Contemporary Legend

Anyone interested in following the toings and froings of our annual meeting in Logan Utah (at @USUAggies), follow the threads at @LeapingPrincess as she uses #isclr2024

A new bonus mini episode of The Folklore Podcast recorded live at @ISCLR Listen free at thefolklorepodcast.com/gunnella-and-t… or on your podcast app @PerryCarpenter of @digiFolklorePod and I discuss folkore, creatures and beliefs of Iceland and Sweden with our guests Gunnella and Tommy.

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John E Priegnitz II (@PriegnitzIi) has won the 2023 Dr David Buchan Student Essay prize. He had been informed and has responded “I'm in shock! But, more importantly, I am honored and thankful. Please extend my gratitude to everyone else.” #isclr23

Amazing to hear from people from the first ever ISCLR conference on the 40th anniversary of the event! #isclr23

After lunch is a retrospective panel on the first Perspectives on Contemporary Legend conference, held in Sheffield in 1982. Paul Smith, John Widdowson, and Doc Rowe join us in person, with others attending virtually. #isclr23 @Centre_4_Legend

Panel Q&A: Chair @Gunnelle Þhorgeirsdóttir, Petr Janaček, Pateicia Gurner, and Ashley Powell of Sheffield's Grenoside Sword Dancers, who gave a brief presentation on the history of the troupe #ISCLR23

Who is also an excellent plague puppeteer as you can see below with is flea and rat puppet in Eyam yesterday! #ISCLR23

And now Petr Janaček on Prague Spring contemporary legends. #isclr23

The last session of papers, Legend Scholarship, begins with Patricia Turner talking about the use of “legend” in reference to the legendary (!!!) Arthur Ashe. #isclr23

The panel q&a: chair Tom Mould, Zuzana Panczová, Brandon Barker, and Aphrodite-Lidia Nounanaki. #isclr23

Please save all your pats for the patting session. #isclr23 @Centre_4_Legend

And finishing up is Zuzana Panczová on “discourses of the edge”— conspiracy theories in Slovakia as they emerged after the fall of the communist regime, and their relationship with religious eschatologies. #isclr23

Next, Aphrodite-Lidia Nounanaki on the interpenetration of conspiracy theory / thinking with new narratives about Greek nationalism. #isclr23

The last day (boo!) starts with a Conspiracy and Belief panel with Brandon Barker on Bell Witch Legendry framed through folk psychology. #isclr23

#isclr23 may be missing Sandy Hobbs but we are lucky enough to have him here today to preview his new banner exhibition. Watch this space for more info... @ISCLR

And Libby Tucker, delivering by Zoom (yay but alas!) speaks of campus legends in a time of Covid-19. #isclr23

If legend people go to this, (and it doesn’t conflict with #isclr24), y’all can swing by @AVulgarArt’s neck of the woods afterwards. #isclr23

Now @woden7 speaks about the moral panic of furries in the school, starting with Canada and moving outwards. #isclr23

Yes! @JamesFenwick87 needs a shout out too! #isclr23

The afternoon begins with an X-Files panel and @DianeARodgers discussing her forthcoming co-edited anthology on the storied program. #isclr23