The FSAC Conference next year will be held at the Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, May 30–June 2, 2026. The theme for the conference is "Preserves." Paper submissions are due January 31, 2026.
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Folklorist Dorothy Noyes teams up with political scientist Tobias Wille to publish Exemplarity in Global Politics (Bristol University Press)—a volume that draws on folkloristic theories to give a new account of a mechanism that is celebrated in liberal discourse but trickier in practice: the performance and uptake of examples.
Thank you for joining us at the 2025 AFS Annual Meeting! Please complete our Participant Survey to let us know your thoughts about the meeting offerings and structure. We want to hear your thoughts about the basics, the highlights, and what didn’t work well for you. The survey takes approximately 20 minutes to complete, and the deadline to submit your response is December 15 at 5:00 pm EST.
Deevara Chittara (Prism Books) is a visual documentation of Chittara, a folk art tradition kept alive by the women of the Deevaru community in the Malenadu region of Karnataka state, India.
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.
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.
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