AFS is in direct communication with leaders of the Local 8 chapter of Unite Here to learn how to support workers demonstrating this week in Portland.
AFS has just learned that teachers in the Portland city school district plan to strike starting Wednesday Nov. 1. We want participants in the meeting to be aware of the impending strike and to learn ways to support the teachers where possible.
As of October 27, the AFS office is effectively closed. Staff members are working hard to make the 2023 AFS Annual Meeting a success, so they may not be available to respond quickly to your email. If your question does not relate to the Annual Meeting, please expect a response after Nov. 17.
Get out to see AFS authors Ghassan Zeineddine and Emily Hilliard, who will be giving readings of their books during the Annual Meeting in Portland.
This year, the American Folklore Society is offering three commemorative notebooks to highlight the work of Oregon and Washington artists as part of the Annual Meeting in Portland. These Annual Meeting notebooks are designed to facilitate notetaking, doodling, planning, and networking throughout the meeting and beyond.
The American Folklore Society is pleased to have received a major gift to endow the longstanding Benjamin A. Botkin Prize, which is presented annually to an individual (or sometimes two) for significant lifetime achievement in public folklore. The endowment, which was provided by Botkin’s daughter, Dorothy Rosenthal, of Amherst, MA, allows AFS to increase the prize amount while also securing the distribution of future awards.
Finding the Singing Spruce: Musical Instrument Makers and Appalachia’s Mountain Forests (West Virginia University Press) considers the meanings of work, place, and creative expression in drawing music from wood.
Gwen Meister, Folklorist and Director of Nebraska Folklife, died October 16, 2023.
In honor of the AFS Annual Meeting, “Counter Memes and Anti-Legends in Online Welfare Discourse” by Tom Mould will be freely available on the Scholarly Publishing Collective from November 1, 2023 to January 31, 2024.
The Journal of American Folklore/JAF: A Global Quarterly is searching for a new editor or editorial team to transition into the term beginning in January 2025.
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