Here's what's going on in the Folklore neck of the woods:
- The American Folklore Society has a new Fellow, Burt Feintuch of the University of New Hampshire.
- Call for papers at the "Music, Identity, and Culture in the Caribbean" conference in Dominican Republic this coming April. Topic of conference: "Caribbean Musical and Dance Folklore in the Age of Globalization." More info here.
- Jack Zipes and Riki Salzman won this years's Wayland Hand Award.
- The AFS has a call for proposals for 2013 Oral History Association Annual Meeting. Deadline in just over a month (Jan. 18th).
- More awards! It's like the Oscars and Golden Globes up in here! Envelope says: The Benjamin Botkin Prize went to Robert Gates and Ethel Raim.
- Another interneational conference: this one dedicated to honor the work of Lauri Honko. It's called "The Role of Theory in Folkloristics and Comparative Religion" and it's in Finland!
- Do you Tumblr? You should, some cool stuff there. Here's some Russian Folklore!
- And we are probably all interested in the role of Slavic rites in Polish Hip Hop, right? Might just be me.