Listen to a Discussion About the AFS 2023 Annual Meeting on the SORA Podcast

The Society of Reluctant Anthropologists (SORA) Podcast sat down with AFS Executive Director, Jessica Turner and Special Projects Consultant, Cassie Rosita Patterson to reflect about the American Folklore Society and the 2023 Annual Meeting.

SORA is a podcast hosted and produced by Maureen Pritchard, Nayantara Premakumar, and Sahil Warsi about building community through shared curiosity. Each episode features a guest who has been in or around academia and is doing interesting things in order to learn more about the nature of knowledge, resilience, the future of academia, hope, and heartbreak. Learn more about the SORA story.

In the episode, titled Glitter and Gingham, Maureen, Nayantara, Jessica and Cassie talked about the ways in which AFS approaches locally-engaged Annual Meeting programming, the story behind the notebook covers that were designed by Washington and Oregon artists, the Hilton hotel worker demonstrations, the Portland Teachers Strike, and the dance party in honor of Mickey Weems.

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