This year’s Katharine Briggs Lecture will be given by Paul Gilroy ‘Folk Tradition and the Choosing of Ancestors’ Tuesday 7 November, 18:30 in the K.T.Paul Hall, at the Indian YMCA, 41 Fitzroy Square, London W1T 6AQ Paul Gilroy is Professor of the Humanities at University College London and Founding Director of the Sarah Parker Remond...
‘Amazonia: Differing Research Perspectives in Ethnography and Folklore’ ‘Folklore and Anthropology in Conversation’: The Seventh Joint Seminar of The Folklore Society and The Royal Anthropological Institute Thursday 26 October, 2023, 10:00-17:00 BST Online via Zoom and in person at The Royal Anthropological Institute and The Folklore Society at 50 Fitzroy Street, London on Thursday October...
Where’ve All the Good People Come From? Revisiting the Origins of British Fairies A Folklore Society Online Talk by Francis Young Tuesday 24 October 2023, 18:00 A talk exploring the early history of Britain’s fairies, and proposing a new approach to understanding the origins of British fairy lore. The ultimate origins of Britain’s fairy traditions,...
Old Faery Narratives of Britain and Ireland A Folklore Society Online Talk by Rosalind Kerven Tuesday 10 October 2023, 19:00 BST Discover the intriguing, formidable faeries of old British and Irish folk narratives. Split between numerous local species, ranging from full-sized Scottish elf-queens to small, wizened male house fairies, they share a number of common...
Monumental Lies and the Folklore of the Wild West A Folklore Society Online Talk by Ronald M. ‘Ron’ James Early western folklore celebrated a playful embrace of tall tales and exaggeration, a brand of deceit woven into diverse traditions by people placing their mark on the region. Examining a wide variety of sources ranging from...
Archival Challenges of Collections A Folklore Society online talk by Robert McDowall Tuesday 12 September, 18:00 BST This talk will cover the challenges and problems of archival storage, maintenance, curating and display. Robert McDowall is a former president of The Folklore Society (2011-2014) Tickets £6.00 (£4.00 for Folklore Society members with Promo code: log in...
Saints and Mystics in Legend and Tradition: The Seventeenth Legendary Weekend of The Folklore Society A two-day conference on Saints and Mystics in Legend and Tradition will be held on Saturday 2 and Sunday 3 September 2023 as the seventeenth Legendary Weekend of the Folklore Society, at The Chapter House, St Albans Cathedral, Sumpter Yard,...
The History of Halloween A Folklore Society Online Talk, by Prof. Ronald Hutton (University of Bristol) Tuesday 18 July 2023, 18:00 BST Halloween is usually regarded as the creepiest festival of the modern year, a celebration of witchcraft, phantoms and images of fear which comes down to us from a remote a murky pagan past....