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This page highlights events happening beyond the Centre for Magic and Esotericism<\/strong><\/em>. Check back regularly for updates, and please get in touch if there is an event you would like to share!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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11 April 2025: Folk Tale Symposium<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Lincolnshire Folk Tales and Folklore of Space Symposium<\/h2>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

CALL FOR PAPERS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The folklore of the East of England is as multifarious as the landscapes and communities that created it. It captures the changing fenlands, waves of settlement, war, the tribulations of fishing and farming, historical and religious understanding and interpretation, and moments in the lives of common people. Yet for all the folk tales that are still retold, many more are overlooked by or unknown to folklorists
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A call for papers is now open for a hybrid symposium on Lincolnshire Folk Tales and Folklore(s) of Place. It is organised as part of the Lincolnshire Folk Tales project, funded by the AHRC at Nottingham Trent University. The symposium is free to attend for all who register, and travel bursaries of up to \u00a350 are available to a limited number of participants, based on need. The symposium will take place at Nottingham Trent University (and on Teams), on April 11th 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Please send an abstract of up to 200 words, ideally on a Microsoft Word document, to\u00a0lincolnshirefolktalesproject@gmail.com<\/strong>\u00a0by 12pm on Friday 31 January 2025, along with a short bio of up to 60 words (on the same Word document), using \u2018LINCOLNSHIRE FOLK TALES SYMPOSIUM\u2019 in capitals as the email subject line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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24-25 June 2025: CREMS Magic and Witchcraft Conference<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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What is a Witch?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

CREMS York Magic and Witchcraft Conference 2025<\/h2>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

We are delighted to announce the upcoming CREMS (University of York) Magic and Witchcraft Conference 2025. This year\u2019s theme is inspired by conversations begun at a conference on Witchcraft and Authority, held in Copenhagen in October 2024. Drawing together scholars from across Europe and North America, it quickly became clear that while understandings and the prosecution of witchcraft was indisputably bound up with questions of authority, what was meant by a \u2018witch\u2019 varied considerably between regions, and even between decades. The result is that, at times, we speak across each-other in our research, drawing conclusions based on conflicting definitions and parameters of what we study.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We therefore propose to re-open the discussion on what we, as scholars, mean when we refer to witchcraft. In short: what is a witch?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Keynote speakers<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n