Q: “What kind of program can we expect in 2022?” The answer to this and other current questions can be found on our Annual Meeting FAQ page. A: As usual, the lion’s share of the program depends on the proposals or presentations and events that are submitted by participants.
AFS News
News about the American Folklore Society
The AFS Women's Section and Independent Folklorists' Section gave their 2021 joint travel award to the independent folk arts consultant and researcher Cecelia Ottenweller.
The AFS Folk Belief and Religious Folklife Section awarded the 2021 Don Yoder Prize for the Best Graduate Student Paper in Folk Belief and Religious Folklife to the University of Maine PhD student Minglei Zhang.
On October 12, 2022, the American Folklore Society will reconvene in Tulsa, Oklahoma. “Re-Centering the Periphery” calls us to focus on the intersections of what is marginalized and centralized both in our field and in the larger public debates about national identities in 2022. Proposal submission: March 1-31.
The AFS Fellows is pleased to announce that nominations for AFS Fellows are now open to the entire AFS membership. The nomination period for the 2022 election of new Fellows is open until 11:59 p.m. on March 4.
The AFS Archives and Libraries Section awarded the 2021 Polly Grimshaw Prize to Emily Bianchi, a PhD candidate in folklore at Indiana University
The Winter 2021 issue (v. 135, no. 535) of the JAF: A Global Quarterly has been mailed and will soon be available to AFS members online.
Jared L. Schmidt is the new editor of the AFS New Directions in Folklore Section’s online, peer-reviewed journal, New Directions in Folklore. The section and the journal are dedicated to pushing the envelope of scholarship in the exploration of contemporary culture.
The Foodways Section of the American Folklore Society invites submissions for the Sue Samuelson Award for best student paper on food and foodways. Applications are due March 1.
Dig into the ways you can be involved in addressing the impact of climate change in a workshop with Maida Owens (Louisiana Folklife Program/Bayou Culture Collaborative), February 22, at 3:00 pm EST.