The 2025 Annual Convening of the Arts Administrators of Color Network will take place November 8–9, 2025 in Los Angeles, CA. The theme for the conference is "Rooted in Care, Rising in Joy".
Events
Join Sept. 17, 2025 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. ET for Rural Assembly Everywhere 2025, a free virtual gathering for rural leaders, community members, advocates, and allies.
Join Arts Midwest and a group of field leaders for a free webinar series helping artists and arts organizations prepare, respond, and rebuild from disaster. Sessions take place throughout the month of September.
The Library is offering grantees a series of 1-hour training webinars on how to use GovGrants, its new electronic grants management system.
The final conference of the Swiss National Science Foundation-funded project "Claiming Folklore – Politics and Practices of Folk Music on Swiss Television (1960s-1990s)" will be held at the University of Zurich this September. Register for free by August 31, 2025.
The Department of English, Philosophy, and World Languages at Arkansas State University opens a call for papers and presentations for the 31st annual Delta Symposium April 8–11, 2026. Special consideration will be given to proposals that specifically address this year's theme of “Monsters, Cryptids, and the Monstrous." The deadline for entries is December 19, 2025.
The 2026 Folklore Fellows’ Summer School will take place in Helsinki and Tvärminne, Finland next August. For participation, the organizers invite proposals for working papers on themes of interdisciplinarity and involvement in folklore research. The deadline for submissions is October 31, 2025.
The John D. Calandra Italian American Institute has announced the CFP for its 2026 conference on the theme of "Religions, Beliefs, and the Supernatural in Italy and across Italian Mobilities." The deadline for submissions is September 15, 2025.
The American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress (LOC) invites proposals to a symposium titled, “From Lived Experience to Public Memory: Commemorating, Documenting, and Archiving Experiences of the COVID-19 Pandemic,” on March 12 and 13, 2026. The deadline for submissions is June 16, 2025, at 11:59 PM ET.
Join the AFS Fellows for a webinar on May 19 at 1:30 p.m. EDT that highlights the publication of Emerging Perspectives in the Study of Folklore and Performance (IU Press, 2025). Authors engage in discussions on how folklore and performance intersect in their chapters on dance ethnography, social movements, ritual and narrative, archival practices, and the performance of tradition. Charles Briggs, Soli Otero and Anthony Bak Buccitelli moderate the discussion as Kay Turner and Stephen Gencarella provide critical commentary on the volume.