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.
Calls for Submissions
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.
The Southern Foodways Alliance (SFA) oral history program invites experienced oral historians to submit proposals for oral history projects surrounding themes of agriculture, farmers markets, and gardening traditions in the region. Applications are due February 14, 2025.
The 70th Annual Meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM) will be held on October 23 - 26, 2025, in Atlanta, Georgia. The deadline for abstract proposal submissions is February 17, 2025.
The Folklore Society (FLS) will hold its 2025 annual conference at University College Cork, Ireland from Friday 20 June to Sunday 22 June 2025. The theme is "Folklore and the Senses". Deadline for submitting a proposal is Friday 31 January 2025.
The Faculty of Arts at University of Ljubljana invites folklorists, ethnologists and anthropologists, sociologists, psychologists, thanatologists, as well as scholars from other disciplines who deal with the dead in contemporary society to submit an abstract and participate in the 2nd DEAGENCY Conference to be held between 2–4 July 2025 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. The deadline for submission of applications is 31 December 2024.
The Department of the History of Art and Architecture at Tufts University invites graduate students to submit paper proposals for their 2025 Graduate Symposium "Praxis and Promise: Reenvisioning Art Historical Methodologies for Cultural Heritage". The symposium will be held on April 18, 2025 in Medford, MA. Proposals are due by December 20, 2024.
The National Council on Public History is accepting submissions for the following awards through December 1, 2024: Outstanding Public History Project Award, Grassroots Public History Award, Excellence in Consulting Award, Michael C. Robinson Prize for Historical Analysis, Diversity Travel Award, New Professional Award, and Student Awards.