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Other Folklore Events and Calls for Papers

Illuminating Nature: Explorations of Science, Religion, and Magic: Call for Papers

  • 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...

Humble Theory and Power of the Vernacular, 14th International Conference of Young Folklorists

  • 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”....