The AFS Fellows are currently taking names for registration for the Breakfast with a Fellow event, which will take place at the 2024 Annual Meeting of the American Folklore Society in Albuquerque on Friday, November 8, from 7 - 8:30 a.m.
Made By Us announces the opening of applications for the 2025 Civic Season Design Fellowship. People between 18-30 years old who will be based in the U.S. from January to July 2025 are eligible to apply. No prior experience is needed.
AFS has secured an additional and affordable block of rooms at The Clyde Hotel in downtown Albuquerque for the Annual Meeting. You must book by October 25, 2024 to get the conference rate.
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston is seeking an energetic and dynamic curator and scholar to become the Joyce Linde Associate Curator of Folk and Self-Taught Art at a transformational moment for its Art of the Americas program.
The Utah Folk Arts Program (UFAP) is accepting proposals for a contract fieldworker to survey a four county region in Southern Utah. The total amount for this project will be between $10,000 - $12,000. The deadline for submissions is December 2, 2024.
The Department of Performing Arts at Georgetown University invites applications for a full-time tenure-line Assistant Professor position specializing in Black American music to begin on August 1, 2025. The deadline for applications is Nov 10, 2024.
South Arts has compiled a list of resources that may be helpful to artists, arts organizations and communities who have been impacted by the recent hurricane.
Dracula Returns is a conference and celebration marking the 101st anniversary of Dracula’s licensed stage appearance in Derby. Proposals are due by Halloween, 31 October 2024.
In The Medical Carnivalesque: Folklore among Physicians (Indiana University Press), folklorist Lisa Gabbert demonstrates that the occupational corpus of folklore, humor, and backstage talk found among physicians in hospital contexts reveals remarkable similarities to Bakhtin's descriptions of medieval carnival.
As you review the program online, bookmark individual sessions and events in the 2024 Annual Meeting platform to build your schedule for the on-site and virtual portions of the meeting. Use the "bookmarked" filter to view your personalized schedule.
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