The Department of Special Collections and Archives at Berea College's Hutchins Library has chosen Edward Karshner, Associate Professor of English at Robert Morris University, to receive a 2022 Media Fellowship.
Organizers of a new hybrid international conference by the Netherlands-based Global Institute for Research, Education and Scholarship (GIRES) that seeks to promote the importance of oral history as a valuable and unique source of information are seeking submissions. Proposals are due by July 12, 2022.
AFS is pleased to announce the winners of its inaugural AFS Graduate Fieldwork Grant: Ben Bridges, a fifth-year PhD student at Indiana University, and Zahra Abedinezhad, a second-year PhD student at The Ohio State University.
Islam and Creativity in Popular Culture is a three-day online course that addresses the many new expressions of mass mediated creative arts that make reference to Islam. Registration is rolling.
Calling all scholars in human animal studies/posthumanism/environmental humanities: is your work more interesting than your walk? Is “staying with the trouble” becoming less than troubling? Does your cat have a better turn of phrase than Derrida’s? Sign up now to join a three-day immersive, reflective workshop-exchange in multi-species ethnography, from July 12-14, 2022.
The Southern Humanities Conference invites proposals for papers on any aspect of the theme “Myths and Making,” broadly conceived. Proposals are due by December 15, 2022, but are accepted and reviewed on a rolling basis.
The deadline has been extended for the 2022 Independent and Public Folklore Travel Stipend, which provides support for a member of the Independent Folklorists Section engaged in public folklore to attend the AFS Annual Meeting.
Early bird registration has opened for the 67th Annual Meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology, which will be held jointly with the American Musicological Society and the Society for Music Theory on November 10-13, 2022, in New Orleans.
The Women’s Section of the American Folklore Society sponsors a triennial Croning to honor and celebrate women over 50 in the discipline of folklore at the Annual Meeting.
The committee organizing the Neil Rosenberg Bluegrass Scholar Award is inviting applications until June 30, 2022.
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