The 40th Annual Conference of the Virginia Woolf Society of Japan included a brief seminar on E. M. Forster entitled “E. M. Forster’s Legacies Half a Century After His Death: Nostalgia, Heritage and Queer”. It was held online on November 7th. You can see the programme (it is in Japanese but automatic translators help) and […]
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New Collection of Essays about Maurice
We are happy to announce the publication of Twenty-First-Century Readings of E. M. Forster’s ‘Maurice’ edited by Emma Sutton and Tsung-Han Tsai. The volume which includes several chapters written by members of our Society is available from Liverpool University Press right here.
Call for Papers for Special Forster Issue of ‘Language and Literary Studies of Warsaw’
Dear Friends and Colleagues, Members of the IEMFS, This year we celebrate the 50th anniversary of E. M. Forster’s death. The main part of the celebrations will soon take part in Cambridge during special academic conference. The International E. M. Forster Society has decided, however, to offer its members an opportunity to commemorate the anniversary […]
E. M. Forster Conference in Paris – Call for Papers
E. M. Forster, Howards End (1910) and its adaptation by James Ivory (1992) Friday, December 13, 2019 University Sorbonne Nouvelle — Paris 3 “Only Connect: Reconsidering E. M. Forster’s and Ismail Merchant and James Ivory’s Howards End” E.M. Forster’s Howards End (1910) has been the object of a vibrant critical debate. Often defined […]
CfP — Re-orientating E. M. Forster
It is with great pleasure that we are sharing with you the call for papers of the forthcoming Forster conference which will take place in April 2020 in Cambridge. Please, share the news with everyone you think might be interested and let’s meet in Cambridge in a year! CALL FOR PAPERS RE-ORIENTATING E. M. FORSTER […]
Re-orientating E. M. Forster
ADVANCE NOTICE RE-ORIENTATING E. M. FORSTER Texts, Contexts, Receptions An international conference to be held in Cambridge Thursday 2 to Saturday 4 April 2020 E. M. Forster died on 7 June 1970. One of the great British writers of the twentieth century, his continuing popularity in the years since his death is reflected in the numerous reprintings […]
Howards End America
We have some more information about the new Forsterian opera – Howards End America is still closer to its opening night. You will find all the details in this new page and the details about the creation of the libretto in Claudia Stevens’ paper.
Forsterian Issue of PJES now Available
A special issue of the Polish Journal of English Studies dedicated to E. M. Forster is now available on the journal’s website, HERE. Enjoy reading!
New Stage Adaptation of A Passage to India
Members and friends of the Society based or visiting London may be interested in this new stage adaptation of A Passage to India:
Birthday Presents
Dear Friends and Members of the IEMFS! We want to celebrate Forster’s 139th birthday with our brand new database of film and stage adaptations of Forster’s novels. Please, take a look here and see if there is anything you would like to add! We have also greatly updated our first database – The Translations of Forster.