Join the American Folklore Society Folklore & Science Section on January 29th from 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM (ET) as the 2025 winner of the American Folklore Society’s Folklore & Science Prize Antti Lindfors (University of Helsinki) presents his prize-winning study, “Vernacular Knowledge Production and Cross-Kingdom Kinship in Medicinal Mushrooms.”
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The Winter 2026 JAF: A Global Quarterly is coming soon, with essays about cross cultural encounters, an immigrant laborer, and Perspectives on Crisis and Action—plus obituaries and reviews of recent work in the field.
The American Folklore Society Executive Board is pleased to announce the results of the 2025 election.
From June 29th to July 18th, 2026, the National Endowment for the Humanities, in partnership with the City University of New York (CUNY), will hold a three-week Summer Institute for Higher Education Faculty to study the Federal Writers’ Project (FWP), its origins, writers, documents, and methodologies through the lens of the 21st century classroom. Applications are due March 6, 2026.
CERF+ seeks an experienced, organized, and service-oriented individual to serve as the Manager, Field Education & Programs beginning April 2026. Applications are due February 12.
The 14th annual Chennai Storytelling Festival will take place fully online this February and March. The theme of this year's festival is Storytelling and the process of Growing, Maturing, and Transforming. All festival events are offered online for free.
Applications for the 2026 Berea College Media Archives Fellowship are now being received.
We are sad to announce that folklorist Rosan A. Jordan passed away Thursday, December 4, 2025 in New Orleans.
The Institute for Immigration Research at George Mason University invites proposals for a two-day working symposium dedicated to immigration, displacement, and belonging, with a particular focus on how arts, culture, and storytelling can be effectively used to build community, shift public attitudes, and inform immigration-related policy in the United States. Abstracts are due by February 12, 2026.
The Journal of Folklore Research released their special issue, "Latinidades: Reflexivity, Research, and the Creative Process" and is also inaugurating a new section of the journal, "Creative Practice in Process."
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