Hybrid conference of The Folklore Society: 14-16 July 2023, online and in person at The Wilberforce Institute, University of Hull, UK.
The conference will explore our changing relationships with water in the landscape in the light of the mounting frequency of extreme weather events, and consider the following questions:
What other kinds of knowledge might inform our responses to the challenge of increasingly volatile relationships with water?
What can anthropologists, folklorists and human geographers tell flood and climate scientists about human/water/landscape relationships?
How we can make that other knowledge intelligible to mainstream climate and flood science?
How is knowledge about the human/water/landscape relationship co-produced and reproduced?
What distinctive perspectives can scholarship from outside the physical geo-sciences bring to the urgent need to develop realistic, Anthropocene-ready resilience strategies?
Presentation themes: We invite proposals for papers on folklore, water and landscape, including, but not limited to
Flood traditions and stories
Maritime traditions and coastal culture
Water cultures
Anthropology of water and flooding
Cryptozoology, belief, custom and tradition
Environmental memory
Toponymics/hydronymics and historical geographies
Water activism and guardianship
Cultural/historical geography
Community co-production models
Place-legends and place-making
Risk and resilience
Culture and Climate Migration
Climate Impacts on Social (In)Justice
Expressive culture—songs and stories of water
Folk belief and the environment
Vernacular architecture and rising tides
Traditions under threat from climate change
Call for Papers Deadline: 31 January 2023
Proposals for Papers: please email the following items to thefolkloresociety@gmail.com and copy to k.smith7@hull.ac.uk by 31 January
a proposal (max 200 words) for a 20-minute presentation
a brief biographical note including your affiliation (if any)
whether you wish to present a paper in person or online
Prospective speakers will be informed by 28 February 2023 whether their proposal is accepted or not.
We also welcome proposals for Posters from students and early career researchers illustrating their work in progress, in digital images with captions.
Venue: online, and The Wilberforce Institute, University of Hull, 27 High Street, Hull, HU1 1NE, UK,
Date: Friday 14th to Sunday 16th July 2023
Conference Fees: All participants are expected to pay the conference fees:
In Person Participants:
Standard rate: Full conference: £140.00; or, Day Rates: Friday: £45.00 / Saturday: £90.00 / Sunday: £45.00
Concessionary Rate (Speakers, Folklore Society members, Students, Seniors): Full conference: £90.00, or Day Rates: Friday: £35.00 / Saturday: £50.00 / Sunday: £35.00
Online Participants
Booking and Registration: contact thefolkloresociety@gmail.com for details
Catering: the in-person conference fee includes tea/coffee between sessions. Other meals are not provided.
Accommodation: is not provided but we can suggest the names of various hotels in Hull city centre.
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