The American Council of Learned Societies is pleased to present “Forward-Looking Philanthropy: A Virtual Conversation Among Funders and Black Scholars” on Wednesday, March 3, 2021 at 4-5:30 PM EST. Learn more about this event here. This conversation is part of their Humanistic Knowledge in
The National Endowment for the Arts, in partnership with the National Council for the Traditional Arts, will present “The Culture of America: A Cross-Country Visit with the National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage Fellows,” on March 4, 2021 at 8:00 pm
The following Journal of American Folklore articles were the 20 most viewed, printed, or downloaded from JSTOR during 2020. 1. E. C. Perrow. 1915. “Songs and Rhymes from the South.” JAF 28:108.6863 prints, views, or downloads 2. Fletcher Gardner. 1906. “Philippine (Tagalog) Superstitions.” JAF 19:74.6352 prints, views, or downloads
The editors of, Matrix: A Journal for Matricultural Studies, are compiling a special issue that will center around the theme: “The Energy Force of Matriculture in Mythology and Storytelling Around the World,” with a publication date of May 2022. Mythology, storytelling, and story-work hold
The London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research is seeking proposals for “The Place of Memory and the Memory of Place,” a virtual conference taking place June 19–20, 2021. The deadline for proposals is April 10, 2021. Memory is a major theme in contemporary
The J.M.K. Innovation Prize seeks to identify, support, and elevate innovators who are spearheading transformative early-stage projects in the fields of social justice, the environment, and heritage conservation. In 2021, they will award up to ten Prizes, each including a cash award
In light of the ongoing need to reexamine canonical African American writers within the changing contexts of culture, community, and knowledge production, the Project on the History of Black Writing (HBW) at the University of Kansas, in cooperation with the Association for the Preservation of
This handbook offers the most comprehensive, analytic, and multidisciplinary study of oral traditions and folklore in Africa and the African Diaspora to date. Preeminent scholars Akintunde Akinyemi and Toyin Falola assemble a team of leading and rising stars across African Studies research to retrieve
McFarland Press recently published Covid-19 Conspiracy Theories, a book by John Bodner, Wendy Welch, Ian Brodie, Anna Muldoon, Donald Leech, and Ashley Marshall. As the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) spread around the world, so did theories, stories, and conspiracy beliefs about it. These theories
The Comparative American Studies Department at Oberlin College invites applications for a full-time non-continuing faculty position in the College of Arts and Sciences. Appointment to this position will be for a term of two semesters, beginning Fall 2021, and will carry the
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