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News from the Field
The Utah-based local web publication Cachevalleydaily.com recently profiled folklorist Elaine Thatcher in honor of her retirement as executive director of the Summerfest Arts Faire in Logan County, UT.
The New Books Network (NBN) is seeking hosts for the podcast “New Books in Folklore.”
The Berlin-based Max Planck Institute for the History of Science will host a virtual public lecture titled "Critical Heritage Practice: Preferred Futures, Uncertain Presents and Speculative Pasts" on September 7, 2021.
Folklorist Nic Hartmann was recently the subject of a profile in the Cedar Rapids, Iowa-based newspaper The Gazette.
InMind Support, a Polish interdisciplinary conference organization, is calling for submissions for its upcoming online conference, Memory, Trauma and Recovery. Submissions are due by August 29, 2021. Acceptances will be confirmed by September 1, 2021.
The Colombia-based folklorist and anthropologist Maria Angélica Rodríguez started a new Spanish-language podcast, called "FolclorArt- creatividad en contexto."
The Southwest Folklife Alliance has partnered with the Surdna Foundation, the Highlander Research and Education Center and the Othering & Belonging Institute to deliver Participatory Action Research training to Black Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) researchers working in their own communities
Dr. Simon J. Bronner, distinguished professor of social sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, is calling for original essays for his upcoming editing volume titled Theorizing Cultural Practice. The deadline for submissions is December 1, 2021.
The Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM) seeks a full-time Program Specialist to begin work by early September 2021.