Mask by Tlingit artist Nathan Jackson of Alaska. Jackson has received a National Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Photograph courtesy of the Alaska State Council on the Arts. From the Masters of Traditional Arts DVD-ROM, produced by Alan Govenar and published by ABC-CLIO.

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• North Atlantic Fiddle Convention 2008: Crossing Over (St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, Select Here, begins on 08/03/2008)
  
• ALAMAT : 1st International Conference on Myths and Symbols (Manila, XX, begins on 11/25/2008)
• International Society for Contemporary Legend Research (Dublin, Ireland, Select Here, begins on 07/07/2008)
• Annual Meeting of the Gypsy Lore Society and Conference on Gypsy studies (Washington DC, DC, begins on 08/28/2008)
• PAS: Association for the Preservation of Artifacts & Landscapes 40th Conference (Baton Rouge, LA, begins on 10/16/2008)
• Annual Meeting of the Folklore Studies Association of Canada / l´association canadienne d´ethnologie et de folklore (Sydney, Nova Scotia, XX, begins on 05/22/2008)
• Taking Shetland Out of the Box: Island Cultures and Shetland Identity (Lerwick, Shetland, begins on 05/07/2009)
  
• CFP The Ritual Year And Gender Conference 2008 (Cork, Ireland, begins on 06/22/2008)
  
• Translation/Transformation (Columbus, OH, begins on 05/16/2008)
  
• CFP: 15th Congress of the International Society for Folk Narrative Research (ISFNR) (Athens, Greece, begins on 06/21/2009)
  
• Neapolitan Postcards: The Canzone Napoletana as Transnational Subject (Manhattan, New York City, NY, begins on 03/20/2009)
  
• The sixth annual Qualia Festival of Gay Folklife (Columbus, OH, begins on 04/19/2008)
  
• ELEVENTH SYMPOSIUM of the International Commission for Research into European Food History (ICREFH) Food and War in Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (Paris, France, XX, begins on 09/01/2009)
  
• Call for Papers "Migration, Diaspora, Pilgrimage" (Jerusalem, XX, begins on 11/17/2008)
  
• "The Train Just Don't Stop Here Anymore": An Interdisciplinary Colloquium on the Soundscapes of Rural and Small-Town America (Decatur, IL, begins on 04/03/2009)
  
• Return of the Song: The Milman Parry Collection and Its Reception in the World (Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina, XX, begins on 07/03/2008)
  
• Hearing Israel: Music, Culture and History at 60 (Charlottesville, VA, begins on 04/13/2008)
  
• SIEF2008, Transcending 'European Heritages': Liberating the Ethnological Imagination (Derry, Northern Ireland, XX, begins on 06/16/2008)
  
• CONFERENCE ON MODERN JEWISH CULTURE AND STUDENT BURSARIES (Wroclaw, Poland, XX, begins on 06/24/2008)
  
• Call For Papers: The 12th Annual Conference on Holidays, Ritual, Festival, Celebration, and Public Display (Bowling Green, OH, begins on 09/25/2008)
  
• Call for Papers - BFE One-Day Conference; 'Sacred Singing and Musical Spirituality' (Aberdeen, XX, begins on 11/15/2008)