The American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress invites applications for three competitive awards in 2022. Applications for all three are due by March 7, 2022.
Discover hundreds of exciting professional opportunities available on the American Folklore Society Career Center.
The Alliance for California Traditional Arts (ACTA) will host an overview of California funding opportunities for traditional artists and traditional arts organizations on Thursday, February 24, 2022 at 4:00 pm PST.
The AFS Fellows present “Folklore Talks: Interrogating the Normal,” the first of three webinars on Folkloristic Engagements with Disability, March 25, 2022, at 12:00–2:00 pm EDT.
In honor of the World Day of Social Justice on February 20, Artists Standing Strong Together (ASST, pronounced “assist”) is hosting a webinar storytelling program, “Folktales, Fairytales and Social Justice,” on Saturday, February 19, 2022 at 2:00 pm EST.
February 24, Carol Silverman will present a virtual discussion of the contradictions between the explosion in popularity of Balkan “Gypsy” music and dance, while at the same time thousands of Balkan Roma have emigrated westward due to deportations and harassment.
Applications are now being accepted for a Folklore Graduate Student Folk Arts Internship, supported through the Internship program of New York Folklore and the New York State Council on the Arts. Submissions are due by March 13, 2022.
The editor of a forthcoming volume on historic Black figures of the 20th and 21st centuries is looking for contributions. Submissions are due by March 13, 2022.
The AFS@MLA Committee and the Fairy Tale, Myth, and Folklore Forum seek folklorists to participate in two roundtable discussions at the next Modern Language Association Convention. Proposals are due by March 17, 2022.
The College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, is hosting a virtual international conference March 21-22, 2022, with proposal abstracts due February 28.
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