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Welcome to the 2022 AFS Annual Meeting Hub!

2022 Annual Meeting of the American Folklore Society

October 12-15, 2022 | Hyatt Regency, Tulsa, Oklahoma

This hub is the digital center of Annual Meeting information, where you can find the current program and other essentials, like information about visiting Tulsa, exhibitors and sponsors, and more. Prefer print? Read, download or print the schedule or abstracts.

Cast Your Vote in the 2022 AFS Election

Secure online voting will begin November 22 and will continue through December 23.

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Explore Tulsa

Find out more about this year’s Annual Meeting host city, Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Local information

Check out our program!

Anyone can see our schedule and showcase

As usual, the AFS Annual Meeting offers four jam-packed days, full of lectures, events, sessions, and other exciting programming in Tulsa. See the menu above to browse the current program.

But the program is never static! Some changes to the schedule will inevitably arise, even during the conference.

The program on this Hub will reflect all updates as we process them, but you should also check the addendum for an at-a-glance round-up of last-minute changes that may affect your plans.

Check the program addendum


Virtual Access for Some Meeting Events

Registered attendees who can’t attend in person may watch some events live, attend 4-5 hybrid panels during concurrent sessions, and access recordings of these live-streamed and hybrid sessions after the meeting.

See Events with Virtual Access

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AFS-Sponsored Events and Sessions

Every year, AFS committees and staff work to arrange events and sessions on topics that are particularly timely or that serve AFS members, projects and goals.
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Local Engagement

The Tulsa Local Arrangements Committee worked to create these opportunities to engage with the people of Tulsa and the region and with their concerns.
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Greenwood and the Tulsa Race Massacre

A plenary lecture, a forum, an exhibit, and a tour honor the Greenwood community and bear witness to the Tulsa Race Massacre.
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Re-Centering the Periphery

The theme of the meeting, Re-Centering the Periphery, 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. 

What’s the buzz?

See what they’re saying on Twitter about the 2022 Annual Meeting! The hashtag is #afsam22

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In Memoriam

We remember our colleagues who we lost this year.

What is remembered lives.

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Anyone may view this entire program, including the Schedule and Showcase.

Log In is only required for access to presenters’ contact information and live and recorded sessions. Registrants receive their log in information by email.

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If you’re having any issues with registration, program hub access, or anything else to do with this year’s annual meeting, you can email us for help.

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During the meeting, AFS staff will monitor a help line: you can send us a text message for assistance. Look for the yellow text bubble icon that floats at the bottom of your right-hand scroll bar. (It looks like this!)