The American Folklore Society invites you to submit a proposal for its 137th Annual Meeting October 18–21, 2025, in Atlanta, Georgia with the Virtual Meeting sessions taking place November 12–14, 2025. The proposal window is February 12 through April 1, 2025.
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The theme for the 2025 Annual Meeting of the American Folklore Society is Restoring and ReStorying: Missing Stories and Moving Forward. The Local Organizing Committee is excited to offer this framework for the conference, but adhering to the theme is optional and will not affect acceptance.
The 2024 Annual Meeting brought together nearly 900 US and international specialists in folklore and folklife, folk narrative, popular culture, music, material culture, and related fields to exchange work and ideas and to create and strengthen relationships and networks.
Our 2024 Annual Meeting Participant Survey has collected valuable insights into attendees’ responses to the Albuquerque meeting and is a window into the priorities and needs of our participants in the present moment.
Access to recorded virtual and hybrid programs at the 2024 AFS Annual Meeting is still available. Catch up on the sessions and events you may have missed by logging in and visiting the Conference Platform Schedule.
We thank all who joined us online or in Albuquerque for the 2024 AFS annual meeting. Please consider completing our Participant Survey to tell us about your experience at the conference. The deadline to submit your response is 5pm ET on December 16, 2024.
The American Folklore Society will gather for its 137th Annual Meeting in Atlanta, Georgia from October 18 to 21, 2025. It will be following the 2025 Oral History Association Annual Meeting and be followed by the 2025 Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting. Call for Proposals will be announced in the spring of 2025.
Center yourself in Albuquerque through care and wellness sessions scheduled each morning at the Annual Meeting.
AFS thanks numerous sponsors for their support of the 2024 Annual Meeting.
AFS is grateful for the support of New Mexico Arts and Folk Arts Program Coordinator, Amy Mills for their guidance planning and producing the 136th Annual Meeting in Albuquerque.