The Humanities Education and Research Association (HERA) Conference has extended their CFP deadline to February 1, 2021. The virtual conference will take place March 4–6, 2021. Submissions are encouraged from educators at all levels as well as all those with an interest in
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TSANTSA, the journal of the Swiss Anthropological Association, seeks submissions for a special issue on anthropological knowledge production and power relations. The deadline for abstracts (max. 2,000 words) is February 18, 2021. Visit the following link to view the full CFP: https://bop.unibe.ch/Tsantsa/announcement/view/80
The Foodways Section of the American Folklore Society invites submissions for the Sue Samuelson Award for best student paper on food and foodways. Papers should be based on original fieldwork or research and utilize current folkloric approaches to analysis and interpretation. The
Trickster Press, the graduate student-run press at Indiana University, has recently reprinted Kenneth S. Goldstein’s A Guide for Field Workers in Folklore. The new edition features a preface by Diane E. Goldstein, Kenneth’s daughter and an esteemed folklorist in her own. Add
USU’s Digital Folklore Project has named the meme “How It Started/How It’s Going/How It Ended” the official #DigitalTrendoftheYear. “A meme that shows a picture of flowers captioned ‘How It Started’ next to a photo of a nuclear bomb captioned ‘How It Ended,’ seems
Penn State News recently highlighted the research of folklorist and Penn State Harrisburg faculty member Jeffrey Tolbert. Tolbert studies vernacular belief as it intersects with digital media, concentrating on Slender Man as an especially apposite case. He notes, “Belief…[is] about how we
The Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI) in Essen recently announced a new round of international research fellowships. The KWI fellowship program and the Thyssen @ KWI Fellowship address excellent researchers from the humanities, cultural studies, and the social sciences.
The 28th International Conference on Learning, hosted by Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland, is scheduled for July 7–9, 2021. The Learner Research Network (LRN) is brought together around a common concern for learning in all its sites, formal and informal, and at all
The Eleventh International Conference on Religion & Spirituality in Society, which will take place at the University of Córdoba in Córdoba, Spain, June 3–4, 2021, has opened a call for proposals. Regular proposals are due March 3, 2021. The Religion in Society
The Special Interest Group (SIG) for Music of the Francophone World seeks papers to sponsor for the Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM) 2021 annual meeting. The SEM meeting will take place in Atlanta, Georgia on October 27–31, 2021. Co-chairs Roger Mason and Sarah
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