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

Date:
2017-03 (Creation date: 2016-10)
Main contributors:
Ellen Kushner

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

Date:
2004-10-14
Main contributors:
Toelken, Barre ; Wilson, William A. ; Lloyd, Barbara

3. A Conversation with John Szwed (1:56:42)

Date:
2015-10-17
Main contributors:
Szwed, John; Baron, Robert; Cara, Ana
Summary:
Here, AFS continues the custom of including a public interview with a senior member of our field at the annual meeting. In this session, Robert Baron and Ana Cara will interview John Szwed, profess...

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

Date:
2009-10-22
Main contributors:
Welsch, Roger

5. A Conversation with Tom Davenport (1:53:29)

Date:
2018-10
Main contributors:
Rankin, Tom
Summary:
A Conversation with Tom Davenport, an interview sponsored by the American Folklore Society and the AFS Oral History Project of Tom Davenport (Folkstreams) by Tom Rankin (Duke University) about his ...

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

Date:
2009-10-22
Main contributors:
Sorrels, Rosalie

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

Date:
2004-10-15
Main contributors:
Limón, José

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

Date:
2018-10
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...

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

Date:
2017-03 (Creation date: 2016-10)
Main contributors:
Erika Brady

10. Big Data of the Past: 19th-Century Folk Narrative Researchers and Their Relevance for the Discipl... (48:08)

Date:
2017-03 (Creation date: 2016-10)
Main contributors:
Ulrich Marzolph

11. Cause and Effect (43:03)

Date:
2014-10-05
Main contributors:
Naranjo-Morse, Nora

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

Date:
2009-10-22
Main contributors:
Welsch, Roger

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

Date:
2014-10-07
Main contributors:
Bronner, Simon J.

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

Date:
2012-10-18
Main contributors:
Yoder, Don

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

Date:
2012-10-17
Main contributors:
Ben-Amos, Dan

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

Date:
2012-10-27
Main contributors:
Glassie, Henry

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

Date:
2008-10-23
Main contributors:
Montell, Lynwood; Boyd, Doug

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

Date:
2018-10
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...

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

Date:
2008-10-23
Main contributors:
Behar, Ruth

20. Croning (1:22:29)

Date:
2017-03 (Creation date: 2016-10)
Main contributors:
Kay Turner

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

Date:
2012-10-24
Main contributors:
Kodish, Deborah

22. Daniel Sheehy: Resonando la Canción de un Valiente (1:40:37)

Date:
2014-10-08
Main contributors:
Sheehy, Daniel; Najera-Ramirez, Olga; Rodriguez, Russell

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

Date:
2009-10-22
Main contributors:
Westerman, William

24. Folk Religion and the Pennsylvania German Broadside (1:18:49)

Date:
2006-10-20
Main contributors:
Yoder, Don

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

Date:
2004-10-13
Main contributors:
Tuan, Yi-Fu

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

Date:
2012-10-19
Main contributors:
Mechling, Jay

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

Date:
2009-10-24
Main contributors:
Lawless, Elaine

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

Date:
2007-10-20
Main contributors:
Ivey, Bill

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

Date:
2018-10
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...

30. Francis Lee Utley Memorial Lecture: What Ever Happened to Folk Songs? (1:18:40)

Date:
2015-10-16
Main contributors:
Szwed, John; Spitzer, Nick
Summary:
Folk songs have been at the heart of the study of folklore since its beginnings, and the scholarship on song is one of the finest achievements of the field. But in recent years interest in songs, e...

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

Date:
2012-10-27
Main contributors:
Turner, Patricia A.

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

Date:
2004-10-15
Main contributors:
Anderson, Jay

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

Date:
2014-10-07
Main contributors:
Sheehy, Daniel

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

Date:
2017-03 (Creation date: 2016-10)
Main contributors:
Norma Cantú, Pauline Greenhill, Rosan Jordan, Kimberly Lau, Elaine Lawless, Margaret Mills

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

Date:
2018-10
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...

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

Date:
2018-10
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...

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

Date:
2006-10-21
Main contributors:
Hasan-Rokem, Galit

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

Date:
2018-10
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. International Folkloristics in the Twenty-First Century (1:32:46)

Date:
2004-10-16
Main contributors:
Dundes, Alan

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

Date:
2006-10-20
Main contributors:
Yoder, Don; Kruesi, Margaret; Pocius, Gerald

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

Date:
2007-10-17
Main contributors:
Kerst, Catherine; Taft, Michael; Noyes, Dorothy

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

Date:
2009-10-23
Main contributors:
Mieder, Wolfgang

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

Date:
2008-10-23
Main contributors:
Goldstein, Diane

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

Date:
2017-03 (Creation date: 2016-10)
Main contributors:
Dan Ben-Amos

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

Date:
2018-10
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...

46. Opening Ceremonies (15:20)

Date:
2009-10-23
Main contributors:
Zeitlin, Steve; Lloyd, Tim

47. Opening Ceremonies (39:59)

Date:
2007-10-17
Main contributors:
Lloyd, Timothy

48. Opening Ceremonies (36:23)

Date:
2006-10-18
Main contributors:
Lloyd, Timothy

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

Date:
2014-10-08
Main contributors:
Lichman, Simon

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

Date:
2015-10-17
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 ...