The AFS Executive Board unanimously voted to elect Langston Collin Wilkins to serve the remainder of Jerrilyn McGregory's term, who passed away on August 3, 2025.
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Bill Ivey, past president of the AFS and former chair of the NEA, died on November 7, 2025 in Nashville, TN at the age of eighty-one.
AFS congratulates International Fellow Steve Roud on receiving the honorary Doctor of the University from The Open University.
A conference aiming at linking current debates concerning the relativization of the notion of "nature" to those postulating the growing need for a thought of "care" will be held at Université Côte d'Azur in France next October. Proposals are due December 31, 2025.
The LFS Annual Meeting next year will be held at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, January 23–24, 2026. The theme for the conference is “Pixilated: Digital Folklore and the Folk We've Become.” Paper submissions are due December 6, 2025.
Four timely articles from JAF: A Global Quarterly are free to access through the end of this month.
The virtual portion of the 2025 Annual Meeting takes place Wednesday, November 12 through Friday, November 14 on the conference platform.
The National Arts Relief Fund is a one-time rapid-response grant program created to support nonprofit organizations whose funding offer from the National Endowment for the Arts was withdrawn in 2025. The current cycle of grant applications will close on November 18, 2025.
The WSFS Annual Meeting next year will be held at the University of Oregon, April 16–18, 2026. The theme for the conference is “Folklore as a Resource—Old and New.” Paper submissions are due February 1, 2026.
The latest issue of Folklorica, the journal of the Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Folklore Association, has been released. All content of Folklorica is freely available.
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