The Fan Studies Network

Join us on March 22-24, 2018, for the Transmedia Literacy International Conference. This event brings together a vibrant and global community of media and education researchers and innovators. The conference is organized as a part of the dissemination activities of the TRANSLITERACY H2020 action, a project that involves researchers from Europe, Latin America and Australia. Beyond the paper sessions and the keynotes the Transmedia Literacy International Conference will include workshops and short presentations by education innovation leaders. The main objective of the conference is to share research outputs and practices around the following topics:

Transmedia literacy
Transmedia education
Transmedia skills and informal learning strategies
Media literacy
Educommunication
Student-generated contents
Collaborative cultures and education
Fan cultures and education

Transmedia Literacy International Conference will be held at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra – Barcelona, and will feature a series of workshops for teachers as well as two days of paper sessions and a special event around Transmedia Literacy. We hope you can join us!

This event has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 645238

Deadlines:
Proposals submission: October 31, 2017
Notifications: December 15, 2017

Registration:
With accepted proposals: from December 15 to February 15, 2017
Other participants: from February 16, 2017
Keynote speakers:
David Buckingham – University of Loughborough (United Kingdom)
Divina Frau-Meigs – Université Sorbonne Nouvelle (France)
Alejandro Piscitelli – Universidad de Buenos Aires (Argentina)
Other keynote speakers will be confirmed as soon as possible.
PROPOSALS

The Transmedia Literacy Conference will accept the following formats:

Research Papers: participants must send research papers (extension: 6,000 -8,000 words) before October 31, 2017. The Transmedia Literacy International Conference will accept proposals tailored to the diverse forms of research in the field of transmedia literacy, transmedia education, transmedia skills and informal learning strategies, media literacy, educommunication, student-generated contents, collaborative cultures and education, and fan cultures and education.
Paper parallel sessions will be held on March 22 (afternoon) and March 23 (morning & afternoon).
If you are interested in presenting a Research Paper, please fill and submit a proposal in English (download the Paper Guidelines) to the following email: transliteracyconference@upf.edu, clearly indicating that is a Research Paper proposal in the subject. Please send a MS Word file (.doc, or .docx); do not send PDF documents.
Deadline: October 31, 2017.
Innovative Educational Practices: participants must send before October 31, 2017 an extended abstract (extension: 1,200-1,500 words) describing a real educational experience in primary/secondary schools involving transmedia storytelling, collaborative practices in social media, student-generated contents o any other educommunicational activity.
Innovative educational practices sessions will be held on March 22 (afternoon) and March 23 (morning & afternoon).
If you are interested in presenting an Innovative Educational Practice, please fill and submit a proposal in English (download the specific guidelines here) to the following email: transliteracyconference@upf.edu, clearly indicating that is an Innovative Educational Practice proposal in the subject. Please send a MS Word file (.doc, or .docx); do not send PDF documents.
Deadline: October 31, 2017.
Workshops: the Transmedia Literacy International Conference will accept a short number of workshops oriented to high-school teachers/professors. The workshops should be designed for short groups (no more than 20 people) and the duration should be 4 hours (240 minutes including a break); they could explore different uses and experiences around transmedia storytelling and collaborative cultures in the classroom.
Workshops will be held on March 23 (morning & afternoon) and, eventually, on March 24 (morning).
Workshops can be in English, Spanish or Catalan (Los talleres pueden ser en inglés, castellano o catalán / Els tallers poden ser en anglès, castellà o català).
English: If you are interested in organizing a Workshop, please fill the following Workshop proposal (extension: 1,500-2,000 words) (download the specific guidelines here) and submit it to: transliteracyconference@upf.edu, clearly indicating that is a Workshop proposal in the subject. Please send a MS Word file (.doc, or .docx); do not send PDF documents.
Castellano: Si estás interesado en organizar un Taller, por favor completa la siguiente propuesta (descargar la guía) (extensión: 1.500-2.000 palabras) y envíala a: transliteracyconference@upf.edu, indicando claramente que es una propuesta de Taller. Por favor, envía un archivo MS Word (.doc o .docx); no envíes documentos PDF.
Catalán: Si estàs interessat a organitzar un Taller, per favor completa la següent proposta (descarregar la guia) (extensió: 1.500-2.000 paraules) i envia-la a: transliteracyconference@upf.edu, indicant clarament que és una proposta de Taller. Per favor, envia un arxiu MS Word (.doc o .docx); no enviïs documents PDF.
Deadline: October 31, 2017.
PROGRAM OF THE CONFERENCE (work in progress)

Thursday, March 22, 2018

09.00 – 13.00 Registration
10.00 – 13.00 Special opening event (live and streaming)
13.00 – 14.30 Lunch
14.30 – 15.30 Keynote conference
15.30 – 16.00 Coffee Break
16.00 – 18.00 Paper / Innovative Educational Practices Sessions
Friday, March 23, 2017

