Former AFC Archive Head and lifetime AFS member Joe Hickerson died peacefully on August 17, 2025 in Portland, OR at the age of ninety.
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Applications are now open for TourWest grants from Creative West. Applications are due September 15, 2025 at 11:59 pm MT.
Worth a Thousand Words (University Press of Mississippi) brings traditional proverbs into the modern era, analyzing proverbs under four headings: American proverbs, proverbs in politics, proverbs in literature, and proverbs in culture. Wolfgang Mieder received the AFS Lifetime Scholarly Achievement Award in 2012.
Arts Midwest has announced that applications are now open for the 2025–26 cycle of its GIG Fund, which provides grants of up to $15,000 for nonprofit organizations to offer public-facing arts projects and activities in Midwestern communities. A mandatory Intent to Apply is due September 15, 2025.
The Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English (ACCUTE) 2026 annual conference will be held 4–7 June in Montréal. Of special interest to their CFP are those jointly organized with another academic association. Submissions are due by September 11, 2025.
The Library is offering grantees a series of 1-hour training webinars on how to use GovGrants, its new electronic grants management system.
The final conference of the Swiss National Science Foundation-funded project "Claiming Folklore – Politics and Practices of Folk Music on Swiss Television (1960s-1990s)" will be held at the University of Zurich this September. Register for free by August 31, 2025.
The host institution for this award will be the Department of Folklorists at the University of Iceland. The selected candidate is required to teach two courses in the department. Application deadline is September 15, 2025.
Dr. Chris Goertzen, Emeritus Professor of Musicology at the University of Southern Mississippi and an AFS member for over three decades, died on July 31, 2025 at the age of seventy-four after a brief illness.
The Summer 2025 JAF: A Global Quarterly is coming soon, featuring essays about gender, performance, and power, and perspectives on complex issues of practice that demonstrate the impactful work of public folklorists—plus an obituary for Bernice Johnson Reagon and fifteen reviews of recent work in the field.
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