AFS urges members to take action now by writing or calling state representatives and members of Congress in response to a 35% cut in proposed funding to the NEA and NEH.
Ghosts, Trolls and the Hidden People (Reaktion Books) provides translated tales from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as well as introductions by the author that place these often supernatural happenings in the context of Icelandic society. The anthology is edited by Dagrún Ósk Jónsdóttir, with an introduction by AFS Fellow Jack Zipes.
Quilt Arts of South Africa (Indiana University Press), edited by AFS Fellow Marsha MacDowell, stitches together the history, production, and significance of quilt-making from its earliest appearance in Africa's southernmost region to the twenty-first century.
An interview of folklorist Anna Lomax Wood about her experiences researching the musical traditions of Italian immigrants, among other topics, is featured on Italian American Collective.
AFS congratulates Maygan Barker, Touhidul Islam, Olivia Phillips, and Salma Valadez-Marquez on receiving the 2025 Graduate Fieldwork Grant.
Hungarian folklorist Vilmos Voigt died at the age of eighty-five on June 8, 2025.
Folklorist and ethnologist Ekaterina Anastasova died suddenly at the age of sixty-three on June 15, 2025.
AFS congratulates Dr. Pravina Shukla on receiving the 2025 College of Arts and Sciences James P. Holland and Morley Distinguished Teaching Award from Indiana University.
The Department of English, Philosophy, and World Languages at Arkansas State University opens a call for papers and presentations for the 31st annual Delta Symposium April 8–11, 2026. Special consideration will be given to proposals that specifically address this year's theme of “Monsters, Cryptids, and the Monstrous." The deadline for entries is December 19, 2025.
Ella Hanshaw (1934–2020) wrote hundreds of gospel and country songs in her life. Her works are recorded professionally and released publicly for the first time in SPINSTER's new album Ella Hanshaw’s Black Book.
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