Draft Programme

The Society for Folk Life Studies Conference

Melrose 2005


Thurs 15/9/05

 16.00 – 18.00 - Registration

 18.30 – 19.30 - Conference address by Gavin Sprott

   19.30 -  Dinner

          Fri 16/9/05     
         

9.45 – 10.30 - Hunting and its relationship to the modern world (working title)
Simon Bronner, Distinquished Prof. of American Studies, Penn State University, PA

10.30 – 11.00 - Coffee

11.00 – 11.45 - Aspects of the Supernatural (working title)
Lizanne Henderson, University of Glasgow

11.45 – 12.30 -Boundaries for Ghosts: a technique in folk exorcism
Dr Jacqueline Simpson

12.30 – 13.30 - Lunch

13.30 - Depart hotel for Abbotsford

  18.30 - Members papers

19.30 - Dinner

    Sat 17/9/05    

                               

9.00 – 9.45 - North of the Humber: the shared heritage of Northumbrian & Lowland Scots dialects
Joan Beal, Director, National Centre for English Cultural Tradition, University of Sheffield

9.45 – 10.30 - The differences and shared experiences on both sides of the Scottish-English border (working title)
    John Gall, Beamish, North of England Open Air Museum

10.30 – 11.00 - Coffee

11.00 – 11.45 - Going South: Slate quarrymen and the south Wales mining communities
    Dafydd Roberts, National Museums and Galleries of Wales

11.45 – 12.30 - tbc

12.30 – 13.30 - Lunch

13.30 - Depart Hotel for Robert Smailes Printworks, (NTS) Innerleithen

16.00 - Depart printworks for hotel

18.00 – 19.30 - Members Papers

19.30 - Dinner


Sun 18/9/05


            Time to attend church services if wished.

10.00 – 12.00 - AGM/Members papers

12.00 - Conference closes (packed lunch available)

There is much to see in the area and for those who don’t have to head off straight away the afternoon is free to explore this lovely region