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.
The AFS Staff are proud to introduce the American Folklore Society Community Hub, a private, members-only online space—now active within your member portal.
The Department of English at Louisiana State University (LSU) invites applications for a tenure track Assistant Professor of Folklore, beginning next August. Applications are due November 10, 2025.
The JAF Editorial Collective invites submissions addressing any aspect of generative AI and folklore for a themed issue of the Journal of American Folklore. Submissions are due February 1, 2026.
The virtual portion of the 2025 Annual Meeting takes place Wednesday, November 12 through Friday, November 14 on the conference platform.
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program created to support nonprofit organizations whose funding offer from the National Endowment for the Arts was withdrawn in 2025.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.”
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.
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