Andrew Fergus Wilson
@afwilson.bsky.social
Undisciplined academic. Currently writing about inland mermaids, wetlands, politics, nationalism, and the environment. Sociology|Criminology|Folklore. Regular human, too. In spite of the current profile pic not much of a beer drinker.
Cromford Bridge. If you try and cross it after dark Crooker might take you to feed the River Derwent. I mentioned it writing about Derbyshire & Lincolnshire wetlands & the connecting rivers. The article is partly abt folklore, politics & ecological consciousness; hopefully published soon in Revenant
September 9, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Cromford Bridge. If you try and cross it after dark Crooker might take you to feed the River Derwent. I mentioned it writing about Derbyshire & Lincolnshire wetlands & the connecting rivers. The article is partly abt folklore, politics & ecological consciousness; hopefully published soon in Revenant
I'm really looking forward to activist and researcher Vanessa Boon's talk at this month's Research Café at the Quad in Derby
www.derbyquad.co.uk/events/resea...
www.derbyquad.co.uk/events/resea...
Research Cafe: Vanessa Boon: Governments Getting Away With Murder? | Derby QUAD
View our latest event: Research Cafe: Vanessa Boon: Governments Getting Away With Murder?. See what the available times are for this event.
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March 5, 2025 at 8:53 AM
I'm really looking forward to activist and researcher Vanessa Boon's talk at this month's Research Café at the Quad in Derby
www.derbyquad.co.uk/events/resea...
www.derbyquad.co.uk/events/resea...
Lovely, kind words from @lunatraktors.bsky.social - I cannot understand why I had not heard their music before. It is sublime!
Just heard @afwilson.bsky.social talking about EXACTLY the interactions of folklore, the sacred, ethno-nationalism and myths of purity that we keep banging on about in interviews! Fantastic (endearingly glitchy) free VR event for anyone interested in #folk - get involved!
Super hyped to be involved with this!
March 1, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Lovely, kind words from @lunatraktors.bsky.social - I cannot understand why I had not heard their music before. It is sublime!
Super hyped to be involved with this!
March 1st: Explore how we can create more #InclusiveCommunities with #MattCheeseman @paulcowdell.bsky.social @afwilson.bsky.social @folklorepod.bsky.social #CarolineOates @superstitionsam.bsky.social.
February 17, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Super hyped to be involved with this!
I am really happy to have signed a contract with Bloomsbury Academic for Mermaids, Waters, Places: Folklore, Politics, and Cultural Landscapes in England. (The 'cover' below is a fake I made while I was celebrating - the mermaid image is an open source image made by GDJ and distributed via Pixabay).
February 6, 2025 at 12:13 PM
I am really happy to have signed a contract with Bloomsbury Academic for Mermaids, Waters, Places: Folklore, Politics, and Cultural Landscapes in England. (The 'cover' below is a fake I made while I was celebrating - the mermaid image is an open source image made by GDJ and distributed via Pixabay).
The next Research Cafe is 20th February and I will be picking up a thread that emerged in @malcschofield.bsky.social & David Sheffield's December talk and will be exploring the question, 'What is Hauntology?'
As ever, it is free but it helps if you book via: www.derbyquad.co.uk/events/resea...
As ever, it is free but it helps if you book via: www.derbyquad.co.uk/events/resea...
Research Café: What is Hauntology? | Derby QUAD
View our latest event: Research Café: What is Hauntology?. See what the available times are for this event.
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January 23, 2025 at 4:37 PM
The next Research Cafe is 20th February and I will be picking up a thread that emerged in @malcschofield.bsky.social & David Sheffield's December talk and will be exploring the question, 'What is Hauntology?'
As ever, it is free but it helps if you book via: www.derbyquad.co.uk/events/resea...
As ever, it is free but it helps if you book via: www.derbyquad.co.uk/events/resea...
I'm really looking forward to tonight's Research Cafe at Derby QUAD - Dr Julia Thomasz of the Institute for Advanced Study (UCL) talking about the importance of poetry in our lives and more widely. Free and at 7pm if you can make it.
January 23, 2025 at 4:35 PM
I'm really looking forward to tonight's Research Cafe at Derby QUAD - Dr Julia Thomasz of the Institute for Advanced Study (UCL) talking about the importance of poetry in our lives and more widely. Free and at 7pm if you can make it.
CFP for Midlands Conference in Critical Thought extended to Monday 20 January. It is a free, non-hierarchical conference being held in Derby in April, 2025. Please see the linked document for more details.
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January 15, 2025 at 10:25 AM
CFP for Midlands Conference in Critical Thought extended to Monday 20 January. It is a free, non-hierarchical conference being held in Derby in April, 2025. Please see the linked document for more details.
