Renowned folklorist Henry H. Glassie receives Indiana Landmarks’ 2024 Williamson Prize for outstanding leadership in historic preservation.
The WSFS will hold their 2025 Annual Meeting at Utah State University in Logan, Utah on April 4–5. Details about the conference will be provided in early October.
Sheila Bock and Elo-Hanna Seljamaa, the newly appointed co-editors of Narrative Culture, announce the publication of the latest issue of the journal.
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is seeking a full-time Folk and Traditional Arts Director in Washington, DC. Applications are due by September 30, 2024.
University of Oxford professor David Hopkin will present The Sailor's Tale, The Folklore Society Presidential Address 2024, on Tuesday, 17 September. This event is free and open to all and can be attended in person and online.
The AFS Executive Board has selected the next editors of JAF: A Global Quarterly (Journal of American Folklore). The journal will be lead by an editorial collective of six folklorists representing diverse interests and institutions.
AFS welcomes Charish Bishop, M.A., as Membership Engagement Coordinator and Chunfen Zhou, M.A., as the new AFS graduate assistant.
Peace-builder, story-teller, and AFS Executive Board member Kiran Singh Sirah was recently featured on Choose to Be Curious, a radio program about curiosity.
NASAA's report provides insights to inform work with Indigenous groups, action steps to cultivate relationships with tribes, Native organizations and Indigenous artists, and examples of successful programs and practices adopted by state arts agencies to serve Native communities.
The American Folklore Society celebrates Roz Rini Larson's 7 years of service as an AFS staff member. Joining the AFS staff as a graduate assistant in 2017-18, serving as administrative assistant 2018-21, and assuming responsibility for the Annual Meeting in 2021, Roz has worn many different AFS-branded hats. Roz's last day in the office as AFS staff will be August 30, 2024.
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