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

• 03-01  Where Oral and Aural Tradition Meet: Recording, Producing, and Listening to Songs and Stories on the Radio

5:00 pm–6:00 pm

• Greenwood’s Past, Present, and Future 

Friday, October 14

8:30 am–10:00 am

• 04-09  Creating Connections, Community, and Comfort in Virtual Food Communities

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

• African American Traditional Music, History and the Black Experience: Black Oklahoma Blues

Saturday, October 15

8:30 am–10:00 am

• 07-08  Women, Legend, and Ballad in Greater Mexico

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: