Heather Holmes – Folk Life Studies

Annual General Meeting – 2022

The Society for Folklife Studies will be holding an online A.G.M. on Thursday 29 September 2022 at 18:00. This will be via Zoom. The agenda is attached below: Joining instructions are set out below: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85959042479?pwd=YUZQbEpHaDhKTTZpRndmeGRVbXdCQT09 Meeting ID: 859 5904 2479Passcode: 867142

Conference 2022 – Biggar, Lanarkshire

We are pleased to present the draft programme for the annual Society for Folklife Studies conference, 2022. This year the conference will be held at Biggar, Lanarkshire, Scotland on 8-11 September. We will update the draft programme over the coming months. The programme (at 15 August) is set out below. It can also be downloaded. […]

Annual General Meeting – 2021

The Society for Folklife Studies will be holding an online annual general meeting on Sunday, 12 September 2021 at 11.15 hrs, via Zoom. The agenda and Zoom link are available to download on this page.

Conference – online 2021

We are pleased to announce the Society for Folklife Studies conference for 2021. This online conference, taking place on 10-12 September, will be hosted by The Moore Institute, National University of Ireland, Galway. The themes of the conference are Music, dance, song, story and related artefacts and Vernacular buildings and interiors. The conference includes a […]

Annual General Meeting – 2020

Dear member of the Society for Folk Life Studies, I hope this email finds you and your family and friends well. As you are aware, this year’s Annual Conference in Galway had to be postponed due to the Covid19 pandemic. The Society is now planning to hold the conference in the same location at the […]

2020 conference – Galway – postponed to 2021

SFLS Conference update: May 2020 Because the effects and duration of the current Coronavirus pandemic are still unclear, the Officers of the Society for Folk Life Studies have reluctantly postponed the annual conference for 2020, which was planned for September in the City of Galway, Republic of Ireland. It is hoped that this conference will […]

Journal, vol 57-61, 2019-2023

Volume 57:1 2019 Contents Fidelma Mullane, Croiceann Cruaidhe Féarmhar an Talaimh: A Material Culture of the Skin of the Earth – The Example of Roofing With Sod Partings in Ireland Liam Cullinane, “Some feckin jump like”: Fordism and Ford Workers in Ireland Felicia K. Youngblood, On Un-silencing Voices: Tarantismo and the Gendered Heritage of Apulia Ciaran McDonough, Folk Belief […]