The University of East Anglia in Norwich, U.K. has recently announced a new, fully-funded PhD program, Climate Crisis and Indigenous Storywork: Decolonizing International Climate Change Discourse and Policy. The deadline to apply to this program is January 19, 2022.
News from the Field
Organizers for the National Folk Festival are now accepting applications for the festival’s host city for its 2023-2025 festival dates. Review of applications begins December 1, 2021 and will continue until the winning application is selected. The National Folk Festival is a
Missouri Folklore Society held its annual meeting virtually November 3 – 5. In order to accommodate the diverse needs of its membership and other audiences, the MFS 2021 Annual Meeting was made available online, starting with both “at will” sessions and “synchronous
The National Endowment for the Arts, in partnership with the National Council for the Traditional Arts, will present “The Culture of America: A Cross-Country Visit with the 2021 National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage Fellows,” on Wednesday, November 17, 2021 at
The Baltimore American Indian Center and Baltimore Center Stage will co-host a virtual launch and community celebration for several first-of-their-kind guides to Indigenous Baltimore which focus on the twentieth century and East Baltimore’s Historic American Indian “Reservation.” These free, public resources include
The Design History Forum at Drexel University invites papers for its inaugural Undergraduate Symposium in Material Culture Studies (USMCS) to be held via Zoom on Saturday, March 12th, 2022. We invite students who have taken classes in art history, design history, fashion
Jerusalem Archives’, a collaboration of Jerusalem Development Corporation (HARLI) and Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, is an extensive project of heritage documentation and digitization which aims to locate, expose, and digitize official and personal documentation pertaining to the city’s modern building
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.
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