Drs. Mila Zhu and Sarah Morrison are calling for chapter proposals for their forthcoming volume, Edible Tales: Folklore, Myths, and Food Narratives in Higher Learning, to be published by Myers Education Press. Submission deadline is May 30, 2025.
Calls for Submissions
In response to the many profound challenges of the current historical moment, the Editorial Collective of the Journal of American Folklore invites written contributions to a special “Perspectives” section on the theme of “Crisis and Action.”
"Claiming Folklore – Politics and Practices of Folk Music on Swiss Television (1960s-1990s)" is a Swiss National Science Foundation-funded project based at the University of Zurich (UZH). The final conference of this project, titled "Media, Modernity, and the Transformation of Tradition(s) – The Role of Audiovisual Media from an International Perspective," will be held on September 8 and 9, 2025. The deadline for submitting a proposal is March 31, 2025.
This year is the 200th anniversary of the birth of Francis James Child, ballad scholar and first president of the AFS. To commemorate this occasion and to explore the present-day state of scholarly studies in folksong and ballad, the History and Folklore section and the Music and Song section of the AFS in conjunction with the Traditional Song Forum and the Kommission für Volksdichtung are proposing to sponsor a series of panels at this year’s AFS annual meeting. The deadline for submitting a proposal is March 10, 2025.
The Working Group on Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH), Climate Change, and the Environment of the ICH NGO Forum invites researchers, practitioners, and community members to submit abstracts for articles to be included in a forthcoming book publication. Submission deadline is February 24, 2025.
Ethnographica et Folkloristica Carpathica is an international journal devoted to the research and current theory of ethnology, folklore, and cultural anthropology. The journal's 2025 issue will cover articles in English or German on the theme of "European Traditions." The deadline for submissions is the 1st of April 2025.
The Eighteenth International Conference on the Inclusive Museum will be held at the University of San Jorge, Zaragoza, Spain, 15–17 September 2025. The early proposal deadline is 15 February 2025.
Wiki Loves Folklore is an international photographic contest where the photographers can contribute media about their local folk culture to Wikimedia Commons under free licenses to be used on Wikipedia and any other places with attribution. The contest runs from February 1 through March 31, 2025. A separate Feminism and Folklore Writing Competition is held at the same time.
The American Folklore Society will sponsor a session in the 2026 MLA Convention themed Family Resemblances. AFS@MLA invites proposals on this theme that may help illuminate the field of folklore for the non-folklorists who constitute the bulk of the MLA’s membership. Deadline for submitting a proposal is March 15, 2025.
The editors of Jewish Folklore and Ethnology (JFE) invite submissions for a special issue on “The Folklore and Ethnology of Antisemitism, Old and New.” They seek studies that use the evidence of folklore and ethnology to analyze the platforms, practices, processes of material/visual culture, and contents of cultural antisemitism in recent and historic situations.