The American Folklore Society has announced that their 2025 Annual Meeting will be held in Atlanta, Georgia. The meeting will be held October 18–21, 2025. Neither an exact location nor details for submitting proposals have been shared yet; a CFP is expected in spring ’25.

Those who participate in the related fields of oral history or ethnomusicology may be pleased to learn that annual conferences in those fields are being held in the same city, which may help with travel challenges for those who wish to attend more than one event. The 2025 Oral History Association Annual Meeting is October 15–18, 2025, and the 2025 Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting is October 23–26, 2025.

Potential participants are directed to check the Annual Meetings page of the AFS website. where more information will eventually be shared.

 

The American Folklore Society (AFS) has announced they will gather for their 2024 Annual Meeting in Albuquerque, New Mexico at the Albuquerque Convention Center and the DoubleTree by Hilton, November 6-9, 2024. A call for proposals is expected in spring of 2024. No further details have been shared at this time.

 

The American Folklore Society (AFS) has announced that their 2023 Annual Meeting will be in Portland, Oregon next year. Again a hybrid meeting, it will be held online October 11-12 and then in person November 1-4, 2023 at the Hilton Portland Downtown.

The announcement notes “The theme of the conference is Roots, Rootlessness, and Uprooting, pointing to historic, natural, and social processes of connection, creation, and removal. It also invites us to consider how and why injustice manifests, how it can be confronted, and invites presentations that highlight the role of folklore and folklorists.”

At this time, it appears that details for registration and proposal submission are not yet available, but interested participants can check the 2023 Annual Meeting page for further information in the future.

 

The American Folklore Society (AFS) has announced that their 2022 Annual Meeting will be held October 12-15, in Tulsa, Oklahoma at the Hyatt Regency Tulsa.

The announcement focuses heavily on the theme of the meeting, which is “Re-Centering the Periphery.” They state that this theme “calls us to focus on the intersections of what is marginalized and centralized both in our field and in the larger public debates about national identities in 2022. The multiple perspectives, peoples, communities, and histories that make up the story of Oklahoma intersect with and challenge many of the tropes we often use to symbolize the nation.”

Potential participants should note that registration is open, and proposals are due March 31, 2022. The announcement notes that more information can be found on the 2022 Annual Meeting page.