The virtual portion of the 2025 Annual Meeting takes place Wednesday, November 12 through Friday, November 14 on the conference platform.
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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program created to support nonprofit organizations whose funding offer from the National Endowment for the Arts was withdrawn in 2025.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.
A symposium exploring how proverbs, plant-lore, legends, and beliefs emerge unexpectedly in lexicographic and toponymic works will be held at the University of Bergen next April. Abstracts are due December 1, 2025.
Largely humorous, sometimes hilarious, often centered on encounters with Euro-American society and technology, the stories in Making Each Other Laugh (University of Oklahoma Press) bear witness to the continuing vitality of Native American oral traditions.
The 2026 AFS Annual Meeting will be held in Asheville, NC, October 27–31. In the following year, AFS will hold a joint meeting with the Oral History Association in Chicago, IL, November 3–6, 2027.
A PDF version of the 2025 annual meeting program, including detailed program information for the Atlanta and Virtual program days, is now available on the AFS website.
In Oral History: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press), Douglas A. Boyd examines the oral history interview, recording techniques and strategies, technologies for making oral history accessible, and the legal and ethical implications throughout the work of oral history.
In Mythopedia (Princeton University Press), Adrienne Mayor shows how geomythology is expanding our understanding of our planet’s history, revealing the human desire to explain nature and weave imaginative stories intertwined with keen observation, rational speculation, and memory.
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