TIMES IN BETWEEN 2026

June 30th-July 1st, 2026

CONFERENCE VENUE: HOTEL SAVOIA EXCELSIOR PALACE, Riva del Mandracchio, 4, 34124 Trieste TS

This has become an hybrid event.

Conference Theme:

Folklore and Borderlands: Tales of Order and Identity

                                                 

Organised by:

Associazione Culturale Bucanevis, APS Stadt, APS Hart Lab, The Bournemouth Film School (BFS), Arts University Bournemouth, BAFTSS, and SRN.

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

TIMES IN BETWEEN 2026

Folklore and Borderlands: Tales of Order and Identity.

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.

TIMES IN BETWEEN 2026: Folklore and Borderlands: Tales of Order and Identity, (Conference + Festival), with the support 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, invites 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.

The Links to the online presentations will be given at the discretion of the delegates.

June 30th

10:00 – 10:30: Registration

10:30 – 11:30: Welcome and Opening of the Works

11:30 -12:30 : Keynote – Ass. Professor Romana Turina

12:30 – 14:00: Lunch Break (free time for the delegate to have lunch independently)

14:00 – 15:30:  First Panel – Folklore Borderlands

• Professor Ming-Yu Lee, ‘Internal Borderlands and Vernacular Circulation: Rethinking John Smith’s Citadel’
• Professor Yung-Hao Liu, ‘ Presence and Invocation: Montage and the Single-Take Strategy in the Sacred Construction of Folklore and Spirit Possession Cinema’
• Krystian K. Ramlogan, Borders That Will Not Hold: Embodied Horror, Gendered Folklore, and the Plasmic Masquerade Cosmology in Trinidad and Tobago‘

15:30 – 16:00: Comfort Break

16:00 – 18:00: Short Film Festival

July 1st

10:00 – 10:30: Registration

10:30 – 12:00:  First Panel – Folktales of life and death

• Atreyee Gupta, In-Between Species: Metamorphosis and the Human–Animal Divide in Italo Calvino’s Italian Folktales.
• Dr Silvia Giubilato, The ways of heaven are paved with gifts, objects, and food. The ‘vămile văzduhului’ in the material culture of Romanian Orthodox funeral rites.
• Dr Anne M Sand, Teaching Witchcraft Amid Technopoly: Helping Students Navigate Fraught Digital Worlds.

12:00 – 13:00: Round Table

13:00: Closing Remarks.

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