Each year, the Women’s Section of the American Folklore Society awards two prizes in honor of pioneering scholar Elli Köngäs-Maranda.
AFS News
News about the American Folklore Society
AFS member Maida Owens is organizing an interest group to address the intersection of folklore and climate issues. Register now for this planning meeting.
The AFS African American Section is proud to call for submissions for this new award, offered to celebrate and encourage African American traditional cultural expression and galvanize folklorists, ethnographers and ethnomusicologists of color to participate in the documentation of African American folklife.
The editors of Digest: A Journal of Foodways and Culture, the journal of the American Folklore Society Foodways Section, are pleased to announce the publication of a new online, open-access issue (Vol. 9 No. 1, 2022).
The American Folklore Society acknowledges the critical role that diverse leadership will play in our future success. This year, in collaboration with the AFS Executive Board, the Nominating Committee seeks candidates in three areas: President, Executive Board, and Nominating Committee.
The editors of the Journal of American Folklore are pleased to announce that this special issue of JAF: A Global Quarterly (Spring 2022 ) has been mailed and is available online to subscribers.
The AFS Public Programs Section will provide up to three awards of up to $500 each, named for folklorist and activist Archie Green of San Francisco, for students to defray costs for traveling to the AFS annual meeting.
Thanks to our partners at Folk Alliance International, we invite you to participate virtually in the 2022 Folklorist Summit: "Tradition as Profession," a discussion about equitable professional practice, on May 20, 2022, 9:30-1:00 CDT.
The American Folklore Society recognizes graduate students as an essential and valued part of our professional community, contributing to the vibrancy of our field both as scholars and as laborers.
The Indiana Graduate Workers Coalition United Electrical Workers (IGWC-UE) voted May 10 by a margin of 78% to suspend its strike for union recognition until September 2022, according to the coalition newsletter.