Folklorist, civic leader, and educator Susan Eleuterio has been elected chair of the board of directors of Illinois Humanities.
Folklore Works
The American Folklore Society works every day to amplify our members and the work they do to advance the understanding of folklore and cultural traditions. Stay tuned as we periodically showcase folklorists, their projects and programs, and the communities they serve through our Folklore Works features.
The University of East Anglia in Norwich, U.K. has recently announced a new, fully-funded PhD program, Climate Crisis and Indigenous Storywork: Decolonizing International Climate Change Discourse and Policy. The deadline to apply to this program is January 19, 2022.
SoundLore, the Indiana University Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology podcast, recently featured AFS Director of Membership and Information Systems Meredith McGriff and former staff member Jesse Fivecoate, in an episode on their new edited volume Advancing Folkloristics.
The Tennessee Folklore Society has cancelled its annual meeting for 2021 due to Covid-19, and in its place the Society is posting online a group of recordings from sessions at previous annual meetings. “Past Meetings, Year 2: Another TFS Online Sampler” will roll
The National Endowment for the Humanities announced major grants for organizations led by folklorists Kimberly Marshall, Theresa Vaughan and Amy Kitchener this month as part of the American Rescue Plan. Amy Kitchener, executive director of the Alliance for California Traditional Arts (ACTA),
The Journal of Folklore and Education announced the release of its new volume, "Creative Texts | Creative Traditions." The volume features case studies, lesson plans, and research that use folklore’s values of context, candor, use, imagination, and love to help students to craft text with authentic purpose and consequences.
The Local Learning Network recently launched two new websites to increase access, visibility, and usefulness of their resources and publications.
Folklorist Andrea Kitta will present a talk called “Communicating About COVID: Understanding How Folklore Affects Medical Decision Making and What to Do About It" to her alma mater, Western Kentucky University, on September 30, 2021.
The South Arts 2021 Southern Prize and State Fellows Exhibition is now open at the Bo Bartlett Center at Columbus State University in Columbus, Georgia. The multidisciplinary exhibition includes work from each of the nine state fellows, including Southern Prize Winner and Florida Fellow Marielle Plaisir and Southern Prize Finalist and South Carolina Fellow Fletcher Williams III.
The Colombia-based folklorist and anthropologist Maria Angélica Rodríguez started a new Spanish-language podcast, called "FolclorArt- creatividad en contexto."