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1. Presidential Address: After the Revolution: Folklore, History, and the Future of Our Discipline (45:37)

Date:: October 17, 2015
Main contributors:: Williams, Michael Ann; Turner, Kay
Summary:: More than four decades have passed since the advent of the new folkloristics. Assessments of this revolution tend to narrowly focus on performance theory and not on whether the broader promises of ...

2. The 2009 Daniel Crowley Storytelling Concert: Report from Grimes Creek after a Hard Winter: Sto... (1:02:43)

Date:: October 23, 2009
Main contributors:: Sorrels, Rosalie

3. Kol Nidre, The Prayer That Haunted the Rabbis and Charmed Their Folks (1:38:04)

Date:: March 2017
Main contributors:: Dan Ben-Amos

4. Axel's Masque: A Family Tale (43:10)

Date:: March 2017
Main contributors:: Erika Brady

5. Conversation With Don Yoder (1:34:48)

Date:: October 18, 2012
Main contributors:: Yoder, Don

6. Introducing New Resources for Folklore and Ethnography (1:16:48)

Date:: October 17, 2007
Main contributors:: Kerst, Catherine; Taft, Michael; Noyes, Dorothy

7. Epistemology of the Flail and the Politics of Inductive Reasoning (1:05:24)

Date:: October 22, 2009
Main contributors:: Westerman, William

8. Interview with Don Yoder (1:29:06)

Date:: October 20, 2006
Main contributors:: Yoder, Don; Kruesi, Margaret; Pocius, Gerald

9. International Folkloristics in the Twenty-First Century (1:32:46)

Date:: October 16, 2004
Main contributors:: Dundes, Alan

10. Fried Chicken, Quilts, and Hurricanes: Reflections on Fieldwork in Louisiana (1:26:10)

Date:: October 27, 2012
Main contributors:: Turner, Patricia A.

11. A Life in Song (1:39:15)

Date:: October 22, 2009
Main contributors:: Sorrels, Rosalie

12. The Inventorization of Intangible Cultural Heritage (3:32:59)

Date:: October 19, 2007
Main contributors:: Bulger, Peggy; Castéret, Jean-Jacques; Fontaine, Jean-Louis

13. Tales of Leonard Roberts and the Cumberland Mountains (1:16:00)

Date:: October 24, 2008
Main contributors:: Lindahl, Carl; Roberts, Edith; Roberts, Lynneda

14. Folklore Values and Value (1:01:44)

Date:: October 20, 2007
Main contributors:: Ivey, Bill

15. Conversation With Lynwood Montell (1:26:34)

Date:: October 23, 2008
Main contributors:: Montell, Lynwood; Boyd, Doug

16. Ask a Folklorist—Career Advice for New Professionals (1:53:19)

Date:: October 2018
Main contributors:: Palchik, Violeta; Decker, Adrienne; Eleuterio, Susan; Higgins, Lisa L.; Kolovos, Andy
Summary:: Job-seeking for folklorists can be daunting. In this forum, chaired and moderated by a member of the AFS Graduate Student Section, a group of representatives from the Archives and Libraries, Folklo...

17. It Takes a Village to Change the World: Proverbial Politics and the Ethics of Place (1:29:36)

Date:: October 23, 2009
Main contributors:: Mieder, Wolfgang

18. The Futures of Scholarship and Public Practice in Folklore (1:44:52)

Date:: October 18, 2006
Main contributors:: Yocom, Margaret; Sherman, Sharon; Jackson, Jason

19. Confessions of a Wannabe: When the Prime Directive Backfires (1:01:28)

Date:: October 22, 2009
Main contributors:: Welsch, Roger

20. Text and Icon in Religious Art (1:33:47)

Date:: October 7, 2014
Main contributors:: Glassie, Henry; Leonard Norman Primiano

21. A Conversation with Barre Toelken and William A. (Bert) Wilson (1:39:54)

Date:: October 14, 2004
Main contributors:: Toelken, Barre ; Wilson, William A. ; Lloyd, Barbara

22. Conversation With Henry Glassie (1:58:56)

Date:: October 27, 2012
Main contributors:: Glassie, Henry

23. What Zora Knew: A Crossroads, a Bargain with the Devil, and a Late Witness (1:13:51)

Date:: October 14, 2010
Main contributors:: Lawless, Elaine

24. Religion and Folk Art: Reflections on Key Concepts in Folklife Studies (1:38:17)

Date:: October 17, 2012
Main contributors:: Yoder, Don

25. Talking Folklore: A Conversation with Leaders in the Field (1:37:03)

Date:: October 18, 2012
Main contributors:: Del Giudice, Luisa ; Haring, Lee; McDowell, John H.

