Join or Renew Your Membership with ISCLR

ISCLR members and friends: a reminder that now is the time to renew your membership (or join!).  The membership form for 2025 is online and can be accessed here: https://contemporarylegend.org/society/membership/ Important information for 2025: multi-year membership are no longer offered. If you currently have a five-membership plan, it will remain valid until its expiration date. You willContinue reading "Join or Renew Your Membership with ISCLR"

Call for Papers Now Out – 42nd ISCLR Annual Meeting

The 42nd Perspectives on Contemporary Legend will be held in Stockholm, Sweden, June 23-27, 2025.  More information on the venue, excursions, and hotels can be found on ISCLR's website: https://contemporarylegend.org/meetings/perspectives2025/. A PDF version of the CFP is also attached to this email.  Call for PapersThe International Society for Contemporary Legend Research is pleased to announce that theContinue reading "Call for Papers Now Out – 42nd ISCLR Annual Meeting"

New Bloomsbury Book Series: Spectres, Hauntings and Horrors

From our President-Elect, Diane A. Rodgers: I would like to let you know about a new Bloomsbury Academic Series, Spectres, Hauntings and Horrors, for which I am pleased to be a member of the editorial board. The series editors are happy to receive ideas and proposals for new books - please see flyer attached (and feel freeContinue reading "New Bloomsbury Book Series: Spectres, Hauntings and Horrors"

Call for Papers Now Out – 41st ISCLR Annual Meeting

Perspectives on Contemporary Legend The 41st Annual Conference of the International Society for Contemporary Legend Research May 20 – 24, 2024 Utah State University, Logan, UT Utah State University’s Folklore Program and the Fife Folklore Archives are thrilled to invite you to Logan, Utah, for a week of legend scholarship, legend tripping, amazing mountains, and collegiality. AContinue reading "Call for Papers Now Out – 41st ISCLR Annual Meeting"

New digital Contemporary Legend

In the new digital Contemporary Legend, everything is published live as it is accepted and formatted. The "issue" consists of as many articles, reviews, notes, etc. that are accepted in any given calendar year. So the issue is already up (see below), but does not become "final" until December 31. https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/cl/index David J. Puglia Ph.D.AssociateContinue reading "New digital Contemporary Legend"