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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.
Save the Date: AFS Fellows Webinar—Ideas, Trends, and Current Complexities in Folklore in Education
The AFS Fellows will present a webinar on February 6, 2026 at noon EST, examining current ideas, trends, and methods in folklore and education.
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.
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.
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.
The 43rd Perspectives on Contemporary Legend International Conference will be held in Lexington, KY next June. Abstracts are due March 2, 2026.
Chinese Patchwork (MFA Publications) is the first English-language publication on the art of Chinese patchwork textiles. It includes reproductions of patchwork objects, accompanied by scholarly essays about the tradition and history of the art form, and interviews with makers.
The Summer Institute in Museum Anthropology (SIMA) is now accepting proposals from prospective graduate student participants for its 2026 program, which will be held in Washington, DC next summer. Application deadline is March 1, 2026.
Considering what songs say about texts and what texts say about songs, The Unraveling Heart (Columbia University Press) offers new insight into the importance of labor and gender to aesthetics and develops a novel approach to the concept of the literary.
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