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January 26, 2021

CFS (Virtual) Monthly Lunch: Bringing the Border to Columbus

Zoom (registration required)

January 29, 2021

Living Well, Dying Well: Religion, Health, and Healing Series—Magic and Healing Workshop

Online

February 3, 2021

Lecture: Revisiting the Folk: Black Representation in Early American Folklore Studies

Zoom (registration required)

February 9, 2021

Placemaking in Scioto County, Ohio: Talking About Race in Community

Zoom Webinar (registration required)

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December 16, 2020

CFS Receives GAH+DT Funding for Revisioning Folklore Studies in the Academy and the Public Square

The Center for Folklore Studies has received a $25,000 Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme (GAHDT) Centers Grant, for its project: “Revisioning Folklore Studies in the Academy and the Public…

December 10, 2020

Alumna, Dr. Seljamaa, gives plenary on socialist/Soviet-era folkloristics

Alumna Dr. Elo-Hanna Seljamaa will give the plenary address at a Zoom conference on socialist/Soviet-era folkloristics from the University of Latvia.

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December 3, 2020

Marsden is ABD!

Warmest congratulations to Mariah Marsden, whose sprightly oral defense capped her passing of her qualifying exams. Mariah’s committee consisted of Drs. Katey Borland, Dorry Noyes (chair), Beth…

November 20, 2020

Remembering Dr. Elizabeth Jean MacLaughlin

The Center for Folklore Studies mourns the passing of Dr. Jean (Mayo) MacLaughlin on October 27, 2020. Trained at the Folklore Institute at Indiana University (MA 1970, PhD 1977), Jean joined the…