Merrill Kaplan, Associate Professor of Folklore and Scandinavian Studies at The Ohio State University, was recently featured in a Slate Q&A on the topic of “goblin mode” in recent viral media articles.
Applications are now being accepted for summer 2022 fellows seeking to participate in “Reimagining New England Histories: Historical Injustice, Sovereignty and Freedom.” Submissions are due by April 30, 2022.
Most proposal submissions come through easily and successfully, but here are some additional tips if you run into issues outside of business hours.
The organizers of an upcoming workshop on recent research on how the history of emotions has helped broaden academic understanding of the holocaust invite original, unpublished, and historically-informed papers from diverse fields and disciplines that research positive and negative emotions during the Holocaust as well as feelings and affections involved in its postwar responses and memories.
Co-organized by the ERC SOCIOBORD 882549 and “Who Cares in Europe?” COST Action 18119, the organizers of a conference on European religion welcome presentations in the fields of history, ethnography, anthropology, religious studies, sociology, and geography. Submissions are due by April 15, 2022.
The organizers of an upcoming graduate conference on the proliferation in capitalism of new frontiers that are subjected to extractive processes invite proposals. Submissions are due by April 15, 2022.
A special issue of the journal Global Perspectives aims to advance debates about the moral economy by considering key issues from a range of disciplinary perspectives and in different geographical contexts. Papers will cover all periods. Submissions are due by April 22, 2022.
The organizers of a conference on the link between intimacy and violence in gender relations invite paper and panel proposals from scholars working in a diversity of disciplinary backgrounds language/literary studies, sociology, philosophy, psychology, cultural studies, etc.
We invite you to participate in a virtual small-group "salon" discussion of the AFS Fellows Webinar: "Interrogating the Normal: Folkloristic Engagements with Disability." The salon will take place April 1, 12:00-1:30 pm EDT.
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