The Rosenberg Bluegrass Scholar Award is an annual cash award, presented to the developing academic scholar who presents the best paper accepted by a juried academic conference on an aspect of bluegrass music. The recipient will receive a $500 honorarium plus admission to the next IBMA Business Conference and Awards Show. The annual deadline to apply is June 30.
The winner of the Elaine J. Lawless Travel Award for 2022, which is sponsored by the Folk Belief and Religious Folklife Section, is Millie Tullis (Utah State University).
Winners and accolades recipients of the 2022 Aesop Prize were announced at the AFS Annual Meeting.
Daisy Ahlstone (Ph.D. Student, Ohio State University) and Nichola Miller shared the 2022 Folklore and Science Junior Prize.
The Folklife Internship provides experiences in archival practice, cultural heritage research, and programming, while building participants’ knowledge about ethnographic materials. Applications are due March 17, 2023.
Western States Folklore Society will host their 81st Annual Meeting in person at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, April 14-15, 2023. The theme for this year’s conference is “Folklore, Time, and Temporality.” The deadline for submitting abstracts for presentations has been extended to February 20, 2023.
The five AFS Bylaws amendments proposed by the Executive Board in 2022 have been approved by AFS members, reaching the 66% approval threshold required by the AFS Bylaws. Proposals 1-5 will go into immediate effect.
Dra. Foulis interviewed esteemed scholar, writer and folklorist, Norma Elia Cantú for on her podcast, Latin@ Stories. Cantú discusses her writings on La Frontera as a place of memory, cultural vibrancy and home.
The 11th annual Chennai Storytelling Festival takes place each weekend throughout the month of February. The festival is free and is accessible through Zoom.
The Black Banjo & Fiddle Fellowship (BBFF) is a collaboration between the Oakland Public Conservatory of Music and the Berkeley Old Time Music Convention. Awards will be up to $15,000 over the period of two years (2023-2025). Applications are due February 15, 2023.
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