The Planning Committee is pleased to announce the theme for the 138th Annual Meeting of the American Folklore Society. The theme of the conference is "Community Persistence: Reckoning with Change, Imagining Futures."
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Renowned folklorist Dorothy Noyes will receive the Distinguished Alumni Scholar Award and deliver a lecture at Indiana University (IU) on February 26, 2026.
Dr. Mark Y. Miyake (Western Washington University) has been elected by the AFS Executive Board to serve as a member of the Board from 2026-2028. Please join us in welcoming Mark to the AFS Executive Board!
The Memorial University Folklore and Language Archive (MUNFLA) is pleased to announce a new funding stream for conducting independent research at the Archive. Applications are due March 31, 2026.
Two International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF) working groups, in cooperation with the IDEAS (Aix-Marseille University, CNRS) will present a symposium with participatory roundtable discussions this May. Proposals are due February 20, 2026.
Wiki Loves Folklore is an international media contest where participants can contribute photographs, video, and audio about their local folk culture to Wikimedia Commons. This year's contest runs from February 1 through March 31, 2026. A separate Feminism and Folklore Writing Contest is being held at the same time.
In Painting Thangkas on the Tibetan Plateau (University of Washington Press), Xue Ming offers a rare and deeply researched look into the lives of Rebgong thangka painters, whose sacred art is at once devotional, commercial, and political.
Queer as Folklore (Manchester University Press) travels across centuries and continents to reveal the unsung heroes and villains of storytelling, magic and fantasy. Featuring images from archives, galleries and museums around the world, each chapter investigates the queer history of different mythic and folkloric characters, both old and new.
Folklorist Lydia Fish died on January 19, 2026 in Buffalo, NY at the age of eighty-seven.
The Southern Foodways Alliance oral history program invites experienced oral historians to submit proposals for oral history projects. Applications are due March 16, 2026.
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