Arts Midwest is now accepting applications for the 2025 Midwest Award for Artists with Disabilities, an award supporting accessibility in the arts and celebrating the work of disabled Midwestern visual artists. This award application will close at 11:59 pm CDT on July 10, 2025, with awardees notified in August 2025.
The College of Humanities and Social Science at George Mason University seeks a 12-minth postdoctoral research fellow in Immigration Research to help build folklore, arts, culture, and storytelling initiatives at the Institute for Immigration Research. The deadline for applications is June 24.
The 2024 AFS Annual Report is now available.
During the 2024 conference and in the months following, AFS staff negotiated with the Albuquerque Convention Center, firmly communicating the unacceptable air and heating conditions our participants, guests, and staff were dealing with during the meeting held in the ABQ Convention Center.
As the AFS Annual Meeting is only four months away, the AFS Executive Board and Annual Meeting team members got to spend some important in-person time in Atlanta, Georgia together. The Executive Board continued discussions for AFS’s long term plans while the team laid groundwork for the October meeting.
Playing the Archive (UCL Press) revisits the trailblazing work of folklorists Iona and Peter Opie, who documented children’s playground games, rhymes, and traditions in mid-20th century Britain, and brings their research into the digital age. This volume is available as an open access PDF.
Folklorist Worth Long died on May 8, 2025 in Atlanta, GA at the age of eighty-nine.
The Humanities Institute and the Center for Folklore Studies at The Ohio State University is hiring for a Post Doctoral Scholar position in Folklore in the Age of Algorithms and AI for the upcoming 2025/2026 academic year. The pay range for this job profile is $61,008–$62,000. The deadline to apply is May 30, 2025.
California Gold (University of California Press) offers a compelling cultural snapshot of a diverse California during the 1930s at the height of the New Deal, drawing on the career of folk music collector Sidney Robertson and the musical culture of often-unheard voices.
The John D. Calandra Italian American Institute has announced the CFP for its 2026 conference on the theme of "Religions, Beliefs, and the Supernatural in Italy and across Italian Mobilities." The deadline for submissions is September 15, 2025.
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