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 is set out below. It can also be downloaded. The booking form […]
Category Archives: Conference
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 […]
2019 conference – Cumbria
We are pleased to announce The Society for Folklife Studies annual conference for 2019. The draft programme of the 2019 annual conference is noted below. It is also available through the following link –SFLS Conference Carlisle 2019 final programme A booking form is also available through the following link – SFLS conference booking form 2019. The […]
2018 Conference – Cardiff, Wales
We are pleased to announce details of the 2018 conference. This will be held at St Fagan’s, Cardiff, Wales, 13-16 September 2018. The themes for the conference are: St Fagans at seventy, heritage, culture, sport and national identity, and urban identity. A copy of the SFLS Conference programme 20 August 2018 and the SFLS Conference 2018 […]
2017 Conference – Ayr, Scotland
We are pleased to announce our annual conference for 2017. It will take place from 14-17 September. The conference themes are Identity and Place in Literature and Cross-Cultural Connections in Material Culture. The conference venue will be at The Robert Burns Birthplace Museum, Alloway, Ayrshire, http://www.burnsmuseum.org.uk Further information can be found below, on in the downloadable […]
2016 Conference – Dublin, Ireland
We are pleased to announce details of the 2016 annual conference. It will take place at Dublin, Ireland , from 8-11 September. The themes of the conference will be Memorialisation and identity. These are two themes that resonate with the centenaries of both the Easter Rising and the Battle of the Somme. Based in Trinity College […]
2015 Conference – Black Country, England
We are pleased to announced details of the annual conference for 2015. It will be held at the Black Country Living Museum, Dudley, West Midlands, England from 10-13 September. The themes of the conference are Enjoying the graft-canals and steam p[ower as leisure and heritage attractions, authenticity and utility – the challenges of building conservation […]
2013 Conference – Llandrindod Wells – Radnorshire Reading
Always a favourite, this is the Wallace Jones’s Studio view of Graig-Goch Dam and lake, at the top of the sequence of Elan Valley reservoirs David Viner looks back on the Society’s 2013 Conference in Llandrindod Wells Radnorshire reading One of the joys of attending the Society’s annual conference is the chance to do some […]