09.00 – 13.00 Registration
09.30 – 10.30 Keynote conference
10.30 – 11.00 Coffee Break
11.00 – 13.00 Paper / Innovative Educational Practices Sessions
13.00 – 14.30 Lunch
14.30 – 15.30 Keynote conference
15.30 – 16.00 Coffee Break
16.00 – 18.00 Paper / Innovative Educational Practices Sessions / Workshops
Saturday, March 24, 2017

10.00 – 14.00 Workshops
10.30 – 11.00 Coffee Break
11.00 – 12.30 Teacher’s Kit presentation

Important details

This conference is supported by the TRANSLITERACY Project / H2020 Research and Innovation Programme under Grant Agreement No. 645238. The registration is free and includes coffee breaks.
Participants with accepted papers, innovative experiences or workshops will have priority for registration. The registration will then be opened to other participants.
All conference rooms will be equipped with standard Wi-Fi broadband service, PC, Power Point / Adobe PDF software, AV projection, sound, and VGA adapters. We will not provide additional bandwidth capacity or provide other special equipment.

COMMITTEES

Scientific Committee

Carlos A. Scolari – Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Spain)
Elisenda Ardévol –Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Spain)
Rosalía Winocur – Universidad de la República (Uruguay)
Gladys Ceretta – Universidad de la República (Uruguay)
Sara Pereira – Universidade do Minho (Portugal)
Raine Koskimaa – University of Jyväskylä (Finland)
Rebecca Enyon – Oxford Internet Institute (United Kingdom)
Simona Tirocchi – Università degli Studi di Torino (Italy)
Carlos Barreneche – Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Colombia)
Gabriella Taddeo – Istituto Nazionale Documentazione Innovazione Ricerca Educativa (Italy)
Heather Horst – University of Sidney (Australia)
Sarah Pink – RMIT University (Australia)
Organization Committee

Carlos A. Scolari – Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Maria-Jose Masanet – Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Mar Guerrero-Pico – Universitat Pompeu Fabra
María-José Establés – Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Elisenda Ardèvol – Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
Israel Márquez – Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
Débora Lanzeni – Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
Arnau Gifreu – Universitat de Vic
Ruth Contreras – Universitat de Vic

The conference

Dear all,

Thanks to Finn Upham we are very happy to be able to provide an audio recording of Louisa Stein‘s ‘Fandom/Resistance’ keynote which was delivered at the Fan Studies Network 2017 conference. Finn was kind enough to record the keynote so that we could share with those of you that could not attend, and those who were there but may wish to listen to it again. This talk resulted in a lot of emotion in the room, so we are very happy that more of you can experience this striking and wonderful keynote.

You can also download the file.

Timestamps and links for the vids included are as follows:

11:18 – 11:30 Crazy by l_e_s
13:09 – 13:36 Light It Up – A Sailor Moon AMV by The Optional Studios
15:08 – 15:25 Light It Up (Women’s March Vid) by lolawaldorf
27:00 – 27:20 Carrie and Gary – A Better Son Daughter by eruthros2
33:12 Questions (Audience voices cut for audibility.)

The programme for FSN2017, which took place at the University of Huddersfield 24-25 June 2017,  is also available for download here.

Following our previous call inviting chapter submissions for a new edited collection focusing on gender and horror, we have had such a large number of submissions that we are now aiming to publish three volumes. The first two will focus on films and on television but the third volume will cover other forms of media such as comics and graphic novels, fan literature, video games, and crossover media forms.

We would like to extend the call for papers in relation to the third volume only and will welcome 200 word abstracts plus a short personal bio. The deadline for this will be 19 July 2017.

​Responses to this call should be sent to Professor Robert Shail r.shail@leedsbeckett.ac.uk.

​The original cfp is below for your information.
This edited collection aims to re-examine horror in an era of remakes, reboots and re-imaginings. There have been many developments in the horror genre and whilst much of it has been reliant on previous material, there are also many shifts and changes such as
* cross-over of genres (for example, teen romance paired with vampires and werewolves, or horror in space);
* new formats such as Netflix, and cinema no longer being the only place we see horror;
* a resurgence of stories of hauntings and ghosts;
* and the popularity of ‘found footage’.

We wish to focus specifically on horror from 1995 to the present, as after a brief hiatus in the mainstream, the 1990s saw the return of horror to our screens – including our TV screens with, for example, Buffy The Vampire Slayer – and with horror and its characters more knowing than before.
We are happy for you to compare older material with newer versions, such as the recent Netflix version of The Exorcist (2016) with the original film The Exorcist (1973). The main requirement is that you interrogate whether the portrayal of gender has changed in horror – it may look like something different (more positive?) is happening, but is it?

