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Annual Meeting News
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We are pleased to draw your attention to some of the important changes and updates we have made to our planning for the 2024 AFS annual meeting.
The time is now to reserve your room in the AFS block at the DoubleTree by Hilton in downtown Albuquerque
The 2024 AFS Annual Meeting preliminary program is available. Register by August 1 to hold your spot in the program.
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.