The Veterans History Project of the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress will offer a free workshop at the 2022 Annual Meeting.
AFS News
News about the American Folklore Society
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.
Volunteers who provide Zoom moderation for two or three sessions (most are 90 minutes) or work 4 hours at the registration desk will receive a full meeting registration refund or waiver.
To honor and celebrate the work of Cherokee musicians, American Song Archives, Horton Records and the American Folklore Society are thrilled to host a free concert at Cain's Ballroom in Tulsa on October 15, 2022.
The deadline for the Benjamin A. Botkin Prize for lifetime achievement in public folklore has been extended to September 15.
Join Oklahoma writer and former Oklahoma State Poet Laureate Jeanetta Calhoun Mish for a two-part online writing workshop exploring the concept of sense of place on Tuesday, September 13 and 15.
Myaamia language advocate and humanities leader Daryl Baldwin (Kinwalaniihsia) will give the Presidential Invited Lecture for the 2022 Annual Meeting, "Miami Tribe – Miami University: Neepwaantiinki 'Partners in Learning.’"