Call for Papers
2027 Annual Meeting
April 2027 Theme: Folklore Across Borders
April 15th - 17th, 2027 at University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.​
​​​​
Folklore is about connection: lore shared informally among people with culture in common. At the same time, much of the folklore that is shared among a small, local community also partakes of motifs and themes found in international folklore, sometimes across much of the globe. Over the past decades, we have seen the rise of digital and social media, increasing the ability to find new and specific groups, but also to polarize and avoid socializing across groups. How does folklore facilitate and / or challenge these trends across literal, metaphorical, and notional borders? What is the role of folklore in the new international order that is arising?
As always, the theme is a suggestion for those considering presentation, not a requirement. We welcome proposals for individual presentations and organized panels on any topic related to folklore. NOTE: You are not required to submit an abstract to attend the Annual Meeting.
​​​​
The Archer Taylor Lecture will be given by our very own Paul Jordan-Smith.
To submit an abstract for the upcoming Annual Meeting, you must first purchase your ticket on the Annual Meeting Registration Page.
​
You will be emailed a confirmation once your ticket has been purchased and will have the option to submit your abstract by clicking a link in your confirmation email.
​
Abstracts are due February 1st.
​If you are preparing an individual proposal submission, please use the following format (Abstracts that do not follow these guidelines will be returned to the author for revision):
​
-
First and Last Name
-
(Optional) Pronouns
-
-
Email
-
Title of Presentation
-
Abstract of presentation (100-150 words only)
-
Any additional needs or requests for this session (for example, a specific tech need or accessibility need)
If you are preparing a panel or workshop submission, please use the following format (Abstracts that do not follow these guidelines will be returned to the author for revision):
-
First and Last Name of Chair
-
(Optional) Pronouns
-
-
Affiliation of Chair
-
Email of Chair
-
Title of Panel or Workshop
-
Abstract of Panel or Workshop (100-200 words only describing the purpose or goal of this panel)
-
Names, Affiliations, Emails, and Abstracts/Discussion Points (100-1200 words per presenter) for each presentation included in this panel.
-
(Optional) Any additional needs or requests for this session (for example, a specific tech need or accessibility need)
​
***All presentation abstracts will be published in our annual meeting program
Example of how presentation abstracts will be formatted in our Annual Meeting programming:
TYSON, Neil deGrasse (Andromeda Galactic University). Of Black Holes, Virality, Uncertainty, and Incompleteness. Science, technology, history, and other scholarly disciplines are rich resources for generating folk idioms. By implicitly referencing their academic sources, such idioms self-justify, thereby establishing and extending their usage—just as do contemporary legends and other folk genres. This paper addresses how certain everyday idioms result from simplifying, broadening, distorting, or ignoring their original and narrower technical and historical meanings. Such sociolinguistic mechanisms may reveal underlying world views and transient attitudes like those described by Lakoff and Johnson. Here I explore a few quasi-scholarly idioms in light of Oring’s critique of memetics as well as more traditional approaches to an understanding of their creation, function, and use in everyday discourse. (emailaddress@gmail.com)
2027 Conference Hotel Information
Please reach out to operationsmanager@westernfolklore.org with any questions related to the abstract submission and review process.