The 11th International Digital Storytelling Conference, "Radical Listening — Story Work for a Just Future" will be co-hosted by a US regional partnership including the University of Maryland Baltimore County, Montgomery College, the Smithsonian Institution's Office of Educational Technology, and StoryCenter, the internationally acclaimed non-profit digital storytelling organization. The call for proposals has been extended, with a final submission deadline of January 27, 2023.
Applications are due February 2 for the 2023 Berea College Media Archives Fellowship, an outreach program of the Special Collections and Archives (SCA) department of the College's Hutchins Library.
The Virginia Folklife Program seeks one or more paid interns for Summer 2023. Online applications are due Friday, March 31.
The Foodways Section of the American Folklore Society invites submissions for the Sue Samuelson Award for best student paper on food and foodways. Papers should be based on original fieldwork or research and utilize current folkloric approaches to analysis and interpretation. All entries must be received by March 1.
Margaret A. Cargill Philanthropies is offering a paid Summer 2023 internship this year to work with their Arts & Cultures domain. The deadline is Feb. 3, 2023.
Claiborne Rice (Associate Professor of English at Louisiana State University) received the 2022 Folklore and Science Senior Prize.
Applications for the 2023 Appalachian Foodways Practitioner Fellowships are now open, with applications due February 1.
Log in to the AFS Annual Meeting Hub to play recordings of hybrid programs in Tulsa.
Jan Rosenberg, AFS lifetime member, died on January 7, 2023.
Jerrilyn McGregory (professor in folklore in the Department of English, Florida State University) received the Chicago Folklore Prize, honoring the best book of folklore scholarship of the year, for One Grand Noise: Boxing Day in the Anglicized Caribbean World (2022).
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