As of October 7, the AFS office is effectively closed. Staff members are working hard to make the 2022 AFS Annual Meeting a success, so they may not be available to respond quickly to your email.
AFS News
News about the American Folklore Society
AFS has received a bequest representing the bulk of Leonard Norman Primiano’s estate to support new awards and activities for the Folk Belief and Religious Folklife Section as well as for the administration of at least three new section prizes.
The Fall issue (v. 135, no. 538) of the JAF: A Global Quarterly will be available online and will arrive in mailboxes soon
The Notable Folklorists of Color online exhibition, sponsored by the American Folklore Society, now features Expanding the Frames, with more than 135 new ancestor scholars who have contributed to folklore studies, as well as a variety of rich supplemental material. A preview of the new exhibition is available now, with the rest of the new material to be released over the course of the next few weeks.
This one hour discussion will feature Oklahoma speakers from historians to activists to discuss both previous and current struggles for reproductive health, a more equitable legal system, civil and voting rights, and amelioration of female and child poverty.
The Veterans History Project of the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress will offer a free workshop at the 2022 Annual Meeting.
The AFS Nominating Committee has announced its slate of two candidates for each available office in the AFS 2022 election.
AFS welcomes Dr. Cassie Rosita Patterson as Special Projects Consultant and Garima Plawat, M.A., as the new AFS graduate assistant.
This special issue of Digest, the journal of the AFS Foodways Section, will collect research, discussions, and analysis of the many ways scholars of food and foodways make their study a part of their classrooms.
You don’t have to wait to arrive at the AFS Annual Meeting in Tulsa to start learning more about the traditions and perspectives of the diverse communities who live there. This reading list, assembled by former poet laureate of Oklahoma, Jeanetta Mish, provides insight into the creative constructions of place through literature by Oklahoma writers.