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Schedule for Gender and Subversive Morality in Fanwork and Folklore, 1300-2022

We have a schedule for Saturday’s symposium!

Specific location on the University of Glasgow Campus and Zoom URL will be provided for registrants.

Register for Gender and Subversive Morality in Fanwork and Folklore, 1300-2022 here.

Times provided are all in GMT

9am-10am Coffee & Registration

9:30am Zoom Call Begins

9:45am

Welcome from the organizers

Morning Session 10am-12pm Presentations, 10-11am (15 minutes each)

Dot Porter, "Books of Hours as Transformative Works: The Clothilde Missal as an example"

Sadie, "Botany and Botanising, Canon and Fanon: Credibility and Exclusion in Participatory Cultures"

MacKenzie Cockerill, "“Respect the Lore:” The Lord of the Rings, Canon in Tolkien, and Queer Digital Fandom"

Keri Thomas, "Sentient Sex Mist, or How Do You Solve A Problem Like the Patriarchy?"

Conversation, 11am-12pm

12-1:30 lunch

Afternoon Session 1:30-3:30pm Presentations, 1:30-2:30pm (15 minutes each)

Leo, "For the children: public discourses and performative moralities in online fandom spaces"

Nick, "Writing the Weird Stuff: Fandom as a Site for Queer and Kinky Erotica"

BriaeVeridian, "The Complexity of Gender Shifts in Fanworks"

Dawn, "The Tom and Jerry Effect: AKA Why I Like My Bad Boys"

Conversation, 2:30-3:30pm

Coffee break, 3:30-4:00

Planning for Sunday's writing group 4:00-4:30pm 

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Register for Gender and Subversive Morality in Fanwork and Folklore, 1300-2022 here.

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Gender and Subversive Morality in Fanwork and Folklore, 1300-2022

CFP, Registration, General Information

A Symposium of Brief Papers and Discussion

April 23-24 2022, University of Glasgow and Online (via Zoom)

Deadline for proposal submission for ten minute presentations due April 8, 2022

Approvals sent April 10, 2022

Register to attend by April 22

“Fan fiction is a way of the culture repairing the damage done in a system where contemporary myths are owned by corporations instead of owned by the folk.” (Jenkins, 1997)

Common conceptions of fan space and participatory culture frame feminised fanwork as irregular, unusual, and in some cases aberrant. This workshop aims to interrogate these assumptions by applying a gendered, historical lens to the rise of copyright, canons, and capitalism. Taking Jenkins’s assertion that fan fiction is in its nature a reparative force in opposition to systems of ownership, this meeting will seek to understand the myriad disruptive and reparative functions of transformative storytelling.

Our meeting’s topics include, but are not limited to:

What assumed norms does fanwork oppose?

When did the “ownership” of stories become normalised in Western storytelling practices?

How old is participatory culture? How new is the idea of canon?

Who benefits from the ownership of stories - and what moral constraints are opposed on those who “poach” stories for fanwork?

When discourses clash, evoking different moral framings of fanwork and "fandom," what are the public controversies at play?

The aim of this meeting is to fully integrate academic and non-academic practices and ideas, in order to expand beyond the normal purview of academia. If fan fiction is a way for the culture to repair capitalist, colonial, and patriarchal damage, this conference should be similarly reparative in its structure. Academia, like many normative fan spaces, requires active counter-colonial work, including the razing of exclusivity. Academic exclusivity is predicated on, as Haraway said, the attribution of credibility to a “specifically modern, European, masculine, scientific” person, and such criteria for credibility will be utterly rejected by this meeting. Instead, this meeting will be “owned by the folk.”

This two-day workshop aims to both deepen understanding of gender in fan space and of gendered practices of fan culture. One day will be dedicated to sharing interdisciplinary papers and fostering discussion. The second day will put these discussions into practice with the option of participating in the creation of various fanworks as a workshop.

Proposals to present are due on Friday, April 8, 2022. Short and sweet  are the words of the day! 300-500 words explaining what you’d like to present is fine. Presentations must be made in English, but proposals will be accepted in English, French, Spanish, or Portuguese. Speakers may present under their real life identity or their fandom identity, but submissions must be made under a real life identity.

Submit a proposal here

Register to attend here