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

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You can defer your registration payment until later (choose “Pay by invoice” "Pay by invoice" in the Payment Information section of the registration form), and/or you can apply for financial assistance for registration or membership fees.

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Check out the Online Program!

Our revised program is now available on the AFS Annual Meeting Hub, full of lectures, events, sessions, and other exciting programming at the upcoming Tulsa meeting. The program is still growing, but there’s already a lot to look forward to! Start browsing and planning your agenda.

Online Program

There will also be a number of great tours and workshops, some of which will require pre-registration.

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 sent a message regarding the Review Committee’s acceptance decisions on 7/1/22. Let us know if you submitted a proposal and haven’t yet received a response: [email protected]

Annual Meeting FAQ
Wonder what’s going on with annual meeting planning? Read on to find answers to your questions.

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. The Review Committee integrated accepted virtual proposals into a limited number of hybrid panels, whose recordings will be available asynchronously to registrants after the conference.

Key plenary content will be livestreamed for a virtual audience.

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