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8 April 2021
1: 9:45 10:00 Welcome
Dr Sam George University of Hertfordshire
2: 10:00 10:40 Plenary: Where do fairies come from? Shifts in shape
Prof. Diane Purkiss Keble College, Oxford
Introduced by Daisy Butcher
3: 10:40 11:25 Parallel Session: Panels 1 and 2
4: 11:25 11:45 Tea/Coffee Break
5: 11:45 12:30 Parallel Session: Panels 3 and 4
6: 12:30 13:30 Lunch
7: 13:30 14:10 Plenary: Precious revisions of greedy glass bottle tricks: Nalo Hopkinson’s folkloric revisions of classic fairytales and myths
Dr Maisha Wester Indiana University
Introduced by Bill Hughes
8: 14:10 14:30 Tea/Coffee Break
9: 14:30 15:15 Parallel Session: Panels 5 and 6
10: 15:15 15:45 Activity: The creative adaptation of fairy lore in YA fantasy novels
Betsy Cornwell Lyons Writer
Introduced by Bill Hughes
9 April 2021
11: 10:00 10:40 Plenary: The Cottingley Fairies: Conan Doyle’s war on materialism
Dr Merrick Burrow University of Huddersfield
Introduced by Sam George
12: 10:40 11:25 Parallel Session: Panels 7 and 8
13: 11:25 11:45 Tea/Coffee Break
14: 11:45 12:30 Parallel Session: Panels 9 and 10
15: 12:30 13:30 Lunch
16: 13:30 14:10 Plenary: Fairy lepidoptera: The dark history of butterfly-winged Fae
Dr Sam George University of Hertfordshire
Introduced by Bill Hughes
17: 14:10 14:30 Tea/Coffee Break
18: 14:30 15:15 Parallel Session: Panels 11 and 12
10 April 2021
19: 10:00 10:40 Plenary: ‘The fairy kind of writing’: Gothic and the aesthetics of enchantment in the long eighteenth century
Prof. Dale Townsend Manchester Metropolitan University
Introduced by Bill Hughes
20: 10:40 11:25 Parallel Session: Panels 13 and 14
21: 11:25 11:45 Tea/Coffee Break
22: 11:45 12:30 Parallel Session: Panels 15 and 16
23: 12:30 13:30 Lunch
24: 13:30 14:10 Plenary: Glamourie: Fairies and fashion
Prof. Catherine Spooner Lancaster University
Introduced by Sam George
25: 14:10 14:30 Tea/Coffee Break
26: 14:30 15:15 Parallel Session: Panels 17 and 18
11 April 2021
27: 10:00 10:40 Plenary: What the Puck! or: An anatomy of the fairy – A spotter’s guide to wings, wands and other
Dr Ivan Phillips University of Hertfordshire
Introduced by Sam George
28: 10:40 11:10 Activity: Flash Fairy Fiction competition
29: 11:10 11:55 Single Session: Panel 19
30: 11:55 12:15 Tea/Coffee Break
31: 12:15 13:00 Parallel Session: Panels 20 and 21
32: 13:00 14:00 Lunch
33: 14:00 14:45 Activity: A fairy workshop on outreach in the field of folklore studies for postgraduate students and ECRs
Dr Ceri Houlbrook University of Hertfordshire
34: 14:45 15:25 Plenary: Print grimoires, spirit conjuration, and the
democratisation of learned magic
Prof. Owen Davies University of Hertfordshire
Introduced by Kaja Franck
35: 15:25 15:35 Conference Close
Dr Bill Hughes Open Graves, Open Minds Project