More Yuletide Folklore Link Dumping

Last night I was surprised with a message that Pete Seeger is following me on Twitter.   At least the PR person in charge of his account is following me.   And he already follows thousands of people, so I don't feel that special.   But it still gave me a kick in the pants.

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.