[Folkserv] FW: The Folklore Society - Digital Folklore Conference, King's College, London, 28-30 June 2024: CFP

[Noyes, Dorothy]

Nice summer trip to London for those of you with an interest – the current FS pres is the brother of our alumna Rachel Hopkin.

Dorry

Dorothy Noyes
Director, Mershon Center
Arts & Sciences Distinguished Professor of English
Professor of Comparative Studies
The Mershon Center for International Security Studies
1010 Derby Hall, 154 N. Oval Mall
The Ohio State University
Columbus, OH 43210
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From: David Hopkin <david.hopkin at history.ox.ac.uk>
Date: Tuesday, January 9, 2024 at 10:30
To: David Hopkin <david.hopkin at history.ox.ac.uk>
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Subject: The Folklore Society - Digital Folklore Conference, King's College, London, 28-30 June 2024: CFP
Dear folklorist colleagues Please find below the call for papers for the annual conference of the Folklore Society, which will take place between Friday 28 June and Sunday 30 June 2024. This year the theme is ‘Digital Folklore’,
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Dear folklorist colleagues
Please find below the call for papers for the annual conference of the Folklore Society, which will take place between Friday 28 June and Sunday 30 June 2024.  This year the theme is ‘Digital Folklore’, and we are being hosted by the Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College, London.  Details about the Society, the conference, the submission of abstracts, etc., can all be found on our website at https://folklore-society.com/<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/folklore-society.com/__;!!KGKeukY!1pjB5nS_lPWKTsXDRyuXQv8an-Q0dF_IEf8UuiIz5u-oTlI_OvM23uHHtmQA09pq1mrKy4YMHYyiZXJLP1ytonlvKAcbyow9$>  We hope you will consider joining us this summer, and please do forward this cfp to any colleagues and students you think might be interested in the theme.
Best wishes for 2024
David Hopkin
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Digital Folklore

The Folklore Society’s Annual Conference, a hybrid conference in collaboration with the Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London

Friday 28 to Sunday 30 June 2024

Online and at King’s College London, Strand, London WC2B 4BG, UK

Digital and networked technologies offer a wealth of new modes of folklore genre, performance and transmission. Digital folklore has accelerated in recent decades with the increased popularity of the internet and social media platforms, yet emerged much earlier in the 1970s with the introduction of new technologies such as the photocopier and, latterly, email, to the workplace. Alongside these new folklore forms, the digital has given rise to the emergence of new communities and the development of new ways of ‘doing folklore’. Digital folklore has thus greatly added to, challenged and disrupted folklore studies. This conference explores various aspects of digital folklore, ranging from forms, transmission and communities to the methods and approaches of undertaking folklore studies of digital vernacular culture.

CALL FOR PAPERS: deadline extended to 16 February 2024

Papers of 20 minutes are invited on any aspect of historical and contemporary digital folklore including, but not limited to, the following topics:

  *   Digital culture and communities
  *   Folklore and social media
  *   Digital folklore genres (e.g. photocopylore, email chains, creepypasta and internet legends, memes, rumours, and conspiracy theories)
  *   Transference of ‘analogue’ customs and traditions to online contexts
  *   Digital folklore enacted offline
  *   Digital vernacular language and communication
  *   Politicisation of folklore and folklorisation of political rhetoric in/through digital contexts
  *   The reassessment of folklore definitions and conceptualisations of ‘the folk’
  *   The development of new theories, methods and approaches in folklore studies as a result of the development and study of digital folklore
  *   AI and its implications for folklore studies

Please send the following to thefolkloresociety at gmail.com<mailto:thefolkloresociety at gmail.com> and copy to digitalfolklore2024 at gmail.com<mailto:digitalfolklore2024 at gmail.com>

1) a 200-word (max) abstract for a 20-minute presentation

2) a brief biographical note

3) whether you wish to present online or in person at King’s College London

Deadline for proposals: extended to 16 February 2024

Dr Caroline Oates, Librarian
The Folklore Society
50 Fitzroy Street
London W1T 5BT
Tel. +44 (0) 203 915 3034



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