@cfrc-folklore
Promoting and supporting research into folklore, vernacular traditions and cultural practices and performances, and expressions of communal identities across all disciplines at The University of Sheffield. Based in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities.
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!
Might be of interest to some of you!
#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.
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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...
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
Had a lot of fun and revisited some old frights writing this seasonal piece on scary books for children for @uk.theconversation.com ! #Halloween theconversation.com/scary-storie...
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
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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!
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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...
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-...
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...
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!
Congratulations Abbi @draflint.bsky.social, this looks excellent!
Hi! I personally can't guarantee it, but the TSF does tend to record conferences and events for their YouTube channel. You can watch the recent Spring Conference 2025 at Sheffield University here!
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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!
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...
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!
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 🎻
Morris dancers at Rochester Sweeps Festival, May 2025, photo by Jeremy Harte
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👻
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Looking for some folklore reading? You can check out publications by our members on our website!
contemporaryfolklore.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/folkloric-re...
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!