The editor of a forthcoming volume on historic Black figures of the 20th and 21st centuries is looking for contributions. Submissions are due by March 13, 2022.
Calls for Submissions
The AFS@MLA Committee and the Fairy Tale, Myth, and Folklore Forum seek folklorists to participate in two roundtable discussions at the next Modern Language Association Convention. Proposals are due by March 17, 2022.
The College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, is hosting a virtual international conference March 21-22, 2022, with proposal abstracts due February 28.
Southern Cultures, the award-winning, peer-reviewed quarterly from UNC’s Center for the Study of the American South, encourages submissions from scholars, writers, and artists for a special issue, Disability, to be published Spring 2023. The editors will accept submissions for this issue through April 4, 2022.
Wiki Loves Folklore is an international photographic contest organized annually at Wikimedia Commons to document folk cultures in different regions of the world. A range of prizes, up to $400, is awarded for photo, video and audio submissions. The deadline is February 28.
Feminism and Folklore is an international writing contest organized at Wikipedia annually in the month of February and March to collect articles on human cultural diversity in the worldwide free encyclopedia Wikipedia and other Wikimedia Foundation projects. This year the focus is on folk culture around the globe, with a particular attention to closing the gender gap.
The 17th biennial conference of the European Association of Social Anthropologists/Association Européenne des Anthropologues Sociaux (EASA) will be held July 26-29, 2022, as a fully hybrid conference. Proposals are due March 21.
This conference at the University of Zurich, November 3-4, 2022, will investigate how disasters and the expectancy of disasters have changed and are still changing the orders of knowledge, how they are dealt with aesthetically, narrated in literature and how they are fuelled, perpetuated, or overcome by narration.
The conference will explore the implications of AI for human society from the broadest range of perspectives. Proposals for this virtual conference June 6-10, 2022, are due February 25.
This 3-day conference at The Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, University of Amsterdam, comes out of the ERC-funded Rural Imaginations project, which looks at how the rural is imagined in contemporary film, television and literature in the UK, the US, the Netherlands, China and South Africa.