Hilliard Art Museum is hosting a landmark exhibition that celebrates and commemorates a vibrant 250 year tradition with the exhibition, Acadian Brown Cotton: The Fabric of Acadiana. This exhibition is the most comprehensive project to date dedicated to the cultural traditions associated
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.
By Juwen Zhang— The development of a discipline is inseparable from translations. Usually, translations can be either individual articles or a systemic introduction of one author’s theoretical and methodological achievements over years. In the field of folklore studies in China, systemic introductions
Forming Cultural Lineages: Appropriation v. Inclusion The first of the Philadelphia Folklore Project’s four-part series on cultural appropriation will take place June 17 from 6:00 to 8:00 PM EDT. This panel will cover concerns on becoming integrated within a culture. How should
Utah State University Press recently published Unlearning: Rethinking Poetics, Pandemics, and the Politics of Knowledge by Charles L. Briggs. A provocative theoretical synthesis by renowned folklorist and anthropologist Charles L. Briggs, Unlearning questions intellectual foundations and charts new paths forward. Briggs argues, through an expansive look
The Folklore Library & Archive is a new online resource that aims to preserve an ever-growing repository of research material in the field of folklore for future generations of researchers. The project, which was soft launched May 5, 2021, will soon become
Ana Cara recently retired from Oberlin College, where she taught in the Department of Hispanic Studies. She holds a PhD in Folklore and Folklife from the University of Pennsylvania. Her articles have appeared in various academic journals, including the Journal of American Folklore,
Andrea Kitta’s scholarship on folklore and public health appeared in a recent episode of NoiseFilter, a daily podcast that focuses on important information regarding COVID-19. The podcast’s main hosts are Dr. MarkAlain Dery and Dr. Eric Griggs (Doc Griggs), the former an
John Burrison, curator of The Folk Pottery Museum of Northeast Georgia, was interviewed by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution (AJC) about the museum’s current exhibit on women potters, “The Men Won’t Tell Us Anything.” From the article: “’Good clay deposits are critical, but there is more
Andrea Kitta recently spoke with Slate Magazine about the emergent folklore surrounding COVID-19 and vaccinations. To read her take on how narrative and belief impact vaccination efforts, check out the interview on the Slate website.
On February 19, German’s national radio Deutschlandfunk Kultur ran a 55-minute program largely focused on Jim Leary’s work with the folk/vernacular/roots music of German-speaking (Austrian, German, Swiss) immigrants to the US. Though the article and the radio program are both in German, excerpts of