The Smithsonian’s Recovering Voices initiative will host a monthly film-screening series highlighting the crucial role languages play in daily life. Presented virtually this year, the sixth annual Mother Tongue Film Festival features 45 films in 39 languages from regions across the globe.
News from the Field
In Wayne State University’s recently released book, Mapping Fairy-Tale Space: Pastiche and Metafiction in Borderless Tales, Christy Williams uses the metaphor of mapping to examine the narrative strategies employed in popular twenty-first-century fairy tales. Mapping Fairy-Tale Spaceanalyzes the television shows Once Upon a Time and Secret Garden (a
The American Council of Learned Societies is pleased to present “Forward-Looking Philanthropy: A Virtual Conversation Among Funders and Black Scholars” on Wednesday, March 3, 2021 at 4-5:30 PM EST. Learn more about this event here. This conversation is part of their Humanistic Knowledge in
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 National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage Fellows,” on March 4, 2021 at 8:00 pm
Greg Kelley will deliver a review and reading of his newly released monograph, Unruly Audience: Folk Interventions in Popular Media, on February 17, 2021 from 2:00–2:30pm ET. The book examines how “folk interventions” challenge institutional media with active—often public—social engagement. Drawing on a
Jack Zipes will deliver an online recorded lecture and live Q&A on an array of fairy tales, myths, and other folk narratives on February 17 at 5:00 PM PST. The event, Resurrecting Dead Fairy Tales, is composed of an online recorded lecture followed
Michael Atwood Mason announced this week that he will step down as director of the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage effective immediately. In the coming months, the Smithsonian will form a search committee to select a new director for the Center.
Washington, DC—The National Endowment for the Arts is pleased to announce the first round of recommended awards for fiscal year 2021 totaling $27,562,040. Supported projects span 14 artistic disciplines in communities throughout the United States. Also included in this announcement are the
The American Philosophical Society’s Library and Museum is hosting two different webinars in the coming weeks on Native American and Indigenous Studies. See the details below for more information. Note that because they are separate events, the registration links are different. Indigenous
“AAAMC Speaks,” a new documentary series that centers around the legacy of the Black music community, will premiere on YouTube February 12, 2021 at 7:00 PM EST, featuring material from Indiana University’s Archives of African American Music & Culture (AAAMC). In each 20-minute episode, Tyron