The National Humanities Alliance is pleased to launch their new report, Attracting Students to the Liberal Arts Through Integrative Curricula. The report illustrates how undergraduate courses and programs that integrate the humanities, social sciences, and/or natural sciences with applied approaches and pre-professional training help to demonstrate the value of a broad-based education to skeptical students.
News from the Field
Congratulations to the Maryland State Arts Council, which wins the 2024 Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Agency Award from the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies for its Land Acknowledgment Project.
South Arts has compiled a list of resources that may be helpful to artists, arts organizations and communities who have been impacted by the recent hurricane.
Congratulations to the inaugural awardees of the American Council of Learned Societies' Extended Engagement Microgrants, which were awarded by the Intention Foundry. The ACLS microgrant will fund a workshop at AFS’ 2024 Annual Meeting and follow-up conversations centered on inclusive folklore pedagogy.
Arts Midwest announces nine recipients of its inaugural Midwest Culture Bearers Award in recognition of their work of preserving cultural traditions rooted in community and prioritizing the next generation across the region.
The 17th International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF) congress will take place at the University of Aberdeen in Aberdeen, Scotland, UK 3–6 June 2025. Call for panels, roundtables, workshops and combined formats is open until 7 October 2024.
The Fife Folklore Archives at Utah State University announces the accession of the Norine Dresser Collection. This collection is transferred from the Institute of Historical Survey Foundation, and it showcases folklorist Norine Dresser’s dedication to documenting global folklore.
The American Council of Learned Societies awards the 2024 Luce/ACLS Collaborative Grant in China Studies to the project "Diversifying Humanistic Pedagogy in China Studies: Incorporating Ethnic Minority Literary and Cultural Productions into North American College Classrooms."
The 2025 Journal of Folklore and Education seeks submissions that amplify and demonstrate the power and the promise of multimodal storytelling to educate. Developing and analyzing the findings of ethnographic documentation also involves creation of transmedia products, from podcasts to poetry, comics to videos.
Guest Editors by Michelle Banks and Sojin Kim join co-editors Lisa Rathje and Paddy Bowman in announcing the launch of Volume 11 of the Journal of Folklore and Education, On Shifting Ground: Migration, Disruption, and the Changing Contours of Home.