AFS congratulates Maygan Barker, Touhidul Islam, Olivia Phillips, and Salma Valadez-Marquez on receiving the 2025 Graduate Fieldwork Grant.
Hungarian folklorist Vilmos Voigt died at the age of eighty-five on June 8, 2025.
Folklorist and ethnologist Ekaterina Anastasova died suddenly at the age of sixty-three on June 15, 2025.
AFS congratulates Dr. Pravina Shukla on receiving the 2025 College of Arts and Sciences James P. Holland and Morley Distinguished Teaching Award from Indiana University.
The Department of English, Philosophy, and World Languages at Arkansas State University opens a call for papers and presentations for the 31st annual Delta Symposium April 8–11, 2026. Special consideration will be given to proposals that specifically address this year's theme of “Monsters, Cryptids, and the Monstrous." The deadline for entries is December 19, 2025.
Ella Hanshaw (1934–2020) wrote hundreds of gospel and country songs in her life. Her works are recorded professionally and released publicly for the first time in SPINSTER's new album Ella Hanshaw’s Black Book.
The 2026 Folklore Fellows’ Summer School will take place in Helsinki and Tvärminne, Finland next August. For participation, the organizers invite proposals for working papers on themes of interdisciplinarity and involvement in folklore research. The deadline for submissions is October 31, 2025.
In recognition of his tireless advocacy for folklore and understanding the human experience, pioneering ethnologist Professor Henry Glassie has received an honorary degree from University College Dublin.
This series is interested in research exploring the role of folkloric figures, folklore archetypes and motifs, and place-based folk groups and folklife in video games and interactive media. The deadline to submit a proposal is August 30, 2025.
The Center for Rural Strategies has launched Living Traditions, a multimedia storytelling project about folklife in central Appalachia.
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