WKU Folk Studies will wrap up the 50 Years of Folklore Graduate Studies at WKU speaker series with a talk by alumnus Dr. Peggy Bulger on Thursday, March 23rd at 5:30 at the Kentucky Museum. In her talk, “Public Folklore in the USA: Born of Activism,” Dr. Bulger will discuss her experiences with activism throughout her career as a public folklorist.
Events
On March 16 at 6:00 p.m. (CST), Todd Lawrence, Maria Lewis, and Lamont Pearley will host a livestream event offered by the AFS African American Section, the African American Folklorist, and Jack Dappa Blues featuring Notable Folklorists of Color creators and curators, Phyllis May-Machunda, Sojin Kim, and Olivia Cadaval.
In celebration of International Mother Language Day, eighth annual Smithsonian Mother Tongue Film Festival will be held from February 23-26, 2023, in Washington, DC. All screenings and events are free.
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens organizes summer program "Mythos as MythUs: Facing and Overcoming Crises through Traditional Narrative from Antiquity to the Present" in Athens and Antiparos from June 19, 2023 – June 28, 2023. Apply between January 15, 2023 to March 10, 2023.
Registration is now open for the 2023 Folklife in the South gathering. Submission for proposals are open through February 15, 2023.
Join Dagrún Ósk Jónsdottir for the ISFNR Belief Narrative Network Online Lecture, titled Gender-based Violence in Icelandic Folk Legends, November 04, 2022 at 5 pm CET.
Join Dr. Kern Jackson, Co-Producer and Co-Writer of Descendant, for a discussion about the recently-released film about the search for and historic discovery of The Clotilda, the last known ship to arrive in the United States, illegally carrying enslaved Africans.
Anna Canoni, granddaughter of Woody Guthrie and Vice President of Woody Guthrie Publications, will present guided tours of the Woody Guthrie: People Are the Song exhibit at the Woody Guthrie Center, October 12, as well as a members-only multimedia tour on October 11.
Aga Khan University's Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations hosts a hybrid panel on Sisters in Resilience: Women’s Movements in Muslim Contexts, October 28, 2022.
The closing dance will be a participatory stomp dance hosted by the Duck Creek Ceremonial Ground, a Yuchi (Euchee) Ceremonial Ground of the Muscogee Nation whose membership includes people of Yuchi, Muscogee, Shawnee and other Native American heritages.