The University of Oregon’s Department of English invites applications for a tenure track position at the rank of Assistant Professor in Late Medieval Literature and Culture to begin September 2025. Application deadline is November 30, 2024.
The American Folklore Society will gather for its 137th Annual Meeting in Atlanta, Georgia from October 18 to 21, 2025. It will be following the 2025 Oral History Association Annual Meeting and be followed by the 2025 Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting. Call for Proposals will be announced in the spring of 2025.
Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library has announced that it is accepting applicants for the 2025–2026 cohort through short-term, maker-creator, dissertation, and postdoctoral awards. Fellowships can be completed between September 1, 2025 and August 31, 2026. Application deadline is January 15, 2025.
The Summer Institute in Museum Anthropology (SIMA) is now accepting proposals from prospective graduate student participants for its 2025 program, which will be held at the National Museum of Natural History from June 23 – July 18, 2025. Application deadline is March 1, 2025.
The Museum of International Folk Art (MOIFA) announces the launch of a new Summer Research Fellowship Program. Fellows will spend 4–6 weeks in Santa Fe, NM working on a research project related to MOIFA’s folk art and library and archives collections, as well as engaging with MOIFA staff members and the local community. Application deadline is January 17, 2025.
Center yourself in Albuquerque through care and wellness sessions scheduled each morning at the Annual Meeting.
AFS thanks numerous sponsors for their support of the 2024 Annual Meeting.
Listen to The UPside, a podcast conversation between editors Lisa Gilman and Anand Prahlad about the special issue of the Journal of American Folklore on folklore and disability.
AFS is grateful for the support of New Mexico Arts and Folk Arts Program Coordinator, Amy Mills for their guidance planning and producing the 136th Annual Meeting in Albuquerque.
The National Humanities Alliance is pleased to launch their new report, Attracting Students to the Liberal Arts Through Integrative Curricula. The report illustrates how undergraduate courses and programs that integrate the humanities, social sciences, and/or natural sciences with applied approaches and pre-professional training help to demonstrate the value of a broad-based education to skeptical students.
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