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SUMMARY:Data Rescue for Ukraine
DESCRIPTION:A group of scholars have organized an international data rescue session focused on identifying and archiving data and sites for music collections at cultural heritage institutions in Ukraine which may be at risk during the attack and invasion by Russia. The session will occur on Saturday\, March 5\, 2022 (time to be determined). \n\n\n\nThose interested in participating should complete the form linked below so the organizers can share additional information.  \n\n\n\nThe event will be held virtually\, instructions will be provided for a variety of roles (no programming background required). Asynchronous participation is also possible. \n\n\n\nOrganized by Anna E. Kijas and Francesca Giannetti (Digital Humanities Interest Group\, Music Library Association) and Andy Janco (Digital Humanities Interest Group of the Association for Slavic\, East European and Eurasian Studies). \n\n\n\n\nLink to register
URL:https://americanfolkloresociety.org/event/9911/
CATEGORIES:Non-AFS event,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20220308T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20220308T133000
DTSTAMP:20260405T003207
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SUMMARY:Postcolonial Uses for the Primary Sources of British Imperial Merchant Seafarers in the 19th and 20th Centuries
DESCRIPTION:Postcolonial Uses for the Primary Sources of British Imperial Merchant Seafarers in the 19th & 20th Centuries is a roundtable discussion with researchers of colonized seafarers hosted on Webex  \n\n\n\nHow might researchers better explore primary sources to write post-colonial maritime histories? This roundtable brings together scholars of British-Asiatic and British-African merchant seafarers to discuss the challenges. \n\n\n\nSpeakers: \n\n\n\nLooking for Lascars in the Archive: Non-European Seamen in Ships’ Official Logbooks\, Naina Manjrekar\, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences\, Indian Institute of Technology\, Mumbai.‘Native’ Seafarers\, Racial Management\, and the Problem of Agency\, Ravi Ahuja\, Centre for Modern Indian Studies\, Göttingen University.Finding Colonized Seafarers (and others) in Unlikely Places: What to Do When ‘There are no sources’\, Laura Tabili\, Department of History\, University of Arizona.
URL:https://americanfolkloresociety.org/event/postcolonial-uses-for-the-primary-sources-of-british-imperial-merchant-seafarers-in-the-19th-and-20th-centuries/
CATEGORIES:Non-AFS event,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20220321T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20220322T235959
DTSTAMP:20260405T003207
CREATED:20220216T171454Z
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SUMMARY:Social Life Dynamics During and After COVID-19: Approaches to Family Life\, Education\, and Sustainable Development (Virtual International Conference)
DESCRIPTION:The College of Arts\, Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Sharjah\, United Arab Emirates\, is hosting a virtual international conference March 21-22\, 2022\, with proposal abstracts due February 28. \n\n\n\nSee the event website for more information
URL:https://americanfolkloresociety.org/event/virtual-international-conference-social-life-dynamics-during-and-after-covid-19-approaches-to-family-life-education-and-sustainable-development/
CATEGORIES:Conference,Non-AFS event,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20220324T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20220324T170000
DTSTAMP:20260405T003207
CREATED:20220323T164000Z
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SUMMARY:Cultural Institutions on the Radar of Right-Wing Politics: experiences\, ways of dealing and scope for action
DESCRIPTION:Selfies in front of Nazi symbols in exhibitions\, right-wing hostility and attacks on social media platforms\, racist and nationalist statements during team meetings – as spaces of democratic engagement with the past\, present and future museums\, theatres and other cultural institutions increasingly and actively have to deal with right-wing populism and far-right voices and practices. What are the concrete things to consider when dealing with such experiences and where to find support? \n\n\n\nThis is the first of two events in the series Making Museums Matter that deals with concrete actions against right-wing populist practices in cultural institutions. It is intended as a contribution to a whole series of initiatives in the cultural sector that are currently actively confronting this phenomenon. \n\n\n\n\nRegister here\n\n\n\n\n Panelists: \n\n\n\nNicole Broder (Dipl.