Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador’s Folklore and Language Archive (MUNFLA) seeks a dynamic applicant for postdoctoral fellowship for a Community Engaged Research Specialist. The deadline is April 22, 2024.
Poster sessions return to the AFS annual meeting this year! Thanks to added functionality with our new conference platform, we will be able to accommodate poster sessions as an online interactive experience in our virtual Poster Hall. Poster presenters will be named in
The Southeast Kentucky African-American Museum and Cultural Center in Hazard, KY; Quilt Alliance in Asheville, NC; and The Appalachian Rekindling Project in Knoxville, TN—are receiving $30,000 grants to advance their work in supporting the folk arts and traditional culture of Central Appalachia.
Dr. Sandra Bartlett Atwood, an Indigenous Studies instructor at Lethbridge College and founding member of the AFS Folklore & Science Section, received the Environment & Society publication of the year award from Utah State University.
The Folklore Society in the UK seeks papers for their 18th Legendary Weekend on the topic "Water in Legend and Tradition"
The Society of Reluctant Anthropologists (SORA) Podcast sat down with AFS Executive Director, Jessica Turner and Special Projects Consultant, Cassie Rosita Patterson to reflect about the American Folklore Society and the 2023 Annual Meeting.
The Patricia Crandall Lane Trailing of the Sheep Festival Archives seeks an intern for summer 2024 in Ketchum, Idaho from June 1 - August 30. The position is a part-time, seasonal, non-exempt position. Applications will be accepted through midnight on April 5, 2024.
Robert "Bob" Klymasz died peacefully at the age of 87 at the Victoria Hospital in Winnipeg.
This summer the Leiden Department of Middle East Studies is partnering with the University Library to organize another summer school in Philology and Manuscripts from the Muslim World from August 19-30, 2024. The deadline for applications is Wednesday May 1, 2024.
Gail Faith Edward's new book Benedicaria: The Blessing Way of Southern Italian Folk Medicine invites the readers to reclaim and reintegrate Old World spirituality, animism and mysticism back into one's daily, modern lives and offers its reader both the map and tools needed to do so.
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