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”
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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.
Valdimar Tr. Hafstein, Professor of Folklore and Ethnology at the University of Iceland, will serve as the keynote speaker for “Cultural Policy Beyond the Here and Now: What do we owe to Future Generations?” on Monday, June 7 at 3:10 PM EDT.
Janet Louise Langlois, retired professor of English and Folklore Studies, passed away peacefully on Saturday, May 22, 2021 at her home in Detroit. Loving wife of Andrea di Tommaso. Beloved mother of Mia (Adam) and stepmother of Matteo (Jennifer), Dante (Shelley), and
Theorizing Cultural Practice, a volume edited by Simon J. Bronner, seeks essays that explore and unpack practice theory. See below for more information about the volume and how to submit. Editor: Simon J. Bronner, Distinguished Professor of Social Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
The American Folklore Society acknowledges the critical role that diverse leadership will play in our future success. This year, in collaboration with the AFS Executive Board, the Nominating Committee seeks candidates in two areas: Nominating Committee (1 open position)Executive Board (3 open
Dr. Cristina Benedetti will deliver the lecture, “Gathering on the National Mall: Infrastructures, Logistics, and Political Meaning-Making” on May 27, 2021 at 2:00 PM EDT. The National Mall in Washington, DC is a site of human meaning-making animated by various kinds of
Editors Jack Hunter and Rachael Ironside seek chapter submissions for Folklore, People and Place, a proposed volume for consideration by Routledge in the book series, “Routledge Advances in Tourism and Anthropology: People, place and world.” This book is an exploration of the role
The Lewis Prize for Music—a creative arts philanthropy that invests in youth music programs to facilitate positive community change—is opening the application for its annual Accelerator Awards on May 18, 2021. Three multi-year awards of $500,000 each will be awarded in January
In conversation with leaders of the Jewish cultural studies movement, Simon J. Bronner, Dean of the College of General Studies and Distinguished Professor of Social Sciences at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, launches the release of his provocative book Jewish Cultural Studies,
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