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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.
The Women’s Section of the American Folklore Society sponsors a triennial Croning to honor and celebrate women over 50 in the discipline of folklore at the Annual Meeting.
The AFS Independent Folklorists’ Section and the Women’s Section offer an Annual Meeting Award of $750 to attend the AFS Annual Meeting.
The AFS Women’s Section invites applications for the Polly Stewart Travel Stipends for one or more students to attend the AFS annual meeting.
The deadline for applications to the 2022 Folklore and Science Annual Prizes, given by the Folklore and Science Section, has been extended to July 15.