UC Berkeley Folklore

UC Berkeley Folklore U.C. Berkeley's Folklore Archive contains more than 500,000 items of folklore from around the world, In addition to the M.A. in folklore.

The Folklore Program at the University of California, Berkeley trains intellectual leaders in folkloristics for the twenty-first century. We seek to provide a deep, critical, and theoretically-informed reading of folklore scholarship from the seventeenth century through the present. We urge students to develop a particular field of expertise in folkloristics. At the same time, we advise our gradua

te students to develop strong grounding in another discipline or multidisciplinary perspective, such as race and ethnic studies, performance studies, science studies, rhetoric, narrative theory, ethnomusicology, materiality, womens and q***r theory, and others, in order to bring new perspectives to their work in folkloristics. We are truly international in scope, seeking to challenge the Eurocentric roots of folkloristics by bringing in critiques and alternatives from outside the Euro-American orbit, particularly through study with leading folklorists from around the world, who come to Berkeley each year as visiting faculty members. in Folklore, we offer the possibility of dual admission into a PhD program in a humanities or social science discipline and the M.A.

If you missed Dr. Solimar Ortero's Alan Dundes Lecture live, you can still watch the recording on-line.
04/21/2021

If you missed Dr. Solimar Ortero's Alan Dundes Lecture live, you can still watch the recording on-line.

The 2021 Alan Dundes Lecture is today!
04/08/2021

The 2021 Alan Dundes Lecture is today!

This fall, Charles Briggs redesigned his graduate seminar at UC Berkeley in such a way as to augment its engagement with...
10/20/2020

This fall, Charles Briggs redesigned his graduate seminar at UC Berkeley in such a way as to augment its engagement with decolonial approaches by including a series of five Conversations on Racism and the Politics of Culture. You can check out the Conversations here:

In the Fall Semester of 2020, Charles Briggs redesigned his graduate seminar at the University of California, Berkeley (entitled “Theories of Traditionality and Modernity”) in such a way as to augment its engagement with decolonial approaches by including a series of five Conversations on Racism...

A nice overview by James Deutsch of George Washington University on some of the more common forms of folklore that have ...
03/29/2020

A nice overview by James Deutsch of George Washington University on some of the more common forms of folklore that have emerged with the coronavirus pandemic.

Like all examples of folklore, rumors seek to inform and to build solidarity.

03/04/2020

Cancelled: Folklore Roundtable 3/5/20

In solidarity with the planned Statewide Day of Action on Thursday, March 5, 2020 in support of fired UCSC Graduate Students and their ongoing struggle for a Cost of Living Adjustment, speaker Jon Cho-Polizzi has asked us to postpone his Folklore Roundtable lecture scheduled for Thursday, 3/5/20. It will be rescheduled on a date TBA. We apologize for any scheduling inconveniences.

2020 Alan Dundes Lecture is today at 5PM in the Gifford Room!
02/27/2020

2020 Alan Dundes Lecture is today at 5PM in the Gifford Room!

The 2020 Alan Dundes Lecture will be on February 27th at 5PM. Join us in the Gifford Room!
02/05/2020

The 2020 Alan Dundes Lecture will be on February 27th at 5PM. Join us in the Gifford Room!

We are very, very proud to share a documentary produced by Dr. Raju Nayak during his time at UC Berkeley. Raju was an af...
12/22/2019

We are very, very proud to share a documentary produced by Dr. Raju Nayak during his time at UC Berkeley. Raju was an affiliate of the Department of South Asian Studies, but worked closely with the Folklore Program during his time at Berkeley. Raju's doctoral work focused on history, caste, and criminality in the historical songs of his community—Ādivāsī speakers of the Lambāḍi language in Telaṅgāna State, India. While at Cal, he used footage he'd recorded for his dissertation to produce this beautiful documentary. The first screening was here in Berkeley in 2017. We're very excited that it's now available for all of you to watch on-line. It's half an hour of your time well spent.

A Documentary Film Title: Indigenous Culture: Singing Resistance Deconstructing Criminal tribe Identity through Lambada Bhat Narratives The objective of this...

Want to learn more about the history of our program? Check out this article written by our distinguished chair!
12/06/2019

Want to learn more about the history of our program? Check out this article written by our distinguished chair!

Charles L. Briggs.   Please join me on a whirlwind tour of the University of California’s Folklore Graduate Program. In 1957 William Bascom came to the Department of Anthropology. A specialist on African art, Bascom served as president of the American Folklore Society in 1953–1954. Trained at.....

Hello Prospective Applicants! Join us for our open house on December 4th, 2019 to meet faculty and students and learn mo...
11/19/2019

Hello Prospective Applicants! Join us for our open house on December 4th, 2019 to meet faculty and students and learn more about your fit within our program.

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