The Archival Futures workshop, which takes place Wednesday, October 28 from 4-6pm ET, will feature speakers and content from Local Learning, Vermont Folklife, the Oklahoma Oral History Research Program, and the Library of Congress.
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Submit orders for the new digital advertising package for the 2026 Annual Meeting by October 1.
Start planning your can’t-miss meeting experience with the help of the updated Fourwaves Conference Platform, a Fourwaves app for your mobile device, or printable pages.
The History Program at Fairmont State University is currently recruiting candidates for a tenure-track Assistant Professor of History specializing in Public History. Applications are due October 5, 2026.
Arts Initiatives by Refugees for Refugees (Berghahn Books) is a narrative-driven book based in global multi-site research about the arts and cultural dimension of refugee “crises” in discrete geographic and social-political contexts. Open Access content is available for this title.
The forthcoming Fall 2026 JAF: A Global Quarterly includes Amy Skillman’s presidential address from the 2025 AFS Annual Meeting, essays about the symbolic and ecological roles of insects in African oral traditions and folklore, how supernatural folklore shapes perceptions of forested landscapes, and Icelandic witch trials.
The new edition of Neerihiinjìk (Alaska Native Language Center) contains additional photographs, carefully revised translations by Craig Mishler and Kenneth Drizhuu Frank, and an expanded Frank family tree by Crystal Frank Welker. Through an online link, it is also possible to hear the voices of the original storytellers while reading the Gwich’in transcriptions.
A two-day conference, Singing History: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Ballads and the Past, will be held at National Library of Australia, Canberra in November next year. Paper abstracts are due March 30, 2027.
The New York Public Library (NYPL) publishes a research guide designed as an introduction to the wide array of folklore and folklore-related resources at NYPL.
The Journal of Folklore and Education (JFE) invites submissions to their 2027 issue, “Soundtracks: Community, Culture, and Music.” Full articles are due February 1, 2027.
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