[Air-L] REMINDER: Fan Studies Network Conference 2017

Bertha Chin bertha.chin at gmail.com
Mon Mar 13 01:42:57 PDT 2017


Today is the last day to send your abstracts in for the Fan Studies Network
Conference 2017!

*The Fan Studies Network 2017 Conference*

*24-25th June 2017Centre for Participatory Culture,*
*University of Huddersfield, UK*

*Keynote Speaker: Dr Louisa Stein (Middlebury College, USA) *
*Plenary Address: Professor Matt Hills (University of Huddersfield, UK)*

The fifth anniversary of the annual Fan Studies Network Conference is
visiting the University of Huddersfield for a vibrant two-day programme
during June 2017. The conference will celebrate and continue FSN’s proud
tradition of offering an enthusiastic space for interdisciplinary
researchers at all levels to connect, share resources, and further develop
their research ideas. In addition to panel presentations, the two days will
feature social events, speed geeking, and workshop discussions.
We are delighted to welcome Dr Louisa Stein as the keynote speaker for
FSN2017. Louisa is Assistant Professor of Film and Media Culture at
Middlebury College; where she teaches classes on remix culture,
spectatorship, YouTube, and gender and sexuality in media. Louisa is author
of *Millennial Fandom: Television Audiences in the Transmedia Age*, and
co-editor of *Sherlock and Transmedia Fandom *and* Teen Television:
Programming and Fandom*.

The event will also feature a plenary address from Professor Matt Hills,
who, due to being the keynote of the first ever FSN conference, will
reflect on the past five years of the network and the fan studies field.
Matt is Professor of Media and Journalism at the University of
Huddersfield, where he is co-director of the Centre for Participatory
Culture. He has written six sole-authored research monographs, starting
with the influential *Fan Cultures* in 2002 and most recently with *Doctor
Who: The Unfolding Event* in 2015, as well as publishing more than a
hundred book chapters and journal articles in the areas of media fandom,
cult film/TV and audiences in the digital era.

FSN2017 is sponsored by the Centre for Participatory Culture at the
University of Huddersfield, which will have its official launch the day
before our conference. Attendees of FSN2017 will be able to attend the
centre launch for free – the Centre will announce full details of this
event in the coming weeks.

We invite abstracts of no more than 300 words for papers that address any
aspect of fandom or fan studies. We also welcome collated submissions for
pre-constituted panels. We encourage new members, in all stages of study,
to the network and welcome proposals for presentations on, but not limited
to, the following possible topics:

– Fandom and grief/mourning
– Representations of fans in media & popular culture
– Fandom and sports
– Fandom and race
– Political fandom
– Non-technological practices in fandom
– Fan conventions and offline spaces
– Histories and archives of fandom
– Non-Western fan cultures
– Ethics and methodology in fan studies
– Interdisciplinary approaches to fan studies
– Anti-Fandom and Non-Fandom
– The future directions of fan studies
– The ‘dark’ or ‘toxic’ side of fandom

We also invite expressions of interest (100-200 words) from anyone wishing
to present as part of our popular ‘speed geeking’ session. This would
involve each speaker presenting a short discussion on a relevant topic of
their choosing to a number of small groups, and then receiving
instantaneous feedback, making it ideal for presenting in-progress or
undeveloped ideas. If you have any questions about this format of
presentation, please don’t hesitate to contact us.

Please send any abstracts/enquires to: fsnconference at gmail.com by *13th
MARCH 2017*.
Please include up to three keywords for your submission and a short
biographical note.
You can join the discussion about the event on Twitter using #FSN2017, or
visit http://www.fanstudies.org.

Conference Organisers: Lucy Bennett and Tom Phillips (FSN chairs)
Bertha Chin, Bethan Jones, Richard McCulloch, Rebecca Williams (FSN board)

-- 
Dr. Bertha Chin
Lecturer of Communication
Faculty of Language and Communication
Swinburne University of Technology (Sarawak campus)
G204, Jalan Simpang Tiga
93350 Kuching
Sarawak, Malaysia
https://swinburne-my.academia.edu/BerthaChin
Twitter: @bertha_c
Board Member, Fan Studies Network <http://fanstudies.org>



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