Folklore for All

The Folklore Society: devoted to the study of folklore since 1878--not just traditions of the past but also things currently passed on.

The Folklore Society

Join us for a one-day online conference on folklore and folk practices of all kinds of people in all sorts of places

<h3>Folklore for All</h3>One-day online Conference. 17 September 2022, 09:00-17:00Following the great success of our ‘Open Voices’ online conference in May, we are holding a follow-up one-day conference online looking at other traditions and folk practices, including: Wellington's cones, elf-shots, magical darts in the Amazon, fairy tales, fairy seers in Romania, re-enactment and live action role-play, seasonal events, mumming, The Dunmow Flitch, folklore and politics, and more. Speakers: Shabnam Ahsan, Joel Conn, Lucy Hornberger, Richard Jenkins, Robert McDowall, Anna Milon, Doc Rowe, Daniela Simina, James Andrew Whitaker, and Simon Young.For the programme and abstracts, visit: <a href="https://folklore-society.com/event/folklore-for-all/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://folklore-society.com/event/folklore-for-all/</a>Tickets £20 (£10 for Folklore Society members with the Promo Code)Every ticket sold helps to support the work of The Folklore Society<aside>Image: Duke of Wellington statue, Glasgow,_June_2018 Credit Ballerlikemahler, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons</aside>

Programme09:00	Zoom meeting opens09:45	Welcome10:00-11:30	 Folklore Groups: Politics, Community Events, and Role Play10:00	 Robert McDowall: ‘Folklore and Political Orthodoxy—Are they Mutual Influences?’10:30	Anna Milon: ‘Stories We Tell Together: Live Action Role Play as a Site of Reimagining Folklore.’11:00	Lucy Hornberger: ‘The Dunmow Flitch 2022’11:30	Break12:00-13:00	 Seasonal Events, and Fairy Traditions12:00	Doc Rowe: ‘”We’ll Call Once More Unto Your House…”’12:30	Daniela Simina: ‘Reclamation of Fairy Folklore and Traditions in Post-Communist Romania.’13:00-14:00	Break14:00-15:30	 Elf-Shots, Magical Darts, and Wellington's Cone14:00	Simon Young: ‘Elf-Shots, Distribution and the Roud Question.’14:30	James Andrew Whitaker: ‘Amazonian Magical Darts.’15:00	Joel Conn: ‘The Joke of Wellington: A Statue, a Traffic Cone, and a Shifting Folk Practice in Glasgow’s City Centre.’15:30-16:00	Break16:00-17:00	 Folklore for All16:00	Shabnam Ahsan: ‘Whose Folklore is it Anyway? Diversity in the “English” Fairy Tales of Andrew Lang, Ruth Manning-Sanders and Radiya Hafiza.’16:30	Richard Jenkins: 'Looking for a Common Thread: Summing Up' 17:00	Conference closes

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