Varick Chittenden and Teresa Hollingsworth were named as the 2021 recipients of the AFS Benjamin A. Botkin prize for significant lifetime achievement in public folklore at the Annual Meeting in October. This prize, awarded each year by the AFS Executive Board and
Organizers are inviting submissions for a conference to be held at Trinity College Dublin from October 27-28, 2022 titled "‘Demons Good and Bad’ — An interdisciplinary perspective."
Dr. Joyce Marie Jackson has been honored for Lifetime Contributions to the Humanities by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities. According to the LEH website, the award “recognizes those who have supported and been involved in public appreciation of issues central to
The Folklore Society of London, U.K. is seeking submissions for its annual conference, taking place virtually from May 6-8, 2022.
The Society for Ethnomusicology is seeking proposals for its 67th Annual Meeting on November 10-13, 2022. Proposals are due by February 15, 2022.
Nikolaos Papadogiannis and Rachel Love of the University of St. Andrews are seeking submissions for the upcoming conference titled "Reactions to HIV/AIDS Since the 1980s: Transnational and Comparative History Perspectives," to be held in a hybrid format at the University of St. Andrews from August 30-31, 2022.
Steve Ohrn was above all things a mensch. He was also a gifted photographer, exacting in his work, and generous in his relationships with others, especially the many folk and traditional artists whose work and stories he documented, helped to preserve, and promoted.
The editors of an upcoming volume, "Poetics of Travelling Self: Discursive Formations and Purposiveness of Travel," are seeking submissions by January 31, 2022.
The Thomas W. and Robin W. Edwards College of Humanities and Fine Arts at Coastal Carolina University invites applications for Director of the Charles Joyner Institute for Gullah and African Diaspora Studies. This is a tenure track faculty position that comes with
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