The American Folklife Center announces the launch of a new resource guide that gives users direct access to over 130 Botkin Lectures on folklore, folk music and traditional culture by prominent scholars, artists, authors and performers.
News from the Field
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.
The 2025 Journal of Folklore and Education (JFE) "Cultural Frameworks for Transformative Documenting and Learning" is now freely available. The theme for the 2026 JFE will be "Teaching with Monsters: From Whimsy to Shadow." It is accepting submissions until April 1, 2026.
OurStoryBridge Listens is a non-partisan project which documents the current circumstances in the U.S. that are impacting Americans and others around the world. Join them in the Studio Lobby Sunday–Tuesday 10:00am–4:00pm during the 2025 Annual Meeting to tell your story.
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 American Folklore Society joins the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) and other organizations in a statement opposing the White House's plans to review content and interpretation of the Smithsonian Institution.
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.
AFS is deeply saddened to share the news of folklorist Jerrilyn McGregory's sudden passing on Sunday, August 3, 2025.
AFS urges members to take action now by writing or calling state representatives and members of Congress in response to a 35% cut in proposed funding to the NEA and NEH.