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City Lore announces Somos Boricuas, a two-week summer institute for K-12 educators, and Museum Educators from across the country. The institute will be held in New York City from July 14 – 27, 2024. The application deadline is March 5, 2024.
The Museum of International Folk Art Seeks Director of Curatorial Affairs to provide strategic and organizational leadership essential to the organization.
The Department of Music at Davidson College seeks a Visiting Assistant Professor for a temporary, two-year appointment to begin July 1, 2024. Applications completed by February 26, 2024 will receive full consideration.
The JAF editorial team is pleased to announce the release of the 2024 Winter issue of JAF: A Global Quarterly (v. 137, no. 543), a special issue on “Folklore, Heritage, and the Public Sphere."
The volumes 39 and 40 (2022 – 2023) of TFH: Journal of History and Folklore sponsored by the AFS History and Folklore Section have been published online. Access the latest volumes TFH: The Journal of History and Folklore is an online journal devoted
The 2023 recipients of the Benjamin A. Botkin Prize are Jill Linzee and Charlie Seemann.
Join the AFS Folklore and Science Section on February 21 from 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm (ET) as the 2023 winner of the American Folklore Society’s Folklore & Science Prize Leah Lowthorp (University of Oregon) presents her prize-winning study, “DNA Identities: Narrative and Authority in Genetic Ancestry Performance on YouTube.”
Leah Lowthorp received the Folklore and Science Senior Prize for her paper, "DNA Identities: Narrative and Authority in Genetic Ancestry Performance on YouTube."
The Folklore and Science Junior Prize, awarded by the AFS Folklore and Science Section, is awarded to Ben Bridges (Indiana University).
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