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Category: Benjamin Botkin Folklife Lecture Series

Billy Bragg speaks into a microphone.

New Resource Guide Highlights the American Folklife Center’s Botkin Lecture Series

Posted by: Stephen Winick

The American Folklife Center is excited to announce the launch of its new, easy-to-use Botkin Lecture Resource Guide, which gives users direct access to hundreds of hours of world-class lectures on folklore, folk music and traditional culture. Over the years, hundreds of prominent folklorists, ethnomusicologists, traditional artists, and scholars have accepted AFC’s invitation to present lectures in the Center’s Benjamin Botkin Folklife Lecture series. To date, more than 130 of their presentations have been shot on video for the AFC collections. Although most are available on the Library’s website and YouTube channel, they can be difficult to find unless you know exactly what you’re looking for. The new Botkin Lecture Guide, which you can visit straight from this blog post, makes finding, accessing and enjoying these talks easy.

Thai dancers on-stage at the Library of Congress.

The American Folklife Center: 2024 Year in Review

Posted by: Nicole Saylor

In this post, Nicole Saylor, Director of the American Folklife Center (AFC), highlights the 2024 accomplishments of the AFC. The post demonstrates how 2024 was a busy and productive year for the American Folklife Center, as it continued to meet its mission to document and share the many expressions of human experience to inspire, revitalize, and perpetuate living cultural traditions.