We hope to encourage diverse perspectives and we welcome early career researchers and new voices to offer a different light on classic material, in sole- or multi-authored chapters.
We’d also like to gently remind potential authors that ‘gender’ doesn’t only apply to women, it applies to men and masculinities, and it encompasses non-binary identities and experiences, as well as issues about ‘race’, ethnicities and class. ​
The schedule is as follows:
* You send your chapter title, 200 word abstract and brief bio by the end of May 2017.
* The finalised proposal will be sent to the publisher Emerald in early summer.
* Your final first draft chapter (approx 7000 words) should be sent to us by January 31st2018 (reminder/s will be sent).
* We will return any comments/revisions by the end of March 2018,
* and ask that you send us the final revised chapter by the end of June 2018.
* The completed manuscript will be submitted in July 2018 for publication in early 2019.

Please send your chapter titles, 200 word abstracts and a brief bio to the book editors by the end of May.
If you have any queries, or would like to contribute but need to tweak the schedule, please email us.

Editors:
Dr Samantha Holland s.holland@leedsbeckett.ac.uk
Dr Steven Gerrard S.D.Gerrard@leedsbeckett.ac.uk
Prof Robert Shail R.Shail@leedsbeckett.ac.uk

If you are not familiar with the publisher, Emerald are an independent publisher, established by academics in 1967 and committed to retaining their independence.
And for your future reference: All hardback monograph publishing will be available in paperback after 24 months, and all books are available as ebooks. Emerald commission and cover the cost of indexing if authors don’t want to do it themselves; use professional designers for each individual book jacket; and aim to exceed the royalties of other publishers. They have international offices, but pride themselves on not being a ‘corporate machine’.

Call for Presentations:

The Second Annual Ann Radcliffe Academic Conference at StokerCon 2018
Abstract Submission Deadline: November 27, 2017

The Second Annual Ann Radcliffe Academic Conference at StokerCon 2018
Conference Dates: March 1 – 4, 2018
Conference Hotel: Biltmore Hotel, Providence, Rhode Island
Conference Website: http://stokercon2018.org/

The Ann Radcliffe Academic Conference co-chairs invite all interested scholars and academics to submit presentation abstracts related to horror studies for consideration to be presented at the Third Annual StokerCon, March 1 – 4, 2018 held at the historic Biltmore Hotel in Providence, Rhode Island (see: http://www.providencebiltmore.com/ ).

The inaugural Ann Radcliffe Academic Conference in 2017 was a tremendous success and saw many presentations covering various aspects of horror studies. It is the goal with the second conference to continue the dialogue of academic analysis of horror. Hence we are looking for completed research or work-in-progress projects that can be presented to with the intent to expand the scholarship on various facets of horror that proliferates in:

• Art
• Cinema
• Comics
• Literature
• Music
• Poetry
• Television
• Video Games
• Etc.

We invite papers that take an interdisciplinary approach to their subject matter and can apply a variety of lenses and frameworks, such as, but not limited to:

• Auteur theory
• Close textual analysis
• Comparative analysis
• Cultural and ethnic
• Fandom and fan studies
• Film studies
• Folklore
• Gender/LGBT studies
• Historic analysis
• Interpretations
• Linguistic
• Literature studies
• Media and communications
• Media Sociology
• Modernity/Postmodernity
• Mythological
• Psychological
• Racial studies
• Semiotics
• Theoretical (Adorno, Barthes, Baudrillard, Dyer, Gerbner, etc.)
• Transmedia

Conference Details

• Please send a 250 – 300 word abstract on your intended topic, a preliminary bibliography and your CV to AnnRadCon@gmail.com by November 27, 2017. Responses will be emailed out during the last week of November/first week of December, 2017.
• Presentation time consideration: 15 minute maximum to allow for a Question and Answer period. Limit of one presentation at the conference.
• There are no honorariums for presenters; this is an academic conference. There is, however, a StokerCon2018 award opportunity; see http://horrorscholarships.com/the-scholarship-from-hell/
• The co-chairs of the Ann Radcliffe Academic Conference are exploring the possibilities of editing and publishing a volume of conference presentations (along with selections from the inaugural conference). Presenters will have the opportunity to edit and expand their presentations into proper chapters if they are selected for the volume.

Organizing Co-Chairs

Michele Brittany & Nicholas Diak
Email: AnnRadCon@gmail.com

The Ann Radcliffe Academic Conference is part of the Horror Writers Association’s Outreach Program. Membership to the Horror Writers Association is not required to submit or present, however registration to StokerCon 2018 is required to present. StokerCon registration can be obtained by going to http://www.stokercon2018.org. There is no additional registration or fees for the Ann Radcliffe Academic Conference outside StokerCon registration. If interested in applying to the Horror Writer’s Association as an academic member, please see http://www.horror.org/about/ .

StokerCon is the annual convention hosted by the Horror Writers Association wherein the Bram Stoker Awards for superior achievement in horror writing are awarded.