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.
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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.
The Tennessee Folklore Society will hold its annual gathering on Saturday, November 1, 2025 in downtown Crossville, TN. The event is free and open to the public.
Folklorist Rachel Hopkin wins the first place award in the Radio Outstanding Feature category of the Oklahoma Society of Professional Journalists Pro Chapter's 2025 Awards for her podcast episode.
New Directions in the Study of Everyday Life, Past and Present is a new book series (Berghahn Books) that will publish monographs and edited volumes from both ethnology and folklore studies focused on the study of the everyday broadly defined.
AFS developed the following guidelines for conference presenters to follow in order to make their work more accessible to all.
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