Calling all scholars in human animal studies/posthumanism/environmental humanities: is your work more interesting than your walk? Is “staying with the trouble” becoming less than troubling? Does your cat have a better turn of phrase than Derrida’s? Sign up now to join a three-day immersive, reflective workshop-exchange in multi-species ethnography, from July 12-14, 2022.
The Southern Humanities Conference invites proposals for papers on any aspect of the theme “Myths and Making,” broadly conceived. Proposals are due by December 15, 2022, but are accepted and reviewed on a rolling basis.
The deadline has been extended for the 2022 Independent and Public Folklore Travel Stipend, which provides support for a member of the Independent Folklorists Section engaged in public folklore to attend the AFS Annual Meeting.
Early bird registration has opened for the 67th Annual Meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology, which will be held jointly with the American Musicological Society and the Society for Music Theory on November 10-13, 2022, in New Orleans.
The Women’s Section of the American Folklore Society sponsors a triennial Croning to honor and celebrate women over 50 in the discipline of folklore at the Annual Meeting.
The committee organizing the Neil Rosenberg Bluegrass Scholar Award is inviting applications until June 30, 2022.
Each year, the Women’s Section of the American Folklore Society awards two prizes in honor of pioneering scholar Elli Köngäs-Maranda.
AFS member Maida Owens is organizing an interest group to address the intersection of folklore and climate issues. Register now for this planning meeting.
The AFS Independent Folklorists’ Section and the Women’s Section offer an Annual Meeting Award of $750 to attend the AFS Annual Meeting.
The AFS African American Section is proud to call for submissions for this new award, offered to celebrate and encourage African American traditional cultural expression and galvanize folklorists, ethnographers and ethnomusicologists of color to participate in the documentation of African American folklife.
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