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

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

2. Conversation With Ruth Behar (1:47:55)

Date:: October 23, 2008
Main contributors:: Behar, Ruth

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

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

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

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

5. Sacred Spaces in Liminal Places: Airport Chapels and Religion in Transit (1:46:23)

Date:: October 14, 2004
Main contributors:: Bowman, Marion ; Lau, Kimberly J. ; Brewer, Teri F.

6. Talking Folklore: A Conversation with Leaders in the Field (1:47:40)

Date:: October 8, 2014
Main contributors:: Brady, Erika; Bulger, Peggy; Jabbour, Alen

7. The Don Yoder Lecture in Religious Folklife: "A Subtle Thing Withal”: Reflections on the Ineffab... (1:18:04)

Date:: October 15, 2015
Main contributors:: Brady, Erika; Kruesi, Margaret; Primiano, Leonard Norman
Summary:: Many years ago as a graduate student studying William Langland’s Vision of Piers Plowman, I came upon what was evidently a popular scatological riddle pertaining to a profound theological teaching....

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

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

9. Talking Folklore: A Conversation with Leaders in the Field (1:38:01)

Date:: October 25, 2012
Main contributors:: Bulger, Peggy; Cadaval, Olivia; Hickerson, Joe

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

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

11. The Political and Cultural Stakes (1:50:29)

Date:: October 18, 2007
Main contributors:: Cameron, Christina; Kurin, Richard; Pocius, Gerald

12. 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

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

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

14. Herder, the Grimm Brothers, and Richard Dorson’s Antiquarians: A New Look (57:33)

Date:: October 2018
Main contributors:: de Caro, Frank
Summary:: Richard Dorson was right seeing the antiquarians as the precursors of the study of folklore. Many of them recorded information on “traditions.” However, he did not really understand the rationale b...

15. 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.

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

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

17. (Re)Writing "Thomas the Rhymer": A Fantasy Writer Finds Truth (and a Fool-Proof Plot) in Folklore (53:12)

Date:: March 2017
Main contributors:: Ellen Kushner

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

Date:: March 2017
Main contributors:: Erika Brady

19. The Ethics of Institutions: Tiny Publics and Realms of Local Knowledge (1:48:09)

Date:: October 15, 2010
Main contributors:: Fine, Gary Alan

20. Conversation with Mike Frisch and Palagummi Sainath (1:39:39)

Date:: October 2018
Main contributors:: Frisch, Mike; Sainath, Palagummi
Summary:: Two major innovators in digital cultural documentation meet for a conversation on goals, methods, frameworks, and business models. Michael Frisch, Professor Emeritus of the University of Buffalo an...

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

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

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

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

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

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

24. Vernacular Turns: Narrative, Local Knowledge, and the Changing Context of Folklore (1:05:50)

Date:: October 19, 2013
Main contributors:: Goldstein, Diane

25. 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...

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

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

27. The Phillips Barry Lecture: Afro-Mestizo Imaginaries in “Música Tropical”: Gender Differences in ... (1:13:49)

Date:: October 16, 2015
Main contributors:: Herrera-Sobek, Maria; Winick, Stephen D.
Summary:: Some songs pertaining to the “música tropical” genre, or music exhibiting tropical rhythms from both the Pacific and Atlantic coasts, feature Afro-mestizo protagonists in their lyrics. My study exp...

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

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

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

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

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

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

31. 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...

32. Herbs and Saints in the City of Angels: Researching Botánicas, Healing, and Power in Southern Cal... (1:18:37)

Date:: October 2018
Main contributors:: Jones, Michael Owen
Summary:: This lecture presents results of a project on folk medicine among Latinx in Los Angeles in which 131 interviews were conducted with 49 individuals, more than half of whom were healers associated wi...

33. Croning (1:22:29)

Date:: March 2017
Main contributors:: Kay Turner

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

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

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

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

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

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

37. Folklore as a Map of the World: Rejecting “Home” as a Failure of the Imagination (1:17:37)

Date:: October 24, 2009
Main contributors:: Lawless, Elaine

38. 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

39. 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

40. Américo Parades, Ballad Scholarship, and Cultural Studies (1:24:30)

Date:: October 15, 2004
Main contributors:: Limón, José

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

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

42. Opening Ceremonies (36:23)

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

43. Opening Ceremonies (39:59)

Date:: October 17, 2007
Main contributors:: Lloyd, Timothy

44. What “Nights”? Expert Knowledge vs. Lay Perception of the World’s Most Famous Story Collection (1:06:31)

Date:: October 14, 2010
Main contributors:: Marzolph, Ulrich

45. Folklore and the Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1:26:37)

Date:: October 19, 2012
Main contributors:: Mechling, Jay

46. 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

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

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

48. Cause and Effect (43:03)

Date:: October 5, 2014
Main contributors:: Naranjo-Morse, Nora

49. Her-Story: A Feminism and Folklore Retrospective (1:54:21)

Date:: March 2017
Main contributors:: Norma Cantú, Pauline Greenhill, Rosan Jordan, Kimberly Lau, Elaine Lawless, Margaret Mills

50. 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...