There's still time to pitch in for the Children's History Society 2026 #conference here at Sheffield with an extended cfp, and with a focus on space, place and belonging, #folklore is one of the suggested conference themes for papers!

Yinka Olusoga@yinkaolusoga.bsky.social · 8mo ago

The @histchild.bsky.social conference is coming to the @sheffielduni.bsky.social in July 2026. Call for papers has been extended until Monday 22nd December. Please share - especially with research students and ECRs! www.histchild.org/pages/sheffi...

Might be of interest to some of you!

Fleurish Folk@fleurishfolk.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Romancing the Gothic: Online Talk Series - #Gothic, Horror, #Folklore & the Supernatural 🪄 Deadline for submissions: December 20, 2025 #amwriting #booksky #submissions call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/09/...

#CFP We're delighted that the Traditional Song Forum #TSF is joining us at @sheffielduni.bsky.social for its Broadside Day on 14 Feb 2026 💘- how #folkloric! Abstracts for 20 minute presentations on street literature by 1 December '25. tradsong.org/broadside-da...

We're launching our in-person #folklore #writing group for #TUOS PGRs, ECRs and staff writing academically / creatively on folklore themes. Taster session 10-11.30am, 14 November, Doctoral School Centre (by Jessop West). No need to register! contemporaryfolklore.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/centre-activ...

Writing Folklore Group

Coming Soon! Writing Folklore is a new Folklore writing group supporting academic and creative writing related to Folklore and Folklore Studies and Research. Led by our wonderful members Abbi Flint an...

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CFRC member, academic and poet @draflint.bsky.social has been reflecting poetically on physical marks, sometimes called protective or witches' marks, inscribed on heritage sites including local landmark Bolsover Castle as part of her work with @torchoxford.bsky.social

Abbi Flint@draflint.bsky.social · 9mo ago

NEW: blog-post from the Poetry Heritage and Community project - 'If walls could talk': how might we think poetically about writing and other physical marks inscribed on the fabric of heritage sites? Focusing on Bolsover Castle @torchoxford.bsky.social www.torch.ox.ac.uk/article/if-w...

You can read #CFRC member Jessica Bradley and Louise Atkinson's review of the Barbican's exhibition 'The Creative Voice' - part of the Voiced festival - for #artists and creatives working in endangered languages in this piece for @uk.theconversation.com theconversation.com/voiced-barbi...

Voiced: Barbican festival highlights endangered languages and their connection to art

The festival invites reflection on what happens when languages and homelands are lost.

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CFP: Children's History Society 5th Biennial Conference, Sheffield University 1-3 July '26 on Space, Place, Belonging and Identity in Intergenerational Histories of Childhood and Youth. Topics include Folkloristic Perspectives on children and space / place! www.histchild.org/pages/sheffi...

Our #Lore and Lunch #reading #group is back on 22 October. Our online meetings are open to everyone with an open attitude and interest in #Folklore Studies. Information on how to sign up is on our website along with past readings. contemporaryfolklore.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/centre-activ...

Lore and Lunch

Lore and Lunch is an online monthly reading and discussion group led by members of the Contemporary Folklore Research Centre. Everyone is welcome: You don't have to be a centre member, no formal quali...

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Booking 🎟️ now open for the @efdss.bsky.social #Traditional #Tunes and Popular Airs Conference, 8-9 Nov in-person at London's Cecil Sharp House. For all working on 'traditional' and 'popular' tunes as transmitted and transformed in all manner of styles and genres: www.efdss.org/whats-on/61-...

Traditional Tunes and Popular Airs Conference 2025

A two-day conference bringing together researchers working on ‘traditional’ and ‘popular’ tunes as transmitted and transformed in all manner of musical styles and genres, performance contexts, levels ...

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Folklorist Job Alert! University of London seeks a part time PDRA on Project Storymachine, which aims to preserve, explore and increase access to folklore in Germany and the UK through digital infrastructure. Application details here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOY261/p...

Postdoctoral Research Associate, Project StoryMachine at University of London

Discover an exciting academic career path as a Postdoctoral Research Associate, Project StoryMachine at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!

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CFP! Journal of Festive Studies is inviting abstracts for an issue on TINY/giant: Playing with Scale. Themes include giant puppets, toy theatres, effigies for celebration or excoriation, miniature collectibles... Deadline 15 Nov, more info here: networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

The #Cfp for next year's Folklore Fellows Summer School in Finland is now open with the theme of Interdisciplinarity and Involvement. Some fantastic speakers lined up and organisers are keen for ECRs to participate. More info here: www.folklorefellows.fi/summer-schoo...

What a wonderful day for the #CFRC 'crew' at @folkloretodmorden.bsky.social! We had a brilliant time networking and workshopping with the next generation of #folklore researchers! Thrilled to have supported this event with @folkloresociety.bsky.social and @herts.ac.uk

Could your lunchtime, once a month, do with more VAMPIRES? Why not sign up for the FREE online lunchtime bites - a 30 min talk once a month, each from a different speaker, on Dracula, vampires and all things vampire-adjacent! www.ticketsource.co.uk/draculalunch...

Lovely friend of our centre Peter Harrop is giving tonight's online talk from the Folklore Society @folkloresociety.bsky.social and we're told there's still time to book for what looks like a fascinating session!

The Folklore Society@folkloresociety.bsky.social · 11mo ago

It's September and our programme of online talks is resuming next week! First up, 'Violet Alford’s Pyrenean Festivals and Antonin Artaud’s Peyote Dance' by Prof. Peter Harrop. Tuesday 9 September at 19:00 BST, tickets £6.00 (£4 for members with promo code) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/violet-alf...

