Plan your Annual Meeting experience with the help of the 2022 Local Arrangements Committee's Guide to Tulsa.
AFS News
News about the American Folklore Society
The AFS Public Programs Section has extended the deadline for applications to its Archie Green Student Travel Award to August 15.
The editors are pleased to announce the imminent shipment of the Summer issue (v. 135, no. 537) of the JAF: A Global Quarterly. The issue will also soon be available online to subscribers in Project Muse.
The Transnational Asia/Pacific Section of the American Folklore Society has extended the application deadline for its Saboohi I. Khan Award for Student Scholarship in Asian and Asian American Folklore. Submissions are due by August 15, 2022.
AFS is taking applications for the Zora Neale Hurston Prize. Submissions are due by August 15, 2022.
The deadline for applications to the 2022 Folklore and Science Annual Prizes, given by the AFS Public Programs Section, has been extended to August 1.
New Directions in Folklore is seeking submissions on two topics for upcoming special issues of the journal: first, on doing folklore during the COVID-19 pandemic, and second, on the intersection between folklore and mental health.
A number of American Folklore Society members recently started an AFS interest group to address the intersection of folklore and climate issues. The meeting will be via Zoom on Wednesday, July 13, 2022 at 1:00 P.M. EDT.
As we prepare for our 2022 Annual Meeting in Tulsa, Oklahoma, we are resolved to gather and make space for the needs of our members, showing up for the field and for the communities that we partner with, even as national political issues once again overwhelm us with the threat of division and domination.
We’re pleased to share the first look at the program for our upcoming Annual Meeting in Tulsa–our first fully in-person meeting in three years! If you are presenting this year, you have until July 15 to review your presentation details and submit any corrections or change requests.