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.
Events
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.
The Alliance for California Traditional Arts (ACTA) will host an overview of California funding opportunities for traditional artists and traditional arts organizations on Thursday, February 24, 2022 at 4:00 pm PST.
In honor of the World Day of Social Justice on February 20, Artists Standing Strong Together (ASST, pronounced “assist”) is hosting a webinar storytelling program, “Folktales, Fairytales and Social Justice,” on Saturday, February 19, 2022 at 2:00 pm EST.
February 24, Carol Silverman will present a virtual discussion of the contradictions between the explosion in popularity of Balkan “Gypsy” music and dance, while at the same time thousands of Balkan Roma have emigrated westward due to deportations and harassment.
The 17th biennial conference of the European Association of Social Anthropologists/Association Européenne des Anthropologues Sociaux (EASA) will be held July 26-29, 2022, as a fully hybrid conference. Proposals are due March 21.