The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) has named Jordan Lovejoy as one of its 40 new Emerging Voices Fellows for 2022.
News from the Field
Betsy Peterson retired as director of the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress after 10 years in the role.
Memorial University invites applications to the highly prestigious Canada Excellence Research (CERC) Chair Program with specialization in Cultural Heritage Knowledge Integration in Ocean and Maritime Studies. Applications are due no later than June 11.
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is now accepting nominations for the 2023 National Heritage Fellowships. Nominations must be submitted through their website by Tuesday, May 31, 2022.
Mid Atlantic Arts announced a new grant opportunity for folk and traditional arts projects in the mid-Atlantic region. Applications open April 15, 2022 and are due June 15, 2022.
Time Magazine reports on Ukrainian museums’ efforts to protect their cultural artifacts from the ongoing Russian invasion, including the American Folklore Society’s efforts to arrange cloud storage space for digital material.
On Thursday, April 7, 2022 at 4:00 P.M. EDT, The Harvard Radcliffe Institute will host the second of two one-hour webinars exploring the legacy of Eileen Southern, author of The Music of Black Americans: A History and founder and editor of The Black Perspective in Music.
Past AFS President Dorothy Noyes, an Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor in the Department of English and professor of comparative studies at The Ohio State University, has been named director of the university’s Mershon Center for International Security Studies.
Folklorist Jeannie B. Thomas’s “SLAP” Test, a rubric for detecting legend and conspiracy theories, was recently featured in Skeptical Inquirer Magazine, a publication of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry published by the Center for Inquiry, under the apt title “Honing Your BS Detector: Conspiracy Theories and the SLAP Test.”)
May 1 is the deadline to apply for two $4000 grants offered in this first year of the newly-launched AFS Graduate Fieldwork Grant program to support field research by graduate students pursuing careers in folklore.