CFRC-Folklore
@cfrc-folklore.bsky.social
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.
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WHO WE ARE
Rooted in the University of Sheffield's notable history of Folklore and Cultural Tradition research, The Contemporary Folklore Research Centre promotes and supports research into expression...
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We're a lively Folklore research centre based at @sheffielduni.bsky.social, supporting members and sharing expertise around expressions and performances of vernacular cultural tradition. Visit our website for more info!
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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/...
🪄 Deadline for submissions: December 20, 2025
#amwriting #booksky #submissions
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/09/...
cfp | call for papers
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November 5, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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#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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Broadside Day 2026 – Traditional Song Forum
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November 5, 2025 at 8:03 AM
#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...
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!
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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...
contemporaryfolklore.sites.sheffield.ac.uk
November 4, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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...
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
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...
www.torch.ox.ac.uk/article/if-w...
If walls could talk: Poetry, marks and traces at Bolsover Castle
www.torch.ox.ac.uk
November 4, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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
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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...
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October 31, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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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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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October 30, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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...
theconversation.com/voiced-barbi...
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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Fifth Biennial Conference | Children's History Society
University of Sheffield, 1-3 July 2026
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October 30, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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...
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...
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...
contemporaryfolklore.sites.sheffield.ac.uk
October 14, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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...
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-...
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 ...
www.efdss.org
October 13, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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...
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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October 13, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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...
Journal of Festive Studies Issue Nine Call for Papers: TINY/giant: Playing with Scale | H-Net
TINY/giant: Playing with Scale Guest Editors: Dawn Tracey Brandes & Martha Radice, Dalhousie University Deadline for abstracts and short bios: November 15, 2025In addition to our guest-edited section ...
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October 10, 2025 at 6:16 AM
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...
Summer School 2026 - Folklore Fellows
11th Folklore Fellows' Summer School: Interdisciplinarity and Involvement – Enduring and Emerging Sites of the Vernacular. Helsinki and Tvärminne, Finland, 17th–21st August 2026.
www.folklorefellows.fi
October 1, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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
Lovely day with newer researchers at @folkloretodmorden.bsky.social presenting on folk group identities with @drjuliabish.bsky.social on behalf of the @cfrc-folklore.bsky.social, zine making and exploring our folklore origin stories! Thanks Holly and the FLS @folkloresociety.bsky.social.
October 1, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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
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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...
www.ticketsource.co.uk/draculalunch...
www.ticketsource.co.uk
September 8, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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...
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!
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...
Violet Alford’s Pyrenean Festivals and Antonin Artaud’s Peyote Dance
In the 1930s, an English folklorist and a French theatre director, made individual journeys in search of authentic performance
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September 9, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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!
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....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Songs for Ramblers and Songs by the Way: Paths and Trails as Vernacular Contexts for Singing in the Early Twentieth Century
The early twentieth century saw a boom in both outdoor recreation and community and folk singing in England. This article explores how these two movements were entangled through the communal singin...
www.tandfonline.com
September 9, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Congratulations Abbi @draflint.bsky.social, this looks excellent!
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...
tradsong.org/tsf-autumn-c...
TSF Autumn Conference 2025 – Traditional Song Forum
tradsong.org
September 3, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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...
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!
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
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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
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August 29, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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...
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.
offtheshelf.org.uk
August 28, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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...
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! ✒️👨💻
August 17, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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...
Call for Papers: Collateral Data - Repurposing lexica as ethnographic sources
While dictionaries may not be the first place we look for ethnographic insight, they often contain rich, indirect records of cultural knowledge. This symposium, held at the University of Bergen on 23–...
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August 17, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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!
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!
Music Fandom (01/01/2026)
| Transformative Works and Cultures
journal.transformativeworks.org
August 7, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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 🎻
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
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Sat 8 & Sun 9 Nov
Cecil Sharp House, London
Book your place now
bit.ly/455kK1
August 7, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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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...
July 30, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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...
tradsong.org
August 4, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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...