SoundLore, the Indiana University Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology podcast, recently featured AFS Director of Membership and Information Systems Meredith McGriff and former staff member Jesse Fivecoate, in an episode on their new edited volume Advancing Folkloristics.
News from the Field
The Tennessee Folklore Society has cancelled its annual meeting for 2021 due to Covid-19, and in its place the Society is posting online a group of recordings from sessions at previous annual meetings. “Past Meetings, Year 2: Another TFS Online Sampler” will roll
Folklorist and AFS member Tim Tangherlini was recently interviewed by The Guardian for a story about COVID conspiracy theories. In the article, Tangherlini discusses how he and his colleagues at UCLA and Berkeley used Danish witchcraft folklore as a model for understanding
The Berea College Special Collections and Archives has opened applications for its 2022 fellowship, to take place from July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2023. The fellowship is an outreach program of the Special Collections and Archives (SCA) department of Hutchins Library
The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) announced the launch of the Sustaining Public Engagement Grant Program, a $3.5 million responsive funding program made possible by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities as part of the Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan initiative (SHARP).
Michigan State University's Digital Humanities & Literary Cognition Lab is collecting creative work people have been making throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, particularly creative pieces that encourage new conversations, activism, and creativity around the racial and social injustices revealed by the pandemic. Everyone who submits a creative piece and agrees to be included will:
International Workshop Dates: November: 4,11, 18,25December: 2Time: 17.00 (5 p.m.)Amsterdam time (UTC +2) Course Facilitator: Rada Varga, Ph.D The IdeaGIRES, the Global Institute for Research, Education and Scholarship is committed to offering the tools that support the endeavors of global scholarly community. Our new
The Asian American Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania announced the launch of the new podcast Yellow and Brown Tales: Asian American Folklife Today. The podcast is an exploration of the cultural history of Asian Americans and their lives now. Acknowledging
The journal Narrative Culture (H-Index: 4) is looking for new editors. The journal claims narration as a broad and pervasive human practice, warranting a holistic perspective to grasp its place comparatively across time and space.
The Department of Music at Emory University in Atlanta, GA invites applications for a tenure-track position in ethnomusicology at the rank of assistant or associate professor. Review of applications will begin on October 15, 2021, and applications received until November 15th will