26. Cultivating Folk Arts and Social Change (56:42)

Date:: October 24, 2012
Main contributors:: Kodish, Deborah

27. Sustainability through Chronicling Folklore History (1:19:25)

Date:: October 19, 2013
Main contributors:: Ben-Amos, Dan; Bronner, Simon J. ; Buccitelli, Anthony

28. Forming Foundations—Building Relationships in the Private Sector (53:02)

Date:: October 2018
Main contributors:: Gura, Catherine; Hurley, Maureen; McPeake, Cristin; Miller, Paula; Zulewski, Caitlin
Summary:: As government funding tightens, folklorists are turning to the private sector for funding. However, we come up against funders who do not understand folklore or the value of funding folklore projec...

29. From Folk Cookery to Foodways (1:20:04)

Date:: October 15, 2004
Main contributors:: Anderson, Jay

30. Folklore and Place: Four Themes (58:33)

Date:: October 13, 2004
Main contributors:: Tuan, Yi-Fu

31. Conversation With Dan Ben-Amos (1:55:23)

Date:: October 17, 2012
Main contributors:: Ben-Amos, Dan

32. Opening Ceremonies (36:23)

Date:: October 18, 2006
Main contributors:: Lloyd, Timothy

33. Talking Folklore: A Conversation with Leading Scholars of Folk Religion and Belief (2:00:21)

Date:: October 16, 2015
Main contributors:: Shukla, Pravina; Goldstein, Diane E.; Griffith, James S.; Primiano, Leonard Norman
Summary:: This forum features a conversation with prominent folklorists who will reflect on their respective careers, and meditate on the past and future of our discipline. The forum contributes to the intel...

34. Opening Ceremonies (15:20)

Date:: October 23, 2009
Main contributors:: Zeitlin, Steve; Lloyd, Tim

35. On “The B-Side” with the Wooster Group (1:31:46)

Date:: October 2018
Main contributors:: Jackson, Bruce
Summary:: Bruce Jackson speaks about The B-Side: Negro Folklore from Texas State Prisons. A Record Album Interpretation, a production by the The Wooster Group, New York’s most celebrated experimental theater...

36. The Freedom to Freelance—Find Your Why, How and When (1:00:02)

Date:: October 2018
Main contributors:: Saylor, Dana L.; Delmonte, Andrew; Heffernan, Kevin
Summary:: This workshop will inspire and motivate you to pursue your independent career or, for those already established, share new ideas. Creative entrepreneur Dana Saylor, Buffalo-based architectural hist...

37. Great Music with a Great Story: Curating Smithsonian Folkways Recordings (1:31:40)

Date:: October 7, 2014
Main contributors:: Sheehy, Daniel

38. How to Pay Attention to the Countryside in the Digital Age (1:09:57)

Date:: October 2018
Main contributors:: Sainath, Palagummi
Summary:: P. Sainath, the former Rural Affairs Editor at The Hindu, where he forced public attention to India’s epidemic of farmer suicides, will discusses relationship between journalism, cultural documenta...

39. Kaleidoscopes, Methodological Play, and the Intrinsic Politics of Belief Scholarship (1:53:28)

Date:: October 23, 2008
Main contributors:: Goldstein, Diane

40. A Conversation with Roger Welsch (1:07:34)

Date:: October 22, 2009
Main contributors:: Welsch, Roger

41. Homelands and Diasporas (1:11:08)

Date:: October 21, 2006
Main contributors:: Hasan-Rokem, Galit

42. Veterans History Project: The Challenge of Expectations—Perceptions, Pitfalls, and Reality (59:50)

Date:: October 6, 2014
Main contributors:: Patrick, Robert W.

43. Convergences in the Hyper Era: Thirty Years after American Folklore Studies (1:13:08)

Date:: October 7, 2014
Main contributors:: Bronner, Simon J.

44. Rip van Winkle in the East Village: Queer Times in Stories, Stories in Queer Times (1:37:52)

Date:: October 2016
Main contributors:: Carolyn Dinshaw

45. Prayer Carpets and Apricot Stones: How Folklore Is Used in ‘Coexistence’ Education between Israel... (1:13:30)

Date:: October 8, 2014
Main contributors:: Lichman, Simon

46. The Ethics of Institutions: Pitfalls of an Engaged Folklore and Tales from the Federal Courts (1:14:40)

Date:: October 23, 2009
Main contributors:: Vélez-Ibáñez, Carlos

47. The Futures of Scholarship and Public Practice in Folklore (22:20)

Date:: October 18, 2006
Main contributors:: Ivey, Bill; Zeitlin, Steve; Noyes, Dorothy

48. Why They Tell: Ten Traditional Tellers Speak (1:20:56)

Date:: October 14, 2004
Main contributors:: Read MacDonald, Margaret radner, Jo; Radner, Jo

49. Reforming Women: Lilli Zickerman, Ottilia Adelborg, and Swedish Folklife Studie (59:21)

Date:: October 16, 2010
Main contributors:: Klein, Barbro

50. The Fiddle, the Upland South, and America’s Latest Oldtime Music Revival (1:41:48)

Date:: October 14, 2010
Main contributors:: Jabbour, Alan A.