Friday’s Highlights

8:00 am–10:00 am

• Un-Conference Session 1: Political Activism

8:30 am–9:30 am

• Founding a Black-Centered Newspaper and Folk Reporters Program, a Brainstorming Session with Crystal Good

9:00 am–12:00 pm

• Veterans History Project Workshop

9:30 am–10:30 am

• Coffee Break with the Cultural Diversity Committee

10:30 am–12:30 pm

• 05-01  Notable Folklorists of Color, Roundtable, Part 1: Process and Praxis [hybrid]  
• Un-Conference Session 2: Forms of Scholarship

1:15 pm–2:15 pm

• How Folklorists Can Address the #MeToo Movement
• Meet the Editors: Demystifying the Journal Publishing Process [hybrid]  

2:30 pm–4:30 pm

• AFS Graduate Fieldwork Grants: Information Session and Workshop
• 06-01  Notable Folklorists of Color Roundtable, Part 2: Expanding the Frames with BIPOC Scholars [hybrid]  
• 06-05  A Conversation with Bill Ivey  
• 06-06  Oklahoma Traditions and Their Impact on Popular Culture
• Un-Conference Session 3: Emergent Topics/Questions from 2022 AFS Annual Meeting

5:00 pm–6:00 pm

• Francis Lee Utley Memorial Lecture: Amy Shuman    

7:30 pm–8:30 pm

• Don Yoder Lecture in Folk Belief and Religious Folklife: How to have Theory in a Pandemic: Precarity, Autoethnography, and Belief Scholarship during COVID    

8:00 pm–9:30 pm

• Walking Tour of Downtown Tulsa

8:30 pm–10:30 pm

• African American Traditional Music, History and the Black Experience: Black Oklahoma Blues