Non-Folklore Society events, notices and calls for papers

30 September 2025 - 16 December 2025

We invite articles that study changes in the interaction patterns between human beings and beings that are more than human.  Supernatural beings come in many sizes and shapes, from the largest dragon... Read more

30 September 2025 - 16 December 2025, Helsinki and Tvärminne

11th Folklore Fellows’ Summer School 'Interdisciplinarity and Involvement: Enduring and Emerging Sites of the Vernacular' This week-long event gathers young folklorists with a team of instructors... Read more

4 November 2025 , 7–8 p.m., online (Teams)

Join Cristina Bacchilega and Pauline Greenhill for a thought-provoking discussion following the publication of their open-access book Justice in 21st-Century Fairy Tales and the Power of Wonder (Bloomsbury,... Read more

8 November 2025 - 9 November 2025, Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regent's Park Road, London NW1 7AY

A two-day conference bringing together researchers working on ‘traditional’ and ‘popular’ tunes as transmitted and transformed in all manner of musical styles and genres, performance... Read more

22 November 2025 , Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London, WC1R 4RL

Legend trip through the Haunted Landscape at the London Fortean Society’s Day of expert talks on British ghost, magic, and folklore.  E. Jay Gilbert - Ghost Stories and Their Afterlives E.... Read more

23 April 2026 - 24 April 2026, Bergen, Norway

Call for papers Well-known ethnographic sources tend to present their data explicitly. However, as studies such as Dictionaries as a Source of Folklore Data (2020) have demonstrated, it is also possible... Read more