The Cambridge Research Network for Fairy-Tale Studies will hold its 2025 symposium themed "Troubling Wonder" on Zoom October 1–4 (UK time zone). The event is free but registration is required.
Events
The International Society for Folk Narrative Research (ISFNR) will hold its 2026 Interim conference in Reykjavík, Iceland next June. Call for papers and posters is now open and will run until 23:59 GMT on October 1, 2025.
The International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF) Working Group on Archives conference "Tradition Archives in Motion: Sounding out Good Practices and Challenges with Folk Collections" will be held at the University of Freiburg in Germany next year. Proposals are due October 5, 2025.
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) will honor the 2025 NEA National Heritage Fellows—the nation's highest honor in folk and traditional arts—at an award ceremony on Wednesday, September 17, 2025 at 5:30pm ET.
The third conference of the DEAGENCY project, which is to be held between 1–3 July 2026 in Ljubljana, Slovenia, will focus on the theme of communication with the dead. The deadline to submit an abstract to participate in the conference is December 15, 2025.
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".
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.