-Geogr.) studied geography in Mainz and Edinburgh. She worked in Central Asia for a local human rights NGO. Since 2005\, she has been an education officer at the Anne Frank Education Centre with a focus on human rights education\, racism and discrimination\, and non-violent conflict resolution. Since 2018\, she has been leading a project on political education in the workplace. \n\n\n\nBenjamin Kryl has been the director of the Stadtmuseum Parchim since January 2020 and is co-initiator of the museum network “Halt!ung”. He studied museology (HTW Berlin) and “Religion and Culture” (Humboldt University Berlin)\, and worked as a freelance cultural manager for several museums and educational institutions\, such as the “Kreuzberg Initiative against Anti-Semitism”\, in Leipzig and in Berlin. In addition to the local history of Parchim\, his research focuses on “Anti-Judaism and Anti-Semitism” and “Ethics and Exhibitions”. \n\n\n\nHatice Ince has been a public relations officer at Neue Deutsche Medienmacher:innen since January 2022 and is involved in the project Kompetenznetzwerk gegen Hass im Netz. After studying cultural studies and history at the University of Bremen\, she worked from 2016 as a freelance writer for youth magazines such as Bento\, ze:tt and neon\, and as a social media editor\, online editor and net reporter at Radio Cosmo.
URL:https://americanfolkloresociety.org/event/cultural-institutions-on-the-radar-of-right-wing-politics-experiences-ways-of-dealing-and-scope-for-action/
CATEGORIES:Non-AFS event,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20220330T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20220331T170000
DTSTAMP:20260405T003207
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SUMMARY:Crises We Live By: A Metaphorical Approach to the Crisis
DESCRIPTION:The word ‘crisis’ often appears trite and hackneyed in its daily use. Media and politicians\, but also “people on the street”\, commonly speak about one or multiple “crises”: the 2007 economic crisis\, the pandemic crisis\, the crisis of our values\, the crisis of Western society\, identity crises and cultural crises\, etc. From a financial\, economic\, political\, psychological or even moral perspective\, and many more\, the word ‘crisis’ continues to leave traces on our public and private discourse\, often accepted as an unavoidable and uncontested category to qualify the present. \n\n\n\nThis noun (stemming from the ancient Greek κρίσις\, with its range of meanings\, “decision”\, “discrimination”\, “crisis”) has a more general figurative sense\, i.e. “a vitally important or decisive stage in the progress of anything; a turning-point; also\, a state of affairs in which a decisive change for better or worse is imminent”. However\, it “is now applied especially to times of difficulty\, insecurity\, and suspense in politics or commerce” (both quotations from OED online). \n\n\n\nIn order to approach the fundamental nature of this concept\, the organizers acknowledge the need to investigate the cognitive aspect of experiences generally defined as ‘crises’. Accepting one of the major findings from Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT)\, i.e. that abstract concepts are largely metaphorical\, this conference will attempt a study of what we commonly tag and simplify as ‘crisis’ through the metaphors with which these experiences have been defined\, uttered\, and thus lived. Through a series of case studies\, they aim to understand the general idea of crisis as well as the specific character of different crises reflected in each metaphor (e.g. the common metaphors of ‘collapse’ and ‘decline’\, ‘darkness’\, ‘ill body politic’ and ‘pestilence’\, ‘destruction’\, etc.). \n\n\n\nThey encourage a transdisciplinary methodology\, believing that the discussion and the ensuing collective volume will\, by transcending subject boundaries\, broaden the perspective on crises to include different approaches in dialogue with and\, sometimes\, in opposition to one another. Although the conference clearly does not pretend to carry out a comprehensive and complete study of the subject\, the challenge is to detect a continuity of cognitive meanings despite the ubiquity of ‘crises’ and the variety of their metaphorical representations\, even to question the very existence of a single notion of crisis applicable to all contexts (social\, cultural\, political\, etc.) and thus highlight the extent to which this concept is overused or misapplied. \n\n\n\nAs the category of crisis is now embedded in Western tradition and especially political discourse (and therefore it is not surprising that for its definition one Greek term has been adopted)\, the conference organizers would like to also challenge this category by paying special attention to other ways – and thus other metaphors – to think about the ‘crisis’\, metaphors extraneous to and absent from Western discourse. Promoting a decolonialising standpoint\, they would like to encourage papers dealing with other discourses about turning points from both a collective and personal perspective.
