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

Dec-Jan 2016

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Contents

Upcoming events at the Sussex Centre

Dame Marina Warner, 'Fly Away Home' . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Prof . Andrew Teverson, 'Andrew Lang, Joseph Jacobs and

British imperialism' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Other events around the world . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Gramarye issue 8 e-book out now . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

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Upcomig events at the Sussex Centre

Dame Marina Warner, Fly Away HomeWednesday 3 February 2016, 5 .15-6 .30 p .m .The Mitre Lecture Theatre, University of Chichester

Dame Marina Warner, writer and mythographer, will present short stories tinged with fairy tale from her third collection of short stories, Fly Away Home, followed by a chaired discussion and Q&A with the audience .

Warner has written several critical and historical books and essays exploring the history of myth and fairy tale . She

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has been awarded Honorary Doctorates by 11 Universities and was elected a fellow of the British Academy in 2005 . In 2015 she was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) for services to higher education and literary scholarship .

Tickets are £5/£3 concessions or free to University staff and students . Prof . Warner will be available to sign copies of Fly Away Home after the event, and ticket prices will be discounted from any books bought at the event . Please e-mail h .robbins@chi .ac .uk to reserve your place or with any queries .

Prof. Andrew Teverson, ‘The Fairy-tale collections of Andrew Lang and Joseph Jacobs: divergent responses to British imperialism and the crisis in British and English identities’Monday 14 March 2016, 5 .15-6 .30 p .m .Prof . Andrew Teverson's recent work includes The Edinburgh Critical Edition of the Selected Writings of Andrew Lang (2015, co-edited with Alexandra Warwick and Leigh Wilson) and Fairy Tale for the Routledge New Critical Idiom series (2013) . The former was shortlisted for The Folklore Society’s Katharine Briggs Folklore Award in 2015 .

Tickets are £5/£3 concessions or free to University staff and students . Please e-mail h .robbins@chi .ac .uk to reserve your place or with any queries .

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Other events around the world

‘Magic, witches and devils in the early modern world’, exhibition, Deansgate, from 21 January: https://uomhistory .wordpress .com/2016/01/11/magic-witches-and-devils-in-the-early-modern-world-new-exhibition/

Dr Matthew Townend, ‘The Glamour of Mirkwood’29 Jan, Nottinghamhttp://www .nottingham .ac .uk/research/groups/csva/news-events/events/2015-16/fell-benedikz-lecture .aspx

The Texts of Charms, the Contexts of Charming 7 February, Royal Anthropological Institute (London)Dr Jonathan Roper presents this RAI Research Seminar on charms and charming . Free entry .h t t p s : / / w w w . t h e r a i . o r g . u k / e v e n t s - c a l e n d a r /eventdetail/372/-/rai-research-seminar-jonathan-roper

Wonder Tales: The 37th International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts16-20 March 2016, Floridahttp://www .fantastic-arts .org/

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CfP Reflected Shadows: Folklore and the Gothic5-17 April, Kingston Uni, (London): http://folklore-society .com/events/reflected-shadows-folklore-and-the-gothic

Charms, Charmers and Charming Conference 2016Innovation and TraditionFriday 6th – Sunday 8th May 2016 (Cork, Ireland)https://corkcharms .wordpress .com/

CfP 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 for the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Conference . Deadline 5 February .https://networks .h-net .org/node/3128/discussions/103474/cfp-seefa-slavic-east-european-and-eurasian-folklore-association

Alice in Wonderland exhibitionThe British Library, till 17 April 2016 .Come and see Lewis Carroll’s original manuscript with hand-drawn illustrations, alongside stunning editions by Mervyn Peake,

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Ralph Steadman, Leonard Weisgard, Arthur Rackham, Salvador Dali and others .http://www .bl .uk/events/alice-in-wonderland-exhibition

CFP: The 2016 Folklore, Ethnology, and Ethnomusicology Conference AberdeenUniversity of Aberdeen, Scotland, 1-3 July 2016 The theme is 'A Fieldworker’s Vision: Researching the Present' . Deadline 31 January .http://www .afsnet .org/news/262272/CFP-The-2016-Folklore-Ethnology-and-Ethnomusicology-Conference-Aberdeen .htm

CfP Supernatural Cities: The Urban MindscapeUniversity of Portsmouth, 30 April 2016Where do urban supernatural stories and beliefs come from and why do they survive in our modern cities? What is it about the nature of the urban environment that encourages our imaginations to respond in this way? Deadline 1 February .http://www .theofantastique .com/2016/01/04/call-for-papers-supernatural-cities-exploring-the-urban-mindscape/

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Gramarye issue 8 e-book out now

Gramarye issue 8 is now available to order as an e-book from our online store . This issue’s contents include:

• ‘The Mysterious Rolling Wool Bogey’, Simon Young

• ‘The Snow Queen’, script by Anupama Chandrasekhar

• An interview with Anupama Chandrasekhar

• ‘Three Roads River’, Judith Woolf

• ‘Arianrhod’, Steve O’Brien

• ‘But still, the heart doth need a language…’, George Green

• ‘My Favourite Fairyland Fiction’, Ruth B . Bottigheimer

• A Carnivalesque Recasting of the Grimms’ Tales: a review of Natalie Frank's Tales of the Brothers Grimm, Sandra L . Beckett

• A review of Walter De La Mare's Told Again: Old Tales Told Again, Nicholas Tucker

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• A review of Daniel Ogden's Drakon: Dragon Myth and Serpent Cult in the Greek and Roman Worlds, Jacqueline Simpson

• A review of Ann Schmiesing's Disability, Deformity and Disease in the Grimms’ Fairy Tales, Seana Kozar

• A review of Defining Magic: A Reader, Marion Gibson

• A review of MacGillivray's The Last Wolf of Scotland, Niall McDevitt

• A review of The Gothic Fairy Tale in Young Adult Literature: Essays on Stories from Grimm to Gaiman, Malini Roy

• A review of Jan Beveridge's Children into Swans: Fairy Tales and the Pagan Imagination, Katherine Langrish

• A review of Eliza Granville's Gretel and the Dark, Andrew Teverson

• A review of Terry Pratchett's The Shepherd’s Crown, Jane Carroll

Plus correspondence between Jacqueline Simpson and Tom Shippey, and of course pages and pages of fantastic contemporary and Golden Age illustrations .

The printed edition of Gramarye issue 8 was only made available to pre-ordering customers and subscribers . To guarantee your printed copy of future issues, please subscribe here .

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The printed edition of Gramarye 8 is also available from:• Atlantis Books (London)• Byre Books (Wigtown)• Foyles (London)• Kims (Chichester)• Treadwells (London)• Waterstones (Chichester)

Cover illustration and left: Natalie Frank's Grimm illustrations .

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If you have any queries or feedback about this newsletter, please contact Heather Robbins at

h .robbins@chi .ac .uk