Making, Remaking, and Limitations
Call for Papers
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).
Key Dates:
500-word (Word doc. files only) Abstract Proposal Submission Deadline: 20th February 2025
Notification of Acceptance: 28th February 2025
Completed Presentation Deadline: 1st April 2025
Symposium Date: TBA
Symposium Page:: https://www.festivalculture.co.uk/isfc2025.
Submit Abstract Proposal: https://form.jotform.com/241492116752354.
Register to attend the symposium: https://form.jotform.com/242934085713358.