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: 15th May 2025
• End date: 18th May 2025
• Derby Museums

CALL FOR PAPERS Dracula Returns: a conference and celebration Derby Museums 15–18 May 2025 In 1924, at the world premiere in Derby, Dracula stepped onto the stage. He was charming and suave, a different vampire to the monster of Bram Stoker’s novel. When the curtain rose, Hamilton Deane’s adaptation debuted Dracula in evening dress and...

• 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...