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Editors Michelle May-Curry and Daniel Fisher-Livne are calling for contributors to a new edited volume on theories and practices of the publicly engaged humanities to be published in 2023 by Routledge. Proposal materials are due by December 1, 2021. Authors will be
Patronage and Power in the Medieval Welsh March: One Family’s Story (November 2021), by David Stephenson, is the first full-length study of a Welsh family of the thirteenth to fifteenth centuries who were not drawn from the princely class. Though they were
Join us for a virtual Candidates’ Forum on November 11, 2021, 1:00 PM EST, to hear the candidates for AFS Executive Board and Nominating Committee speak to current concerns in conversation with the current Nominating Committee. Register to attend the live session,
The Department of Music at Vassar College invites applications for a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor in Musicology beginning in fall 2022. Review of applications will begin on November 1, 2021, and may close on that date. This position is part of a
The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) announced the launch of the Sustaining Public Engagement Grant Program, a $3.5 million responsive funding program made possible by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities as part of the Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan initiative (SHARP).
The editors of the JAF just announced that “African American Expressive Culture, Protest, Imagination, and Dreams of Blackness,” the Fall 2021 special issue of JAF: A Global Quarterly (Journal of American Folklore, v. 134, no. 534) is now available online and will arrive in mailboxes soon.
The Department of English at Georgia State University invites applications for a tenure-track colleague in the field of African American folklore and literature at the rank of Assistant Professor to begin August 2022. The candidate will teach a wide range of courses
Michigan State University's Digital Humanities & Literary Cognition Lab is collecting creative work people have been making throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, particularly creative pieces that encourage new conversations, activism, and creativity around the racial and social injustices revealed by the pandemic. Everyone who submits a creative piece and agrees to be included will:
The AFS Archives & Libraries Section Prize Committee has announced the 2021 Polly Grimshaw Prize. Offered in honor of the late Polly Grimshaw, curator of the folklore collection at Indiana University Libraries, the prize consists of a stipend of up to $750.
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