The Cultural, Communication and Computing Research Institute (C3RI) at Sheffield Hallam University is inviting applications for TWO for two fully funded PHD studentships across a number of subject areas including “Folklore, Contemporary Legend and Media”
Application details: Start Date of studentship: 1 October 2019 Closing Date of Advert: 29th April 2019 Interview Dates: 22nd & 23rd May
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).
Oaklands entrance off Collegiate Crescent, with the glass-fronted main reception just behind
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.
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.