Visibility is still a very contested and polarizing concept regarding politics of representation and discourses on agency. Especially in public debates of the Global North the topos of visibility is ascribed a predominantly positive value and it is discussed as a precondition
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Join the Academic Language Experts for a conversation with Anna-Lise Santella and Abby Gross, heads of acquisition at Oxford University Press, to explore how to “‘publish smart”’ to maximize the exposure, recognition, and influence needed for career advancement. Decisions made about where
A conference, “Ethnography, Folklore, and 19th-Century Print Culture,” will be held June 23-24, 2022 at the Institute of European Ethnology and Cultural Analysis at Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich. This conference explores the connections between the proliferation of print products and an increased
This Thursday, July 22nd, from 6:00 to 8:00 pm is the third in a four-part online series, Negotiating Cultural Appropriation: Lineage, Teaching & Relationships, where teaching artists in dance and music from across the country deliberate on salient issues regarding the politics
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University of Massachusetts Press has released “Still They Remember Me”: Penobscot Transformer Tales, Volume 1. Newell Lyon learned the oral tradition from his elders in Maine’s Penobscot Nation and was widely considered to be a “raconteur among the Indians.” The thirteen stories
The latest issue of Folklorica, the journal of the Slavic, East European and Eurasian Folklore Association, has been released. Folklorica XXIV is a special thematic issue dedicated to emergent vernacular responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in various sites in Eastern Europe. The
American Folklife Center, West Virginia Folklife Center, and Lost Creek Farm are happy to announce the Homegrown Foodways in West Virginia program, a series of four films that explore a range of food traditions in the state. All films will premiere on
Steve Zeitlin’s new Poetry of Everyday Life blog post, “Folklore’s Four Sisters: Scholarship, Fieldwork, Activism and Artistry” suggests that there are (at least) four distinctive sides or approaches to folklore—fieldwork (body), scholarship (mind), activism (heart), and artistry (soul), and that some of
In Explaining, Interpreting, and Theorizing Religion and Myth: Contributions in Honor of Robert A. Segal, nineteen renowned scholars offer a collection of essays addressing the persisting question of how to approach religion and myth as academic categories. Taking their cue from the
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