The Winter 2021 issue (v. 135, no. 535) of the JAF: A Global Quarterly has been mailed and will soon be available to AFS members online.
The Center for Washington Cultural Traditions is seeking a new director. Applications are due by March 2, 2022.
We are saddened by the news that AFS Fellow Robert A. Georges has passed and share this remembrance from Simon Bronner: “I am saddened to report the death on January 31, 2022, of folklorist Robert A. Georges, who spent most of his
Gloria Dorson passed away last week in Indianapolis at the age of 90.
In a recent essay in the The Guardian, Nell Leyshon describes the inspiration and issues of her new play Folk, soon to be staged in London, that explores questions of representation and intellectual property in early 20th-century English folk song collecting. The
Recently in The Guardian, critic Kelefa Sanneh placed Roger Abrahams’ Deep Down in the Jungle at the top of his list of the 10 most important books on musical subcultures. Said Sanneh:“In 1964, a folklorist based in Philadelphia managed a neat trick:
Southwest Folklife Alliance seeks to fill two full-time positions: Managing Director and Program Manager.
Guest editors Dawn Keetley, Professor of English and Film, Lehigh University, and Jeffrey A. Tolbert, Assistant Professor of American Studies and Folklore, Pennsylvania State University – Harrisburg, invite proposals for a special issue of the journal Horror Studies on the topic of folk horror. Essays of 6-7,000 words are due by October 3, 2022.
The editors of the online peer-reviewed journal 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century invite proposals for a collection of essays on the ways in which contemporary art and heritage practices have been engaging with forms of nineteenth-century immersive spectacle. Proposals are due by March 1, 2022.
The Centre for the History of Childhood at Oxford University is inviting proposals for a one-day colloquium on July 1, 2022. Submissions are due by February 28, 2022.
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