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This has crept round quickly! Deadline for paper proposals for the Midlands Conference in Critical Thought is 7th January.
mcct.margins.org.uk
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MCCT – Midlands Conference in Critical Thought
mcct.margins.org.uk
January 2, 2025 at 12:42 PM
This has crept round quickly! Deadline for paper proposals for the Midlands Conference in Critical Thought is 7th January.
mcct.margins.org.uk
mcct.margins.org.uk
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December's Research Café is going to be amazing. Psychologists Dr Malcolm Schofield and Professor David Sheffield who will be offering seasonal spookiness with 'Psychology's Ghosts'. 12th December, 7pm. I'm looking forward to the talk and discussions immensely. www.derbyquad.co.uk/events/resea...
Research Cafe: Christmas Ghost Stories – Haunted by Psychology | Derby QUAD
View our latest event: Research Cafe: Christmas Ghost Stories – Haunted by Psychology. See what the available times are for this event.
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November 18, 2024 at 6:59 PM
December's Research Café is going to be amazing. Psychologists Dr Malcolm Schofield and Professor David Sheffield who will be offering seasonal spookiness with 'Psychology's Ghosts'. 12th December, 7pm. I'm looking forward to the talk and discussions immensely. www.derbyquad.co.uk/events/resea...
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4 funded heritage science PhDs at Nottingham Trent University. Due date: 14 February 2025.
1. Creative Approaches to the Representation of Crisis Heritage in the Museum using Digital Means (tinyurl.com/ymfnja7b)
Cont...
1. Creative Approaches to the Representation of Crisis Heritage in the Museum using Digital Means (tinyurl.com/ymfnja7b)
Cont...
November 29, 2024 at 9:17 PM
4 funded heritage science PhDs at Nottingham Trent University. Due date: 14 February 2025.
1. Creative Approaches to the Representation of Crisis Heritage in the Museum using Digital Means (tinyurl.com/ymfnja7b)
Cont...
1. Creative Approaches to the Representation of Crisis Heritage in the Museum using Digital Means (tinyurl.com/ymfnja7b)
Cont...
It was good to be on 'the other side' of a lecture theatre last week. I really enjoyed @br00kes.bsky.social Mick Aston lecture on Assemblies in the Early Middle Ages. All of it was very engaging but I was especially interested in the role of folklore of preserving some memories of assembly locations
December 5, 2024 at 9:08 PM
It was good to be on 'the other side' of a lecture theatre last week. I really enjoyed @br00kes.bsky.social Mick Aston lecture on Assemblies in the Early Middle Ages. All of it was very engaging but I was especially interested in the role of folklore of preserving some memories of assembly locations
I have just got tickets for the daughter and myself; I am amazed there are any left. £15 for Nosferatu lived score by one of the best soundtrack groups? Can't say no. www.ticketsource.co.uk/booking/conf...
November 23, 2024 at 11:09 AM
I have just got tickets for the daughter and myself; I am amazed there are any left. £15 for Nosferatu lived score by one of the best soundtrack groups? Can't say no. www.ticketsource.co.uk/booking/conf...
As I am sure everyone is aware, this is excellent news and I am sure to indulge myself and listen to it all this weekend. But what is that chanting I hear whispering in the wind? I can only make out a little of it, '....mglw'nafh...R'lyeh...fhtagn...'
Had completely forgotten it's LAUNCH DAY for Aldrich Kemp and the Rose of Pamir. This is our best one yet, I think. You can listen to the whole series right now on BBC Sounds (or subscribe to the feed on a podcast app).
Limelight - Aldrich Kemp and The Rose of Pamir - Aldrich Kemp and The Rose of Pamir - Chapter One: Mothers - BBC Sounds
Clara Page and the Themis gang are back - and family ties are a stronger theme than ever.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 23, 2024 at 10:32 AM
As I am sure everyone is aware, this is excellent news and I am sure to indulge myself and listen to it all this weekend. But what is that chanting I hear whispering in the wind? I can only make out a little of it, '....mglw'nafh...R'lyeh...fhtagn...'
Online. Free. 'Lunchtime bites', indeed. This looks fun. www.derby.ac.uk/events/lates... #folklore #gothic #vampire #dracula #etc
Dracula Lunchtime Bites
In this talk, Dr Sam George draws on the research notes that Stoker made on the vampire figure and probes into some of his more folkloric sources. It explores the many attributes of the Count as vampi...
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November 22, 2024 at 7:52 PM
Tonight, I was talking about queering humanity and rethinking our being as being a symbiont in an endlessly scaling web of symbionts. Maybe I was wrong; maybe humans are just irredeemably odd.
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/w...
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/w...
Bathing in Oil at a Climate Summit? It Leaves a Stain.
