As of December 19, AFS staff are working reduced hours, and the AFS office is closed for winter break from December 23 - January 5. We appreciate your support for AFS staff to spend time with their families during the holiday season.
Edited, translated and introduced by Nancy L. Canepa, this new release provides a representative selection of tales from the Italian fairy-tale tradition, translated into English, now available with a discount from Wayne State University Press.
Registration opens for the 2023 Folklife in the South Gathering on Tuesday, January 17.
Voting opens today on the proposed bylaws amendments, and continues through January 31. Current members will soon receive an email with a link to the secure election system.
West Virginia Mine Wars seeks a Museum Education Coordinator. Applications are due January 13 at midnight.
The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) invites nominations, expressions of interest, and applications for the position of Associate Vice Provost of the Institute of Texan Cultures (ITC).
The Social Science Research Council invites applications from early career researchers for two year-long fellowships to conduct qualitative studies of arts organizations founded by, with, and for communities of color in the United States and Puerto Rico. These fellowships will form part of the SSRC’s Arts Research with Communities of Color (ARCC) program and the Wallace Foundation’s current initiative in the arts. The deadline for submissions is January 6, 2023.
The 2023 issue of the Journal of Folklore and Education invites submissions that call upon ethnographic archives with their documentation of diverse life experiences, perspectives, and vantage points as teaching tools for learning. Submissions accepted between January 1, 2023 - April 1, 2023.
Charlotte Wilson Heth received the 2022 AFS Lifetime Scholarly Achievement Award.
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) announced that grant guidelines and application materials are now available for Challenge America and Grants for Arts Projects (GAP).
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