The Black Oklahoma Blues panel explores the experiences of the Blues people of Oklahoma, past and present, and how the many historical events informed the movement, culture and expression of the people.
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The American Song Archives (Woody Guthrie Center®️ & Bob Dylan Center®️) in collaboration with the American Folklore Society will host a paneled discussion titled “This Land Is Whose Land?” on Saturday, October 15, 2022.
Now is the time to reserve your room at the Hyatt Regency Tulsa for the 2022 AFS Annual Meeting. Use our link by September 20 for the conference rate.
Graduate students are invited to preregister for Breakfast with a Fellow at the AFS meeting in Tulsa, on October 15, 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM.
Sixth-generation West Virginian Black writer-poet, advocate, entrepreneur, culture worker, and newspaper publisher Crystal Good was the feature and consulting producer on the 2022 “Black in Appalachia” episode of United Shades of America with W. Kamau Bell for CNN.
You can now find the revised program for the 2022 Annual Meeting on the AFS Annual Meeting Hub. The program is still growing, but there’s already a lot to look forward to! Start browsing and planning your agenda.
Plan your Annual Meeting experience with the help of the 2022 Local Arrangements Committee's Guide to Tulsa.
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.
The deadline has been extended for the 2022 Independent and Public Folklore Travel Stipend, which provides support for a member of the Independent Folklorists Section engaged in public folklore to attend the AFS Annual Meeting.