The editors of On_Culture: The Open Journal for the Study of Culture are calling for abstracts for Issue 15 (Autumn 2023) on "Present Futures" to engage with debates and interventions (both past and present) related to present futures across disciplines.
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The University of Exeter’s Anthrozoology as Symbiotic Ethics (EASE) working group invites current and prospective students who care about animals and are interested in studying human encounters with other species to participate in their second annual online conference, "Anthrozoology as International Practice: A Student Conference in Animal Studies (AIP2022)."
Los Cenzontles has been digging into their archives, digitizing archival footage, and sharing them with the broader public.
The Folk Arts and Material Culture Section of the American Folklore Society invites submissions for its annual Warren E. Roberts Prize for Best Student Paper in Folk Art and Material Culture. The deadline for submissions is September 15, 2022.
South Arts has assembled a list of arts organizations and other resources that are guiding recovery efforts for Kentucky as they begin to recover from the devastating floods that hit the Eastern part of the state.
Sixth-generation West Virginian Black writer-poet, advocate, entrepreneur, culture worker, and newspaper publisher Crystal Good was the feature and consulting producer on the 2022 “Black in Appalachia” episode of United Shades of America with W. Kamau Bell for CNN.
The National Council of Traditional Arts (NCTA) released the August edition of its Resilience, Reframing, Actions (RARRA) Newsletter, featuring resources for arts organizations and artists to find funding and support.
Members of the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF) are working to establish a new SIEF Working Group on Feminist Approaches to Ethnology and Folklore and they need your help as soon as possible. The Working Group proposal will be submitted to the SIEF Board in the Fall, and a show of Members is needed for Board approval.
You can now find the revised program for the 2022 Annual Meeting on the AFS Annual Meeting Hub. The program is still growing, but there’s already a lot to look forward to! Start browsing and planning your agenda.
Leon Conrad's Story and Structure: A Complete Guide uses six primary symbols to tell the untold story of how story works.
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