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I am happy to announce that Palgrave MacMillian will be publishing my book on storytelling at the end of next year. This has involved 6 months of hard work, rethinking and amazingly kind reviews and suggestions (some by the fabulous Jack Zipes). The book will be published as part of a special series: Palgrave Studies in Alternative Education .  Photo credit: guvendemir I think one of the difficulties will be finding an appropraite cover image as so many searches have resulted in primary children reading books, rather than secondary school aged youth listening to a tale. Any photographers or if you know a photographer with an appropriate image for sale please let me know. Working book synopsis: This book explores young people’s lives through fairy tales to demonstrate our complex relationship with storytelling including the emotional, behavioural and social aspects of story. Young people, learning & storytelling … provides excerpts from young people’s conv...

  Do folktales contain memory? Does the odyssey or Iliad contain history? What is remembered and what is forgotten? Over all the event was an interesting talk and Q&A session. These were some of the questions that arose during an interesting talk given by Katherine Langrish at the University of Warwick on the 25th of January 2017.   She began with a picture of Arthur’s stone, a grouping of stone described as being built by King Arthur, the place of his burial, or where one of his rivals was buried. We are after all a nation of storytellers where even the remotest stone emerging from the earth in Cornwall, becomes the bones of a long forgotten giant. But what “truths” are present in these fragments of stories we call folklore? Memory Langrish proposed is not just about the things our brain recites back to us but also contains a sense of who we are, our identity. Folklore then is a form of memory, and memory a form of folklore. Personal...

‘How We Have Happily Rationalized Child Abuse through Storytelling.’ Visiting speaker: Jack Zipes 6 p.m. June 1st Ramphal Building, Room R0.21 (Main Lecture Theatre) Please send an email to zipeslecture@gmail.com to reserve your place. We anticipate seats for last minute visitors booking is advised for wine reception This event has been organised by Emma Parfitt, Sociology Department, and funded by an IAS Residential Fellowship, the Humanities Research Centre, English & Comparative Literature  and Sociology at the University of Warwick.