TIMES IN BETWEEN 2026 - Folklore and Borderlands (Conference + Festival)

Get ready for an amazing in-person experience at TIMES IN BETWEEN 2026! This unique conference + festival dives into the rich worlds of folklore and borderlands. Perfect for anyone curious about stories, culture, and the magic found in between places and times. Join us to connect, learn, and celebrate the tales that shape our understanding of the world. Suitable for PhD students, early career academics, established scholars, and professionals of media industry.

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TIMES IN BETWEEN 2026 - Folklore and Borderlands: Tales of Order and Identity.

Venue: Savoia Excelsior Palace, Trieste, Italy.

Dates: 30 June -1 July 2026

Deadline for proposals (panels, papers, short films) : 15 April 2026, at: [email protected]

Language: English

Since its inception in 2024, this conference + festival gathered an array of international delegates for a meeting of minds supported by respect and democratic exchange of ideas; as such, it has been supported by a range of international institutions: Arts University Bournemouth, UK; Bournemouth Film School (BFS); Laboratory for Semiotics, Ethnosemiotics, Nonfictional Studies and Audiovisuality (SENSA Lab), University College Cork; APS Stadt, The Hart Lab, British Association of Film and Screen Studies (BAFTSS), Screenwriting Research Network (SRN); Regione Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italy.

2026 Theme: Folklore and Borderlands: Tales of Order and Identity.

Folklore offers critical tools for understanding how culture articulates experiences and collective ideas of orders. Borderlands—whether geographic, social, linguistic, occupational, or symbolic—are not only sites of cultural exchange, but also of stratification, invisibility, precarity, resistance, germination of ideas and identity negotiation.

Under the patronage of Arts University Bournemouth, British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies (BAFTSS), Screenwriting Research Network (SRN), NECS - European Network for Cinema and Media Studies, we invite contributors to look at folklore and borderlands in cinema and literature adaptation, and to examine how lived, and performed spaces at the borders are shaped by desires of order, shared identity and power relations.