Jean Amato, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Kyunghee Pyun, Associate Professor of Art History at the Fashion Institute of Technology of the State University of New York (FIT) are developing two anthologies on the representation of home and ancestral homeland in visual art/literature/film/performing arts. Submissions are due by March 20, 2022.
The organizers of an online seminar on May 13, 2022 are calling for proposals on the design and materiality of illustrated periodicals produced and read against the backdrop of the Cold War. Submissions are due by March 15, 2022.
Invading Russian forces destroyed a museum in Ivankiv, a city northwest of the capital Kyiv, that was home to dozens of works by the Ukrainian folk artist Maria Prymachenko on Sunday, according to the Kyiv Independent.
The organizers of a two-day summer symposium in Berlin on the study of confession are seeking scholars working on adjacent topics to join them in developing new critical approaches on the topic. Submissions are due by March 15, 2022.
Editors of the upcoming collection Culture-bound Syndromes in Popular Culture are calling for abstracts of chapters. Abstracts are due by April 15, 2022.
The American Folklore Society Executive Board signed on to a statement by the American Historical Association historicizing and condemning the numerous bomb threats received by at least 17 Historically Black Colleges and Universities in early 2022.
The FisherPoets Gathering, an Oregon-based annual poetry event with contributions about the occupational folklore of fishing, will be live-streamed on YouTube this year on February 25-26, 2022.
The editors of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam's Stedelijk Studies Journal are looking for approaches, ideas, or experimental projects that align with the broad scope of the Diaspora as a framework for the critical examination of museum collection strategies for its latest issue. Abstracts or artwork proposals are due by March 1, 2022.
The German Historical Institute seeks applications for its next round of short-term research fellowships. Applications are due by April 1, 2022.
The Historic New Orleans Collection seeks an intern to study the preservation of Mardi Gras Indian (or Black Masking) Suits. Applications are due by March 4, 2022.
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