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.

Please join us for these special AFS-sponsored events and sessions.

Plenary lectures

• Greenwood’s Past, Present, and Future
• Francis Lee Utley Memorial Lecture: Not Telling: How Folklorists Think about Narrative
• AFS Presidential Invited Plenary Event

Plenary events

• Opening Ceremony and Awards and Recognitions
• Time of Remembrance
• AFS Business Meeting

Information sessions

• AFS Endowment Fund Info Session
• AFS Graduate Fieldwork Grants: Information Session and Workshop
• Section Conveners Breakfast

Sessions

• Tradition as Profession: Recapping and Furthering the 2022 Folklorist Summit at Folk Alliance International 
• Notable Folklorists of Color, Roundtable, Part 1: Process and Praxis, 05-01
• Notable Folklorists of Color Roundtable, Part 2: Expanding the Frames with BIPOC Scholars, 06-01
• A Conversation with Bill Ivey, 06-05
• How Folklorists Can Address the #MeToo Movement
• Festival of Ideas: Food Equity
• Talking the Nonprofit Turn: A Conversation with the Founders of Texas Folklife Resources, 09-05

Social events

• Welcome Reception
• Reception Celebrating the AFS Notable Folklorists of Color
• Legacy Council
• Candidates’ Reception
• Closing Reception and Participatory Native American Stomp Dance

And check out guides to the program from AFS committees and sections, which will be added to Meeting Highlights as we receive them.