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Call for submissions: Wonder Tales: Critical and Creative Approaches
15 May 2026 - 31 December 2026
Wonder Tales: Critical and Creative Approaches Cristina Bacchilega (University of Hawaiʻi-Mānoa), Veronica Schanoes (Queens College, City University of New York), Elena Sottilotta (University... Read moreCall for papers: Dracula Returns A.D.2027
21 July 2026 - 31 October 2026, Derby, 14–16 May 2027
Dracula Returns A.D.2027 is a conference and celebration marking the 103rd anniversary of Dracula’s licensed stage appearance in Derby, organised by The Derby Dracula Enterprise, the community interest... Read moreMelvyn Robinson: Hill Drawings — Landscape, Poetry and Folk Tradition
15 September 2026 - 11 January 2027, Cecil Sharp House, London NW1 7AY
A major exhibition of Melvyn Robinson’s Hill Drawings, inspired by the South Yorkshire landscape of his childhood. Bringing together paintings, poetry and folk songs, the exhibition explores landscape,... Read more'Plantlore' Exhibition
27 September 2026 - 15 November 2026, Chelsea Physic Garden, 66 Royal Hospital Road, Chelsea, London SW3 4HS
The exhibition explores early modern medicine and folklore through the lens of the pioneering female Victorian botanist Anne Pratt whose accessible publications helped introduce the study of plants to... Read moreAt the Crossroads with Folklore and AI
6 November 2026 , Harwich Arts and Heritage Centre
Folklore can feel like the opposite of digital technologies: it is traditional while technologies like artificial intelligence are innovative. But can humans and AI tell stories together? Does AI have... Read morePleasing Terrors: The M R James Festival
8 November 2026 - 9 November 2026, Drayton Arms Theatre, 153 Old Brompton Road, London, SW5 0LJ
A Festival celebrating the life and work of Montague Rhodes James, the classic British ghost story writer and scholar. Regular elements include scholarly and literary symposia, and creative and performance... Read moreThe Haunted Landscape: Magic, Fairies and Old Gods
21 November 2026 , Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London, WC1R 4R
The Haunted Landscape, an annual dive into magic, ghosts and folklore, entertains the Great God Pan with Professor Ronald Hutton and Sara Hannant, meets fairies new and old with Francis Young and Jo Hickey-Hall,... Read more“Hark to the Music”: Problematising Gender Motifs in the Singing of Folk Songs in Cinema
26 November 2026 , Cloisters, University of Chichester
“Hark to the Music”: Problematising Gender Motifs in the Singing of Folk Songs in Cinema Claire Rakich Thursday 26 November, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Cloisters, University of Chichester, Bishop Otter... Read more