Renowned folklorist Dorothy Noyes will receive the Distinguished Alumni Scholar Award and deliver a lecture at Indiana University (IU) on February 26, 2026.
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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.
Tales for Fairies (Wayne State University Press) is an exploration of how classic fairy tales have been transformed to illuminate and celebrate queer identities.
The Soul of a Folklorist (Indiana University Press) examines how, as folklorists moved toward a perspective that increasingly explored the responsibility of presentation and representation of gender, race, class, and other areas of inequities, the discipline gradually came to understand both the power of its own subject and structures of subordination within the field.
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