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: 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: 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...