The Tennessee Folklore Society is accepting proposals for its 2022 annual meeting, scheduled for Saturday, November 12, 2022, at the new Tennessee State Library and Archive adjoining Bicentennial Mall in Nashville. Submissions are due by Saturday, September 17, 2022.
The National Association of Black Storytellers (NABS) recently announced its new Black Appalachian Storytellers Fellowship to honor, celebrate, and support Black storytellers residing in the Appalachian counties of Ohio, West Virginia, Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, and North Carolina. Submissions for the fellowship are due by August 20, 2022.
The Transnational Asia/Pacific Section of the American Folklore Society has extended the application deadline for its Saboohi I. Khan Award for Student Scholarship in Asian and Asian American Folklore. Submissions are due by August 15, 2022.
AFS is taking applications for the Zora Neale Hurston Prize. Submissions are due by August 15, 2022.
The National Park Service (NPS) announced $9.7 million in grants to assist 21 preservation projects in nine states for historic structures on campuses of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).
Esther Clinton, professor at Bowling Green State University's Department of Popular Culture, passed away on July 17, 2022.
The National Park Service awarded $537,005 in Tribal Heritage Grants to 11 projects across the country to support the protection of America’s Indigenous cultures.
The organizers of a conference in Aachen, Germany in May of 2023 are calling for paper proposals on the topic of the preconditions of individual narratives of commemoration (sociology of literature, media sociology) and their implications for theories of memory. Submissions are due by October 1, 2022.
The Chair of Science, Technology and Gender Studies (STGS) at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg invites the public to participate in its next guest lecture, by Linda Marie Richards, titled “An Auto/Ethnography of Human Rights and Nuclear Wrongs.” It will take place on July 28, 2022 at 6:00 P.M. CET.
The journal of Western Folklore welcomes essay proposals for a special issue on “Vernacular Islam(s)," guest-edited by Dr. Afsane Rezaei and Dr. Ehsan Estiri. Submissions are due by September 30, 2022.
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