In Azerbaijan, site of the COP29 climate talks and a petrostate, people aren’t only proud of their oil. They swear by its health benefits and visit resorts to soak in it.
www.nytimes.com
November 21, 2024 at 10:26 PM
Tonight, I was talking about queering humanity and rethinking our being as being a symbiont in an endlessly scaling web of symbionts. Maybe I was wrong; maybe humans are just irredeemably odd.
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/w...
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/w...
If anyone is close to Derby and fancies joining a chat about humans' troubled relationship to/with/in nature, feel free to drop in to tonight's Research Café at the Quad - 7pm.
www.derbyquad.co.uk/events/resea...
www.derbyquad.co.uk/events/resea...
November 21, 2024 at 3:05 PM
If anyone is close to Derby and fancies joining a chat about humans' troubled relationship to/with/in nature, feel free to drop in to tonight's Research Café at the Quad - 7pm.
www.derbyquad.co.uk/events/resea...
www.derbyquad.co.uk/events/resea...
The Gray Ladies aka Nine Stones Close. A site of fairy music and dancing women come midnight and midday. I went straight after the school run and missed out on the festivities.
November 20, 2024 at 3:35 PM
The Gray Ladies aka Nine Stones Close. A site of fairy music and dancing women come midnight and midday. I went straight after the school run and missed out on the festivities.
December's Research Café is going to be amazing. Psychologists Dr Malcolm Schofield and Professor David Sheffield who will be offering seasonal spookiness with 'Psychology's Ghosts'. 12th December, 7pm. I'm looking forward to the talk and discussions immensely. www.derbyquad.co.uk/events/resea...
Research Cafe: Christmas Ghost Stories – Haunted by Psychology | Derby QUAD
View our latest event: Research Cafe: Christmas Ghost Stories – Haunted by Psychology. See what the available times are for this event.
www.derbyquad.co.uk
November 18, 2024 at 6:59 PM
December's Research Café is going to be amazing. Psychologists Dr Malcolm Schofield and Professor David Sheffield who will be offering seasonal spookiness with 'Psychology's Ghosts'. 12th December, 7pm. I'm looking forward to the talk and discussions immensely. www.derbyquad.co.uk/events/resea...
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This is a great opportunity for folkies and non-folkies alike to embrace a traditional song and have it featured on an album likely to attract national attention….
November 16, 2024 at 11:44 AM
This is a great opportunity for folkies and non-folkies alike to embrace a traditional song and have it featured on an album likely to attract national attention….
I have just spent a hugely enjoyable and productive two days with the Folklore Without Borders network - our theme and goal being strategies for polyvocal recognition, representation and contribution in the folk cultures of England.
November 15, 2024 at 10:00 PM
I have just spent a hugely enjoyable and productive two days with the Folklore Without Borders network - our theme and goal being strategies for polyvocal recognition, representation and contribution in the folk cultures of England.
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Just over a week to go until Writing the Gothic, a free workshop that I’m giving with Comma Press at Manchester Metropolitan University, followed by a panel with fellow Gothic writers Leonie Rowland and A.G. Smith of @weepingbanklibrary.bsky.social!
🎟️: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-th...
🎟️: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-th...
Writing the Gothic with Bronte Schiltz
A free writers event hosted by Comma Press. Explore gothic literature with author Bronte Schiltz.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 14, 2024 at 9:39 AM
Just over a week to go until Writing the Gothic, a free workshop that I’m giving with Comma Press at Manchester Metropolitan University, followed by a panel with fellow Gothic writers Leonie Rowland and A.G. Smith of @weepingbanklibrary.bsky.social!
🎟️: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-th...
🎟️: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-th...
Sad to see the Folklore Without Borders working group come to end but very much looking forward to spending two days with everyone. An unnaturally early start to get the train down to London will be more than worth it. I can't wait to find out (and be involved) in what comes next.
November 13, 2024 at 8:08 PM
Sad to see the Folklore Without Borders working group come to end but very much looking forward to spending two days with everyone. An unnaturally early start to get the train down to London will be more than worth it. I can't wait to find out (and be involved) in what comes next.
I also saw the loneliness of the long distance runner.
November 10, 2024 at 8:42 PM
I also saw the loneliness of the long distance runner.
I walked through the mist to find the Doxey Pool in the wet and marshy ground above the Roaches in Staffordshire. Its name is said to derive from a slur and it is fenced off to keep humans and dogs away to encourage life to return to it. Folklore tells us that will not happen.
November 10, 2024 at 8:41 PM
I walked through the mist to find the Doxey Pool in the wet and marshy ground above the Roaches in Staffordshire. Its name is said to derive from a slur and it is fenced off to keep humans and dogs away to encourage life to return to it. Folklore tells us that will not happen.