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Coming Soon! JAF (Fall 2026)
The forthcoming Fall 2026 JAF: A Global Quarterly includes Amy Skillman’s presidential address from the 2025 AFS Annual Meeting, essays about the symbolic and ecological roles of insects in African oral traditions and folklore, how supernatural folklore shapes perceptions of forested landscapes, and Icelandic witch trials.
Additional Hotel Room Block Is Now Available for the 2026 Annual Meeting in Asheville
AFS is pleased to share details about an additional hotel, The Four Points by Sheraton, across the street from the Renaissance, which will have a small block of rooms geared in particular to students and those who may be traveling with pets.
The Hotel Reservation Block for the 2026 Annual Meeting in Asheville is Now Open
Book your room at the AFS Annual Meeting hotel in Asheville now!
National Humanities Center Seeks Residential Fellow
The National Humanities Center invites applications for academic-year or semester-long residential fellowships. Applications are due by 11:59 p.m. ET, October 1, 2026.
The Primitive Within (Oxford University Press) is the first book to examine the relation between German folklore studies and colonial anthropology in the age of empire. It expounds how anthropologists and folklorists aimed to compare rural cultures in the European hinterland to supposedly primitive societies in the colonial peripheries in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
The Library of Congress has opened “Alive in Many Hands: The American Folklife Center at 50,” a new exhibition showing how living traditions carry memory, identity and community across generations. The exhibition is on view through January 8, 2028 and can also be explored online.
A First-Time Attendee Office Hour for the upcoming annual meeting will be held September 29, 1–2pm ET. The Media Library for the meeting is now available for preview.
The Archival Futures workshop, which takes place Wednesday, October 28 from 4-6pm ET, will feature speakers and content from Local Learning, Vermont Folklife, the Oklahoma Oral History Research Program, and the Library of Congress.
Submit orders for the new digital advertising package for the 2026 Annual Meeting by October 1.
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