CFP: Panels of Charms Studies at the ISFNR Athens Congress
ISFNR 15th Congress, Athens, June 21-27, 2009
Committee for Charms, Charmers and Charming
Call for papers for panels on charms, charmers and charming
As part of the 15th Congress of the International Society for Folk Narrative Research, the Committee for Charms, Charmers and Charming will be organising a variety of panels of charms studies.
All paper proposals, film/video/dvd proposals, intervention proposals (i.e. shorter oral presentations and longer discussions of preprints) and panel proposals that touch on charms studies are welcome, especially those on:
- video and films of charming,
- the overlaps/points of contact between charms and narrative genres,
- typologising charms,
- charms and ritual in international perspective,
- charms of the Bone to Bone (Second Merseburg) type,
- portraits of individual charmers,
- comparative and diachronic charms studies
as are other suggestions for the panels themselves. Presentations that cover verbal magic from outside Europe are especially welcome too! Please email your proposals of between 75 and 200 words to j.roper@shef.ac.uk before 30th SEPTEMBER!