Dr. Pravina Shukla was recently named a Provost Professor at Indiana University. The Provost Professor Award is given each year by the Office of the Provost and the Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty and Academic Affairs. It is intended to bring
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The Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM) is pleased to announce the launch of a new website: Musicians in America during the Covid-19 Pandemic. Thanks to the award of a CARES Act Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities in June 2020, SEM
The Southwest Folklife Alliance (SFA), a nonprofit organization affiliated with the University of Arizona with more than 48 years of experience producing and interpreting programs serving grassroots cultural practitioners along the US-Mexico border, has been selected to enter into a two-year, one
Join the Smithsonian Folklife Festival on June 25–27 for Beyond the Mall: Making Matters! The weekend digital program series features both seasoned master artisans and the everyday makers who find solace and connection in creativity. We invite you to join eclectic conversations and demonstrations all
AFS is hosting a number of small group salons to continue the conversation from the June 2 webinar on reflexivity and Latinidades. These salons will be facilitated by senior scholars and practitioners in the field on June 11 at 11:00 AM and 2:00
Utah State University Press recently published Unlearning: Rethinking Poetics, Pandemics, and the Politics of Knowledge by Charles L. Briggs. A provocative theoretical synthesis by renowned folklorist and anthropologist Charles L. Briggs, Unlearning questions intellectual foundations and charts new paths forward. Briggs argues, through an expansive look
You can watch recordings from past AFS annual meetings on YouTube, including some videos from the 2020 Virtual Annual Meeting, such as the Francis Lee Utley Memorial Panel or the Presidential Invited Panel. All of these videos can be found on the AFS YouTube
Keynote presentations from the 10th international Folklore Fellows’ Summer School are available for public registration and viewing. The presentations will take place June 7–11. Daily keynote lectures given by international and Finnish specialists on folklore and cultural studies of violence are open to all interested.
The 2021 Annual Meeting Local Planning Committee in Harrisburg invites you to join tamboura ensemble “Sviraj” and folklorist Amy Skillman on Tuesday, June 8 at 7:00 pm EDT to meet the band, listen to their music, and learn some dance steps. “Sviraj”
Keynote presentations from the 10th international Folklore Fellows’ Summer School are available for public registration and viewing. The presentations will take place June 7–11. Daily keynote lectures given by international and Finnish specialists on folklore and cultural studies of violence are open to all interested.
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