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The AFS Review publishes a wide range of materials, including essays, notes, queries, as well as all the materials once included in the AFS Newsletter (news, reports, job postings, program listings, etc.). The goal of the AFSR is to give us a place to reflect on, revise, or refine the things we do every day that actually instantiate folklore studies in the world, by providing a space to publish new conversations, and to capture conversations that are already taking place, in various forms of communication, among and by practicing folklorists.

Please send all AFS Review submissions to the AmericanFolkloreSociety@gmail.com, for the attention of AFSR editor Sally Van de Water.

News
Friday, June 14, 2013   (0 Comments - view/add)
Registration Open for 2013 Annual Meeting Tours »
The afternoon walking tours that will take place during the annual meeting in Providence, RI, have been finalized and registration is now open. This year's...
Wednesday, June 12, 2013   (0 Comments - view/add)
AFS British Folk Studies Section Launches Facebook Page »
The AFS British Folk Studies Section now has a Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/pages/British-Folk-Studies/394129697372381 . Contact Section convener Timothy Wert at britishfolkstudies@gmail.com for more information about...
Monday, June 10, 2013   (0 Comments - view/add)
NEA Announces 2013 National Heritage Fellowship Recipients »
The National Endowment for the Arts has just released the list of winners of its 2013 National Heritage Fellowships. These nine recipients of the "nation's...
Monday, June 10, 2013   (2 Comments - view/add)
Wolfgang Mieder Receives Europäischer Märchenpreis 2012 »
For his life's work, Wolfgang Mieder of the University of Vermont has been awarded the 2012 Europäischer Märchenpreis (European Fairytale Prize) from the Märchen-Stiftung Walter...
Wednesday, June 05, 2013   (0 Comments - view/add)
2013 AFS Annual Meeting Preliminary Program Posted »
The preliminary program has been posted to the 2013 Annual Meeting page at  http://www.afsnet.org/?page=2013AM2 , along with other meeting related announcements. We will collect requests...

Did You Know...?
Friday, June 14, 2013   (0 Comments - view/add)
The Journal of American Folklore Is Only One of AFS's Many Publications »
Many people think that AFS publishes only the  Journal of American Folklore , but did you know that the American Folklore Society’s active and growing publications and...
Monday, May 13, 2013   (0 Comments - view/add)
AFS Annual Reports Trace Developments Since Late 1990s Strategic Planning »
Annual reports describing AFS's activities for most of the last 12 years are available on the AFS web site. You can find them from the...
Monday, April 22, 2013   (0 Comments - view/add)
AFS Members Are Willing to Serve as Promotion and Tenure Reviewers »
AFS maintains on online roster of senior scholars willing to serve as promotion and tenure reviewers for younger scholars. The Roster of Promotion and Tenure...
Friday, March 29, 2013   (0 Comments - view/add)
Tips for Submitting a Proposal over the Weekend »
Year after year, hundreds of proposals for the annual meeting are submitted in the last two days before the deadline for submissions; in the last...
Tuesday, February 26, 2013   (0 Comments - view/add)
JFRR Delivers Reviews to Your Inbox »
Starting its eighth year of operation, the Journal of Folklore Research Reviews publishes quality reviews of scholarly works of interest to folklorists and fellow travelers,...

Notes
Thursday, February 07, 2013   (1 Comment - view/add)
“The Role of 'Creating Spaces of Possibility' in Cultural Continuity" (AFS 2012 Diamond Session) »
by Betty J. Belanus (Smithsonian Institution) – Our diamond session took place on October 25, 2012, and included seven presentations (see the list of participants...
Friday, November 30, 2012   (0 Comments - view/add)
Formal Mentoring at AFS Annual Meeting »
AFS is currently experimenting with formal mentorship programs at the annual meeting and beyond. At this year’s meeting in New Orleans, AFS organized two trial...
Friday, November 30, 2012   (0 Comments - view/add)
Gates and Raim Awarded 2012 Benjamin A. Botkin Prize »
At its recent annual meeting in New Orleans, the American Folklore Society named two prominent American folklorists as the 2012 recipients of its prestigious Benjamin...
Friday, November 09, 2012   (0 Comments - view/add)
Mieder Awarded AFS Lifetime Scholarly Achievement Award »
We are pleased to announce that the 2012 recipient of the American Folklore Society Lifetime Achievement Award is Wolfgang Mieder. Professor of German at the...
Wednesday, September 12, 2012   (2 Comments - view/add)
JAF 125/497 Focuses on African American Folklore »
The Summer 2012 JAF, issue no. 497 is one that we are very proud of. Since we are on the count-down to issue 500, we...

