The Fife Folklore Archives at Utah State University announces the accession of the Norine Dresser Collection. This collection is transferred from the Institute of Historical Survey Foundation, and it showcases folklorist Norine Dresser’s dedication to documenting global folklore.
Folklorist Natalie Kononenko is awarded the 2024 Clio Prize for her book, Ukrainian Ritual on the Prairies: Growing a Ukrainian Canadian Identity (McGill-Queen's University Press). The book is also shortlisted for the 2024 KOBZAR™ Book Award.
Folklorist Joseph Sciorra wins the 2024 Catherine W. Bishir Prize for his article “‘The Strange Artistic Genius of This People’: The Ephemeral Art and Impermanent Architecture of Italian Immigrant Catholic Feste.”
The American Council of Learned Societies awards the 2024 Luce/ACLS Collaborative Grant in China Studies to the project "Diversifying Humanistic Pedagogy in China Studies: Incorporating Ethnic Minority Literary and Cultural Productions into North American College Classrooms."
The 2025 Journal of Folklore and Education seeks submissions that amplify and demonstrate the power and the promise of multimodal storytelling to educate. Developing and analyzing the findings of ethnographic documentation also involves creation of transmedia products, from podcasts to poetry, comics to videos.
Guest Editors by Michelle Banks and Sojin Kim join co-editors Lisa Rathje and Paddy Bowman in announcing the launch of Volume 11 of the Journal of Folklore and Education, On Shifting Ground: Migration, Disruption, and the Changing Contours of Home.
Deadlines are approaching for sponsorship, exhibitors, and advertisers for the 2024 Annual Meeting program book. Make sure you reserve your room in the hotel block by October 7 to receive the conference rate.
Los Herederos, a media arts non-profit dedicated to inheriting culture in the digital age, was featured on ABC 7 Eyewitness News on September, 23 for their Queens as Cultural Crossroads installation in the Roosevelt Avenue and 74th Street subway station in Jackson Heights.
The Local Organizing Committee for the 2024 AFS Annual Meeting is proud to announce that Lindsay D. Williams of Desert Illuminations is the winner of the annual meeting commemorative notebook cover art contest.
The AFS Nominating Committee (chaired by Guha Shankar with members Carrie Hertz, Naomi Sturm-Wijesinghe, and Marilyn White) has announced its slate of two candidates for each available office in the AFS 2024 election.
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