This is not an official version of the schedule. Simply a readily available one so that fellow folklorists can see who presented what at this year’s meeting.
JUNE 6
Supernatural Legends and Place
- Constraints of Ghost Walks and Haunted Tourism in Utah • Kylie Schroeder
- Mysterious Northeast Arkansas: Ghost Stories in Jonesboro • Richard Burns
- Supernatural Creatures and Belief in South Louisiana • Carolyn E. Ware
Hauntings
- The Mad Doctor of the Pennhurst Haunted Asylum • Shannon K. Larson
- The Haunted Cheerio and Other Tales: Negotiating Belief in a Louisiana Classroom • Shelley Ingram
JUNE 7
Local Legendry
- Hidden Treasures in Welsh Legendry • Elissa R. Henken
- Jean Lafitte and the Other Lex Non Scripta: Outlaw as Expression of Folk Law • Keagan LeJeune
- The Peck Ranch Massacre and Formulaic Atrocity • William M. Clements
Legend and Media I
- Slenderman is Coming to Get Your Little Brother or Sister: Teenagers’ Legend-Related Pranks on You-Tube • Libby Tucker
- The One at the Conference: Podcasting and Legend Scholarship • Eleanor Hasken
Legend and Media II
- The Myth of the “Killer 2026”: Serial Killer, Urban Legend, or Both? • Daniel P. Compora
- Framing Children’s Narratives in Online Clown Legends • Jessica Doble
- The Clown Legend Cascade: The Legend Conduit in the Information Age • John Laudun
JUNE 8
Fake News I
- Pizzagate, Fake News and Its Ostensive Consequences • Jesse Fivecoate
- Crawford Road: Legend, News, and Stigmatized Places • Kristina Downs
Fake News II
- Fake News, Folk News, and Contemporary Legends: Information and Belief in the Age of #Alternative Facts • Andrea Kitta & Lynne McNeill
Fake News, Folk News
- Fake News, ‘Folk News’ and the Fate of the Far Away Moses • Steven Winick
- Conspiracy, Legendry, and the Politics of Culture in the Case of the
- Jonesboro Property Maintenance Code • Gregory Hansen
- Cuckolding and Consent: An Analysis of Power and Sex within the Alt-Right • Bakr Abbahou
JUNE 9
Narrative Motifs
- Ambrož Kvartič, Shibboleth: A Mechanism of Language Differentiation as a Narrative Folklore Motif
- Contemporary Legend and Rumor: A Response to Dr. Hobbs • David Samper