{"id":8005,"date":"2019-10-17T13:47:59","date_gmt":"2019-10-17T12:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/?p=8005"},"modified":"2023-03-01T17:20:07","modified_gmt":"2023-03-01T17:20:07","slug":"sophie-parkes-nield-folklore-on-screen-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/sophie-parkes-nield-folklore-on-screen-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Researcher Blog by PhD candidate Sophie Parkes-Nield: Folklore on Screen 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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About the author<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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Sophie Parkes-Nield<\/a> is a doctoral researcher in C3RI’s Centre for Contemporary Legend<\/a>\u00a0where she has recently embarked on a practice-based PhD.\u00a0 Sophie brings together creative writing and folklore in her doctoral research which will focus on British calendar customs.<\/p>\n

Sophie will travel throughout Britain to witness traditional customs and to interview local people about why they take part – and why they don’t.\u00a0 You can find out more about Sophie’s research on her blog<\/a>.\u00a0 If you would like to discuss this research you can contact Sophie on Twitter<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In this post Sophie reflects on attending an academic conference for the first time. She picked a good one. It was the Centre for Contemporary Legend’s inaugural conference,\u00a0Folklore on Screen 2019<\/a>\u00a0…<\/em><\/p>\n

My first academic conference. I have to admit to a handful of preconceptions: talks containing lengthy, never-before-encountered words I\u2019d surreptitiously have to Google; jibes or corrections dressed up as questions from the audience; elbow patches; social awkwardness.<\/p>\n

I was wrong on every count \u2013 even the elbow patches. If academic conferences are always as inspiring, insightful, heart-warming, fun <\/em>as 2019\u2019s Folklore on Screen, then I have a fantastic three years ahead of me.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s particularly poignant that I enjoyed the conference as much as I did when I knew so little about the film and television in discussion. I\u2019ve joined the Centre for Contemporary Legend<\/a> as a new PhD student with a practice-based project focused within the field of creative writing and though, of course, film and literature are not mutually exclusive, I\u2019ve never been much of a film buff. But I have since come away with a fascinating list of films and programmes I simply must see, as the speakers explored such an intriguing variety of different folkloric tropes and ideas: Haitian voodoo in Jordan Peele\u2019s Get Out<\/em>; the haunted artwork in Velvet Buzzsaw<\/em> and the similarities with the UK\u2019s \u2018crying boy\u2019 phenomenon; the concealed talismans in Beasts<\/em>; the calendar custom and \u2018the world turned upside down\u2019 in The Lord of Misrule<\/em>; the recent love lock tradition and its origins in Italian film.<\/em><\/p>\n

And it wasn\u2019t just film and television in discussion: how UFOs are rendered in photography, internet memes and the folkloric symbols present in the work of Sheffield-born Australian \u2018outsider\u2019 artist, Peter Booth, were also up for interrogation.<\/p>\n

On the Friday evening, delegates were treated to an evening of conference-complementing music, curated by the Heretics\u2019 Folk Club<\/a>, a welcome alternative to networking-around-the-canapes. Otherworldly, haunting sounds from Hawthonn and headliner Sharron Kraus contrasted with the plaintive folk songs of Phil Tyler, performing beautifully and rather understatedly without the formidable presence of his partner in life and music, Cath Tyler.<\/p>\n

\"Folklore<\/p>\n

My new colleagues at the Centre for Contemporary Legend very kindly invited me to get involved in the execution of the conference, culminating in my first chairing of a panel. I needn\u2019t have been nervous; the delegates, a mixture of academics and members of the public, were profoundly friendly, supportive and so interested in the work of each other that breaks were busy with animated chatter and the unmistakable sound of business cards being brandished and swapped. Accompanying my list of must-see programmes and films was a burgeoning directory of email addresses, Twitter handles and promises to keep in touch.<\/p>\n

I may have just<\/em> enrolled at Sheffield Hallam University<\/a>, but already I feel enriched and excited about the possibilities ahead. Roll on the next conference.<\/p>\n

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Images: Diane Rodgers, 2019.<\/p>\n

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Please note: Views expressed are those of the Author(s) and do not necessarily reflect those of SHU, C3RI\u00a0or the C3RI Impact\u00a0Blog.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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