OSU Center for Folklore Studies

OSU Center for Folklore Studies The OSU Center for Folklore Studies supports the learning, teaching, research, and outreach of folklorists and students of folklore.

Save the date! From the Jersey Devil to Mothman, legendary creatures haunt the American landscape. How do local scares t...
10/15/2026

Save the date! From the Jersey Devil to Mothman, legendary creatures haunt the American landscape. How do local scares turn into regional pride and national folklore? Find out at the Hammond Lecture on the American Tradition featuring folklorist David J. Puglia

Thursday, November 19 at 7 pm
The Faculty Club at The Ohio State University

Wouldst thou like to live deliciously? 🐐 Join CMRS for a special screening of "The VVitch"! Explore historical perceptio...
10/14/2026

Wouldst thou like to live deliciously? 🐐 Join CMRS for a special screening of "The VVitch"! Explore historical perceptions of witchcraft, wilderness and New England folklore through one of modern cinema’s most chilling period pieces. Free and open to all!

🗓️ November 4 | 7 pm
📍 Hagerty Hall 180

After our free screening, curators from The Mothman Museum (Point Pleasant, WV) will be there in person for a live Q&A. ...
10/12/2026

After our free screening, curators from The Mothman Museum (Point Pleasant, WV) will be there in person for a live Q&A. Come early for our cryptid meet & greet!👤🦋 Follow the link for free tickets!

🗓️ Monday, November 16
⏰ 6 - 9:30 pm (a social hour will precede the screening)
Gateway Film Center

Arts and Sciences at Ohio State
The Ohio State University Department of Theatre, Film, and Media Arts
Intergalactic Science Fiction Club at OSU

TOMORROW: Janice Radway looks at how young women use self-published texts to carve out spaces of resistance. By blending...
10/12/2026

TOMORROW: Janice Radway looks at how young women use self-published texts to carve out spaces of resistance. By blending collage, raw personal essays and unfiltered art, these zinesters deliberately disrupted traditional narratives of girlhood—creating fluid, new "social forms" in a rapidly shifting socio-political landscape.

📅 Oct 13 | 3:30–5 pm
📍 198 Hagerty Hall
🎟️ Free & open to all!

Arts and Sciences at Ohio State
Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Department of Comparative Studies at OSU
The Ohio State University Libraries
Ohio State English

🎃 Spooky season meets creativity!Friday, Oct. 23, stop by the Global Gallery and 198 Hagerty Hall between 1–4 pm for HI ...
10/09/2026

🎃 Spooky season meets creativity!
Friday, Oct. 23, stop by the Global Gallery and 198 Hagerty Hall between 1–4 pm for HI Makerspace!
📜 Learn about Halloween divination
✉️ Design “scare mail”
🎨 And more eerie-sweet surprises with Halloween crafting supplies!

Come make, learn, and connect—no RSVP needed! Find more in the link in first comment.

Step into the woods with us for a screening of Robert Eggers' "The VVitch" (2015). Experience 17th-century folklore, par...
10/07/2026

Step into the woods with us for a screening of Robert Eggers' "The VVitch" (2015). Experience 17th-century folklore, paranoia and psychological horror as part of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies' "Magic & Witchcraft" Film Series. Free and open to all! 🕯️🌲
🗓️ Wednesday, November 4 | 7 pm
📍 Hagerty Hall 180

In one week: From romance novels to zine culture: American studies scholar Janice Radway is coming to OSU! Catch her in ...
10/06/2026

In one week: From romance novels to zine culture: American studies scholar Janice Radway is coming to OSU! Catch her in conversation with Barry Shank on interdisciplinary methods and humanities scholarship in perilous times.

📅 Oct 13 | 3:30–5 pm
📍 198 Hagerty Hall
🎟️ Free & open to all!

Arts and Sciences at Ohio State
Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Department of Comparative Studies at OSU
The Ohio State University Libraries
Ohio State English

Save the date for a special screening of the psychological thriller "The Mothman Prophecies" at the Gateway Film Center!...
10/05/2026

Save the date for a special screening of the psychological thriller "The Mothman Prophecies" at the Gateway Film Center!
This special event commemorates the 60th anniversary of the initial Mothman sightings in Southeast Ohio and West Virginia. Don't miss out- follow the link for free tickets!

🗓️ Monday, November 16
⏰ 6 - 9:30 pm (a social hour will precede the screening)
Gateway Film Center

🎟️ FREE and open to the public!

Arts and Sciences at Ohio State
The Ohio State University Department of Theatre, Film, and Media Arts
Intergalactic Science Fiction Club at OSU

Manasvi Udani from the Jain Center Of Central Ohio - JCOCO will perform a Madhura Thillana, a fast-paced, rhythmic dance...
10/05/2026

Manasvi Udani from the Jain Center Of Central Ohio - JCOCO
will perform a Madhura Thillana, a fast-paced, rhythmic dance that presents a story of Lord Krishna. THURSDAY!

Find more and RSVP through the link in the first comment.

6 pm at the Grange Insurance Audubon Center

What is Byzantine Chant? It's defined as a vocal music tradition of the Eastern Orthodox Church, characterized by modal ...
10/04/2026

What is Byzantine Chant? It's defined as a vocal music tradition of the Eastern Orthodox Church, characterized by modal melodies, continuous vocal drones and Greek liturgical texts. We'll hear this monophonic tradition with the Annunciation Greek Orthodox Cathedral this week. Find more and RSVP through the link in the first comment.

Thursday, October 8
6 pm
Grange Insurance Audubon Center

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