[Commlist] CFP: Making, Remaking, and Limitations

    *Call for Abstracts & Registration Now Open*


    Making, Remaking, and Limitations


    International Symposium on Festival Culture (ISFC) 2025

*Online Symposium*

*8th June 2025*


    Festival Culture Research and Education


    Deadline for submissions: April 15, 2025

During our sixth annual online event, we will discuss 'making, remaking, 
and limitations' in festive, celebratory, and ritual cultures. Our 
questions are: How and why do people continue to make and remake 
culture? In what ways do they experience limitations when making and 
remaking culture, if any? What is the significance of the making and 
remaking of culture and whom is it for?

​Our goal is to examine what funding, policies, gatekeeping, people 
management, cultural politics, etc. can reveal about making and remaking 
practices in carnivals, festivals, ceremonies, fetes, fairs, and 
rituals, taking into account the limitations and advantages of these 
celebrations and events.

In keeping with our previous theme, we will also consider shared values, 
practices, customs, heritage, traditions, continuity, uniqueness, and 
differentiation within festive and celebratory cultures. The intention 
is to examine how culture is made and remade and how emotions and 
experiences are shared and/or autonomously experienced.

​Proposals may also address, but are not limited to, the following themes:

• Art, Craft, and Practice

• Carnivals (including Diasporic Carnivals)

• Celebration and Leisure

• Competition, Adjudication, and Legacy

• Costume and the Body

• Creative Industries

• Culture and Politics

• Dance and Performance

• Education

• Embodiment

• Events

• Food Culture

• Community Making (Re-making)

• Literature

• Medieval Culture

• Night Festivals

• Memory, Nostalgia, and Temporality

• Music and Sound

• Tradition and Heritage

• Religion

• Resistance, Resilience, and Activism

• Sporting Celebrations

• Tourism

​

Abstracts of up to 500-word (only abstracts/papers that have not been 
previously presented and published will be considered) and biographies 
of no more than 100 words (in Word .doc format).

*Symposium Submission Dates:*

500-word (Word doc. files only) Abstract Proposal Submission Deadline: 
*28th March 2025 *

​Completed Presentation Deadline optional: *15th April 2025*

​Symposium Date:  TBA

Symposium Page: https://www.festivalculture.co.uk/isfc2025 
<https://www.festivalculture.co.uk/isfc2025>.

Submit Abstract Proposal: https://form.jotform.com/241492116752354 
<https://form.jotform.com/241492116752354>.

Register to attend the symposium: 
https://form.jotform.com/242934085713358 
<https://form.jotform.com/242934085713358>.

Check out our journal: https://www.festivalculture.co.uk/jfcia 
<https://www.festivalculture.co.uk/jfcia>


Interested in submitting a book review? 
https://www.festivalculture.co.uk/call-for-reviews 
<https://www.festivalculture.co.uk/call-for-reviews>

Interested in submitting an article for our upcoming Volume 4 
(2025/2026)? https://www.festivalculture.co.uk/isfc2024 
<https://www.festivalculture.co.uk/isfc2024>


    Have questions? Contact us <mailto:(festival.culture.edu /at/ gmail.com)>!

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