February 24, Carol Silverman will present a virtual discussion of the contradictions between the explosion in popularity of Balkan “Gypsy” music and dance, while at the same time thousands of Balkan Roma have emigrated westward due to deportations and harassment.
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Applications are now being accepted for a Folklore Graduate Student Folk Arts Internship, supported through the Internship program of New York Folklore and the New York State Council on the Arts. Submissions are due by March 13, 2022.
The editor of a forthcoming volume on historic Black figures of the 20th and 21st centuries is looking for contributions. Submissions are due by March 13, 2022.
The AFS@MLA Committee and the Fairy Tale, Myth, and Folklore Forum seek folklorists to participate in two roundtable discussions at the next Modern Language Association Convention. Proposals are due by March 17, 2022.
The College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, is hosting a virtual international conference March 21-22, 2022, with proposal abstracts due February 28.
The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum seeks a consulting folklorist project which will take place spring and early summer 2022.
Southern Cultures, the award-winning, peer-reviewed quarterly from UNC’s Center for the Study of the American South, encourages submissions from scholars, writers, and artists for a special issue, Disability, to be published Spring 2023. The editors will accept submissions for this issue through April 4, 2022.
Feminism and Folklore is an international writing contest organized at Wikipedia annually in the month of February and March to collect articles on human cultural diversity in the worldwide free encyclopedia Wikipedia and other Wikimedia Foundation projects. This year the focus is on folk culture around the globe, with a particular attention to closing the gender gap.
Wiki Loves Folklore is an international photographic contest organized annually at Wikimedia Commons to document folk cultures in different regions of the world. A range of prizes, up to $400, is awarded for photo, video and audio submissions. The deadline is February 28.
The 17th biennial conference of the European Association of Social Anthropologists/Association Européenne des Anthropologues Sociaux (EASA) will be held July 26-29, 2022, as a fully hybrid conference. Proposals are due March 21.
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