The Tennessee Folklore Society is accepting proposals for its 2022 annual meeting, scheduled for Saturday, November 12, 2022, at the new Tennessee State Library and Archive adjoining Bicentennial Mall in Nashville. Submissions are due by Saturday, September 17, 2022.
Calls for Submissions
The organizers of a conference in Aachen, Germany in May of 2023 are calling for paper proposals on the topic of the preconditions of individual narratives of commemoration (sociology of literature, media sociology) and their implications for theories of memory. Submissions are due by October 1, 2022.
The journal of Western Folklore welcomes essay proposals for a special issue on “Vernacular Islam(s)," guest-edited by Dr. Afsane Rezaei and Dr. Ehsan Estiri. Submissions are due by September 30, 2022.
The editors of a forthcoming volume that aims to critically interrogate and broaden understanding of how the COVID-19 crisis has impacted women and girls around the world seek contributions addressing this topic. Submissions are due by August 15, 2022.
The editors of a forthcoming collection invite chapter proposals that examine the identity/subjectivity of ethnic Chinese communities in Southeast Asia. Submissions are due by July 31, 2022.
The open access journal Humanities (ISSN 2076-0787) has launched a new special issue entitled "Seen and Unseen: The Folklore of Secrecy." Papers may be submitted until September 20, 2023, and will be published on an ongoing basis.
The Vera Laska Book Award will be given annually by the New England History Teachers Association to the author who best furthers understanding of resistance movements and/or women around the world. To qualify, each book entry must be published during the calendar year of January 1, 2022 through December 31, 2022.
The editors are seeking contributions to a volume of primary source materials to be published by Routledge that provide an insight into the many and contested meanings of "the environment," spanning the period c.1650 to 1950.
The 2022 Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) has put out a call for conference papers for its area of Folklore, Belief and Religion in Popular Culture. The call will be open until August 1, 2022.
New Directions in Folklore is seeking submissions on two topics for upcoming special issues of the journal: first, on doing folklore during the COVID-19 pandemic, and second, on the intersection between folklore and mental health.