2025 AFS Election: Watch for Your Ballot and Cast Your Vote
This year, AFS members will vote for two seats on the Executive Board and one seat on the Nominating Committee. The voting deadline is December 18 at 11:59 pm EST.
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The AFS Community Hub Is Now Live
The AFS Staff are proud to introduce the American Folklore Society Community Hub, a private, members-only online space—now active within your member portal.
JAF Calls for Submissions for Themed Issue on AI and Folklore
The JAF Editorial Collective invites submissions addressing any aspect of generative AI and folklore for a themed issue of the Journal of American Folklore. Submissions are due February 1, 2026.
JAF Articles Available for Free Through November 30
Four timely articles from JAF: A Global Quarterly are free to access through the end of this month.
AFS Announces Sites and Dates for 2026 and 2027 Annual Meetings
The 2026 AFS Annual Meeting will be held in Asheville, NC, October 27–31. In the following year, AFS will hold a joint meeting with the Oral History Association in Chicago, IL, November 3–6, 2027.
Annual Meeting Registrants Can Engage With Digital Posters Through January
Digital posters are available on Fourwaves, the Annual Meeting conference platform, through January. View and comment asynchronously with your colleagues.
Angalkut/Shamans in Yup’ik Oral Tradition (University of Alaska Press) collects over thirty years’ worth of Yup’ik angalkut stories and is the first book devoted exclusively to these shamans and their roles in Yup’ik life.
AFS congratulates dance artist Lucy Salazar on receiving a Fellowships to Artists award from Dance/USA.
The FSAC Conference next year will be held at the Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, May 30–June 2, 2026. The theme for the conference is "Preserves." Paper submissions are due January 31, 2026.
Folklorist Dorothy Noyes teams up with political scientist Tobias Wille to publish Exemplarity in Global Politics (Bristol University Press)—a volume that draws on folkloristic theories to give a new account of a mechanism that is celebrated in liberal discourse but trickier in practice: the performance and uptake of examples.
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