Dates and times: 30 June – 1 July 2026, 10.00–18.00
Location: Trieste, Italy
An international conference and festival organised following the success of previous editions of the Times In Between.
This year the conference focuses on folklore, as it offers critical tools for understanding how culture articulates experiences and collective ideas of orders.
Dr Romana Turina accepted to chair the event, in which heritage, collections and archives take a protagonist role, as they hold significant importance in folklore studies. 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. As suggested, this conference foregrounds the ways folklore emerges from, responds to, and analyses structures associated with the idea of the border, external and internal.
In previous editions, Times In Between has been supported by a range of international institutions: Arts University Bournemouth and Bournemouth Film School; 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) and Regione Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italy.
