Join the Smithsonian Folklife Festival on June 25–27 for Beyond the Mall: Making Matters! The weekend digital program series features both seasoned master artisans and the everyday makers who find solace and connection in creativity. We invite you to join eclectic conversations and demonstrations all
Events
AFS is hosting a number of small group salons to continue the conversation from the June 2 webinar on reflexivity and Latinidades. These salons will be facilitated by senior scholars and practitioners in the field on June 11 at 11:00 AM and 2:00
Keynote presentations from the 10th international Folklore Fellows’ Summer School are available for public registration and viewing. The presentations will take place June 7–11. Daily keynote lectures given by international and Finnish specialists on folklore and cultural studies of violence are open to all interested.
The 2021 Annual Meeting Local Planning Committee in Harrisburg invites you to join tamboura ensemble “Sviraj” and folklorist Amy Skillman on Tuesday, June 8 at 7:00 pm EDT to meet the band, listen to their music, and learn some dance steps. “Sviraj”
Keynote presentations from the 10th international Folklore Fellows’ Summer School are available for public registration and viewing. The presentations will take place June 7–11. Daily keynote lectures given by international and Finnish specialists on folklore and cultural studies of violence are open to all interested.
Valdimar Tr. Hafstein, Professor of Folklore and Ethnology at the University of Iceland, will serve as the keynote speaker for “Cultural Policy Beyond the Here and Now: What do we owe to Future Generations?” on Monday, June 7 at 3:10 PM EDT.
Dr. Cristina Benedetti will deliver the lecture, “Gathering on the National Mall: Infrastructures, Logistics, and Political Meaning-Making” on May 27, 2021 at 2:00 PM EDT. The National Mall in Washington, DC is a site of human meaning-making animated by various kinds of
In conversation with leaders of the Jewish cultural studies movement, Simon J. Bronner, Dean of the College of General Studies and Distinguished Professor of Social Sciences at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, launches the release of his provocative book Jewish Cultural Studies,
Anthropologist, distinguished educator, and museum professional Johnnetta Betsch Cole will deliver the 2021 Charles Homer Haskins Prize Lecture, which celebrates scholarly careers of distinctive importance. This is a FREE event presented by the American Council of Learned Societies at 3 PM EDT
Building on the virtual forum on race at the AFS 2020 Virtual Annual Meeting, this webinar turns to Latinidades and features four folklorists who will engage is in a discussion about folklorists studying both their own and other cultures. Featured speakers are José