The Women’s Section of the American Folklore Society sponsors a triennial Croning to honor and celebrate women over 50 in the discipline of folklore at the Annual Meeting.
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AFS member Maida Owens is organizing an interest group to address the intersection of folklore and climate issues. Register now for this planning meeting.
In October 2022, the second annual Franco Music Forum will take place as part of the Festivals Acadiens et Créoles of the University of Louisiana-Lafayette.
The editors of Digest: A Journal of Foodways and Culture, the journal of the American Folklore Society Foodways Section, are pleased to announce the publication of a new online, open-access issue (Vol. 9 No. 1, 2022).
The main objective of this book is to provide an indispensable reference source for further inquiry into the Little People myths in Taiwan, from a variety of perspectives and disciplines including ethnology, archaeology, and sociology.
The Alliance for California Traditional Arts, a national leader in the folk and traditional arts field, seeks a full-time Development Manager, and offers a remote or hybrid work option.
The Community Collections Grants from the American Folklife Center fund and support contemporary cultural field research and documentation within diverse communities. Available to individuals and organizations, the grants offer up to $50,000 each to support projects within their communities to produce ethnographic cultural documentation.
The SAPIENS Public Scholars Training Fellowship program guides anthropologists on accessible writing and podcasting for broad nonacademic audiences. The purpose of the fellowship program is to to provide in-depth training for anthropologists in the craft of science communication and public scholarship.
The deadline for applications to the 2022 Folklore and Science Annual Prizes, given by the Folklore and Science Section, has been extended to July 15.
The latest issue of Italian American Review 12:1 is a special issue on the topic of "Monuments, Memorials, and Italian Migrations," edited by Laura E. Ruberto and Joseph Sciorra.
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