Diversity in Folk
2021: conference on racial and ethnic diversity, both historically focused and in contemporary discourse.
Papers included:
- The Black origins of sea shanties
- How to Increase and Diversify Participation in English Folk Clubs?
- International Relations: Nationalism and Internationalism in the English Folk Dance Revival
- The Sorrow Songs: Folk Songs of Black British Experience
- Racial crosscurrents in Appalachian folk song
- Celebrating Diversity – Applications of Folklore to Shared Society Education within the Conflict Situation of the Middle East
- Folk purism, the enemy of diversity
Locating Women in ‘The Folk’
Perspectives on women's contributions to folk song, folklore and cultural traditions: a one-day interdisciplinary conference in 2018, celebrating and interrogating the role that women have played in folk song, folklore, and cultural traditions – as tradition bearers, performers, authors, collectors, storytellers and scholars - through presentations and papers across a variety of topics and from historical, contemporary, and future perspectives.
Appalachian conference
2016: conference ‘Pastoralism and modernity in the southern mountains: a centenary symposium on Cecil Sharp's 1916 Appalachian journey’
