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The AFS Cultural Diversity Committee is proud to announce the recipients of the inaugural Gerald L. Davis Presence Pathway Award. The Project Pathway provides funding for projects that participate in community scholarship in action, and that keep communities connected, whole, and active. In
The American Folklore Society calls for applications for the next editor(s) of the Journal of American Folklore/JAF: A Global Quarterly by May 1, 2024, for a term beginning in January 2025.
Southwest Folk Alliance is seeking a a Program Coordinator (contract) for ClimateLore, an oral history project documenting climate risk, loss, and adaptation in two desert regions of the US-Mexico borderlands. Applications are due January 31.
Congratulations to Betty Belanus and Ziying You, who were elected to the AFS Executive Board, and to Naomi Sturm-Wijesinghe, who was elected to the AFS Nominating Committee.
The AFA will award up to four Cauthen Fellowships ($1,200 each) in 2024. The deadline for applications is March 1, 2024.
University of Ljubljana seeks proposals for their conference on the agency of the dead within the lives of individuals. The deadline is February 29, 2024.
Retired Professor of Folk Studies William Lynwood Montell died on December 21.
Diarmuid Ó Giolláin is the recipient of the 2023 Chicago Folklore Prize for Exotic Dreams in the Science of the Volksgeist: Towards a Global History of European Folklore Studies (The Kalevala Society). Second place prizes were awarded to Patricia A. Turner for trash talk: Anti-Obama Lore and Race in the Twenty-First Century and to Christopher B. Teuton and Hastings Shade, with Loretta and Larry Shade, Illustrated by MaryBeth Timothy. Cherokee Earth Dwellers: Stories and Teachings of the Natural World.
Joy Fraser died on December 17, 2023 in St John’s.
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