Ohio State faculty, staff, and students presented at the 2013 American Folklore Society Annual Meeting in Providence, Rhode Island October 16-19, titled "Cultural Sustainability." Their names and presentations are listed below:

• Erin Allen, Alex Baldwin, Maggie Bissler, Claire (Yu) Fan, Taylor Saltsman, Erin Tobin, Rachel Wishkoski, Dr. Katherine Borland (chair)
  Filming the Mayo Ya Festival: Report and Footage from the 2013 Ethnographic Field School in Bluefields, Nicaragua.
• Dr. Mark Bender
  Revisiting the Pluriverse: Cosmographic Epics from Southwest China
• Cassie Bower
  "Many Thanks from Me, the Bus Company, and My Ex-Wife": Performance of Authority and Autonomy in Bus Drivers' Announcements
• Dr. Danille Elise Christensen
  "Putting Up Fruit for Lizzie": Home Canning, Social Networks, and the Virtuous Exchange
• Sara Baer Cleto
  Wordsworth, the Folk, and Folklore: Strategies of Appropriation and Adaptation
• Cassie Rosita Patterson
  Industry, Identity, and Murals in Portsmouth, Ohio
• Dr. Amy Shuman
  Rethinking Communicative Competence and an Argument for the Significance of Disability Studies in Folklore
• Martha C. Sims
  Marked with Meaning: Adapting, Maintaining, and/or Sustaining the Art and Culture of Tattoos
• Joanna B. Spanos
  Decoding Messages from the Vernacular English Herbals
• Brittany Warman
  "Her Eyes Were Wild": Fairylore and the Gothic Aesthetic in Romantic Poetry
• Ziying You
  Contentious Local Responses to Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection in Hongtong, Shanxi, China

OSU faculty also hosted, chaired, and contributed to several special sessions and discussions:

• Dr. Katherine
  Borland World Café
• Dr. Amy Horowitz
  Curatorial Conversations: Cultural Heritage Representation and the Smithsonian Folklife Festival
• Dr. Margaret Mills
  Talking Folklore: A Conversation with Leaders in the Field and From the Archives: The Rewards and Challenges of Digitizing Large Folklore Collections
• Dr. Dorothy Noyes
  The Commonwealth of Culture and Folklore Studies in a Multicultural World Workshop
• Dr. Amy Shuman
  A conversation with Dan Ben-Amos

The Center for Folklore Studies also hosted a delicious (and well-attended!) dessert reception on Friday, October 18 at the Omni Providence Hotel.