fan studies and fandom

Essays on Indie Tabletop Roleplaying Games

This edited collection will be a part of McFarland & Company, Inc.’s Studies in Gaming series. It will be peer reviewed.

ORIGINAL CAST RECORDINGS: ART, ARTEFACT AND ANALYSIS

An international, interdisciplinary, virtual conference organised by the
AHRC-funded ‘Original Cast Recordings: Musical Theatre and/as Sonic Heritage’ Network

Tuesday 5th - Wednesday 6th September 2023

Online platform to be announced

Keynote speaker: Professor Laurence Maslon (Tisch, New York University)
Author of Broadway to Main Street: How Showtunes Enchanted America (Oxford University Press)

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Call for Papers

STARDOM AND FANDOM

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

SWPACA Summer Salon

June 8 & 9, 2023

Virtual Conference

http://www.southwestpca.org

Submissions open on March 18, 2023

Proposal submission deadline: April 15, 2023

Call for Abstracts: The Esoteric Theology of Philip K. Dick

Editors: Dr. George Sieg & Michael Barros

The Department of English, Rhetoric & Writing, and Media Communication and the Department of History, Social Sciences & Philosophy at the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith

The Works and Influence of Charles Portis: A Symposium

November 2-5,  2023 

A Call for Papers on the Works and Influence of author, veteran, journalist, bureau chief, and Arkansawyer, Charles Portis for a Symposium hosted by the University of Arkansas Fort Smith.  In celebration of the May 2023 publication of the Library of America series, The Collected Works of Charles Portis, edited by Jay Jennings, this symposium explores the writing and cultural influence of Portis.  

Call for Papers: James Bond Studies Conference

30th June – 1st July 2023

University of Roehampton, London

In association with the Centre for Literature and Inclusion and the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Roehampton, the International Journal of James Bond Studies will host a 2-day international conference on the University’s beautiful parkland campus in South West London.

A 1.5-day international conference at the University of Exeter and Exeter Library (UK)

12-13 September 2023

Keynote Speakers: Dr Mark Aldridge, Solent University and Prof. Michelle M. Kazmer, Florida State University

With its massive world, open-ended quests, and near-limitless options for customization, Elden Ring––the most critically acclaimed video game of 2022––is designed to be replayed. But it is also a text that demands to be reread. Whether we study its environmental storytelling or the lore in item descriptions, the game’s fragmented narrative fuels exegeses that resemble the long history of Biblical interpretation, midcentury criticism of modernist enigmas like Ulysses, and hermeneutic fandoms surrounding popular culture like Twin Peaks. Its spatiotemporally disjunctive universe frustrates efforts to interpret its world “realistically” and prompts one to place it in dialogue with theories of unconventional space and time.

To Be Continued 3:

Defining, Producing, Performing, Consuming, and Theorizing Serials and Adaptations

Organizers: Julie Grossman (Le Moyne College), Thomas Leitch (University of Delaware),

Iain Smith (Kings College London), Constantine Verevis (Monash University)

Calum Waddell (University of Aberdeen) and Chenyu Lin (University of Cardiff) are seeking to put together an edited collection Jackie Chan with the ReFocus series at Edinburgh University Press. This is a Call for Papers for a book on the work of Jackie Chan as filmmaker (NOT actor).

 The Milton Society of America invites papers that locate Milton’s writings in different networks across periods and boundaries. Potential topics include adaptation, influence, and translation. Please send a brief abstract (approximately 200 words) and an abbreviated cv to Eric Song (esong1@swarthmore.edu) no later than March 15, 2023.

Sexiness/ Sexism

What is your first thought when hearing someone is “sexy”? What images spring to your mind? Why and how? Do you relate it to bodies, desires, genders, or sex? Do you think “sexiness” is a kind of “sexism”? Or are you trying to deconstruct this association and find more possibilities to open our senses?

We’re soliciting work in three categories:

-Literary analysis using Feminist Theory and Gender Studies
e.g. Reading Chang Xiao-Hung’s Fashioning Modernity

- Reviews of mass media, films, literature, etc.
e.g. The representation of sexiness in K-pop music
e.g. Voguing category: sex siren

-Creative Writing
e.g. short stories reconceiving sexiness

CALL FOR PAPERS, ABSTRACTS, AND PANEL PROPOSALS

 Deadline for submission proposals: 30 April 2023

 Submission link: https://www.mpcaaca.org/submit-panels 

Midwest Popular Culture Association/Midwest American Culture Association Annual Conference

 Friday-Sunday, 06-08 October 2023

DePaul University

Address/Phone:

DePaul Center

1 E. Jackson Blvd.

Chicago, IL 60604

(312) 362-8000

Multiverse Convention 2023

Event Date & Location: October 20-22, 2023, Westin Atlanta Perimeter North

Deadline for Submissions: June 30, 2023

Name of Organization: Multiverse Convention

Organization Website: https://www.multiversecon.org

Contact Email: Rhonda Jackson Joseph, Learn@Multiversecon.org

CONVENTION THEME: