Thanks to our partners at Folk Alliance International, we invite you to participate virtually in the 2022 Folklorist Summit: "Tradition as Profession," a discussion about equitable professional practice, on May 20, 2022, 9:30-1:00 CDT.
Events
On Thursday, April 7, 2022 at 4:00 P.M. EDT, The Harvard Radcliffe Institute will host the second of two one-hour webinars exploring the legacy of Eileen Southern, author of The Music of Black Americans: A History and founder and editor of The Black Perspective in Music.
We invite you to participate in a virtual small-group "salon" discussion of the AFS Fellows Webinar: "Interrogating the Normal: Folkloristic Engagements with Disability." The salon will take place April 1, 12:00-1:30 pm EDT.
Submit proposals by June 5, 2022, for this transdisciplinary conference at the University of Potsdam, Germany, with a hybrid format, March 30-31, 2023.
Many scholars excel at writing academic manuscripts but are less confident when asked to pitch their work in the final stage ahead of submission: the book proposal.
The American Folklore Society’s Graduate Student and Young Professional Section will host a Zoom social hour on March 17, 2022 at 7:00 pm EST.
Join Villanova University’s Erica Hayes, Digital Scholarship Librarian, and Beaudry Rae Allen, Preservation & Digital Archivist, on Wednesday, March 9, from 12:00–1:00 PM for a virtual workshop entitled “Introduction to Digital History.”
A group of scholars have organized an international data rescue session focused on identifying and archiving data and sites for music collections at cultural heritage institutions in Ukraine which may be at risk during the attack and invasion by Russia. The session will occur on Saturday, March 5, 2022.
The Leiden University Centre for the Study of Islam and Society (LUCIS) will offer its fourth summer school from August 23–September 2, 2022) on philology and manuscripts from the Muslim world, with lectures by experts, hands-on classes, and much practice with manuscripts from its famous collection of oriental manuscripts. The deadline for applications is Friday June 17, 2022
The FisherPoets Gathering, an Oregon-based annual poetry event with contributions about the occupational folklore of fishing, will be live-streamed on YouTube this year on February 25-26, 2022.