Women in Viking Age Folk Narratives A Folklore Society online talk by Rosalind Kerven Tuesday 7 January 2025, 19:00 GMT Tune in to meet the colourful women of old Norse myths and legends from the earliest reliable sources: The Prose Edda, compiled by a 13th-century Icelandic folklorist; and the slightly later Poetic Edda, narrative poems...
Rising Tides: Water beings as agents of change in environmental activism A Folklore Society online talk by Veronica Strang Tuesday 10 December 2024, 18:00 GMT In early human history, when all societies worshipped ‘nature’, serpentine deities personifying the powers of water had central roles in stories of cosmic origin, and in beliefs about how life...
30 Years in Avalon: Fieldwork and Vernacular Religion in Glastonbury A Folklore Society online talk by Marion Bowman Tuesday 29 November 2024, 18:00 GMT To some people, Glastonbury is simply a small, if odd, market town; to others it is the Isle of Avalon, the place where King Arthur was taken for healing after his...
Folklore Without Borders: November Meeting The Folklore Society are hosting a two-day symposium for the Folklore Without Borders research network on Thursday 14 and Friday 15 November. The symposium will be blended and take place online and in person at the Royal Anthropological Institute, 50 Fitzroy St, London W1T 5BT. Anyone can attend and there...
The Katharine Briggs Lecture 2024 is jointly hosted this year by The Folklore Society and The English Folk Dance and Song Society Tuesday 12 November, 17:30-22:00 at Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regent’s Park Road, London NW1 7AY Our lecturer this year is Dr Doc Rowe ‘Transmission, Transformation and Trends: Historic and Contemporary Approaches to our...
Soundscapes and Folklore in East Asia The Folklore Society and The Royal Anthropological Institute: Eighth ‘Folklore and Anthropology in Conversation’ Symposium Date: Thursday 24 October, 2024 Time: 10:00 to 17:00 Location: 50 Fitzroy Street, London W1T 5BT The seminar series ‘Folklore and Anthropology in Conversation’ encourages empirical and conceptual dialogue between the two related disciplines of folklore and anthropology....
Fairy Encounters in Medieval England A Folklore Society Online Talk by Jeremy Harte Tuesday 8 October, 18:00 BST A thousand years ago, the barriers that kept life safe from the other world were thin–too thin. Those who fell asleep in the fields at noon or walked aboard at Midsummer lay open to supernatural caprice. Voices...
Operation Cone of Power: the Making of a Modern Legend A Folklore Society online talk by Dr Julia Phillips (University of Bristol) Tuesday 24 September 2024, 18:00 BST An illustrated examination of the legend about witches fighting a secret battle to defend Britain against Nazi invasion at Lammas 1940. Witchcraft during World War II: there is...