Dr Gail-Nina Anderson: “Fine Art and Folklore” 6th November 2013 18:30—21:30 The Warburg Institute After the lecture there will be a reception during which we will announce the winner of this year’s Katharine Briggs Award.
We are delighted to announce that The Katharine Briggs Award 2013 was won by Karl Bell for his book The Legend of Spring-Heeled Jack: Victorian Urban Folklore and Popular Cultures, published by The Boydell Press. Congratulations Karl. The joint runners up were: Julia Bishop and Steve Roud, The New Penguin Book of English Folk Songs (Penguin) and Catherine...
A joint conference of The Institute of Archaeology and The Folklore Society. Contact us for more information.
A public lecture by Professor Jack Zipes (University of Minnesota).
This two-day conference on Beasts in Legend and Tradition will be held on Saturday 7th and Sunday 8th September 2013 as the eighth Legendary Weekend of the Folklore Society at Paignton Zoo. The main event will take place on Saturday with additional material on Sunday. Attachments Download flyer (pdf)
A free public lecture by R. Andrew Chesnut (Virginia Commonwealth University, and author of Devoted to Death: Santa Muerte, The Skeleton Saint, runner-up for The Katharine Briggs Award 2012).
Join FLS member Ernie Warner and friends for an evening of folk performance: if you can sing, play, recite or tell stories, come and perform: or just come and be the audience. Entry is free: just let us know you’re coming. Attachments Download flyer (pdf)
Conference Twitter: #FLSurban. Attachments Call for papers (pdf) Programme and abstracts (pdf)
This year’s lecturer is Dr David Atkinson: “The Ballad and its Paradoxes” The lecture is free and open to all but please let us know you’re coming by email to enquiries@folklore-society.com or by phone to 00 44 (0)207 862 8564. After the lecture, there will be a wine reception and buffet supper during we will...