The Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM) is pleased to announce the launch of a new website: Musicians in America during the Covid-19 Pandemic. Thanks to the award of a CARES Act Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities in June 2020, SEM
News from the Field
The Southwest Folklife Alliance (SFA), a nonprofit organization affiliated with the University of Arizona with more than 48 years of experience producing and interpreting programs serving grassroots cultural practitioners along the US-Mexico border, has been selected to enter into a two-year, one
Join the Smithsonian Folklife Festival on June 25–27 for Beyond the Mall: Making Matters! The weekend digital program series features both seasoned master artisans and the everyday makers who find solace and connection in creativity. We invite you to join eclectic conversations and demonstrations all
Utah State University Press recently published Unlearning: Rethinking Poetics, Pandemics, and the Politics of Knowledge by Charles L. Briggs. A provocative theoretical synthesis by renowned folklorist and anthropologist Charles L. Briggs, Unlearning questions intellectual foundations and charts new paths forward. Briggs argues, through an expansive look
Keynote presentations from the 10th international Folklore Fellows’ Summer School are available for public registration and viewing. The presentations will take place June 7–11. Daily keynote lectures given by international and Finnish specialists on folklore and cultural studies of violence are open to all interested.
Keynote presentations from the 10th international Folklore Fellows’ Summer School are available for public registration and viewing. The presentations will take place June 7–11. Daily keynote lectures given by international and Finnish specialists on folklore and cultural studies of violence are open to all interested.
Valdimar Tr. Hafstein, Professor of Folklore and Ethnology at the University of Iceland, will serve as the keynote speaker for “Cultural Policy Beyond the Here and Now: What do we owe to Future Generations?” on Monday, June 7 at 3:10 PM EDT.
Janet Louise Langlois, retired professor of English and Folklore Studies, passed away peacefully on Saturday, May 22, 2021 at her home in Detroit. Loving wife of Andrea di Tommaso. Beloved mother of Mia (Adam) and stepmother of Matteo (Jennifer), Dante (Shelley), and
In conversation with leaders of the Jewish cultural studies movement, Simon J. Bronner, Dean of the College of General Studies and Distinguished Professor of Social Sciences at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, launches the release of his provocative book Jewish Cultural Studies,
The 10th International Conference of Young Folklorists will take place online from May 19 to 21 and will explore the productive tension between tradition and innovation. The international conference is organized by the Department of Estonian and Comparative Folklore (University of Tartu), and Tartu Nefa Group, in