History Faculty, University of Oxford, 11-12 April 2008

     This workshop was organized by David Hopkin and Ollie Douglas and attended by a wide range of scholars from Britain, Europe and North America. Participants considered how folklorists of nineteenth-century Europe contributed to nationalist programmes, both political and aesthetic, and explored the relationship between folklore and the development of social thought.

     A full account of the themes that emerged from this workshop and of projected future outcomes will to be found in the workshop report. The original workshop description , full workshop programme (inclusive of abstracts), and workshop poster are also available.

If you have any questions relating to this workshop please contact the workshop administrator.

Participants included: Pertti Anttonen, Timothy Baycroft, Regina Bendix, Mary-Ann Constantine, Ollie Douglas , Anne Dymond, Roy Foster, Chris Gosden, Terry Gunnell, David Hopkin, Joep Leerssen, Julia Mannherz, Dorothy Noyes, Clare, O’Halloran, Michael Perraudin, Jonathan Roper, Anne-Marie Thiesse