Clik here to view.
Noyes on the Oversimplications of Cultural Property and Heritage Policy
An important working paper by my friend Dorry Noyes presenting alternatives to the conceptual oversimplifications common in cultural property and cultural heritage policy has just been circulated by...
View ArticleClik here to view.
[New, Open Access] Culture Archives and the State: Between Nationalism,...
From a CFS News Release: The Center for Folklore Studies at the Ohio State University is delighted to announce the online publication of Culture Archives and the State: Between Nationalism, Socialism,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Congratulations to Virginia Luehrsen!
Congratulation to Virginia Luehrsen on the successfully passing her folklore M.A. oral exams today. While a student at Indiana, Virginia pursued the joint M.L.S. degree in our School of Library and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Congratulations to Curtis Ashton!
Congratulations go to Dr. Curtis Ashton who very successfully defended his Indiana University Ph.D. dissertation in folklore today. The title of his important and innovative study is: Interpretive...
View ArticleClik here to view.
New Book: Die Konstituierung von Cultural Property: Forschungsperspektiven
The Göttingen Interdisciplinary Research Group on Cultural Property is happy to announce the publication of an edited volume on the constitution of cultural property: Regina Bendix, Kilian Bizer,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Arts, Inc.: How Greed and Neglect Have Destroyed Our Cultural Rights
My review of Arts, Inc.: How Greed and Neglect Have Destroyed Our Cultural Rights by former NEA Chairman (and AFS President) Bill Ivey was recently published in JFRR (Journal of Folklore Research...
View ArticleClik here to view.
On “Options Dim for Museum of Folk Art”
The New York Times is reporting that the American Folk Art Museum in NYC will probably go under. This is mainly about financial issues, both the larger economy and mismanagement, but there is also an...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Director, Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
Having been asked to do so, I am happy to share news that the Smithsonian Institution is seeking applications for the position of Director of the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage. This is an...
View ArticleClik here to view.
2013 Cultural Heritage Informatics (CHI) Fieldschool
Sharing below information on the 2013 Cultural Heritage Informatics Fieldschool. … The 2013 Cultural Heritage Informatics (CHI) Fieldschool introduces students to the tools and methods required to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
George Sabo Named Director of the Arkansas Archaeological Survey
Here is some very good news from the University of Arkansas and the Arkansas Archaeological Survey. George Sabo III, a professor of anthropology and environmental dynamics at the University of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Collaborative for Cultural Heritage Management and Policy
The Collaborative for Cultural Heritage Management and Policy (aka CHAMP) is a very active initiative at the at the University of Illinois. Led by anthropologist Helaine Silverman, it involves a huge...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Paul E. Buchanan Award from the Vernacular Architecture Forum (Recognizes...
Award Committee Chair Nora Pat Small recently noted for me the Paul E. Buchanan Award from the Vernacular Architecture Forum (VAF). What is so cool about this award is that it recognizes outstanding...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Value, Ownership, and Cultural Goods: Regina F. Bendix to Deliver 2016...
This is the season’s big lecture. With many heritage studies projects underway, it is a perfect time to welcome Regina back to Bloomington. Here are the details: 2016 Richard M. Dorson Memorial...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Who Cares About Craft as Traditional Knowledge?
This fall has been a particularly busy season for research-based programs at the Mathers Museum of World Cultures. An an outgrowth of our Indiana Folk Arts: 200 Years of Tradition and Innovation...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Temple of Heaven |天壇 (12/8)
This briefer note is the second on our recent trip to China. The context for this travel will come (I hope) a few posts down the road. For now, perhaps you can just go with it. For the first post in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Fieldwork: Highlights from the Textile Group
This post in the recent series on December 2017 research and travel in Guangxi, China was written by Carrie Hertz, who also provided the photographs. In this post, I complement Jason’s series of field...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The University of Tartu, Appreciated
#fulbrightspecialist #fulbright #exchangeourworld I recently spent an extended time in Tartu, Estonia. I had the wonderful opportunity to be a Fulbright Specialist visiting the Departments of: (1)...
View ArticleMake Time to Watch “The Flight of the Condor: A Letter, a Song and the Story...
Don’t miss the recent documentary film “The Flight of the Condor: A Letter, a Song, and the Story of Intangible Cultural Heritage”. by Áslaug Einarsdóttir and Valdimar Tr. Hafstein. If you watch the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Seventh Forum on China-US Folklore and Intangible Cultural Heritage:...
The following is a report on The Seventh Forum on China-US Folklore and Intangible Cultural Heritage: Collaborative Work in Museum Folklore and Heritage Studies (第七届中美民俗学与非物质文化遗产论坛: 博物馆民俗与遗产研究的协作工作)....
View ArticleClik here to view.
2019 Summer Folklore Institute: Building Capacity for Safeguarding Intangible...
I have just returned from a second summer trip to China. This time I was part of an American delegation to one of the summer institutes jointly organized by the China Folklore Society and the American...
View Article
/fit-in/580x348/filters:format(webp)/english-betterindia/media/media_files/2026/09/17/balaghat-4-2026-09-17-19-01-31.png)
