AFS is deeply saddened to share the news of folklorist Joseph Sciorra’s sudden passing on Monday, October 5, 2026.
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Sharing Food, Sharing Culture (Library of Congress) shares the wealth of cultural documentation about community-based foodways found in the collections of the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress.
AFS is excited to share with you a number of off-site events and excursions to enlighten and entertain you during your time in Asheville and Western North Carolina. Registration is open now for these events.
The AFS Fellows are taking names through October 20 for registration for the Breakfast with a Fellow event at the 2026 Annual Meeting. This year's Fellows are Guha Shankar, Marilyn White, Mary Hufford, Ian Brodie, and Norma Elia Cantú.
Book your room at the AFS Annual Meeting hotel in Asheville now!
Son of the late Albanian folklorist Dr. Ibrahim Krosi started an initiative to preserve and continue the scholarly work of his father whose research focused extensively on Albanian oral tradition and the folklore of the Balkans.
Music and Dances from Central Nepal (Open Book Publishers) is the first English translation of the works of performer, educator, and writer Subi Shah. The book is freely available to read and download in both PDF and HTML formats.
The Primitive Within (Oxford University Press) is the first book to examine the relation between German folklore studies and colonial anthropology in the age of empire. It expounds how anthropologists and folklorists aimed to compare rural cultures in the European hinterland to supposedly primitive societies in the colonial peripheries in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
The Library of Congress has opened “Alive in Many Hands: The American Folklife Center at 50,” a new exhibition showing how living traditions carry memory, identity and community across generations. The exhibition is on view through January 8, 2028 and can also be explored online.
A First-Time Attendee Office Hour for the upcoming annual meeting will be held September 29, 1–2pm ET. The Media Library for the meeting is now available for preview.
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