The 9th dgv Conference of the Section “Digitisation in Everyday Life”, taking place at the Institute of Anthropological Studies in Culture and History at the University of Hamburg on 15-16 September 2022 (tbc), is now open for submissions. The conference theme is
The Design History Forum at Drexel University invites papers for its inaugural Undergraduate Symposium in Material Culture Studies (USMCS) to be held via Zoom on Saturday, March 12th, 2022. We invite students who have taken classes in art history, design history, fashion
Jerusalem Archives’, a collaboration of Jerusalem Development Corporation (HARLI) and Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, is an extensive project of heritage documentation and digitization which aims to locate, expose, and digitize official and personal documentation pertaining to the city’s modern building
Africana Studies at Rutgers University-Camden is collaborating with The Black German Heritage and Research Association (BGHRA) in hosting a four day conference “ALL BLACK LIVES MATTER: Black Germany and Beyond”on February 17-20, 2022. The conference will be the culmination of our year
Registration for the virtual conference on Science and Tech in 21st-Century US Popular Culture is now open and free, and it will be ongoing till the start of the event. You can find all the information (including provisional program) on the conference
Members of the Special Topic on Happiness and Culture of the Popular Culture Association seek paper proposals for the 2022 PCA conference in Seattle. The papers may focus on any aspect of the relationship between happiness (tentatively understood as subjective well-being) and
SoundLore, the Indiana University Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology podcast, recently featured AFS Director of Membership and Information Systems Meredith McGriff and former staff member Jesse Fivecoate, in an episode on their new edited volume Advancing Folkloristics.
The Tennessee Folklore Society has cancelled its annual meeting for 2021 due to Covid-19, and in its place the Society is posting online a group of recordings from sessions at previous annual meetings. “Past Meetings, Year 2: Another TFS Online Sampler” will roll
Folklorist and AFS member Tim Tangherlini was recently interviewed by The Guardian for a story about COVID conspiracy theories. In the article, Tangherlini discusses how he and his colleagues at UCLA and Berkeley used Danish witchcraft folklore as a model for understanding
Folk Stories from the Hills of Puerto Rico / Cuentos folklóricos de las montañas de Puerto Rico (May 2021), by Rafael Ocasio, gathers together Puerto Rican folktales that were passed down orally for generations before finally being transcribed beginning in 1914 by
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