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.
AFS News
News about the American Folklore Society
AFS is pleased to announce the winners of its inaugural AFS Graduate Fieldwork Grant: Ben Bridges, a fifth-year PhD student at Indiana University, and Zahra Abedinezhad, a second-year PhD student at The Ohio State University.
Each year, the Women’s Section of the American Folklore Society awards two prizes in honor of pioneering scholar Elli Köngäs-Maranda.
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.