Archives Residencies at the Bohdan Medwidsky Ukrainian Folklore Archives

Friends of the Ukrainian Folklore Centre | Archives Residency Project 2026–27

The Friends of the Ukrainian Folklore Centre are pleased to offer support for an Archives Residency Project (hereinafter, the Project) at the Bohdan Medwidsky Ukrainian Folklore Archives (BMUFA) at the Kule Folklore Centre. The Project is designed to foster, promote, and support archival research on Ukrainian and/or Ukrainian Canadian culture by scholars, authors, or artists using the collections housed by the Medwidsky Archives at the Kule Folklore Centre.

The archival holdings of the BMUFA are particularly strong in the areas of Ukrainian Canadian informal and traditional culture and folklore, including dance, music, and art, as well as community life, education, religious life, and the history of Ukrainians in Canada and other diaspora communities. These resources are valuable to researchers across a variety of fields.

The Project will be funded with an amount up to CAD $ 5,000. This support is intended to help cover living, travel, or research expenses incurred through in-person access to the BMUFA for the purpose of research. No more than one Project can be awarded per year.

More details:  https://www.ualberta.ca/en/kule-folklore-centre/about/scholarships/friends-archives-residency.html

Razom for Ukraine Archives Residency at the Bohdan Medwidsky Ukrainian Folklore Archives at the Peter and Doris Kule Centre for Ukrainian and Canadian Folklore, University of Alberta 2026–27

The Kule Folklore Centre at the University of Alberta and Razom for Ukraine are pleased to announce their support for an Archives Residency Project (hereinafter, the Project). The Project is designed to foster, promote, and support archival research on Ukrainian and/or Ukrainian Canadian culture by scholars, authors, or artists working with materials housed in the Bohdan Medwidsky Ukrainian Folklore Archives (BMUFA) at the Kule Folklore Centre.

The BMUFA holds particularly strong collections related to Ukrainian and Ukrainian Canadian informal and traditional culture, including dance, music, art, community life, education, religious life, and the history of Ukrainians in Canada and other diaspora communities. These resources support research in a wide range of fields.

The Project provides up to CAN $5,000 to support living, travel, or research expenses associated with in-person access to the BMUFA.

More details: https://www.ualberta.ca/en/kule-folklore-centre/about/scholarships/razom-archives-residency.html

Canadian Association of Slavists Annual Conference

May 7, 2026 – May 9, 2026

University of Ottawa

CALL FOR PAPERS

The annual conference of the Canadian Association of Slavists will take place at the University of Ottawa May 7 through 9, 2026.

Proposals are invited for individual papers, panels, and roundtable discussions. Complete panels are preferred. Proposals can be submitted by filling out the necessary form at: https://event.fourwaves.com/casottawa2026

The deadline for all proposals is February 16, 2026. All proposals must be submitted through the conference application portal. Proposals submitted by e-mail will not be considered. ALL PRESENTERS MUST BE MEMBERS OF CAS. Join CAS online: https://slavists.ca/membership/

The conference welcomes papers from the wide range of disciplines devoted to the study of central and eastern Europe, the Balkans, Eurasia, Russia, the Soviet Union, and the post-Soviet space. In the past, this has included panels on (in alphabetical order):

•  Cinema

•  Folklore and Ethnographies

•  History

•  Linguistics (comparative and Slavic)

•  Literatures and Cultures

•  Pedagogy and Second Language Acquisition (teaching of individual skills; curriculum design, presentation of new teaching materials; use of technology in language teaching; study abroad; etc.).

•  Politics, Policy and Governance

•  Religion

The meeting of the Canadian Association of Ukrainian Studies (CAUS) is traditionally part of the CAS conference and therefore Ukrainian Studies are always very prominently represented at the CAS Annual Meeting, including panels on, for example, Ukrainian folklore and ethnography; diaspora studies; Ukrainian Canadian literature; museum studies; Holodomor studies; Ukrainian history, literature, politics, and culture.

Early career scholars and graduate students are especially encouraged to participate. We kindly ask our senior CAS membership to support graduate students in applying to participate in the conference. Limited funds are available to graduate students to help with the cost of attending the conference. An application form for the 2026 Travel Grant will be sent out in March 2026 by the Secretary-Treasurer and will also be available on the CAS website.

CAS members can use the Canadian Slavonic Papers (CSP) mailing list to help them form panels and roundtables: canadian-slavonic-papers@mailman.srv.ualberta.ca

For any further questions, suggestions or concerns please contact the conference program chair: Mark Conliffe: mark.conliffe@ucalgary.ca

 

CAS is looking forward to hosting you in May on the University of Ottawa campus!

CFP: NYU Comp Lit Folklore Graduate Conference 2026

CALL FOR PAPERS: In a Conference Far, Far Away…Traversing Forms of the
Folkloric (NYU Department of Comparative Literature Graduate Student Conference)

 Date: Friday, May 1, 2026

Since its formation in the nineteenth century, Folklore Studies has
been seen as an inherently comparative and interdisciplinary field to
the point where some are left wondering whether it would be better
housed as a subfield of anthropology, ethnography, or literary
studies. Part of the reason for this uncertainty may lie in both the
breadth of materials categorized as relating to folklore studies (oral
or written folk tales, myths, songs, jokes, articles of clothing,
etc.) as well as the longstanding difficulty of defining “folklore”
itself.

“In a Conference Far, Far Away,” brings together graduate students to
present work that engages with and problematizes the category of
folklore. We invite graduate students (MA, MFA, and PhD) to submit
proposals for 15-20 minute presentations that explore and critically
reflect on the myriad dimensions of the folkloric.

Organized by NYU’s Comparative Literature Department, with the aim of
fostering interdisciplinary conversations, we welcome submissions from
a variety of fields and disciplines. Topics may include, but are not
limited to:

Memory; Oral history and embodied history; Speculative fiction
(horror, fantasy, science fiction, apocalypse, etc.); Mythos, magic,
and fairy tales; Revolution; Repression of folklore; Adaptation,
repetition, and appropriation; Material cultures; Museum studies;
Religion; Ritual and performance; Musicology; Nostalgia; Nationalism;
Eco-criticism

Please submit an abstract of 250 words and a short bio of 100 words to
nyufolkloreconference@gmail.com by March 1, 2026.

Participants will be notified by April 1, 2026.

CFA: SEEFA Annual Awards + New Ukrainian Folklore Award

Deadline: May 31, 2022

This is just a friendly reminder about the upcoming deadlines for this year's awards offered by the Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Folklore Association: 

The SEEFA Award for Best Undergraduate Paper (deadline: May 31)

The SEEFA Award for Best Graduate Paper (deadline: May 31)

James Bailey Graduate Travel Award (the original deadline of April 30 has been extended to May 31)

Please encourage your students to apply. For more information, please visit our website https://seefa.org/student-awards 

In addition to these annual awards, we would like to announce the 2022 Ukrainian Folklore Award for Ukrainian scholars who have had their scholarly and financial support disrupted аs a result of Russia’s war on Ukraine. The deadline for the new award is July 1. See the attached files (PDF and JPEG) for more information and please share with your Ukrainian colleagues who may be eligible.