Local Engagement
Look for these special events sponsored by the Tulsa Local Arrangements Committee:
- Native American Collections and Community Connections: A Philbrook Museum Tour
- Local Learning Workshop: Teaching with Primary Sources in Folklife Collections
- Oklahoma Politics and Women’s Rights
- Greenwood’s Past, Present, and Future
- Reception Celebrating the AFS Notable Folklorists of Color
- Sukkot Dinner and Lecture by Gabrielle Berlinger in the Sukkah of Tulsa’s Congregation B’nai Emunah
- Un-Conference Series
- African American Traditional Music, History and the Black Experience
- This Land Is Whose Land?
- Closing Reception and Participatory Native American Stomp Dance
And these committee-sponsored sessions:
- Folklore and the Public Humanities Ecosystem, Part 1: Heritage, Cultural Intelligence, and Creativity in Oklahoma Nonprofits, 01-08
- Folklore and the Public Humanities Ecosystem, Part 2: University-Based Humanities Programs, 02-08
- 2SLGBTQ+ History and Activism in Oklahoma, 03-07
- Centering Community, Expanding Inclusion: Library and Archival Perspectives, 05-06
- Oklahoma Traditions and their Impact on Popular Culture, 06-06
- Drawing from Ethnographic Materials: Creating Comics from Ethnographic and Oral History Fieldwork and Archives, 08-03
- Black Oklahoma: Past, Present, and Futures, 08-06
There will also be a number of great tours and workshops organized by the committee for local engagement, some of which will require pre-registration.
And take note of these additional presentations that concern Oklahoma:
- Remembering Terror, Retelling History: A Conversation about Racial Justice Initiatives in Tulsa and N.C.
- 05-09 Social Histories In and Through Oklahoma
- 07-06 A Pedagogy of Frictions: Traveling Fields of Blood, Oil, and Trauma in Oklahoma
- Cherokee Language Concert
- AFS Presidential Invited Lecture: Miami Tribe – Miami University: Neepwaantiinki ‘Partners in Learning’
