A Christmas bonus for this Grimm Year! Please find attached [*here*](http://publicdomainreview.org/2012/12/20/the-forgotten-tales-of-the-brothers-grimm/) an article by Professor Jack Zipes entitled “The Forgotten Tales of the Brothers Grimm”,
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Issue 2 of Gramarye is now available to buy [*here*](http://store.chi.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?modid=1&prodid=0&deptid=0&compid=1&prodvarid=54&catid=72). This issue is a special illustrated edition featuring work by Brian Froud, Alan Lee, Mel
ON TUESDAY 26 March, Jack Zipes, Professor Emeritus of German and Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota and founding father of the academic discipline
Prof Marina Warner of Essex University is giving a talk in Lausanne entitled “Magicking reality in contemporary fiction in English”. For details see [here](http://www.unil.ch/Jahia/site/fdi/cache/off/pid/46025?showActu=1351523007733.xml&actunilParam=events)
Robert Louis Stevenson Day will be celebrated for the first time on 13 November (Stevenson’s birthday). As part of the celebrations the Association for Scottish
Launch of new Sussex Centre journal, [*Gramarye*](http://www.sussexfolktalecentre.org/journal/). Tuesday (29 May) at 5.15pm in Cloisters, Bishop Otter Campus, University of Chichester. There will be readings by
The March/April [Sussex Centre Newsletter](http://issuu.com/scfff/docs/newsletter_mar) is now online.
There has been considerable media attention given to the discovery of new folktales by German scholar Franz Xaver von Schönwerth. A selection of Schönwerth’s folktales
The first [Sussex Centre Newsletter](http://issuu.com/scfff/docs/newsletter_feb_issuu) is now online. You can download it [here](http://sussexfolktalecentre.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/scfff-newsletter-201203.pdf). Open publication – Free publishing – More and fantasy
The Sussex Centre for Folklore, Fairy Tales and Fantasy has appointed an administrator to replace Dr Jane Carroll who has returned to teach at her
6th – 8th SEPTEMBER 2012, Kingston University [After Grimm Conference](http://fass.kingston.ac.uk/activities/item.php?updatenum=1748) CALL FOR PAPERS: 2012 is the bicentenary of the publication of the first volume of
The South Downs Songs Project Leading the project are Chris Hare, his wife Ann, and Emily Longhurst – together they are Emily and the Hares.
The Folklore Society and the Sussex Centre for Folklore, Fairy Tales and Fantasy are delighted to announce a joint conference on “Folklore and Fantasy” at
The [Sussex Centre for Folklore, Fairy Tales and Fantasy](http://sussexfolktalecentre.org/) is currently trying to map researchers, research centres and academic deparments with an interest in folktales,
Dr Jacqueline Simpson (see under ‘People’), formerly President of the Folklore Society and editor of its journal *Folklore*, has been appointed Visiting Professor at the