Sheffield Hallam University, Thursday 15th November 2018 ~ 9:30am – 5:00pm.

The venue is in the main building at our Collegiate Crescent campus (Sheffield S10 2BP). The campus is short taxi journey from Sheffield train station lasting approx. 10 minutes and costing around £5. https://www.shu.ac.uk/visit-us/how-to-find-us/collegiate-campus-map

Please enter via the Oaklands entrance on Collegiate Crescent opposite Broomhall Road, where there is a main reception just inside the glass-fronted Helena Kennedy centre. Staff will be on hand to register you, direct you to nearby complimentary refreshments and then down into the main building. The room we will be in is D.008, on Level 0 of the main building (there are also toilets immediately outside room D.008).

Just right from the Helena Kennedy centre reception is the Heart of the Campus Atrium with toilets, and The Granary cafe open all day until 5:30pm and smaller classroom (HC.0.29) just to the right of the cafe where a complimentary lunch will be served for registered symposium delegates.

The schedule for the day is as follows – click here for PDF of full abstracts and speaker biographies.

09:30 – 10:00	Registration & coffee (Main Building D.008)
10:00 – 10:30	Welcome to the Centre for Contemporary Legend: led by David Clarke, with Andrew Robinson and Diane Rodgers
10:30 – 11:50	Panel 1: Archiving, Documenting and Photographing Folklore John Widdowson – New Wine from Old Bottles: Re-evaluating and Reinaugurating Archives of English Folklore. Richard Bradley – Gas Fires, Plastic Dustbins and Robert Maxwell: Threats to Calendar Customs from the Domestic and Mundane World of Everyday Life. Andrew Robinson – Photographers, the English Calendar Custom and the Lure of the Wyrd.
11:50 – 12:50	LUNCH – Heart of the Campus HC.0.29
12:50 – 14:10	Panel 2: Folklore Studies: Past, Present & Future Paul Smith – Contemporary legend Studies: Looking Backwards, Sideways and Forwards. Owen Davies & Ceri Houlbrook – Putting together a postgraduate programme of study centred on Folklore. Katy Soar – Developing a course and an integrated approach to combine the study of Archaeology and Folklore
14:10 – 14:40	Refreshments
14:40 – 16:00	Panel 3: Folk Horror: Folklore on Screen Diane Rodgers – Something Wyrd: Folk Horror, Folklore and British Television Douglas McNaughton – Folk Horror in British Television Drama: The Pattern Under the Plough David Powell – Hesitation, Repetition and Deviation: The Temporal Nightmares and Haunted Landscapes of British Television.
16:00 – 17:00	Plenary session Summary of the day, general group discussion of the day’s events and matters arising

A set of three new publicity flyers for the Centre produced for our visit to the Folklore Society Conference in Derby, UK, 29-31st March 2019 at which we presented a panel.