CFS core faculty member Dorothy Noyes contributed to the blog for the Interdisciplinary Research Group on Cultural Property of the German Research Foundation. Her post is titled An Operatic Cultural Property: Smetana in Berlin.

The Interdisciplinary Research Group on Cultural Property of the German Research Foundation brings together folklorists, ethnologists, lawyers, and economists to study the impact of international regimes to protect traditions as heritage and/or cultural property.Their blog features contributions from Regina Bendix on culinary analogies for cultural preservation, Valdimar Hafstein on the fusty smell of heritage, Dorothy Noyes on operatic Folklorisms and policy misunderstandings, and much more.

Their open-access publications, including books, working papers, and policy papers in both English and German, can be downloaded on their Publications page. Noyes contributed to the CP101 Concepts and Institutions in Cultural Property Working Papers with her essay, "Traditional Culture: How does it work?" This essay can be found in the "working papers" section of the Publications page.

Noyes also recently contributed to "Push Me Pull You: Questions of Co-Authorship," a blog conversation of the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage.