In These Mountains: Project Grants support $10,000 in funding for organizations to conduct projects that promote the sharing, teaching, learning, preserving, and documenting folk arts and traditional culture of Central Appalachia. The deadline to apply is May 1, 2023.
The Individual Artist Career Opportunity Grant supports a milestone opportunity in an individual artist’s career that is likely to lead to substantial and significant career advancement with up to $2,000 in funds. Applications opened on February 17, 2023 and the deadline to apply is March 17, 2023.
Daisy Ahlstone (Ohio State University) won the 2022 Don Yoder Prize for the Best Graduate Student Paper in Religious Folklife and Folk Belief.
The 2022 Warren E. Roberts prize for best student paper, sponsored by the Folk Arts and Material Culture Section, was awarded to Ben Bridges (PhD Candidate, Department of Folklore & Ethnomusicology, Department of Anthropology, Indiana University, Bloomington).
Phoebe Millerwhite (Independent Folklorist, Artist, Educator) received the 2022 Independent and Public Folklorist Sections Travel Award.
The Federation of State Humanities Councils and the National Humanities Alliance have announced the 2023 National Humanities Conference, which will be held in Indianapolis, Indiana October 25-29, 2023. In keeping with the state motto of Indiana, “The Crossroads of America,” the 2023 conference theme is “Crossroads.”
Sustaining Support for Intangible Cultural Heritage explores case studies from Gabon, India, Mozambique, Sri Lanka, and the USA to represent diverse positionalities and voices articulating the complexities, ambiguities and uncertainties within heritage discourses.
AFS and the Webpage Image Subcommittee invite members to submit images for the AFS website.
The American Folklore Society invites you to submit a proposal for its 135th Annual Meeting to be held virtually October 11-12, 2023 and in Portland, Oregon, November 1-4. The theme of the conference is Roots, Rootlessness, and Uprooting. The proposal window is March 1-31.
Please join us for the 135th annual meeting of the American Folklore Society this fall! This year, AFS is offering up to two days of dedicated virtual programming, October 11-12, in addition to a four-day, in-person gathering in Portland, Oregon, November 1-4.
Share your news
Have some important news to share? We can help you get it out there! Fill out the submission form and send it our way.