The 2024 AFS Annual Meeting preliminary program is available. Register by August 1 to hold your spot in the program.
Annual Meeting News
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Thank you for your robust response to the Call for Proposals!
This year, the deadline is midnight on Wednesday, April 10.
Poster sessions return to the AFS annual meeting this year! Thanks to added functionality with our new conference platform, we will be able to accommodate poster sessions as an online interactive experience in our virtual Poster Hall. Poster presenters will be named in
The Society of Reluctant Anthropologists (SORA) Podcast sat down with AFS Executive Director, Jessica Turner and Special Projects Consultant, Cassie Rosita Patterson to reflect about the American Folklore Society and the 2023 Annual Meeting.
Congratulations to Ozgun Ozata, whose paper, “Is London Bridge Falling Down?” won the AFS Children’s Folklore Section’s 2023 W.W. Newell Prize, given annually to the best essay by a student or emerging scholar on a topic in children’s folklore.
Elizabeth Pérez’s The Gut: A Black Atlantic Alimentary Tract received the the Leonard Norman Primiano Book Prize on Vernacular Catholicism.
Congratulations to Lydia Cambpell-Maher (Indiana University and ArtMix) and Gavilán Rayna Russom (Goucher College) who were recipients of the 2023 Archie Green Student Travel Award.
The Nordic-Baltic Section is excited to announce that Samantha Ruth Brown has received the 2023 Barbro Klein Prize in Nordic and Baltic Folklore for outstanding article-length essay on folklore and Northern Europe.
The 2024 AFS proposal window is open! We are eager to support your submission.