You can now watch recordings from the 2023 Chennai Storytelling Festival, which took place in February.
News from the Field
The Oral History Practitioner Worker-led Survey & Solidarity Project has launched its Oral History Worker Survey, which is collecting responses from all cultural workers who have been engaged in some form of oral history work anytime within the last five years.
Complutense University of Madrid is accepting proposals for their 8th International Conference on Communication & Media Studies. The deadline for proposal submission is June 6, 2023.
The 57th annual ARSC Conference will take place May 17-20, 2023, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania at the DoubleTree Hotel Downtown.
Apply for the 2023 Scandinavian Folk Arts & Cultural Traditions in the Upper Midwest competition for fellowships and grants. The deadline for the application is Septmeber 1, 2023.
South Arts seeks a Traditional Arts/Archives Intern to engage in digitization, organization, and cataloging of photographs, documents, and other ephemera representing South Arts traditional arts programs and initiatives since 1980. Applications are due April 28, 2023.
Read Clifford Murphy's final state of the field blog post--his last as the director of Folk & Traditional Arts, a position he has held since 2015--on the National Endowment for the Arts website.
Sandy Spring Museum seeks a Director of Folklife and Community Engagement. The Director determines programming necessary to sustain and advance regional folklife.
AFS Fellow and Professor of Folklore & Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia) Dan Ben-Amos died on March 26, 2023.
Maureen Loughran has been named the director and curator of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, effective March 27. Loughran, a career music producer, archivist and scholar, is currently the senior producer of American Routes, a nationally distributed public radio series featuring the diversity of