Event Host: Department of English
The Folklore Student Association at the Ohio State University, in collaboration with the Department of Folklore & Ethnomusicology at Indiana University, invites proposals for the 2018 11th Annual IU/OSU Student Conference in Folklore and Ethnomusicology, entitled Folklore at Work. In light of the events of 2017, which stand on far longer and more unsettling legacies, this year’s conference will breach the topic of the wider lives that cultural heritage and claims to tradition have in our world -- sometimes justice-seeking, but sometimes hate-aligned. We seek proposals for papers, panels, workshops, posters, projects, and experimental sessions exploring the question of what it means to put cultural work to work in the world, with particular attention to public-sector, applied, community-based and advocacy folklore and ethnomusicology. We also seek contributions of experimental scholarship that engages topics of social justice and/or the “work” of cultural work. We are asking: why does our work matter, for the issues of the world?
All submissions will be due via GoogleForms by December 30th, 2017; and all participants will be notified of acceptance status by January 15th, 2017. Contact this year’s conference organizing committee at osu.studentfolk@gmail.com.
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