The theme for the 2025 Annual Meeting of the American Folklore Society is Restoring and ReStorying: Missing Stories and Moving Forward. The Local Organizing Committee is excited to offer this framework for the conference, but adhering to the theme is optional and will not affect acceptance.
The American Folklore Society will sponsor a session in the 2026 MLA Convention themed Family Resemblances. AFS@MLA invites proposals on this theme that may help illuminate the field of folklore for the non-folklorists who constitute the bulk of the MLA’s membership. Deadline for submitting a proposal is March 15, 2025.
The Alabama State Council on the Arts (ASCA) seeks a skilled and innovative audio producer to oversee all aspects of producing Arts Fell on Alabama, a two-minute weekly radio show and podcast that highlights the stories of Alabama’s artists, cultural traditions, and creative community. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until the position is filled.
The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) announces the 2025 Leading Edge Fellowship program, offering 16 two-year fellowship opportunities with mission-driven social justice nonprofits for recent humanities and interpretive social sciences PhDs. Each Leading Edge Fellow will earn a minimum yearly stipend of $70,000 that increases in the second year. Application deadline is March 12, 2025, 9:00 PM EDT. An informational webinar will be held on March 5.
The editors of Jewish Folklore and Ethnology (JFE) invite submissions for a special issue on “The Folklore and Ethnology of Antisemitism, Old and New.” They seek studies that use the evidence of folklore and ethnology to analyze the platforms, practices, processes of material/visual culture, and contents of cultural antisemitism in recent and historic situations.
Bernard L. Herman, renowned scholar of American material culture and George B. Tindall Professor of Southern Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, died on December 30, 2024.
US RAOs recently released their new funding program, Walking Together, which offers grants from $15,000 - $50,000. Webinars and office hours are available for additional information. The initial self-nomination deadline is Wednesday, March 19.
The KGOU podcast How Curious, which is hosted and produced by folklorist Rachel Hopkin, wins the 2025 Bruce T. Fisher Award from the Oklahoma Historical Society “in recognition of its outstanding work contributing to the broader public knowledge of Oklahoma history.”
Grants for Arts Projects (GAP) is NEA's principal grant program. Through project-based funding, the program supports public engagement with, and access to, various forms of art across the nation, the creation of excellent art, learning in the arts at all stages of life, and the integration of the arts into the fabric of community life. The deadline for this cycle of GAP funding is March 11, 2025 at 11:59 pm ET.
The 2024 Annual Meeting brought together nearly 900 US and international specialists in folklore and folklife, folk narrative, popular culture, music, material culture, and related fields to exchange work and ideas and to create and strengthen relationships and networks.
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