2022 Annual Meeting

Tulsa, here we come! The 134th annual meeting of the American Folklore Society will be held October 12–15, in Tulsa, Oklahoma at the Hyatt Regency Tulsa. The theme of the meeting is Re-Centering the Periphery.

We’re planning an accessible in-person meeting.

There are loads of reasons to get excited about Tulsa!

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Annual Meeting

Financial Support

You can defer your registration payment until later (choose “bill me” at check out), and/or you can apply for financial assistance for registration or membership fees.

Every little gift can make a big difference

With your help, we can make the AFS annual meeting more accessible than ever.

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Plan to Participate

The deadline for proposals has passed. The Review Committee is now at work reviewing all the submissions.

We aim to share a preliminary program by the end of June.

Stay tuned for developing information for attendees as well as local information, which are both resources that will grow as we get closer to the meeting.

We’re Planning an Accessible In-Person Meeting

We’re looking forward to a full-scale gathering in person this year. We can’t wait to see you there!

This year, in order to continue our initiatives to make the Annual Meeting as widely accessible as possible, we took proposals for virtual paper presentations from those who cannot travel. Now, in the review and scheduling phase of our planning, we are looking for ways to integrate them into a limited number of hybrid panels.

We will release more information as it becomes available.

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photograph of the Center of the Universe landmark in Tulsa, OK — The Center of the Universe is a well-known landmark in downtown Tulsa, Oklahoma. While it is visually just a small concrete circle in the middle of a larger brick circle, it garners interest because it is the site of an acoustic phenomenon; if you stand in the center of the circle and make a sound, it is echoed back to you much louder. Photo by Brad Lovell.

Sponsors, Exhibitors, and Advertisers

Now, more than ever, we have many options for raising awareness of your work, services or products.

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View from above of many people gathered in a hotel lobby around posters and exhibit tables — Attendees mingle and interact with local artists demonstrating their work at the 2019 Annual Meeting of the American Folklore Society in Baltimore. Photo by Meredith McGriff

Special Event Request

The deadline for proposals for special events was March 31, but we will still take requests for social events. We will accommodate them on a first come, first-served basis, as capacity allows.

Preliminary information is sufficient to be given full consideration in scheduling. You don’t have to register to submit.

Request a Special Event