Previous Folklore Society Events

• 8th October 2015
• 18:00—19:00
• The Warburg Institute, Woburn Square, London WC1H 0AB

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...

• 5th — 6th September 2015
• Town Hall, Huntingdon, PE29 3PJ

Law and Crime in Legend and Tradition: the Tenth Legendary Weekend of The Folklore Society: Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th September 2015 at the Town Hall, Huntingdon, PE29 3PJ Oyez, oyez! Who will give evidence at this forthcoming conference? If the Man in the Iron Mask was a poacher in famous Lincolnshire, then the criminal...

• 1st July 2015
• 18:00—19:00
• The Warburg Institute, London WC1H 0AB

Photograpy, Folklore and Some Confusions A talk by Sara Hannant and Doc Rowe, 6.00 pm at The Warburg Institute. To book, contact [email protected]

• 26th — 28th June 2015
• 13:00—13:15
• Exeter University, Students' Guild

“Calendar Customs and Seasonal Events” Conference,  26-28 June 2015, at the University of Exeter, Students Guild From New Year’s mummers to Xmas carol singing, wassailing to well dressing, Easter eggs to Halloween lanterns, calendar customs and seasonal events mark the rhythm of the year and celebrate festive occasions in many different ways—some old, some new,...

• 17th — 19th April 2015
• Elphinstone Institute, University of Aberdeen, Scotland

In Britain, as elsewhere, folklore is currently in a peculiar position. Popular interest has rarely been greater. Scholarly research and publication continue. Given its foundation in comparative methodologies, folklore is ideally placed to be at the centre of the interdisciplinary research approaches being championed across academia. However, declining academic funding has marginalised folklore in regard...

• 20th November 2014
• The Warburg Institute, Woburn Square, London WC1H 0AB

Folklore Studies has a long history of scholarship that often goes unrecognised outside the ranks of Folklore scholars. It remains a minority discipline, even in countries where it has had a stronger academic recognition than it has in Britain. Despite its wide popular appeal, Folklore remains marginalised. The Folklore Society has been concerned for some...

• 19th November 2014
• 18:30—21:00
• The Warburg Institute, Woburn Square, London WC1H 0AB

“Cry, Lady, Cry”: Maternal Infanticide Narratives and the Vernacular Construction of Blame by Professor Diane Goldstein, Director of the Folklore Institute, Indiana University. After the lecture, there will be a wine reception and buffet supper during which we will announce the winners of this year’s Katharine Briggs Award, our inaugural Non-Print Media Award, and the FLS President’s Prize 2014

• 17th September 2014
• 17:30—18:30
• The Warburg Institute, Woburn Square, London WC1H 0AB

A Public Lecture by Simon Heywood (Storyteller, Songwriter, Folklorist) and Shonaleigh Cumbers (Drut’syla: Storyteller) The lecture is free and open to all. To book, call 0207 862 8564 or email [email protected] Shonaleigh Cumbers is a drut’syla, a storyteller in a Jewish tradition inherited from her late grandmother, Edith Marks (d.1988), by whom she was trained...