disability and Fairy Tales: Keeping the magic, confronting the stigma The aim of this symposium is to explore the nuances of disability representation in fairy tales, interrogating how writers, storytellers, publishers, teachers and academics use such tales to empower disabled people and preserve the disabled characters that have survived through generations. It shall also discuss...

• Start date: 18th Feb 2025
• End date: 1st Mar 2025
• Bread & Roses Theatre, Clapham, London SW4 6DZ

Celebrating the fairy tales of Mary De Morgan on stage A new play, produced in Mary De Morgan’s 175th anniversary year, will celebrate her life and storytelling. It is inspired by her extraordinary fairy tales, which subverted the conventions of Victorian society with its themes of proto-feminism and surreal imagery. ‘The Vegan Tigress’ imagines De...

• Start date: 22nd Oct 2024
• End date: 27th Apr 2025
• Watts Gallery

Step into the enchanting world of Cicely Mary Barker (1895 – 1973), the creator of the much-loved Flower Fairies, in this playful exhibition. Experience the timeless appeal of Cicely Mary Barker’s creation, the Flower Fairies. First published in 1923, these botanically accurate fairies were inspired by real children that Cicely knew. See a selection of the...

• Start date: 27th Apr 2025
• End date: 2nd May 2025
• Vienna

The organizing committee of one of the world’s largest congresses in geosciences–the EGU General Assembly (which this year gathered over 20,000 participants)—has decided to include a session specifically dedicated to Geomythology in the 2025 program. The call for abstracts for this congress has just opened. Geomythology is not only a perspective that allows for the...

• Start date: 15th May 2025
• End date: 18th May 2025
• Derby Museums

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...

• Start date: 22nd May 2025
• End date: 23rd May 2025
• Institute of European Ethnology and Cultural Analysis at LMU Munich

Organised by: Frauke Ahrens (Institute for European Ethnology and Cultural Analysis, LMU Munich), Fabiana Dimpflmeier (Department of Letters, Arts and Social Sciences, Gabriele d’Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara), and Christiane Schwab (Institute for European Ethnology and Cultural Analysis, LMU Munich). The historiography of folklore studies has been traditionally conducted within national frameworks–not at least because the...

• Start date: 12th Jun 2025
• End date: 13th Jun 2025
• University of Manchester and Online

We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the international conference on Spontaneous Memorials, which is organised by the Institute for Cultural Practices, University of Manchester, on 12-13 June 2025 (in person and online). The conference aims to explore sociocultural, psychological, curatorial, digital and research methodology dimensions of spontaneous memorials. In particular, it...

• Start date: 11th Jun 2025
• End date: 14th Jun 2025
• Åbo Akademi University and Turku University in Turku, Finland

NEFK2025 – ”Nordic 2.0 and beyond” The 36th international Nordic Ethnology and Folklore Conference will take place at Åbo Akademi University and Turku University in Turku, Finland. It is time to meet again at the Nordic Ethnology and Folklore Conference. The 36th edition of the conference aims to reconnect with the roots of NEFK. We...

• Start date: 2nd Jul 2025
• End date: 5th Jul 2025
• Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, Aškerčeva 2, Ljubljana, Slovenia

The Agency of the Dead in the Lives of Individuals: Reasons, Triggers, and Contexts. International interdisciplinary conference July 2 – 4, 2025 Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, Aškerčeva 2, Ljubljana, Slovenia CALL FOR PAPERS Contrary to pre-modern European societies, and many contemporary non-Western societies, where the dead were considered members of the community and...

• Start date: 21st Jul 2025
• End date: 22nd Jul 2025
• Durham Castle

The Medieval and Early Modern Students Association (MEMSA) at Durham University is delighted to announce our Call for Papers for our 19th Annual Conference on the theme of ‘Illuminating Nature: Explorations of Science, Religion, and Magic.’ CALL FOR PAPERS “Magic is natural, for nature itself is magic.” – Paracelsus The medieval and early modern world...

• Start date: 25th Sep 2025
• End date: 26th Sep 2025
• Tartu, Estonia

We invite submissions for this recurrent conference, encouraging young folklorists to explore and redefine the theoretical frameworks that guide our discipline. This conference seeks to engage participants in a dialogue with “humble theory”, outlined by Dorothy Noyes (2016) as a theoretical and methodological approach, born in the “middle territory between grand theory and local interpretation”....