AFS Public Programs Section Guide to the 2022 Annual Meeting

If you are attending the 2022 American Folklore Society Annual Meeting, the AFS Public Programs Section has listed a few papers and presentations which may be of special interest to public folklorists! This list is not comprehensive, but hopefully will be a good starting point. Panels with an asterisk are sponsored by the Public Programs Section.
Thursday, October 13
8:30 am–10:00 am
- 01-08 Folklore and the Public Humanities Ecosystem, Part 1: Heritage, Cultural Intelligence, and Creativity in Oklahoma Nonprofits
- *01-12 Revisiting Folklore Community Scholar Programs: A Dialogue about Past, Present, and Future
- 01-13 Public Folklore, Historic Preservation, and Heritage Studies
10:30 am–12:30 pm
- *02-01 Folklore and Tourism: Challenges and Opportunities
- *02-09 Radical Futures: Visionary Folklore and Intergenerational Justice
- 02-14 Apprenticeships and More: Methods for Transmitting Traditional Knowledge
2:30 pm–4:30 pm
5:00 pm–6:00 pm
Friday, October 14
8:30 am–10:00 am
10:30 am–12:30 pm
- 05-01 Notable Folklorists of Color, Roundtable, Part 1: Process and Praxis [hybrid]
- 05-05 Media: Threads and Borders: Documenting the Textile Collections of Rural Women in Bulgaria [hybrid]
- *05-06 Centering Community, Expanding Inclusion: Library and Archival Perspectives
1:15 pm–2:15 pm
- Public Programs Section Business Meeting
2:30 pm–4:30 pm
- 06-04 Making Time: Strategies for Improving Community-University Partnerships [hybrid]
- 06-06 Oklahoma Traditions and their Impact on Popular Culture
- 06-09 Folklorists and Climate Adaptation / Folklorists and Climate Interest Group Meeting
8:30 pm–10:30 pm
Saturday, October 15
8:30 am–10:00 am
10:30 am–12:30 pm
- 08-03 Drawing from Ethnographic Materials: Creating Comics from Ethnographic and Oral History Fieldwork and Archives [hybrid]
- *08-08 Story Sharing: A Folklife Community Engagement Model
12:45 pm–2:15 pm
*Festival of Ideas: Food Equity
2:30 pm–4:30 pm
- *09-03 Making Connections: Reflections on the African American Craft Initiative [hybrid]
- 09-05 Talking the Nonprofit Turn: A Conversation with the Founders of Texas Folklife Resources
- 09-12 Film: Dutch Hop!
See the program on the online program for more information on the conference and details on individual papers and presentations:
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