This year, we've taken several steps to make the 2022 AFS Annual Meeting more accessible to those with financial need.
The recording is now available for the AFS workshop, “Climate Change Needs Folklorists!,” with Maida Owens (Louisiana Folklife Program and the Bayou Culture Collaborative) that took place February 22, 2022.
A group of scholars have organized an international data rescue session focused on identifying and archiving data and sites for music collections at cultural heritage institutions in Ukraine which may be at risk during the attack and invasion by Russia. The session will occur on Saturday, March 5, 2022.
The National Council for the Traditional Arts (NCTA) offers a first glimpse at the year ahead in traditional arts with the release of their 2022 Festival Season, including the National Folk Festival in Salisbury, Maine, and Folk Festivals in Lowell, Massachusetts; Butte, Montana; Greensboro, North Carolina; and Richmond, Virginia.
The National Council of Traditional Arts (NCTA) released the March edition of its Resilience, Reframing, Actions (RARRA) Newsletter. It features resources and funding opportunities from Alliance for California Traditional Arts (ACTA), The Library of Congress, The Legacy Foundation, and others.
Discover hundreds of exciting professional opportunities available on the American Folklore Society Career Center.
The Leiden University Centre for the Study of Islam and Society (LUCIS) will offer its fourth summer school from August 23–September 2, 2022) on philology and manuscripts from the Muslim world, with lectures by experts, hands-on classes, and much practice with manuscripts from its famous collection of oriental manuscripts. The deadline for applications is Friday June 17, 2022
The Department of History at the European University Institute (EUI) is seeking applications for its eighteenth Summer School in Global and Transnational History, which will take place on September 12–14, 2022, in an online format. Applications are due by April 30, 2022.
The Schoharie River Center presents the first annual Mayfly Film Festival, which seeks to curate an inspiring program of diverse films that are focused on the environment, and our relationship with it. Submissions are due by August 28, 2022.
The Langston Hughes Society invites proposals for its annual panel at the South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA) conference on the vital topic of images of resistance and revolutionary change in African-American literature. Submissions are due by July 1, 2022.
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