The Folklore Student Association at the Ohio State University, in collaboration with the Department of Folklore & Ethnomusicology at Indiana University, invites proposals for the 2020 13th Annual IU/OSU Student Conference in Folklore and Ethnomusicology, entitled "20/20 (Re)Vision: Looking Back, Thinking Forward." We offer this theme as an invitation to foreground alternative, de-colonial, and under-acknowledged perspectives that engage critically with disciplinary origins across folklore and ethnomusicology graduate student scholarship. We would like those presenting to explicitly engage with questions about their own citational practices (both formal and informal) and the kinds of histories we are invoking, and what kind of futures those open up. In a similar vein, we’re inviting you to play with form. As folklorists and ethnomusicologists, we are experts in how form carries meaning and shapes communication. What does changing the form of our communication in academic settings do to our messages?

Please use the following form to submit your abstracts and proposals for the conference, to be held at the Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio on February 21st-22nd, 2020.