Dr. Cristina Benedetti will deliver the lecture, “Gathering on the National Mall: Infrastructures, Logistics, and Political Meaning-Making” on May 27, 2021 at 2:00 PM EDT. The National Mall in Washington, DC is a site of human meaning-making animated by various kinds of
Editors Jack Hunter and Rachael Ironside seek chapter submissions for Folklore, People and Place, a proposed volume for consideration by Routledge in the book series, “Routledge Advances in Tourism and Anthropology: People, place and world.” This book is an exploration of the role
The Lewis Prize for Music—a creative arts philanthropy that invests in youth music programs to facilitate positive community change—is opening the application for its annual Accelerator Awards on May 18, 2021. Three multi-year awards of $500,000 each will be awarded in January
In conversation with leaders of the Jewish cultural studies movement, Simon J. Bronner, Dean of the College of General Studies and Distinguished Professor of Social Sciences at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, launches the release of his provocative book Jewish Cultural Studies,
Anthropologist, distinguished educator, and museum professional Johnnetta Betsch Cole will deliver the 2021 Charles Homer Haskins Prize Lecture, which celebrates scholarly careers of distinctive importance. This is a FREE event presented by the American Council of Learned Societies at 3 PM EDT
Building on the virtual forum on race at the AFS 2020 Virtual Annual Meeting, this webinar turns to Latinidades and features four folklorists who will engage is in a discussion about folklorists studying both their own and other cultures. Featured speakers are José
The 10th International Conference of Young Folklorists will take place online from May 19 to 21 and will explore the productive tension between tradition and innovation. The international conference is organized by the Department of Estonian and Comparative Folklore (University of Tartu), and Tartu Nefa Group, in
Northwest Folklife (NWFL) seeks an Artistic Director responsible for providing artistic vision with a social justice lens and for nurturing established and emerging cultural communities. The Artistic Director serves as Northwest Folklife’s primary creative content officer and sets and fulfills Northwest Folklife’s
South Arts, located in Atlanta, GA, seeks a new Assistant Director of Traditional Arts. he Assistant Director is responsible for supporting the implementation of the South Arts initiative, In These Mountains, Central Appalachian Folk Arts & Culture, and other traditional arts programming including
The Johnny Cash Heritage Festival, scheduled for Oct. 15–16, 2021, invites proposals for virtual presentations. They would especially welcome proposals for presentations that break away from the standard format of reading research papers, appealing to specialists and non-specialists alike. Research and artistic
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