This summer the Leiden Department of Middle East Studies is partnering with the University Library to organize another summer school in Philology and Manuscripts from the Muslim World from August 19-30, 2024. The deadline for applications is Wednesday May 1, 2024.
Gail Faith Edward's new book Benedicaria: The Blessing Way of Southern Italian Folk Medicine invites the readers to reclaim and reintegrate Old World spirituality, animism and mysticism back into one's daily, modern lives and offers its reader both the map and tools needed to do so.
Old Dominion University seeks a Director and Curator of the Gordon Art Galleries. Salary: $63,813.00 – $80,000.00. Applications are due April 6.
Teresa Pyott (nee Mingle) was born April 30, 1929 and died peacefully on February 26, 2024.
Registration remains open for a 10-day summer school focused on traditional narrative: Mythos as MythUs: Facing and Overcoming Crises through Traditional Narrative from Antiquity to the Present, taught by an international faculty of folklorists from Greece, Italy, Sweden, and the United States.
Access recordings from the 2024 Chennai Storytelling Festival.
Goucher College's Master of Arts in Cultural Sustainability (MACS) is offering a spring webinar series. Register now to attend each of the offerings and learn more about the MACS program.
Congratulations to Ozgun Ozata, whose paper, “Is London Bridge Falling Down?” won the AFS Children’s Folklore Section’s 2023 W.W. Newell Prize, given annually to the best essay by a student or emerging scholar on a topic in children’s folklore.
Elizabeth Pérez’s The Gut: A Black Atlantic Alimentary Tract received the the Leonard Norman Primiano Book Prize on Vernacular Catholicism.
Congratulations to Lydia Cambpell-Maher (Indiana University and ArtMix) and Gavilán Rayna Russom (Goucher College) who were recipients of the 2023 Archie Green Student Travel Award.
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