The 68th Annual Meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology will be held on October 19-22, 2023, in Ottawa, Canada, at the Westin Ottawa Hotel.
Events
In this year’s annual Rosemary Miller Lecture, Duncan Campbell remembers Nancy Hiller and her deep commitment to historic preservation, the written word, fine woodworking, and personal ethics. The event takes place May 26 at 6:00 pm (EDT).
Registration is nearly full for the 2023 Folklife in the South Gathering. FiTS takes place June 8-10, 2023, at Lake Guntersville State Park in Guntersville, Alabama.
Peggy Yocom is offering an in-person creative writing workshop, titled Living Words: Folklore and Creative Writing, in Maine from July 23 - 29.
Program staff from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) will introduce a range of grant opportunities and the National Heritage Fellowships program, including an overview of funding opportunities, examples of successful projects, and things to consider when submitting an application or nomination. The webinar will take place Wednesday, May 17 from 3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. (EDT). There will be time for questions at the end of the webinar.
The NEA has partnered with the NTIA to host a Digital Equity Act Webinar that will take place Apr 18, 2023 from 3:00 pm - 4:00 p.m. (EDT). This webinar is intended for arts workers, state/regional/local arts agencies, arts service organizations, arts organizations, artists, or audiences who may be impacted by the systemic barriers that prevent some from fully participating in today’s increasingly digital society and economy—or working with communities affected by digital inequities.
The "Narrating the Multispecies World: Stories in Times of Crises, Loss, Hope" hybrid conference will take place from August 3 - 5, 2023 at the University of Würzburg. Registration is open from April 15 through June 30.
Local Learning is spotlighting Verónica Castillo Salas at the NAEA conference, with folklorist and poet Norma Cantú serving her friend and colleague as interviewer and translator. The event will take place Saturday, April 15.
Andrea Kitta will present “God Gave Me an Immune System and that’s Good Enough for Me! Religious Belief, Anti-masking, and Anti-Vaccination Sentiments During COVID-19” on Friday, April 7 at 11:00 am (EDT) as part of the ISFNR Belief Narrative Network Online Lectures.
The 57th annual ARSC Conference will take place May 17-20, 2023, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania at the DoubleTree Hotel Downtown.