Reports
Wednesday, June 05, 2013   (0 Comments - view/add)
Two New Consultancy and Professional Development Reports Added to AFS Web Site »
We've just added two new reports from AFS-supported public folklore consultancies and professional development opportunities to the AFS web site: A report by Mike Luster...
Friday, May 31, 2013   (0 Comments - view/add)
Three New Consultancy Reports Added to AFS Web Site »
We've just added three new reports from AFS-supported public folklore consultancies to the AFS web site: A report by Carole Boughter on transition and succession...
Tuesday, May 14, 2013   (0 Comments - view/add)
Reports from New Public Folklore Consultancy Projects Now on AFS Site »
We've just posted two new reports from recent AFS-supported Consultancy and Professional Development Program activities to the AFS website: 1. A report by independent folklorists...
Tuesday, March 19, 2013   (0 Comments - view/add)
Leadership, Succession, and Transition in Public Sector Folklore: 2012 AFS Workshop Report »
Read the report on two workshops on leadership, transition, and succession in public sector folklore produced at last year's AFS meeting in New Orleans, prepared...
Tuesday, December 11, 2012   (0 Comments - view/add)
Report on AFS's Third China-US Intangible Cultural Heritage Conference »
On November 17-18, 2012, the AFS, Vanderbilt University, and the National Research Center of Cultural Industries of Central China Normal University sponsored the third in...

Essays
Monday, January 14, 2013   (2 Comments - view/add)
Folklore Studies in China and the China Folklore Society: A Brief Introduction »
by Juwen Zhang (Willamette University/Dartmouth College) -- At the beginning of the 20th century, China experienced the decline of the Manchu Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), the...
Monday, October 08, 2012   (0 Comments - view/add)
On Jay Mechling’s “You Can’t Teach Folklore” »
by Bob Bethke (University of Delaware, retired) -- Editor’s note: The essay by Jay Mechling discussed in the essay below appeared as part of the...
Monday, September 17, 2012   (1 Comment - view/add)
Time for a Dialogue? »
by Lee Haring -- Folklore studies and translation studies are two fields that have grown and matured in recent years, without noticing each other. They...
Wednesday, March 07, 2012   (0 Comments - view/add)
Some Legendary Takes on Hurricane Katrina »
This essay is a redacted version of the first section of a much longer article that will appear in the Spring 2012   Journal of...
Wednesday, February 22, 2012   (3 Comments - view/add)
Richard Dorson, Folklore, and Recent Historical Scholarship »
A Comment on Interdisciplinary Communication by Frank de Caro -- The last few years have seen the publication of two books of significance by historians...

Calls for Submissions
Friday, June 14, 2013   (0 Comments - view/add)
Editors Seeking Submissions for Proposed Collection on Religion and Societies »
The proposed three-volume set on religion and societies presents the most current research and provides a comprehensive understanding of the field in one convenient location...
Wednesday, June 12, 2013   (0 Comments - view/add)
CFP: Community Works Journal »
Community Works Journal is published by Community Works Institute, in support of teaching practices that build community. Community Works Journal is now in its fourteenth...
Monday, June 03, 2013   (0 Comments - view/add)
CFP: Mythological Models and Ritual Behaviour in the Soviet and Post-Soviet Sphere »
  September 26–28, 2013, t he Centre for Typological and Semiotic Folklore Studies at the Russian State University for the Humanities (Moscow) will hold an...
Thursday, May 30, 2013   (0 Comments - view/add)
CFP: Song and Emergent Poetics: Oral Traditions in Performance »
"Song and Emergent Poetics: Oral Traditions in Performance," an interdisciplinary conference organized by the Runosong Academy in cooperation with the University of Tampere, the Sibelius...
Tuesday, May 28, 2013   (0 Comments - view/add)
North Carolina Folklore Society Invites Nominations for Brown-Hudson Folklore Awards »
The North Carolina Folklore Society Awards program celebrates the work of individuals and groups that contribute to the transmission and appreciation of cultural traditions in...

Professional Opportunities
Wednesday, June 12, 2013   (0 Comments - view/add)
Heritage Center at Red Cloud Indian School Seeks Director »
The Red Cloud Indian School seeks a director of its Heritage Center, as well as other positions. For more information, see https://www.redcloudschool.org/Careers#DirectorHeritageCenter
Thursday, May 30, 2013   (0 Comments - view/add)
Nevada Arts Council Seeks Community Arts Development Coordinator »
The Nevada Arts Council is currently accepting applications for a Community Arts Development Coordinator position. A full description of the position and its application process...
Thursday, May 30, 2013   (0 Comments - view/add)
Sagamore Institute of the Adirondacks Seeks Executive Director for Great Camp Sagamore »
Great Camp Sagamore is a National Historic Landmark site of 27 rustic buildings on a pristine lake in the Adirondack forest preserve; it is a...
Tuesday, May 28, 2013   (0 Comments - view/add)
Idaho Arts Commission Seeks Director of Folk and Traditional Arts Program »
June 14, 2013 is the deadline for applications for the position of Director of the Folk & Traditional Arts Program at the Idaho Arts Commission....
Monday, May 13, 2013   (0 Comments - view/add)
Appalshop Regional Cultural Center Looking for Director of Institutional Development »
Appalshop, a regional cultural center in Whitesburg, KY, seeks an experienced fundraiser to coordinate development activities and generate major institutional support. Click here to view...



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