Webinars
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Film, VideoCommunity-Driven Archives: Local Needs/Global Practices in Safeguarding Living Cultural Heritage Hosted by the American Folklife Center, home to one of the oldest and largest ethnographic archives in the world, Community-Driven Archives comprises two roundtable discussions, bringing together scholars and professionals to share and discuss examples of community-guided documentation and archival preservation work. The discussions will foreground issues of ethics, equity, community self-representation, ownership, and access, from international perspectives.- Date: 2023-09-08
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Film, VideoCommunity Collections Grants Informational Webinar In this public informational webinar, AFC staff offered an overview of the Library's Of the People initiative and the Community Collections Grant program that is part of the initiative. Additionally, staff provided guidance on navigating the Notice of Funding Opportunity document, described hypothetical and illustrative project examples, and gathered questions from participants.- Contributor: Fenn, John - Stefano, Michelle
- Date: 2023-07-12
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Film, VideoCommunity Collections Grants For Individuals and Organizations: Informational Webinar #2 Informational webinar for the American Folklife Center's Community Collections Grants program of the Library's Of The People initiative. The webinar provides an overview of the grant program, information on the application process, and a live Q&A. Applications are due August 1, 2022. For more information about the Community Collections Grants program visit: https://www.loc.gov/programs/of-the-people/collect-and-preserve/community-collections-grant-application/- Contributor: Fenn, John - Stefano, Michelle
- Date: 2022-07-08
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Film, VideoCommunity Collection Grants For Individuals and Organizations Informational webinar for the American Folklife Center's Community Collections Grants program of the Library's Of The People initiative. The webinar provides an overview of the grant program, information on the application process, and a live Q&A. Applications are due August 1, 2022.- Contributor: Fenn, John - Stefano, Michelle
- Date: 2022-06-08
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Film, VideoCommunity Collections Grant Opportunities In this webinar, the American Folklife Center staff will discuss the new "Of the People" initiative at the Library of Congress supported by an institutional grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Attendees will learn about all of the funding opportunities under this initiative, with a focus on the Community Collections grant program recently launched by the Library's American Folklife Center. Staff will offer...- Contributor: Fenn, John - Stefano, Michelle
- Date: 2021-08-11
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Film, VideoCommunity Collections Grant Opportunities In this webinar, the American Folklife Center staff will discuss the new "Of the People" initiative at the Library of Congress supported by an institutional grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Attendees will learn about all of the funding opportunities under this initiative, with a focus on the Community Collections grant program recently launched by the Library's American Folklife Center.- Contributor: Stefano, Michelle - Fenn, John - Migoni, Allina - Groce, Nancy
- Date: 2021-08-10
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Film, VideoFieldwork in the Post-Pandemic World: Adaptation, Innovation and the Future This two-part series features recent and current Archie Green Fellows discussing the impact of the pandemic on their fieldwork experiences while documenting occupational folklife for the American Folklife Center.- Contributor: Glaser, Alana - McRobbie, Josephine - Fenn, John - Groce, Nancy - O'Connell, Joseph
- Date: 2021-07-20
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Film, VideoFieldwork in the Post-Pandemic World: Adaptation, Innovation and the Future Sponsored by the American Folklife Center, this two-part webinar series will feature recent and current Archie Green Fellows discussing the impact of the pandemic on their fieldwork experiences while documenting occupational folklife for the American Folklife Center.- Contributor: Groce, Nancy - Millar, Ed - Filkins, Sarah
- Date: 2021-07-13
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Film, VideoThe Person Behind the Job: The Occupational Folklife Project (Online Office Hours) Join the staff of the Library's American Folklife Center (AFC) to explore the online resource, the Occupational Folklife Project. Over the past decade, folklorists and oral historians throughout America have been working closely with the AFC to document more than a thousand contemporary workers talking about their jobs. Electricians, circus performers, health care providers, and gold miners are among those who explain how they...- Contributor: Black, Kaleena - Groce, Nancy
- Date: 2020-06-02