{"id":15545,"date":"2026-07-17T13:20:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T17:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/americanstudies\/?p=15545"},"modified":"2026-07-17T13:20:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T17:20:30","slug":"dublin-seminar-for-new-england-folklife-celebrates-50-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/americanstudies\/2026\/07\/17\/dublin-seminar-for-new-england-folklife-celebrates-50-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife Celebrates 50 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/dublin-seminar.org\/\">Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife <\/a>celebrates its 50th anniversary this year! The<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>seminar welcomes scholars each summer for a series of workshops and conversations that engage with New England\u2019s history and culture. The American Studies program was happy to commemorate the anniversary and sent a letter of congratulations on behalf of program director Dr. Joseph Rezek and CAS Dean Stan Sclaroff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The American Studies program is a proud co-sponsor of the Dublin Seminar, and many of our students and alums have participated and shared their research (including current PhD student Ella Kotsen, pictured here at this year\u2019s seminar presenting a paper on Pauline Hopkins\u2019s Afrofuturist vision). Congratulations to the Dublin Seminar on this amazing milestone!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/americanstudies\/files\/2026\/07\/Ella-Dublin-Seminar-1-650x557.jpg\" alt=\"Ella Kotsen presents at the Dublin Seminar\" width=\"650\" height=\"557\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-15547\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/americanstudies\/files\/2026\/07\/Ella-Dublin-Seminar-1-650x557.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/americanstudies\/files\/2026\/07\/Ella-Dublin-Seminar-1-1024x877.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/americanstudies\/files\/2026\/07\/Ella-Dublin-Seminar-1-768x658.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/americanstudies\/files\/2026\/07\/Ella-Dublin-Seminar-1-700x600.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/americanstudies\/files\/2026\/07\/Ella-Dublin-Seminar-1.jpg 1060w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">&#x1f4f7;<\/span>: Dr. William Moore<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife celebrates its 50th anniversary this year! The\u00a0 seminar welcomes scholars each summer for a series of workshops and conversations that engage with New England\u2019s history and culture. The American Studies program was happy to commemorate the anniversary and sent a letter of congratulations on behalf of program director [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22232,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/americanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15545"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/americanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/americanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/americanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22232"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/americanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/americanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15548,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/americanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15545\/revisions\/15548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/americanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/americanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/americanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}