Submit Your Ballot by December 15 for Executive Board and Nominating Committee. Voting began on Thursday, November 11, and this year, it ends December 15, 2021, so you can expect to learn the results before the new year. For this election cycle,
interested in joining in dialogue concerning the issues raised in the 2021 AFS Fellows Utley Panel, "Heritage, Tourism, Community: A Conversation with Owe Ronström."
The editors of Digest: A Journal of Foodways and Culture have announced the newest issue, Volume 8 Number 1/2, has just been published. Guest edited by Diane Tye of Memorial University of Newfoundland, the theme of this double issue is “Food in Hard Times.” Access
The Library of Congress is now accepting applications for the position of Director for the American Folklife Center Archives. The application deadline is December 23, 2021. Among the duties of the position, the director will serve as a primary advisor to top
October 12-15, 2022, the American Folklore Society will reconvene in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the 45th largest city in the U.S., located where the South, Midwest, and Great Plains regions meet. “Re-Centering the Periphery” calls us to focus on the intersections of what is
The Yale Institute of Sacred Music, an interdisciplinary graduate center for the study and practice of sacred music, worship, and the related arts, invites applications for a post-doctoral associate position in Religion, Ecology, and Expressive Culture. Alongside conducting their own research, the
from the Mississippi Humanities Council – Dr. William Reynolds Ferris, former chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, will receive the Cora Norman Award in recognition of his distinguished career as a scholar and national leader in the humanities. A native
The Smithsonian Magazine featured folklorist Ashley Minner in a recent Q&A highlighting her career and her new position as an assistant curator at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian.
National Endowment for the Arts published an article by hula dance practitioner and founder of the PA’I Foundation, Vicky Holt Takamine. In this piece, Vicky discusses what inspired her to become an advocate for Native Hawaiian artists an cultural practitioners. Read the
These last months of the year are customarily a time for reflection. This is certainly true at AFS, as we work to close out the 2021 annual meeting, and shift to preparing for next year. In that spirit, we’ve compared notes, and offer these preliminary observations about our experiments of the past year.
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