Guest Editors by Michelle Banks and Sojin Kim join co-editors Lisa Rathje and Paddy Bowman in announcing the launch of Volume 11 of the Journal of Folklore and Education, On Shifting Ground: Migration, Disruption, and the Changing Contours of Home.
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Deadlines are approaching for sponsorship, exhibitors, and advertisers for the 2024 Annual Meeting program book. Make sure you reserve your room in the hotel block by October 7 to receive the conference rate.
Los Herederos, a media arts non-profit dedicated to inheriting culture in the digital age, was featured on ABC 7 Eyewitness News on September, 23 for their Queens as Cultural Crossroads installation in the Roosevelt Avenue and 74th Street subway station in Jackson Heights.
The Local Organizing Committee for the 2024 AFS Annual Meeting is proud to announce that Lindsay D. Williams of Desert Illuminations is the winner of the annual meeting commemorative notebook cover art contest.
The AFS Nominating Committee (chaired by Guha Shankar with members Carrie Hertz, Naomi Sturm-Wijesinghe, and Marilyn White) has announced its slate of two candidates for each available office in the AFS 2024 election.
Arts Midwest is partnering with the other United States Regional Arts Organizations on the 2024–25 National Leaders of Color Fellowship program. Applications are due on October 13, 2024.
On the 50th anniversary of the Western States Arts Federation, the organization has rebranded as Creative West and launched a new website.
The Woody Guthrie Center announces the call for proposals for the 2024 Phil Ochs Fellowship. This research fellowship awards up to $5,000 for creative, educational, or scholarly projects about the life and work of Phil Ochs, and his lasting legacy and influence on popular culture, politics and music. Applications are due November 15, 2024.
Gunlore: Firearms, Folkways, and Communities is the first book to engage with the many narratives, rituals, folk-speech, customs, art, and handicraft encompassed by gunlore. It is edited by Robert Glenn Howard and Eric A. Eliason and published by the University Press of Mississippi.
Southern writer and folklorist Kelly Kazek tells ten Alabama ghost stories in her new book, Some Nightmares Are Real: The Haunting Truth Behind Alabama’s Supernatural Tales, published by the University of Alabama Press.
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