If you hope to attend our in-person meeting in Harrisburg, stay tuned to this page for updates about our current planning in light of the evolving Covid situation. In short, we are prepared to meet as planned, with precautionary measures appropriate to the circumstances in October.
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Join us for a screening and discussion of Pennsylvania Immigrant and Refugee Women’s Network’s production, “Magnificent Healing,” a reader’s theater exploration of immigrant and refugee women’s experiences with the U.S. healthcare system and their collisions with practitioners, August 12, 7:00 pm EDT.
AFS welcomes submissions from across the field for the Zora Neale Hurston prize before the deadline of August 15th. The prize is given to a graduate or undergraduate student for the best work in any medium—including but not limited to papers, films,
Each year, the Public Programs Section of the American Folklore Society joins with the AFS Executive Board to award the Benjamin A. Botkin Prize of $500 to an individual for significant lifetime achievement in public folklore. This prize is given in recognition
The AFS Committee on Cultural Diversity, Chicana/Chicano Section, and Folklore Latino, Latinoamericano, y Caribeño Section, along with the AFS Executive Board, call for submissions for the Américo Paredes Prize, which recognizes excellence in integrating scholarship and engagement with the people and communities
We’re pleased to share these new, important announcements about our upcoming Annual Meeting. Preliminary Program The dates of the conference are now set: October 18-24, 2021, with virtual sessions October 18-20, and in-person sessions in Harrisburg, October 21-23. Some in-person events will
The 2021 AFS Annual Meeting will be held October 18-23, 2021. October 18-20 will be virtual meeting sessions, followed by in-person sessions from October 21-23 at the Hilton Harrisburg in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Some of the events from the in-person meeting will be
Join textile and fiber artists Ann Parsons Holte, Joni Osterhout, and Anju Singh, with folklorist Yvonne Milspaw, on July 8 at 2:00 pm EDT to learn how they craft community through handcrafted textiles.
Tim Lloyd, Executive Director of AFS from 2001 to 2018, recently published a guest post on Jason Baird Jackson’s Shreds and Patches describing how the Annual Meeting program has shifted over the years, measured by the types of sessions presented. Members are
You can watch recordings from past AFS annual meetings on YouTube, including some videos from the 2020 Virtual Annual Meeting, such as the Francis Lee Utley Memorial Panel or the Presidential Invited Panel. All of these videos can be found on the AFS YouTube