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<b>Date: </b>Tuesday, January 9, 2024 at 10:30<br>
<b>To: </b>David Hopkin <david.hopkin@history.ox.ac.uk><br>
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<b>Subject: </b>The Folklore Society - Digital Folklore Conference, King's College, London, 28-30 June 2024: CFP<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt:.75pt"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;color:white">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’, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear folklorist colleagues<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">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
<a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/folklore-society.com/__;!!KGKeukY!1pjB5nS_lPWKTsXDRyuXQv8an-Q0dF_IEf8UuiIz5u-oTlI_OvM23uHHtmQA09pq1mrKy4YMHYyiZXJLP1ytonlvKAcbyow9$">
https://folklore-society.com/</a> 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.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Best wishes for 2024<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">David Hopkin<o:p></o:p></p>
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University of Oxford</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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Hertford College</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Digital Folklore</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p>The Folklore Society’s Annual Conference, a hybrid conference in collaboration with the Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Friday 28 to Sunday 30 June 2024<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Online and at King’s College London, Strand, London WC2B 4BG, UK<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">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.</span></em><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">CALL FOR PAPERS: deadline extended to 16 February 2024</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Papers of 20 minutes are invited on any aspect of historical and contemporary digital folklore including, but not limited to, the following topics:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Digital culture and communities<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Folklore and social media<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Digital folklore genres (e.g. photocopylore, email chains, creepypasta and internet legends, memes, rumours, and conspiracy theories)<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Transference of ‘analogue’ customs and traditions to online contexts<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Digital folklore enacted offline<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Digital vernacular language and communication<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Politicisation of folklore and folklorisation of political rhetoric in/through digital contexts<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">The reassessment of folklore definitions and conceptualisations of ‘the folk’<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">The development of new theories, methods and approaches in folklore studies as a result of the development and study of digital folklore<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">AI and its implications for folklore studies<o:p></o:p></li></ul>
<p>Please send the following to <a href="mailto:thefolkloresociety@gmail.com" target="_blank">thefolkloresociety@gmail.com</a> and copy to <a href="mailto:digitalfolklore2024@gmail.com" target="_blank">digitalfolklore2024@gmail.com</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p>1) a 200-word (max) abstract for a 20-minute presentation<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>2) a brief biographical note<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>3) whether you wish to present online or in person at King’s College London<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Deadline for proposals: extended to 16 February 2024</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
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