Jewish Folklore and Ethnology (JFE) is pleased to announce the publication in March 2023 of its inaugural peer-reviewed annual volume in print and online formats issued by Wayne State University Press. JFE is now accepting submissions for its second volume on Jewish practices and performances of the body, faith, home, and community in the present and the past, in oral, behavioral, visual, and material forms.
Calls for Submissions
AFS@MLA invites proposals for the next Modern Language Association convention (Philadelphia, January 4-7, 2024), the theme for which is “Celebration: Joy and Sorrow.”
The African American Folklorist is accepting article submissions on an ongoing basis.
The Federation of State Humanities Councils and the National Humanities Alliance have announced the 2023 National Humanities Conference, which will be held in Indianapolis, Indiana October 25-29, 2023. In keeping with the state motto of Indiana, “The Crossroads of America,” the 2023 conference theme is “Crossroads.”
The American Folklore Society invites you to submit a proposal for its 135th Annual Meeting to be held virtually October 11-12, 2023 and in Portland, Oregon, November 1-4. The theme of the conference is Roots, Rootlessness, and Uprooting. The proposal window is March 1-31.
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 $500, is awarded for photo, video and audio submissions. The deadline is March 31, 2023.
The 2023 Midwest Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association conference will be held at DePaul University-Loop Campus in Chicago, IL from Friday-Sunday, October 6-8, 2023. The deadline for paper proposals for the 2023 Conference is May 15, 2023. The registration deadline is September 15, 2023.
The Louisiana Folklore Society seeks papers, presentations, panel proposals, and creative works for its annual meeting, on March 24-25, 2023, in New Orleans. Submission deadline is March 1, 2023.
Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of Germany, an international conference on the Carnival tradition will be hosted in Frankfurt, Germany from October 5-8, 2023. The deadline for the proposal submission is March 30, 2023.
Western States Folklore Society will host their 81st Annual Meeting in person at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, April 14-15, 2023. The theme for this year’s conference is “Folklore, Time, and Temporality.” The deadline for submitting abstracts for presentations has been extended to February 20, 2023.