The American Folklore Society deplores acts of racist violence and harassment directed at Asians, Asian Americans, and Pacific Islanders. We have signed the statement condemning anti-Asian violence issued by the American Council of Learned Societies as well as the statement of the
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A lively conversation has begun with “Folklore Talks: Heritage, Folklore, and the Public Sphere,” the webinar co-sponsored by the AFS Fellows and the Public Programs Section, with occasions for follow-up discussion to come. A large audience attended the live event on March
The Department of Comparative Studies at The Ohio State University invites applications for a two-year postdoctoral position in Indigenous Knowledges. They seek a dynamic, innovative scholar who can demonstrate deep engagement with indigenous knowledge systems as reflected in the languages, lifeways, epistemologies,
Southern Cultures, the award-winning, peer-reviewed quarterly from UNC’s Center for the Study of the American South, encourages submissions from scholars, writers, and artists for a special issue, Crafted, to be published Spring 2022. We will accept submissions for this issue through May 10,
A paper prize with travel support to present at the AFS Annual Meeting in 2021 is being offered by the Folklore & Science Section to further the section’s stated mission of exploring the relationships among folklore and science, whether those domains are
Frank de Caro is being honored posthumously by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities with the 2021 Lifetime Contributions to the Humanities Award. To read the article about Frank in the LEH magazine 64 Parishes (with a great photo of Frank taken
Launched in April of 2020, the NCTA staff, in direct response to and in concern of the impacts (health, fiscal, creative and more) the COVID-19 pandemic was having on the Folk and Traditional Arts landscape, decided to use its social media platforms
AFS schedules virtual events like the annual meeting or the upcoming heritage webinar to accommodate a wide range of time zones. Despite appearances, AFS virtual events are not just scheduled for Eastern Time; we may display times in Eastern Time (where we are headquartered at Indiana University), but we
On March 23, 2021, Routledge Press will publish Climate Change Temporalities: Explorations in Popular, Vernacular, and Scientific Discourse, a volume edited by Kyrre Kverndokk, Marit Ruge Bjærke, and Anne Eriksen. Climate Change Temporalities explores how various timescales, timespans, intervals, rhythms, cycles, and changes in acceleration
John Burrison, curator of The Folk Pottery Museum of Northeast Georgia, was interviewed by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution (AJC) about the museum’s current exhibit on women potters, “The Men Won’t Tell Us Anything.” From the article: “’Good clay deposits are critical, but there is more
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