Missouri 2021 featured the state’s history and culture with their virtual event, “Legends, Lore, and Stories of the Show Me State” on March 2. Missouri is rich in its history, folklore, and storytelling. The bicentennial year offers a range of opportunities to
Events
On March 5 and 6, the Kentucky Folklife Program, part of the Department of Folk Studies and Anthropology at WKU, will host the first virtual Kentucky Folklife Network Gathering. The two-day event is dedicated to creating more robust avenues of communication among
The Smithsonian’s Recovering Voices initiative will host a monthly film-screening series highlighting the crucial role languages play in daily life. Presented virtually this year, the sixth annual Mother Tongue Film Festival features 45 films in 39 languages from regions across the globe.
The American Council of Learned Societies is pleased to present “Forward-Looking Philanthropy: A Virtual Conversation Among Funders and Black Scholars” on Wednesday, March 3, 2021 at 4-5:30 PM EST. Learn more about this event here. This conversation is part of their Humanistic Knowledge in
The National Endowment for the Arts, in partnership with the National Council for the Traditional Arts, will present “The Culture of America: A Cross-Country Visit with the National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage Fellows,” on March 4, 2021 at 8:00 pm
Greg Kelley will deliver a review and reading of his newly released monograph, Unruly Audience: Folk Interventions in Popular Media, on February 17, 2021 from 2:00–2:30pm ET. The book examines how “folk interventions” challenge institutional media with active—often public—social engagement. Drawing on a
Jack Zipes will deliver an online recorded lecture and live Q&A on an array of fairy tales, myths, and other folk narratives on February 17 at 5:00 PM PST. The event, Resurrecting Dead Fairy Tales, is composed of an online recorded lecture followed
Explore key conceptual issues and challenges in heritage theory, policy and practice in a webinar on March 10, 1:00-3:00 PM EST, sponsored by the Fellows the American Folklore Society and the AFS Public Programs Section. The webinar leaders will outline current ways
The American Philosophical Society’s Library and Museum is hosting two different webinars in the coming weeks on Native American and Indigenous Studies. See the details below for more information. Note that because they are separate events, the registration links are different. Indigenous
“AAAMC Speaks,” a new documentary series that centers around the legacy of the Black music community, will premiere on YouTube February 12, 2021 at 7:00 PM EST, featuring material from Indiana University’s Archives of African American Music & Culture (AAAMC). In each 20-minute episode, Tyron