The account for the International Society for Contemporary Legend Research. Follow this year’s meeting online but in our ❤️s in Tarragona Spain with #ISCLR2021
Anyone interested in following the toings and froings of our annual meeting in Logan Utah (at @USUAggies), follow the threads at @LeapingPrincess as she uses #isclr2024
A new bonus mini episode of The Folklore Podcast recorded live at @ISCLR
Listen free at https://t.co/lHBZ353XOq or on your podcast app
@PerryCarpenter of @digiFolklorePod and I discuss folkore, creatures and beliefs of Iceland and Sweden with our guests Gunnella and Tommy.
John E Priegnitz II (@PriegnitzIi) has won the 2023 Dr David Buchan Student Essay prize. He had been informed and has responded “I'm in shock! But, more importantly, I am honored and thankful. Please extend my gratitude to everyone else.” #isclr23
After lunch is a retrospective panel on the first Perspectives on Contemporary Legend conference, held in Sheffield in 1982. Paul Smith, John Widdowson, and Doc Rowe join us in person, with others attending virtually. #isclr23@Centre_4_Legend
Panel Q&A: Chair @Gunnelle Þhorgeirsdóttir, Petr Janaček, Pateicia Gurner, and Ashley Powell of Sheffield's Grenoside Sword Dancers, who gave a brief presentation on the history of the troupe
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The last session of papers, Legend Scholarship, begins with Patricia Turner talking about the use of “legend” in reference to the legendary (!!!) Arthur Ashe. #isclr23
And finishing up is Zuzana Panczová on “discourses of the edge”— conspiracy theories in Slovakia as they emerged after the fall of the communist regime, and their relationship with religious eschatologies. #isclr23
#isclr23 may be missing Sandy Hobbs but we are lucky enough to have him here today to preview his new banner exhibition. Watch this space for more info...
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