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Folklore & Mythology office Holly Hutchison Department Administrator Warren House 101 617-495-4788 hhutchis@fas.harvard.edu Joseph Nagy Interim Chair Warren House 206 617-495-1207 jfnagy@fas.harvard.edu Sarah Craycraft Head Tutor Warren House 103...

This 2025 event honors the retirement of dedicated faculty member and frequent Chair of Folklore and Mythology, Professor Stephen A. Mitchell. An expert in Scandinavian and Old Norse folklore, Professor Mitchell’s contributions to historical folkloristics...

(Please note: this schedule is largely final, but some adjustments and updates may still be made.) Thursday March 2 5.00 Welcome & opening remarks (Stephen Mitchell, chair) 5.15 Keynote: "Fifty Years in Folklore" — Robert Teske '70 6.15 Dinner 7.15...

“Folklore is a body of traditional belief, custom, and expression, handed down largely by word of mouth and circulating chiefly outside of commercial and academic means of communication and instruction. Every group bound together by common interests and...