URL:https://americanfolkloresociety.org/event/crises-we-live-by-a-metaphorical-approach-to-the-crisis/
CATEGORIES:Conference,In-Person Gathering,Non-AFS event,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20220330T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20220330T093000
DTSTAMP:20260405T003207
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SUMMARY:Solving the Mystery of Crafting a Winning Book Proposal
DESCRIPTION:Many scholars excel at writing academic manuscripts but are less confident when asked to pitch their work in the final stage ahead of submission: the book proposal.  \n\n\n\nOn March 30\, 2022 at 9:30 a.m. EST\, Laura Portwood-Stacer\, author of The Book Proposal Book (Princeton University Press)\, will break down the book proposal process in a clear and attainable way and offer tips on how to (successfully!) pitch a proposal to prospective university presses and academic publishers.
URL:https://americanfolkloresociety.org/event/solving-the-mystery-of-crafting-a-winning-book-proposal/
CATEGORIES:Non-AFS event,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20220331T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20220331T180000
DTSTAMP:20260405T003207
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SUMMARY:American Philosophical Society Book Talk: Hui Faye Xiao and Ping Zhu - Feminisms with Chinese Characteristics
DESCRIPTION:This Women’s History Month\, join the American Philosophical Society for a discussion with Hui Faye Xiao and Ping Zhu of the ways in which Chinese feminist ideas have developed since the mid-1990s. Hui Faye Xiao and Ping Zhu are co-editors of the new volume\, Feminisms with Chinese Characteristics and Hui Faye Xiao is a 2019 recipient of a Franklin Research Grant from the APS. \n\n\n\nJuxtaposing the plural “feminisms” with “Chinese characteristics” both underlines the importance of integrating Chinese culture\, history\, and tradition in the discussions of Chinese feminisms and stresses the difference between the plethora of contemporary Chinese feminisms and the singular state feminism. \n\n\n\nThe twelve chapters in this interdisciplinary collection address the theme of feminisms with Chinese characteristics from different perspectives rendered from lived experiences\, historical reflections\, theoretical ruminations\, and cultural and sociopolitical critiques\, painting a panoramic picture of Chinese feminisms in the age of globalization. \n\n\n\nKaren L. Thornber\, Harry Tuchman Levin Professor in Literature and Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University\, will moderate questions after the talk. \n\n\n\nHui Faye Xiao is professor of Chinese literature at the University of Kansas. She is the author of Family Revolution: Marital Strife in Contemporary Chinese Literature and Visual Culture and Youth Economy\, Crisis\, and Reinvention in Twenty-First-Century China: Morning Sun in the Tiny Times. \n\n\n\nPing Zhu is an associate professor of Chinese literature at the University of Oklahoma and serves as the acting editor-in-chief of Chinese Literature Today. She is the author of Gender and Subjectivities in Early Twentieth-century Chinese Literature and Culture (Palgrave\, 2015) and the co-editor of Maoist Laughter (Hong Kong University Press\, 2019) and Feminisms with Chinese Characteristics (Syracuse University Press\, 2021).
URL:https://americanfolkloresociety.org/event/american-philosophical-society-book-talk-hui-faye-xiao-and-ping-zhu-feminisms-with-chinese-characteristics/
CATEGORIES:Non-AFS event,Virtual
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