This Thursday, July 22nd, from 6:00 to 8:00 pm is the third in a four-part online series, Negotiating Cultural Appropriation: Lineage, Teaching & Relationships, where teaching artists in dance and music from across the country deliberate on salient issues regarding the politics
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University of Massachusetts Press has released “Still They Remember Me”: Penobscot Transformer Tales, Volume 1. Newell Lyon learned the oral tradition from his elders in Maine’s Penobscot Nation and was widely considered to be a “raconteur among the Indians.” The thirteen stories
The latest issue of Folklorica, the journal of the Slavic, East European and Eurasian Folklore Association, has been released. Folklorica XXIV is a special thematic issue dedicated to emergent vernacular responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in various sites in Eastern Europe. The
American Folklife Center, West Virginia Folklife Center, and Lost Creek Farm are happy to announce the Homegrown Foodways in West Virginia program, a series of four films that explore a range of food traditions in the state. All films will premiere on
Steve Zeitlin’s new Poetry of Everyday Life blog post, “Folklore’s Four Sisters: Scholarship, Fieldwork, Activism and Artistry” suggests that there are (at least) four distinctive sides or approaches to folklore—fieldwork (body), scholarship (mind), activism (heart), and artistry (soul), and that some of
In Explaining, Interpreting, and Theorizing Religion and Myth: Contributions in Honor of Robert A. Segal, nineteen renowned scholars offer a collection of essays addressing the persisting question of how to approach religion and myth as academic categories. Taking their cue from the
America250, the federal program established by the U.S. Semiquincentennial Commission to assist in preparations for the nation’s Semiquincentennial, has just announced a slate of new positions, two of which could be of interest to those in the humanities, including those with folklore
We’re excited by the news that IU Folklore and Ethnomusicology doctoral candidate Gloria M. Colom Braña started her work this week as the Historic Preservation Program Manager with the City of Bloomington, Indiana. Gloria had been working with AFS this past year,
After much deliberation and lively discussion among the JAF editorial team and the AFS Executive Board, the Journal of American Folklore has a bold new look consistent with the recent redesign of the brand and website of the American Folklore Society. Additionally,
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