Sheila Bock examines the ways in which people’s reactions to the novel coronavirus pandemic have mirrored other, earlier public health scares from the bubonic plague to Ebola in an essay in the University of Nevada, Las Vegas News Center. See Sheila Bock,
Maribel Alvarez, of the University of Arizona Southwest Center, identifies folklorists as “first responders” in times of great change or transition as she states that “folklorists can sense small shifts in human behavior that others might at first overlook or dismiss as
The New York Times spotlights the efforts of the Library of Congress to document internet culture, with a shout-out to John Fenn and the Web Cultures collection, overseen by the American Folklife Center. See Steven Kurutz, “Meet Your Meme Lords,” The New York Times (April 7, 2020):
Susan Eleuterio is a folklorist, educator, and consultant to non-profits. Eleuterio has been a member of AFS since 1976, has co-chaired the Public Programs and Independent Folklorists Sections, helped to found the Applied (now Public Programs) Section, and has been a trainer
Theresa Vaughan attended her first American Folklore Society meeting in Jacksonville, FL in 1992, driving for two days each way in a van with a bunch of other graduate students from IU—most of whom are still speaking to each other all these
Kate Horigan is a professor in the Folk Studies and Anthropology Department at Western Kentucky University. She received her MA in English from Tulane University and her PhD in English and Folklore from The Ohio State University. She specializes in narrative, memory and commemoration,
The Folklore and Education Section co-conveners, Jan Rosenberg and Rebecca Smith, are happy to share a list of folklore and education related sessions at the upcoming AFS Baltimore meeting that may be of interest to attendees. Paddy Bowman compiled the list and
The Folklore and Education Section will now publish items of interest on the AFS website in an online incarnation of the Folklore and Education Newsletter. All news and announcements, reports, features or notes that concern folklore and education can be published as they
Explore “Cooking with Folklore”: an adventure for the taste buds across the interdisciplinary realm of food. Collected by Folklore and Public Culture students at the University of Oregon, the recipes included in this cookbook are representative of Italian, English, German, Dutch, Irish,
By Zoe van Buren, Folklife Specialist, North Carolina Arts Council – At the North Carolina Arts Council, the Folklife Program is in its 13th year administering the Traditional Arts Programs for Students (TAPS) program, which has had incredible success across the state supporting
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