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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.

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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

The conference schedule is now largely in place, full of lectures, events, sessions, and other exciting programming in Tulsa. See the menu above to browse the current program.

But the program is still evolving! Some new events are still taking shape, and 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 can also use the addendum for an at-a-glance round-up of last-minute changes that may affect your plans.

Check the program addendum

Register for tours and workshops

There are also a number of great tours and workshops, some of which will require pre-registration.

Learn about tours and workshops
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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.
A museum display with the title "This Land Is My Land," above a tv screen reading "This Land Is Your Land" and two audio headsets, surrounded by artifacts in cases that relate to Woody Guthrie, from the Woody Guthrie Museum in Tulsa

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.
A colorful wall mural with the words Black Wall Street filled in with images evoking the neighborhood in the 1920s

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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photograph of the Center of the Universe landmark in Tulsa, OK -- a cement circle surrounded by bricks, with grafitti reading "the center of the universe, Tulsa, OK"

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. 

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You don’t have to Log In to see the Schedule and Showcase. However, you will need to Log In when it is time to access presenters’ contact information as well as some live hybrid and recorded sessions. For the moment, Log In is not available, but it will be activated by mid-August. AFS will send log-in instructions to registered users when it is available.

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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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