[ecrea] CFP: Fan Studies Network 2014

Call for papers:

THE FAN STUDIES NETWORK 2014 CONFERENCE
27-28th September 2014
Regent’s University London, UK

Keynote Speakers:

Dr Paul Booth (DePaul University)

Dr Rhiannon Bury (Athabasca University)

Mr Orlando Jones (star of Sleepy Hollow, appearing for a virtual Q&A)

For two years the Fan Studies Network has provided a fruitful and 
enthusiastic space for academics interested in fans and fandom to 
connect, share resources, and develop their research ideas. Following 
the success of our first symposium in November 2013, we are delighted to 
announce the FSN2014 Conference, taking place over two days at Regent’s 
University London from 27-28th September 2014.

FSN2014 will feature three fantastic keynote speakers. The first will be 
Dr Paul Booth, author of Digital Fandom: New Media Studies (Peter Lang, 
2010), Time on TV: Temporal Displacement and Mashup Television (Peter 
Lang, 2012) and editor of Fan Phenomena: Doctor Who (Intellect, 2013). 
His newest book, Media Play: Pastiche, Parody, Fandom, is forthcoming 
from University of Iowa Press. The second keynote will be Dr Rhiannon 
Bury, author of Cyberspaces of Their Own: Female Fandoms Online (Peter 
Lang, 2005) and currently writing her second book for publication with 
Peter Lang, entitled Television 2.0: New Perspectives on Digital 
Convergence, Audiences, and Fans. We are also incredibly delighted that 
Mr Orlando Jones, an American film and television writer, producer, and 
actor who currently plays Captain Frank Irving in Sleepy Hollow (Fox, 
2013-) and vocal proponent of fan culture, will be joining us via Skype 
to participate in a virtual Q&A session.

We invite abstracts of no more than 300 words for individual 20 minute 
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:

- Activism and fandom
- Producer-audience interactions
- Non-Western fan cultures
- Ethics in fan studies
- Defining fandom
- Anti-Fandom and Non-Fandom

- Fan use of social media platforms

- Fandom (and) controversies

- The future of fan studies

We also invite expressions of interest (100- 200 words) from anyone 
wishing to host a short session of ‘speed geeking.’ This would involve 
each speaker chairing a short discussion on a relevant topic of their 
choosing, and then receiving extensive feedback, making it ideal for 
presenting in-progress or undeveloped ideas. If you have any questions 
about this format of presentation, please contact Richard McCulloch at 
(mccullochr /at/ regents.ac.uk).

Please send any enquires/abstracts to: (fsnconference /at/ gmail.com) by SUNDAY 
1st JUNE.
Notifications of decisions will be sent out w/c 16th June.

You can find out more information on http://fanstudies.wordpress.com/ or 
talk about the event on Twitter using #FSN2014.

Conference Organisers:

Lucy Bennett and Tom Phillips (FSN chairs)

Bertha Chin, Bethan Jones, Richard McCulloch, Rebecca Williams (FSN board)





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Senior Research Associate
School of Film, Television and Media Studies
University of East Anglia
Norwich Research Park
NR4 7TJ

Co-chair
The Fan Studies Network
http://fanstudies.wordpress.com/

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