announcement from Southwest Folklife Alliance It is with humility and sadness that we share our beloved teacher, elder, and Tucson Meet Yourself Folklife Festival co-founder, Dr. James S. “Big Jim” Griffith has transitioned from this earth. Big Jim passed quietly and peacefully
The following AFS members were elected to office in the balloting that ended December 15: Executive Board (2022-2024): Karen (Queen Nur) Abdul-Malik, National Association of Black Storytellers; Clemmons Family Farm Tim Frandy, Western Kentucky University Meltem Türköz, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul Karen (Queen
The American Folklore Society's Folk Belief and Religious Folklife Section has awarded Cade Williams, an A.B. candidate in Anthropology and Folklore and Mythology at Harvard College, the 2021 William A. Wilson prize for the best undergraduate student paper in Religious folklife and folk belief.
In awarding the 2021 Kenneth Goldstein Award for Lifetime Academic Leadership to Dorothy Noyes at its Annual Meeting last October, the American Folklore Society celebrated her outstanding achievements in advancing the work of students and colleagues, of the Center for Folklore Studies at The Ohio State University, of the American Folklore Society, and of the field as a whole.
Varick Chittenden and Teresa Hollingsworth were named as the 2021 recipients of the AFS Benjamin A. Botkin prize for significant lifetime achievement in public folklore at the Annual Meeting in October. This prize, awarded each year by the AFS Executive Board and
Organizers are inviting submissions for a conference to be held at Trinity College Dublin from October 27-28, 2022 titled "‘Demons Good and Bad’ — An interdisciplinary perspective."
Dr. Joyce Marie Jackson has been honored for Lifetime Contributions to the Humanities by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities. According to the LEH website, the award “recognizes those who have supported and been involved in public appreciation of issues central to
The Folklore Society of London, U.K. is seeking submissions for its annual conference, taking place virtually from May 6-8, 2022.
The Society for Ethnomusicology is seeking proposals for its 67th Annual Meeting on November 10-13, 2022. Proposals are due by February 15, 2022.
Nikolaos Papadogiannis and Rachel Love of the University of St. Andrews are seeking submissions for the upcoming conference titled "Reactions to HIV/AIDS Since the 1980s: Transnational and Comparative History Perspectives," to be held in a hybrid format at the University of St. Andrews from August 30-31, 2022.
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