These last months of the year are customarily a time for reflection. This is certainly true at AFS, as we work to close out the 2021 annual meeting, and shift to preparing for next year. In that spirit, we’ve compared notes, and offer these preliminary observations about our experiments of the past year.
In September, 2021 the Oral History Association was awarded $825,000 from the NEH American Rescue Plan to create a fellowship and grants program for under/unemployed oral historians, with a focus on oral historians from communities that have historically been marginalized in the field. The Selection
The Library of Congress is now accepting applications for the position of Director for the American Folklife Center Archives. The application deadline is December 23, 2021. Among the duties of the position, the director will serve as a primary advisor to top
“Re-Centering the Periphery” calls us to focus on the intersections of what is marginalized and centralized both in our field and in the larger public debates about national identities in 2022.
Submit your ballot by December 15 for Executive Board and Nominating Committee. Voting began on Thursday, November 11, and this year, it ends December 15, 2021, so you can expect to learn the results before the new year. For this election cycle,
The Smithsonian Institution is looking for a research anthropologist with experience in archives. Applications for this position are due by November 30, 2021.
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A librarian at the Alberta Library in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Lorisia MacLeod, has developed a citations template for indigenous oral teachings. The new citation template provides a means of including information such as the name of the source, the individual’s nation or
The University of East Anglia in Norwich, U.K. has recently announced a new, fully-funded PhD program, Climate Crisis and Indigenous Storywork: Decolonizing International Climate Change Discourse and Policy. The deadline to apply to this program is January 19, 2022.
Organizers for the National Folk Festival are now accepting applications for the festival’s host city for its 2023-2025 festival dates. Review of applications begins December 1, 2021 and will continue until the winning application is selected. The National Folk Festival is a
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