This edited volume, with the working title “Reinventing Presence: Museums and Emerging Technologies,” will examine theoretical approaches and case studies that explore how this “presence culture” can also be applied both in museum spaces and virtual experiences, where visitors engage with objects
The Molly Shi Boren Ethnology Collection at the Sam Noble Museum, University of Oklahoma-Norman Campus, is seeking a full-time Collection Manager to be responsible for the daily operations and management of the museum’s ethnology, classical archaeology, and Native American and natural history
We’re pleased to share these new, important announcements about our upcoming Annual Meeting. Preliminary Program The dates of the conference are now set: October 18-24, 2021, with virtual sessions October 18-20, and in-person sessions in Harrisburg, October 21-23. Some in-person events will
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Submit an article for publication in the 2022 issue of Markers, the scholarly journal of the Association for Gravestone Studies. The subject matter of Markers is defined as the analytical study of gravemarkers, monuments, tombs, and cemeteries of all types and encompassing
Appalachian Food Summit is taking applications for two new fellowships supporting foodways work in the region: the Appalachian Foodways Practitioner Fellowships and Mountain Foodways Media Fellowships. The new Appalachian Foodways Practitioner Fellowships are intended to honor, celebrate, and support foodways tradition bearers
The Vermont Folklife Center is pleased to offer a hybrid online course grounded in ethnography as an approach and set of methods for understanding and representing human experience in a Summer Institute August 2-13. The course content will present strategies and teach
The American Folklife Center is happy to announce a two-part series, “Occupational Folklife and Fieldwork in the Post-Pandemic World: Adaptation, Innovation, and the Future, Parts 1 & 2” on July 13 and 20. Each with live Q&A will feature recent and current
Submit an abstract for a chapter in an anthology on Queer Representation in 21st Century Narratives and Popular Culture published by Routledge India. This edited book aims to put together the contemporary modes and sites of queer representation in the twenty-first century,
An edited book on Visual Ecologies of Placemaking is under contract with Bloomsbury and, due to the recent withdrawal of two contributors, replacement chapters are needed. Preferred proposals would address the Arab and Islamic worlds and African American communities in the United
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