Food and Drink in Legend and Tradition: The Eleventh Legendary Weekend of The Folklore Society. 3—4 September 2016, at St. Nick’s Environment Centre in York, YO10 3ST Raise your glasses, please, to the importance of old traditions! Mine’s a Hobgoblin. Has the King of the Bean put out a mince pie for Santa? Four and...
The Folklore Society is delighted to invite Dr Andrea Kitta (East Carolina University) to give a public lecture on her research into belief in “Slender Man”, at 5.00 pm on Wednesday 6 July at The Warburg Institute. The lecture is free and open to the public, but please let us know you’re coming: email [email protected]...
The Elphinstone Institute and The Folklore Society are pleased to announce the 2016 Folklore, Ethnology and Ethnomusicology Conference Aberdeen (FEECA), which aims to bring together graduate, post-graduate students and early-career researchers in these fields, to strengthen relations between relevant scholars and institutions in the UK and around the world. This year’s theme draws on W.F.H....
An afternoon event with performance, song, reminiscence and drinks will be held at the Cello Factory, 33-4 Cornwall Road, London SE1 8TJ (near Waterloo station) from 3pm to 6pm on Saturday 21st May. Members of The Folklore Society and others who knew Katharine Briggs personally will share their memories of her, to be recorded for...
Reflected Shadows: Folklore and the Gothic conference: A great conference, thanks everyone. Some photos below. Keynote Address: Prof. Fred Botting: “Zombie: Folklore, Gothic and Monstrous Modernity” on Saturday 16th at 2pm The Folklore Society’s AGM 2016 Friday 15th April at 2.00 pm, followed by the FLS Presidential Address Prof. James H. Grayson: “Invading Mongols and the Preservation...
The Katharine Briggs Memorial Lecture 2015 will be “From ‘breathless catalogue‘ to ‘beyond text‘: A Hundred Years of Children’s Folklore Collecting” by Dr Julia C. Bishop (Research Associate, School of Education, University of Sheffield, UK) Wednesday 18 November 2015, 6.30 p.m., at The Warburg Institute After the lecture, there will be a wine reception and buffet supper during which we will announce...
Folklolre and Anthropology: A one-day symposium jointly hosted by The Folklore Society and The Royal Anthropological Institute. Anthropology and Folklore Studies had a common origin, and today have many areas of common interest in topics, research methods and theory. In this one-day symposium, which is intended to be an annual event, 6 younger scholars (3...
Folklore and Religion in Republican Turkey: Thoughts from Çatalhöyük and the Konya Plain. A Folklore Society lecture by David Shankland (Director, The Royal Anthropological Institute) The aim of this lecture is to outline the relationship between religion, folklore and archaeology in the Turkish Republic, with particular reference to the beliefs of the villages nearby the Çatalhöyük excavations, in...