The International Society for Folk Narrative Research (ISFNR) will hold its 2026 Interim conference in Reykjavík, Iceland next June. Call for papers and posters is now open and will run until 23:59 GMT on October 1, 2025.
Calls for Submissions
The International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF) Working Group on Archives conference "Tradition Archives in Motion: Sounding out Good Practices and Challenges with Folk Collections" will be held at the University of Freiburg in Germany next year. Proposals are due October 5, 2025.
The third conference of the DEAGENCY project, which is to be held between 1–3 July 2026 in Ljubljana, Slovenia, will focus on the theme of communication with the dead. The deadline to submit an abstract to participate in the conference is December 15, 2025.
The Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English (ACCUTE) 2026 annual conference will be held 4–7 June in Montréal. Of special interest to their CFP are those jointly organized with another academic association. Submissions are due by September 11, 2025.
The Department of English, Philosophy, and World Languages at Arkansas State University opens a call for papers and presentations for the 31st annual Delta Symposium April 8–11, 2026. Special consideration will be given to proposals that specifically address this year's theme of “Monsters, Cryptids, and the Monstrous." The deadline for entries is December 19, 2025.
The 2026 Folklore Fellows’ Summer School will take place in Helsinki and Tvärminne, Finland next August. For participation, the organizers invite proposals for working papers on themes of interdisciplinarity and involvement in folklore research. The deadline for submissions is October 31, 2025.
This series is interested in research exploring the role of folkloric figures, folklore archetypes and motifs, and place-based folk groups and folklife in video games and interactive media. The deadline to submit a proposal is August 30, 2025.
The John D. Calandra Italian American Institute has announced the CFP for its 2026 conference on the theme of "Religions, Beliefs, and the Supernatural in Italy and across Italian Mobilities." The deadline for submissions is September 15, 2025.
The American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress (LOC) invites proposals to a symposium titled, “From Lived Experience to Public Memory: Commemorating, Documenting, and Archiving Experiences of the COVID-19 Pandemic,” on March 12 and 13, 2026. The deadline for submissions is June 16, 2025, at 11:59 PM ET.
The History and Folklore Section of the AFS invites submissions for the Wayland D. Hand Prize given to an author of an outstanding book in English that combines historical and folkloristic content and perspectives. A work submitted for consideration would have been published between June 1, 2024 and June 30, 2025. The deadline for submission is July 1, 2025.