Highlights
📚 Engaging talk on feminist thought and folklore's influence
🧙♀️ Explore figures like the witch, shapeshifter, and maiden
🗣️ Insightful Q&A session with Dr Shelby Judge
🕰️ Delve into centuries-old myths and their modern relevance
General Info
📅 Date: 19 October 2026
🕒 Time: 7:00 PM
⏱️ Duration: 2h 30min
📍 Location: The County Assembly Rooms, 76 Bailgate, Lincoln, LN1 3AR, United Kingdom
♿ Accessibility: this venue is wheelchair accessible
👤 Age requirement: This is an 18+ event
Description
How have myths and fairytales shaped feminist thought? Explore the power of folklore, its symbols, and role in today’s society. With Q&A.
For centuries, feminist writers and thinkers have turned to myths, legends, fairytales, religious stories, and cultural traditions to make sense of women’s experiences. This session will explore the enduring relevance of folklore, asking how these stories can be reclaimed and reimagined for the 21st-century feminist.
We’ll trace figures like the witch, the shapeshifter, and the maiden across different traditions, examining the societal norms they were created to enforce and how feminist thinkers have reshaped them into symbols of resistance and possibility.
Finally, we will ask why we continually return to ancient stories to tell new ones. Does this suggest that we’re out of new stories, or is it part of a longstanding literary tradition in women’s writing to look back, subvert dominant myths, and challenge the patriarchal ideas embedded in our society? Consigue ya tus entradas!
