The 2024 AFS Annual Report is now available.
During the 2024 conference and in the months following, AFS staff negotiated with the Albuquerque Convention Center, firmly communicating the unacceptable air and heating conditions our participants, guests, and staff were dealing with during the meeting held in the ABQ Convention Center.
As the AFS Annual Meeting is only four months away, the AFS Executive Board and Annual Meeting team members got to spend some important in-person time in Atlanta, Georgia together. The Executive Board continued discussions for AFS’s long term plans while the team laid groundwork for the October meeting.
Playing the Archive (UCL Press) revisits the trailblazing work of folklorists Iona and Peter Opie, who documented children’s playground games, rhymes, and traditions in mid-20th century Britain, and brings their research into the digital age. This volume is available as an open access PDF.
Folklorist Worth Long died on May 8, 2025 in Atlanta, GA at the age of eighty-nine.
The Humanities Institute and the Center for Folklore Studies at The Ohio State University is hiring for a Post Doctoral Scholar position in Folklore in the Age of Algorithms and AI for the upcoming 2025/2026 academic year. The pay range for this job profile is $61,008–$62,000. The deadline to apply is May 30, 2025.
California Gold (University of California Press) offers a compelling cultural snapshot of a diverse California during the 1930s at the height of the New Deal, drawing on the career of folk music collector Sidney Robertson and the musical culture of often-unheard voices.
The John D. Calandra Italian American Institute has announced the CFP for its 2026 conference on the theme of "Religions, Beliefs, and the Supernatural in Italy and across Italian Mobilities." The deadline for submissions is September 15, 2025.
The Mythos as MythUS 2025 summer school (June 23–30) is open to anyone with an interest in mythology, classical studies, literature, history, anthropology, and related fields. It will be held on the island of Naxos, Greek and includes more than 5 days of lectures and workshops.
On Friday evening, May 2, 2025, numerous grants that were awarded or pending from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) were terminated or withdrawn. Take action to restore funding and staff at the NEA.
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