Sign Up Now to Volunteer at the 2026 Annual Meeting
AFS is seeking a limited number of in-person volunteers to help with supporting the annual meeting this year. Applications are due August 31, 2026.
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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!
Access JAF Online to Support AFS
As you prepare for the new academic year, those of you who teach can provide an important—and easily accomplished—service to AFS. Support AFS by assigning online access to JAF.
Available Now! JAF (Summer 2026)
The latest JAF includes essays on a Mexican conflict zone as a site for a festival and tourism, Korean tourists dressing in rented traditional dress, occupational folk humor in a prison library, and obituaries and reviews of recent work in the field.
The Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage seeks AFS members to write 1,600 to 2,500 word festival features or big-picture essays about their Of the People: The Smithsonian Festival of Festivals. Writers are paid $500 for a completed article. Story pitches are due Sunday, August 16, 2026.
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.
AFS is pleased to share the preliminary program for pre-organized panels, assembled panels, and forums. This schedule is visible only to presenters for now, with public release coming soon.
Telling Other Tales (Routledge) presents Balinese masked dance–drama as a living, plural tradition—one whose meaning is co-created by Balinese and non-Balinese performers, scholars and other observers alike. Open Access content is available for this title.
Whispers from Celtic Seas (Reaktion Books) revisits coastal traditions from the Celtic fringes of northwest Europe, showing how they preserve memories of dramatic environmental change—floods, land loss and shifting shorelines—carried forward through oral storytelling for generations.
MUSICultures, the peer-reviewed journal of The Canadian Society for Traditional Music / La Société canadienne pour les traditions musicales, is currently seeking articles for publication. Submissions are due October 1, 2026.
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