The 2023 Midwest Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association conference will be held at DePaul University-Loop Campus in Chicago, IL from Friday-Sunday, October 6-8, 2023. The deadline for paper proposals for the 2023 Conference is May 15, 2023. The registration deadline is September 15, 2023.
News from the Field
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.
Los Cenzontles Productions has recently finished a new documentary called, Linda & La Marisoul: An Afternoon at Los Cenzontles. The 26-minute documentary is screening for free for one week on Los Cenzontles' Vimeo page beginning Valentine's Day.
The 2023 Folklife Internship at the North Carolina Arts Council offers a $6,000 grant stipend for 12 weeks of close work with the Folklife Program, while also offering opportunities to meet and learn from the entire Arts Council staff. Applications are due by midnight on March 5, 2023.
Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of Germany, an international conference on the Carnival tradition will be hosted in Frankfurt, Germany from October 5-8, 2023. The deadline for the proposal submission is March 30, 2023.
The Rosenberg Bluegrass Scholar Award is an annual cash award, presented to the developing academic scholar who presents the best paper accepted by a juried academic conference on an aspect of bluegrass music. The recipient will receive a $500 honorarium plus admission to the next IBMA Business Conference and Awards Show. The annual deadline to apply is June 30.
The Folklife Internship provides experiences in archival practice, cultural heritage research, and programming, while building participants’ knowledge about ethnographic materials. Applications are due March 17, 2023.
Dra. Foulis interviewed esteemed scholar, writer and folklorist, Norma Elia Cantú for on her podcast, Latin@ Stories. Cantú discusses her writings on La Frontera as a place of memory, cultural vibrancy and home.
The 11th annual Chennai Storytelling Festival takes place each weekend throughout the month of February. The festival is free and is accessible through Zoom.
The Black Banjo & Fiddle Fellowship (BBFF) is a collaboration between the Oakland Public Conservatory of Music and the Berkeley Old Time Music Convention. Awards will be up to $15,000 over the period of two years (2023-2025). Applications are due February 15, 2023.