This year, AFS is looking for volunteers for each portion of our annual meeting. Volunteers who host three sessions (most are 90 minutes) or work 4 hours in Harrisburg will receive a full meeting registration refund or waiver.
The Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University seeks applicants for a tenure track Assistant Professorship in ethnomusicology to begin in Fall of 2022. Applications received by December 1, 2021 will be assured full consideration.
Students who are registered for the 2021 AFS Annual Meeting may sign up for AFS Virtual Round Table: Tea Time with Fellows on Tuesday, October 12 at 11:00 am EDT.
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Conscious History: Polish Jewish Historians before the Holocaust (August 2021), by Natalia Aleksiun, highlights the historical scholarship that is one of the lasting legacies of interwar Polish Jewry.
Indiana University Press is hosting a virtual book launch event for What Folklorists Do: Professional Possibilities in Folklore Studies on October 5, 2021, from 5:30 to 6:30 pm Eastern time with the book’s editor, former AFS Executive Director Timothy Lloyd. Lloyd will
The Irish Association for American Studies (IAAS) is inviting proposals for its 2021 IAAS Postgraduate Symposium. Proposals are due by September 24, 2021.
Drs. Andrea Germer and Jasmin Rückert of Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf invite contributions to an edited volume titled “Gendering Fascism” and hope for theoretically grounded empirical case studies within the time frame of the 1920s through the 1940s. Abstracts are due by September 30, 2021.
Elena Dundovich (University of Pisa) and Simone A. Bellezza (University of Naples Federico II) are seeking chapter proposals for an edited volume on the transnational history of LGBTQ+ rights in the post-Soviet space. Proposals are due by September 30, 2021.
As part of an ongoing series of symposia on public participation in museums, the University of Luxembourg's Centre for Contemporary and Digital History invites proposals for a one-day online international event. This online symposium “Participation and public interpretations: How to navigate multiple historical narratives in museums?” will take place on 7 December 2021. Abstracts are due by September 30, 2021.
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