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AFS News
News about the American Folklore Society
The AFS Executive Board unanimously voted to elect Langston Collin Wilkins to serve the remainder of Jerrilyn McGregory's term, who passed away on August 3, 2025.
Digital posters are available on Fourwaves, the Annual Meeting conference platform, through January. View and comment asynchronously with your colleagues.
Four timely articles from JAF: A Global Quarterly are free to access through the end of this month.
The JAF Editorial Collective invites submissions addressing any aspect of generative AI and folklore for a themed issue of the Journal of American Folklore. Submissions are due March 1, 2026.
The virtual portion of the 2025 Annual Meeting takes place Wednesday, November 12 through Friday, November 14 on the conference platform.
The 2026 AFS Annual Meeting will be held in Asheville, NC, October 27–31. In the following year, AFS will hold a joint meeting with the Oral History Association in Chicago, IL, November 3–6, 2027.
AFS President Amy Skillman will give the Presidential Plenary "'You Gotta Go with Your Gut:' Navigating Risk and Fear in the Storm" for the 2025 Annual Meeting in Atlanta on Sunday, October 19, 4:00–5:00pm ET.
Out now, a special issue of JAF: A Global Quarterly on “Folklore, Comics, and Graphic Storytelling” (Fall 2025) is groundbreaking in its combination of scholarly essays, creative non-fiction, pedagogical strategies, and public-facing pieces, curated by Erin Kathleen Bahl and Andy Kolovos.
The AFS Nominating Committee (chaired by Carrie Hertz with members Naomi Sturm-Wijesinghe, Kelley Totten, and Betty Belanus) has announced its slate of candidates for each available office in the AFS 2025 election.