Berkeley Folklore

Official Twitter for the Folklore Program at UC Berkeley

[Berkeley Folklore @ucbfolklore]

The Tide is Turning: Gullah Vernacular Knowledge and the Ecologies of Lowcountry Basketmaking, by UCB Folklore alum Molly Robinson: https://t.co/jQQeZEzuaM

[Alexandria Ziegler @AlexandriaZieg2]

Hey folklorist friends! Western States Folklore Society CFP ends tomorrow! Please submit an abstract at https://t.co/HCzsK6uMBn
Also tell your friends! It's going to be a wonderful program this year, and you can attend in-person or virtual. #wsfs #folklore #FolkloreThursday

[Riley Cooke @rrileycooke]

University librarian Jeffrey MacKie-Mason is addressing the approximately 40 people gathered in the Anthropology Library and answering questions.

[Riley Cooke @rrileycooke]

The library will be staffed by an attendant instead of a librarian, Ray said. Students and faculty gathered in the library have called off the sit-in protest planned for later today.

[Riley Cooke @rrileycooke]

BREAKING: The @UCBerkeley Anthropology Library will stay open at least through next week, but without a librarian. The funding will come from Dean of Social Sciences Raka Ray's office.

[Berkeley Folklore @ucbfolklore]

@rrileycooke @UCBerkeley Ray's office clarified that the library will stay open (without circulation services) through the end of the semester, not just through the end of next week. She committed to finding the funding.

[Berkeley Folklore @ucbfolklore]

30 minutes until the sit-in at the Anthro library begins. 25 or so students here. We are protesting the administrative decision, communicated to students today, for library access to cease today at 5pm.

[Berkeley Folklore @ucbfolklore]

Announcement today from the UCB administration that the Anthropology Library will close "indefinitely" at 5pm today. Students have convened an emergency meeting in the library (happening now) to assess how best to resist this decision.
https://t.co/YqBlqu5don

[Berkeley Folklore @ucbfolklore]

A growing coalition of undergrad and graduate UCB students just voted to stage a sit-in within the library! All forms of solidarity are appreciated. Come join us in if you are in the neighborhood, or spread the word.

[Sam Sanders @samsanders]

I usually don’t write back. But sometimes I do.

[Berkeley Folklore @ucbfolklore]

Visiting Folklore Professor Ülo Valk gives a talk organized by Berkeley's ISEEES program on Monday, Dec 6th: The Supernatural and the Social in Contemporary Estonia: Entanglements and Uncertainties https://t.co/iDpWkMdVsd

[Berkeley Folklore @ucbfolklore]

The Folklore Archive is open for drop-ins on Mondays from 1-5pm, and Fridays from 10am-1pm, and otherwise by appointment or chance. Feel free to stop by and say hey! We're in room 110 in the Anthropology and Art Practice building, formerly Kroeber hall. Photo by Irene Yi.

[Berkeley Folklore @ucbfolklore]

another #halloween custom, this one from Toronto in the 1940s.

[Berkeley Folklore @ucbfolklore]

This month we'll share some unusual Halloween folklore from the archive. Here's the first one:
#halloween

[Berkeley Folklore @ucbfolklore]

#halloween custom from Chicago in the 1940s

[Berkeley Folklore @ucbfolklore]

It's a California buckeye. Only found in CA, they can live to 250-300 years. This one looks about as old as the campus itself. If you look up "buckeye tree old trunk," this exact tree is the 1st result, via a stock photo site. For $19.99-199.99, depending on use, it can be yours?

[Berkeley Folklore @ucbfolklore]

distinguished tree on campus

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Interested in learning more about the Folklore program? We will be presenting (via Zoom) at the Graduate Diversity Admissions Fair on Thursday, October 21, from 11am-12pm. Register here!
https://t.co/2cpULiSrjD