CALL FOR PAPERS – ‘Folklore on the Move’ The Folklore Society’s Annual Conference 2026 Friday, 5 June to Sunday, 7 June 2026, King’s College, University of Aberdeen, Scotland Online conference day: Wednesday, 10 June 2026 Deadline for proposals: Sunday, 14 December 2025

Sleepless Plains. Fossilisation and Peasant Kinship in Scandinavia Doctoral dissertation in ethnology (Lund University) 12 December 2025, Simon Halberg

International Society of Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF) organizes a Summer School for PhD students, advanced master’s students and recent postdoctoral researchers October 4-11, 2026 in Athens, Greece. Theme is The Living Things, Lasting Forms, Narratives: co-creating Heritages.

Call for Papers: Past Legacies, Present Tensions, Future Visions: Anthropology and Ethnology in and of the Baltic Sea Region When: 30 March – 1 April 2026 Where: Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden Abstract Deadline: 17 November 2025

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...

11th Folklore Fellows' Summer School 2026 Interdisciplinarity and Involvement: Enduring and Emerging Sites of the Vernacular. Deadline for submissions extended to 31 October 2025

Forskere ved Norsk Folkemuseum og Universitetet i Sørøst-Norge ber om artikkelforslag til en kommende antologi om dødens kulturhistorie. Både fagellevurderte vitenskapelige artikler og fagtekster av mer beskrivende slag er velkomne.

The Call for Papers to ISFNR 2026 in Reykjavik is open now

The Post Doc Pool's Autumn application round will be open from 15th August until 15th September, 2025

Kone Foundation’s annual grant call will be held 1–15 September 2025! Would you like to learn more about our grant call criteria and practicalities? Sign up for the open info session on 27 August or book a 20-minute advice session: koneensaatio.fi/en/events/

Gjekk du glipp av føredraget til senterleiaren vår for Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi sist veke, Hvem er redd for #kjønn og #mangfold? Sjekk det ut her:

The call for panels to ISFNR 2026 will soon close, but you still have time to propose a panel. The theme of the conference is Nature(s) in Narrative

'Folklore and the Senses', our hybrid conference in collaboration with the Department of Folklore & Ethnology @ucc.ie, is fast approaching and the deadline for booking to attend in person is 6 June 2025. View the programme & download the booking form here: folklore-society.com/event/folklo...

Aida Jobarteh will defend her thesis "Routes and Ruptures of the Mediterranean Backway: An ethnography of Gambian men navigating the European border regime" at Stockholm University on May 28th

Call for papers: Words and concepts

SIEF speaking up in solidarity with US scholars: "...call for an immediate halt to intimidation, de-funding, and the ongoing delegitimization of vast areas of research based on political ideologies and expediency." #folkloristics #ethnology #sief

Save the date: ISFNR 2026 - Nature(s) in Narrative will take place in Reykjavík, Iceland, June 13th to 16th

Oooh the programme is out! #nefk2025 #ethnology #folklore

On May 17th there will be a public defence at University of Turku: Johanna Latva will publicly defend her doctoral dissertation "Hiuksetko naisen kruunu? Suhtautuminen naisten kaljuuteen ja naisten kokemukset hiuksettomuudesta Suomessa" blogs2.abo.fi/etnologi-fol...

In och svara på projektet Osäkra tiders frågelista! Projektet utgår från upplevelser av Covid19-pandemin och de överlappande kriser som följt. link.webropolsurveys.com/Participatio...

The journal Ethnologia Fennica is looking for subeditors

Call for Papers: ‘Revisiting Oral Narrative: Anthropology, Folklore and History’. The Ninth ‘Folklore and Anthropology in Conversation’ joint seminar of The Royal Anthropological Institute & The Folklore Society, Thurs 23 Oct 2025. Proposal deadline 30 Jun 2025. folklore-society.com/blog-post/ca...

Call for Papers: Lying in Legend and Tradition: The Nineteenth Legendary Weekend of The Folklore Society will be held on Saturday 6th - Sunday 7th September 2025 at Tullie House, Carlisle. Submission deadline: 1st July 2025. folklore-society.com/event/lying-...

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