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The Newsletter of the Sussex Centre for Folklore, Fairy Tales and Fantasy

Jun-Jul 2016

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Contents

Events at the Sussex Centre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Other events around the world . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Pre-order Gramarye issue 9 now . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

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Events at the Sussex Centre

There are no upcoming events at the Sussex Centre until the start of the next academic year in September . Stay up to date by following us on Facebook and Twitter .

Other events around the world

‘Magic, witches and devils in the early modern world’, exhibition, Deansgate, 21 January - 21 August 2016.Experience how supernatural forces shaped the lives of everyone from kings and queens to clergymen and maidservants . https://uomhistory .wordpress .c o m / 2 0 1 6 / 0 1 / 1 1 / m a g i c -witches-and-devi ls- in-the-ear ly-modern-world-new-exhibition/

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Folklore, Magic and Mysteries: Modern Witchcraft and Folk Culture in Britain, Preston Manor, Brighton.From 1 AprilDoreen Valiente’s collection on display, including Gerald Gardner’s original, hand written Book of Shadows .http://brightonmuseums .org .uk/prestonmanor/what-to-see/folklore-magic-and-mysteries-modern-witchcraft-and-folk-culture-in-britain/

Fairytales for Grown-ups - The Devil's PurseWednesday 22 June, The Forge (London)Beguiling, tricksy, highly-strung, and suspiciously helpful – the Little People are in the shadows, waiting to prove just how hard it is to tell that they are there . . . https://uk .patronbase .com/_Forge/Productions/110/Performances

Alice’s Day’ at The Story Museum, Oxford

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From 10 a .m ., Saturday 2 July 2016Take part in a White Rabbit scavenger hunt, meet the Caterpillar at the Western Library, join the Lobster Quadrille at the The Story Museum and enter a Caucus Race at the Museum of Natural History!http://www .bookeventsforchildren .co .uk/events/event/alices-day-at-the-story-museum-oxford-3/

When the Photoshops become Real: Belief in Slender Man and Slender Sickness6 July 2016, 5 - 6 p .m ., Warburg Institute (London)Dr Andrea Kitta (East Carolina University) presents this free public lecture on 'Slender Man' for the Folklore Society .http://folklore-society .com/events/when-the-photoshops-become-real-belief-in-slender-man-and-slender-sickness

The 2016 Folklore, Ethnology, and Ethnomusicology Conference AberdeenUniversity of Aberdeen, Scotland, 1-3 July 2016 This year’s theme takes issue with the limited approach of folklorists salvaging scattered remnants of the past, and argues for a more comprehensive approach aimed at the present . http://www .afsnet .org/news/262272/CFP-The-2016-Folklore-Ethnology-and-Ethnomusicology-Conference-Aberdeen .htm

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Le Roi-Grenouille ou Henri-de-Fer des Grimm: quelle destinée dans la littérature de jeunesse?Clermont-Ferrand, (France) 12-14 October 2016Papers in English and French focus on the Grimm's fairy tale 'The Frog Prince', and its paradoxical ability to seem so memorable while being so often misremembered . http://www .fabula .org/actualites/le-roi-grenouille-ou-henri-de-fer-des-grimm-khm1-quelle-destinee-dans-la-litterature-de-jeunesse_70740 .php

Roundtable: 'Folklore in Global Conversations'Washington DC, 17-20 November 2016 The Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Folklore Association (SEEFA) issues an annual call for papers .https://networks .h-net .org/node/3128/discussions/103474/cfp-seefa-slavic-east-european-and-eurasian-folklore-association

Reorienting the Fairy TaleKanagawa University, Japan, 29-30 March 2017 . This international conference seeks to re-orient the fairy tale and to advance comparative fairy-tale studies on a global scale . h t t p : / / w w w . i s f n r . o r g / f i l e s / a r c h i v / C f P _ R e -OrientingtheFairyTale .pdf

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International Calls for Submissions

CfP: Into the Bush: Australasian Fairy Tales, a Special Issue of TEXTDeadline: 29 July 2016This Special issue of TEXT, developed in association with the Australian Fairy Tale Society, responds to the challenge of honouring the long-lived traditions of the fairy tale in the Australasian context, by exploring and expanding our understanding of fairy tales and their tellers in a postcolonial context .http://www .fantastic-arts .org/2016/cfp-into-the-bush-australasian-fairy-tales-a-special-issue-of-text/

Creative writing competition: Fairy Tale Review Awards in Poetry and ProseDeadline: 15 July 2016 .The winners in each section will receive $1,000 and their work will be published in The Translucent Issue of Fairy Tale Review, published in 2017 . There is an entry fee of $10 .http://fairytalereview .com/submit/contests/

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CfP Transcreation through text and image: The case of Perrault’s and Grimm’s talesDeadline: 31 August 2016 .This session proposes to study illustrated editions of Perrault’s and Grimms’ tales, as well as their translations, adaptations and transpositions, to find transcreation across languages, cultures, genres, forms, formats and media .ht tp : / /wp .un i l . ch /reproduct ion2017/programme/panels/?lang=fr#Cyrille_François

Damsels in Redress: Women in Contemporary Fairy-Tale Reimaginings Deadline: 1 November 20167-8 April and Saturday 2017, Queen’s University, Belfast!This conference aims bring together a range of ideas about the representation of women in contemporary reimaginings of traditional fairy tales, such as those from the Brothers Grimm and Charles Perrault . Abstracts of no more than 250 words, and a bionote of up to 50 words, to damselsinredress2017@gmail .com . https://www .facebook .com/events/949101051853840/

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Gramarye issue 9 is now available to pre-order from our online store . This issue’s contents include:Guest Editor’s Introduction, Ruth Bottigheimer• ‘The Fairy-tale Collections of

Andrew Lang and Joseph Jacobs: Identity, Nation, Empire’, Andrew Teverson

• ‘“As the World Falls Down”: David Bowie’s Role as a Father Figure in Jim Henson’s Labyrinth’, John Patrick Pazdziora

• ‘Filming Tolkien’s Legendarium’, Shaun Gunner• ‘The Devil and St Dunstan’, Steve O’Brien• An excerpt from Cult of Chaos: An Anantya Tantrist Mystery,

Shweta Taneja• ‘The Skald and the Spaewife’, Judith Woolf• ‘Norse Codes in a Wartime Childhood’, Nicholas Tucker• A review of Bradford Lee Eden’s (ed .) The Hobbit and

Tolkien’s Mythology: Essays on Revisions and Influences, Shaun Gunner

• A review of Kirsty Logan’s A Portable Shelter, Katherine Langrish

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• A review of Stephen Jones’ (ed .) Fearie Tales: Stories of the Grimm and Gruesome, Katherine Langrish

• A review of Kimberley J . Lau’s Erotic Infidelities: Love and Enchantment in Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber, Michelle Ryan-Sautour

• A review of Michael Dylan Foster’s The Book of Yokai: Mysterious Creatures of Japanese Folklore, Judith Woolf

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h .robbins@chi .ac .uk