We use cookies to improve your website experience. To learn about our use of cookies and how you can manage your cookie settings, please see our Cookie Policy. By closing this message, you are consenting to our use of cookies.

Other Folklore Events and Calls for Papers

Disability and Fairy Tales: Keeping the magic, confronting the stigma

  • 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...

Call for papers: Transnational Folklore: Rethinking the Nineteenth-Century History of Folklore Studies

  • 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...