PROGRAMME
NB: the conference
talks will take place in Room L022 G01 the University of Reading’s London Road
campus, 4 Redlands Road, Reading RG1 5EX, 5 mins walk from the Museum of English
Rural Life.
Friday 27th
13:00-14:00 Registration opens
at Room L022 G01
14:00-14:30 Welcome to the
conference, by Dr Oliver Douglas, Curator, Museum of English Rural Life,
and member of the FLS Council.
14:30—15:30 Prof.
Patricia Lysaght, The Folklore Society Presidential Address 2018:
“From ‘Collect the Fragments...’
to ‘Memory of the World’. The Irish Folklore Commission (1935-1970):
Achievement, Legacy, and the Digital Era.”
15:30-16:00 Tea/Coffee
16:00-18:00 Session 1 Folklorists,
Monks, Millers and Drinks
Dr Paul Cowdell:
“Second Impressions: What We Make of What Makes us Folklorists”
Dr Anne
Lawrence-Mathers: “The Monks of Reading Abbey as Creators and Custodians of
Images of Working Lives.”
Jeremy Harte:
“‘How Many Sacks Hast Thee A-Stole?’ The Miller as Folk Villain.”
Dr Matt Cheeseman: “Friday
Drinks.”
18:00-19:30 Friday Drinks Reception at the Museum of
English Rural Life: with folk music
19:30 Free to roam and forage for food.
Conference pub: The Mercure George Hotel, RG1 2HS
Saturday 28th
9:30-11:00 Session 2 Work Songs
Dr Devender Kumar:
“Peasantry in North Indian Women’s Folk Song Jakari.”
Hasmik Matikyan:
“Lullaby as Work Song.”
Ernie Warner: “Work Songs and
Occupational Identity in Song and Dance.”
11:00-11:30 Tea/Coffee
11:30-13:00 Session 3 Spinning Yarns
Rosalind Kerven:
“Spinners, Servants and Midwives: Women at Work in British and Irish Folk
Narratives.”
Mark Norman:
“Spindle, Shuttle and Needle: The Folklore of Wool and Yarn.”
Dr Kate Smith: “From Hard Labour
to Art and Leisure”
13:00-14:00 Lunch
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14:00-15:00
15:00-16:00
16:00-16:30
16:30-18:00
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Working Life
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Keynote talk:
Prof. David Hopkin: “Lace Legends, Patrons and
Celebrations: Craft Pride and Women’s Work.”
Session
4 Potters
and Publicans
Dr Ceri Houlbrook:
“‘A Folklorist Walks into a Bar...’: The Publican as Curator of the Concealed
Revealed.”
Dr Meredith McGriff:
“Individuals Together: Independent Professional Potters as an Occupational Folk
Group.”
Tea/Coffee
Session
5 Rural
Labour, Landscape and Legend
Fiona Mackenzie:
“‘Bho mhoch gu dubh’: From Dawn to Dusk—a Day in the Working Life of a
Hebridean Crofter.”
Dr Nick Jones: “Encountering
Tolpuddle: Landscape , Ritual and Power.”
Robert McDowall: “William Cobbett: a 21st-Century
Evaluation of Rural Rides.”
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18:00--
Sunday 29th
9:30-11:00
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Free to roam and forage for food. Conference pub:
The Mercure George Hotel
Session
6 Grave-digging,
Corpse Roads and Funeral Handicrafts
Dr Helen Frisby
& Dr Stuart Prior: “Law, Lore and Landscape: Gravedigging in 19th-
to 20th- Century England.”
Dr Stuart Dunn: “Corpse Roads:
Connecting archaeology, folklore and landscape.”
Dr Mu Peng: “Doing Handicraft: Balancing Diversity
and Uniformity in Rural China.”
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11:00-11:30
11:30-13:00
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Tea/Coffee
Session
7 Fairies,
Toadmen and Charcoal-burners
Dr Jo Hickey-Hall: “Fairies and
Labourers.”
Dr Maureen James:
“‘Catch a ‘walking toad’: Exploring the Rituals and Practices of the Toadmen of
East Anglia.”
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13:00-14:00
14:30-16:30
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Dr Tommy Kuusela:
“The Charcoal-burner, the Hunter and the Female Forest Spirit.” lunch
Tour of the Museum of E
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