AFS welcomes submissions from across the field for the Zora Neale Hurston prize before the deadline of August 15th. The prize is given to a graduate or undergraduate student for the best work in any medium—including but not limited to papers, films,
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Each year, the Public Programs Section of the American Folklore Society joins with the AFS Executive Board to award the Benjamin A. Botkin Prize of $500 to an individual for significant lifetime achievement in public folklore. This prize is given in recognition
The AFS Committee on Cultural Diversity, Chicana/Chicano Section, and Folklore Latino, Latinoamericano, y Caribeño Section, along with the AFS Executive Board, call for submissions for the Américo Paredes Prize, which recognizes excellence in integrating scholarship and engagement with the people and communities
Join the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities and folklorists Barry Jean Ancelet, Marcia Gaudet, Robin Roberts, and Nick Spitzer for a Bright Lights Online conversation about Lifetime Contributions to the Humanities awardee Frank de Caro. De Caro, a nationally renowned folklorist who
The Women’s Section of the American Folklore Society invites submissions for the Elli Köngäs-Maranda Student and Professional Prizes, which honor Köngäs-Maranda as a pioneering feminist folklorist. The prizes recognize superior work on women’s traditional, vernacular, or local culture and/or feminist theory and
Women Writing Wonder: An Anthology of Subversive Nineteenth-Century British, French, and German Fairy Tales is a translation and critical edition that fills a current gap in fairy-tale scholarship by making accessible texts written by nineteenth century British, French, and German women authors
June 17 is the first in a four-part online series, Negotiating Cultural Appropriation: Lineage, Teaching & Relationships, where teaching artists in dance and music from across the country deliberate on salient issues regarding the politics of teaching, learning, sharing, and performing culture
The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) is pleased to name 41 new Leading Edge Fellows, a major expansion of this publicly engaged humanities initiative made possible by a $3.6 million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. In this third round
The Transnational Asia/Pacific Section of the American Folklore Society is currently seeking submissions for the Saboohi I. Khan Award for Student Scholarship in Asian and Asian American Folklore with a submission deadline of August 1st. The award aims to mentor graduate and
Verge: Studies in Global Asias, an academic journal sponsored by the Penn State Department of Asian Studies and published by the University of Minnesota Press, will be sponsoring Global Asias panels and roundtables at the upcoming Association for Asian Studies (AAS) and
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