A Guide to Folk Belief and Religious Folklife at the 2022 Annual Meeting
by Maggie Kruesi PhD, Section Convener
Mark your AFS conference calendars with these events of special interest to the AFS Folk Belief and Religious Folklife Section!
Section-Sponsored Events
Don Yoder Lecture in Folk Belief and Religious Folklife:
How to have Theory in a Pandemic: Precarity, Autoethnography, and Belief Scholarship during COVID
Dr. Andrea Kitta will deliver this year’s annual Don Yoder Lecture, Friday, 7:30–8:30 pm.
Folk Belief and Religious Folklife Annual Section Meeting
Please submit any items you have for the meeting agenda in advance to [email protected]. The section will meet Friday, 1:15–2:15 pm.
Folk Belief Silent Auction
The Folk Belief Silent Auction table is back and needs your help! You will find the table in the Exhibit Room, 8:00 am–6:00 pm on Thursday and Friday, and 8:00 am–1:00 pm on Saturday. Please bring your items for donation to our silent auction—any items related to belief or religion or just for fun! And come to bid!! All proceeds from the auction fund our Section’s Don Yoder and William A. “Bert” Wilson Student Paper Prizes.
Sessions on Folk Belief or Religious Folklife
Don’t miss these sessions of interest to Folk Belief and Religious Folklife members, with apologies to any whose papers I have missed!
Thursday
01-07 Pilgrimage and Place
- Participants: Anika Wilson, Mariya Lesiv, Jessie Riddle, Amit Singh
- 8:00–10:00 am
- Oklahoma South
01-05 Women, Belief, and Everyday Religious Experiences in Contemporary Multi-ethnic China [hybrid]
- Participants: Wei Liu, Ziying You, Wenyuan Shao, Megan Bryson
- 8:00–10:00 am
- Promenade C
01-03 Song and Movement [hybrid]
- Participants: Ojaswini Hooda, Arzu Ozturkmen, Daniel Reyes
- 8:30–10:00 am
- Promenade D
02-05 Reassessing Key Moments in Ethnography, Theory, and Disciplinary History [hybrid]
- Participants: Dan Ben-Amos, Carl Lindahl, Tom Mould
- 10:30 am–12:30 pm
- Promenade C
03-06 Aspirations for a Better Life
- Participants: Margarita B. Marin-Dale, Millie Tullis, Lisa Gilman
- 2:30–4:30 pm
- Oklahoma North
Friday
04-04 Weatherlore, Part 1: Weather and Belief
- Participants: Sheila Bock, Kate Parker Horigan, Shelly Ingram, Anne Pryor
- 8:30–10:00 am
- Promenade B
04-14 Peripheral Plagues: Localizing Illness in Medieval and Early Modern Texts
- Participants: Theresa A. Vaughan, Heather M. Hoyt, Judith K. Lanzendorfer, Charlotte Artese
- 8:30–10:00 am
- Director 5
05-12 Contemporary Jewish Folklore: Re-Thinking Community Practices and Identity
- Participants: Simon J. Bronner, Hanna Griff-Sleven, Jillian Gould
- 10:30 am–12:30 pm
- Director 3
05-14 Death, Legend, and Belief
- Participants: Zahra Abedinezhad, Israt Jahan Lipa, Amy Laurel Fluker, Ozgun Ozata
- 10:30 am–12:30 pm
- Director 5
Saturday
07-03 Sacred Spaces [hybrid]
- Participants: Christine Elyse Blythe, Minuette Floyd, Malay Bera
- 8:30–10:00 am
- Promenade D
08-12 Life During Wartime
- Participants: Danille Elise Christensen, Michelle Banks, Robert Glenn Howard, Katya Jacqueline Chomitzky
- 10:30 am–12:30 pm
- Director 3
09-07 Vernacular Responses to COVID
- Participants: Diane E. Goldstein, Patricia A. Turner, Afsane Rezaei, Kristiana Willsey
- 2:30–4:30 pm
- Oklahoma South
09-09 Gender and Belief
- Participants: Jared S. Rife, Alina Oprelianska, Maygan Barker
- 2:30–4:30 pm
- Executive
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