The updated program for the 2023 Annual Meeting of the American Folklore Society (both online and in Portland) is now available on the AFS Annual Meeting Hub.
Registration is now open for the virtual Decolonization 101 Workshop, which takes place from 8:00 am - 12:30 pm on October 11. Developed for the museum and cultural institution audience, Live Oak Consulting's Decolonization 101 Training will offer vital information to create a basis for cross-cultural understanding.
Nepal Music Archive (NMA) has been establishing efforts in bringing and establishing German ethnomusicologist's Nepali music collection in Nepa in hopes their endeavors will ignite an active discourse and movement around returning many other invaluable scholarly research and intangible heritage back to where they belong.
The Institute for Citizens & Scholars invites applications for its 2024 competition for several fellowships that support either dissertation completion or junior faculty progress toward tenure.
Henry Glassie and Pravina Shukla brings the artists of the Brazilian Northeast in their new book Folk Art: Continuity, Creativity, and the Brazilian Quotidian.
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) announced this year’s NEA National Heritage Fellows, recipients of our nation’s highest honor in the folk and traditional arts.
The American Council of Learned Societies, backed by dozens of its member Societies including AFS, has published a statement admonishing leaders at West Virginia University for large program cuts that will destroy broad access to knowledge across disciplines and interdisciplinary areas. The
We live and produce our senses of community and place on shifting ground. Folklore and other traditional practices offer tools, strategies, and resources for both responding to and catalyzing change. Whether adapting traditional expressive behavior to meet new exigencies during and after
The 10th Volume of the Journal of Folklore and Education offers two issues packed with resources and content.
The Musicology area seeks an outstanding colleague who will assume a leadership role in shaping and implementing an innovative new undergraduate degree program in Community Music while also teaching graduate courses and seminars in the Musicology area.
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