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News from the Field
Missouri 2021 featured the state’s history and culture with their virtual event, “Legends, Lore, and Stories of the Show Me State” on March 2. Missouri is rich in its history, folklore, and storytelling. The bicentennial year offers a range of opportunities to
City Lore recently launched a digital project called “Across the Great Divide,” that aims to bring out the individuality and common humanity of Americans from different backgrounds, political orientations, ages, genders, and parts of the country. You can participate by sharing your
On March 5 and 6, the Kentucky Folklife Program, part of the Department of Folk Studies and Anthropology at WKU, will host the first virtual Kentucky Folklife Network Gathering. The two-day event is dedicated to creating more robust avenues of communication among
SoundLore is a new podcast series that is produced by the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University. Each episode ventures into the research, practices, and projects of folklore and ethnomusicology. Podcast guests include current and emeritus faculty, students, and alumni
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.
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