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.
Each year, the Women’s Section of the American Folklore Society awards two prizes in honor of pioneering scholar Elli Köngäs-Maranda.
AFS member Maida Owens is organizing an interest group to address the intersection of folklore and climate issues. Register now for this planning meeting.
The AFS Independent Folklorists’ Section and the Women’s Section offer an Annual Meeting Award of $750 to attend the AFS Annual Meeting.
The AFS African American Section is proud to call for submissions for this new award, offered to celebrate and encourage African American traditional cultural expression and galvanize folklorists, ethnographers and ethnomusicologists of color to participate in the documentation of African American folklife.
The AFS Women’s Section invites applications for the Polly Stewart Travel Stipends for one or more students to attend the AFS annual meeting.
In October 2022, the second annual Franco Music Forum will take place as part of the Festivals Acadiens et Créoles of the University of Louisiana-Lafayette.
The editors of Digest: A Journal of Foodways and Culture, the journal of the American Folklore Society Foodways Section, are pleased to announce the publication of a new online, open-access issue (Vol. 9 No. 1, 2022).
The main objective of this book is to provide an indispensable reference source for further inquiry into the Little People myths in Taiwan, from a variety of perspectives and disciplines including ethnology, archaeology, and sociology.
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