The Smithsonian Magazine featured folklorist Ashley Minner in a recent Q&A highlighting her career and her new position as an assistant curator at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian.
The Yale Institute of Sacred Music, an interdisciplinary graduate center for the study and practice of sacred music, worship, and the related arts, invites applications for a post-doctoral associate position in Religion, Ecology, and Expressive Culture. Alongside conducting their own research, the
The Routledge book series, Practicing Oral History, invites proposals for new titles relating to oral history as applied to any discipline. New approaches to the practice are especially welcome.
National Endowment for the Arts published an article by hula dance practitioner and founder of the PA’I Foundation, Vicky Holt Takamine. In this piece, Vicky discusses what inspired her to become an advocate for Native Hawaiian artists an cultural practitioners. Read the
The newest issue of Digest: A Journal of Foodways and Culture (Volume 8, Number 1/2) has just been published. Guest edited by Diane Tye of Memorial University of Newfoundland, the theme of this double issue is “Food in Hard Times.” Access the
These last months of the year are customarily a time for reflection. This is certainly true at AFS, as we work to close out the 2021 annual meeting, and shift to preparing for next year. In that spirit, we’ve compared notes, and offer these preliminary observations about our experiments of the past year.
In September, 2021 the Oral History Association was awarded $825,000 from the NEH American Rescue Plan to create a fellowship and grants program for under/unemployed oral historians, with a focus on oral historians from communities that have historically been marginalized in the field. The Selection
The Library of Congress is now accepting applications for the position of Director for the American Folklife Center Archives. The application deadline is December 23, 2021. Among the duties of the position, the director will serve as a primary advisor to top
“Re-Centering the Periphery” calls us to focus on the intersections of what is marginalized and centralized both in our field and in the larger public debates about national identities in 2022.
Submit your ballot by December 15 for Executive Board and Nominating Committee. Voting began on Thursday, November 11, and this year, it ends December 15, 2021, so you can expect to learn the results before the new year. For this election cycle,
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