Congratulations Abbi @draflint.bsky.social, this looks excellent!

Abbi Flint@draflint.bsky.social · 11mo ago

NEW: delighted that my piece on connections between paths, folk song, and rambling in the early 20th C has been published #OpenAccess in Folklore. It draws on research from the In All Our Footsteps project 🎶 🥾 👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Booking is open for the Traditional Song Forum's Autumn #Conference at Gloucestershire Heritage Hub, Gloucester, 18 Oct. This free in-person event focuses on #folk #songs in #archives asking 'where can we find them and are they safe?' - more details here...🎵 tradsong.org/tsf-autumn-c...

We're over the moon that our @cfrc-folklore.bsky.social centre director Fay Hield has been awarded the @efdss.bsky.social Gold Badge. The Gold Badge is the highest award given by the #EFDSS for unique or outstanding contributions to folk music, dance or song. Congratulations Fay!

English Folk Dance and Song Society@efdss.bsky.social · last yr.

Congratulations to Fay Hield on receiving an EFDSS Gold Badge! Fay is Professor of Music and director of Soundpost, a community music organisation. Alongside, she has maintained a performance career, with The Full English Band receiving two Folk Awards. @fayhield.bsky.social bit.ly/4l9oIe1

Fancy a folklore-flavoured book launch in time for spooky season? @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social and @odavies9.bsky.social will debut 'Folklore: A journey through the past and present' at this year's Off The Shelf Festival #Sheffield on 19 Oct. Details here #folklore offtheshelf.org.uk/events/folkl...

A ground-breaking guide to the weird yet everyday world of British folklore past and present. Folklore is explored in its remarkable variations from village rituals and fairy tales to UFO legends and internet fanfiction, travelling through a landscape of witches, wizards and wicker men. Leading experts Ceri Houlbrook and Owen Davies reveal how folklore is more than the remains of a fossilised distant, rural past but a dynamic living tradition that draws on many sources, including migrant communities, and is forever being renewed and updated.

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Coming Nov 2025 - our new ✨ 'Writing Folklore' ✨ group! A space for creative and academic #Folklore writing led by Ella Ruby Self @local-sea-wytch.bsky.social, Abbi Flint @draflint.bsky.social and @cathbannister1.bsky.social. Join us on TUOS campus for community and creativity. More details soon! ✒️👨‍💻

CFP: Collateral Data - Repurposing lexica as ethnographic sources. Symposium @unibergen.bsky.social 23-24 April 2026 exploring how scholarly disciplines including #Folklore Studies use dictionaries and encyclopaedias as data sources. Abstracts of 300 words by 1 Dec. www.uib.no/ub/spesialsa...

If you're researching #fandoms, #DIY, #zines or other forms of creative expression related to fan cultures, this CFP might be for you? Special issue of Transformative Works and Cultures on Music Fandom. Deadline for final articles 1 Jan 2026. For more info see the link!

Transformative Works and Cultures@journal.transformativeworks.org · last yr.

NEW CFP ALERT 📣 Check out the details of our upcoming special issue on Music Fandom guest edited by @jenessawilliams.bsky.social & ‪@lucykbennett.bsky.social at the follow link: journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/tw...! Deadline is 01/01/2026!

Booking now open for Traditional Tunes and Popular Airs 2-day conference at Cecil Sharp House, London, this November. More details on the event and how to book your place at the link #folk #trad #tunes 🎻

Cecil Sharp House@cecilsharphouse.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Traditional Tunes and Popular Airs two-day conference, will bring together researchers working on ‘traditional’ and ‘popular’ tunes in all manner of musical styles, levels of society, historical periods, and locations Sat 8 & Sun 9 Nov Cecil Sharp House, London Book your place now bit.ly/455kK1

This year's Newer Researchers in Folklore Day is on 26 Sept 2025, 10:00–16:00 @folkloretodmorden.bsky.social. Experts will run informative & interactive sessions on material culture of folklore, fieldwork, ethics, & more. More info & booking a free place: www.folkloremythmagic.com/event-detail...

CFP 📣!! Deadline 4 August!! The Traditional Song Forum #TSF welcomes abstracts on #Folk Songs in the Archive - Where can we find them and are they safe? for their autumn conference on 18 October at the Gloucestershire Archives. Details and full call at this link: tradsong.org/tsf-autumn-c...

CFP📣!! 'The Samhain Industry in Ireland', a 1 day symposium, Maynooth University @maynoothuniversity.ie Ireland, 29 Oct 2025. Potential topics include: cultural policy, tourism, digital media, environment, #folklore, LGBTQI+, postcolonialism. Abstracts by 17 Sept👻 networks.h-net.org/system/files...

Looking for some folklore reading? You can check out publications by our members on our website! contemporaryfolklore.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/folkloric-re...

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Brilliant @cfrc-folklore.bsky.social member Ella Ruby Self @local-sea-wytch.bsky.social will be In Conversation with the Society of Young Publishers about her debut novel, 30 Aug at The Mowbray, Sheffield, if any of you would like to pop along and hear about her folklore-inspired writing!

The amazing author (and @cfrc-folklore.bsky.social member) Ella Ruby Self has been chatting to Northern Voices about her debut novel Abraxus Elijah Honey @northodoxpress.bsky.social inspired by #folklore. You can listen to this lovely conversation on Soundcloud here: soundcloud.com/northern_voi...