reflections through a looking glass

SLASH 3: THE FINAL CUT
THE 3rd AND LAST DMU FANFICTION STUDY DAY =20 Clephan Building, Faculty of Humanities, De Montfort University,=20 Leicester, UK

Monday 25 February 2008
10.00 am =96 6.00 pm

With Slash 3, De Montfort University once again offers a slash-friendly = forum for discussion of the most exciting developments in fanfic.=20

The main focus will be on slash fiction, a category of fan stories, = almost exclusively by women, mostly about homoerotic affairs between = male characters in popular films and TV series. Proposals are invited, = however, for papers on all fanfic and fan film topics and controversies. =


Please send an abstract of 200 words for a 20 minute paper to Ian Hunter = at iqhunter_at_dmu.ac.uk.

DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS: 1 December 2007

All readers, writers and academic researchers of fan fiction, as well as = interested members of the public, are welcome to participate.=20

Please contact Ian Hunter at iqhunter_at_dmu.ac.uk to reserve a place. = An attendance fee of =A320 / =A312 concessions will be payable on the = day.=20

2007 Southwest/Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Association 28th Annual Conference, The Hyatt Regency Conference Hotel, Albuquerque, NM, February 14-17, 2007.

The Area Co-Chairs of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Area would like to invite paper and panel proposals on any aspect of the Stargate franchise.

Please send queries, 250 word paper proposals, and 500 word panel proposals, including full contact info for all participants, to

C. Jason Smith
jsmith@lagcc.cuny.edu

Deadline for proposal submissions: November 15, 2006.

For more details on the conference, please visit the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Association:
http://www.h-net.org/~swpca/.

Firefly and Serenity

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SLASH 2: THE 2nd DMU FANFICTION STUDY DAY



Faculty of Humanities, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK.



Tuesday 27th February 2007

10.00 am - 6.00 pm



After the success of last year's Slash Fiction Study Day, Slash 2 offers another slash-friendly forum for discussion of the most exciting developments in fanfic.



The main focus will be on slash fiction, a category of fan stories, almost exclusively by women, about homoerotic affairs between male characters in popular films and TV series. Proposals are invited, however, for papers on all fanfic topics and controversies. Contributions are especially welcome for panels on fan films, yaoi and Brokeback Mountain.



Please send an abstract of 200 words for a 20 minute paper to Dr Ian Hunter, iqhunter@dmu.ac.uk or to the following address:



Dr Ian Hunter

Principal Lecturer in Film Studies

Faculty of Humanities

De Montfort University

Clephan Building

The Gateway

Leicester LE1 9BH



DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS: 15th December 2006



All readers, writers and academic researchers of fan fiction, as well as interested members of the public, are welcome to participate. Delegates at the Redemption 2007 Conference might wish to stay over for Slash 2: the two events are both in Leicestershire, UK.



There will be an attendance fee. Please contact Ian Hunter at <mailto:iqhunter@dmu.ac.uk> iqhunter@dmu.ac.uk to reserve a place.



Slash 2 launches a series of regular seminar and lecture events hosted by the Cult Media Research Group.

Proposals are being sought for an edited collection of essays on the theme of Zombies in Literature and Film. Essays should address both literature and film as subjects and be aimed at an interdisciplinary academic audience. Interest has been shown by Cambria Press for a 2007 publication date, as part of their series in Literature, Film and Theory.

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Here's a call for essays for a book collection on Charmed. One of the editors also edited the forthcoming Reading Stargate SG-1 collection which will be published jointly by IB Tauris and St. Martin's/Palgrave, which are good presses, which means good exposure in a context that spans both academic and general audiences. The other editor has done some really interesting work in television/cultural studies and has just published a book on tattoos, violence and desire in television and film. So, the boat will float, as they say.

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CALL FOR PAPERS
SLASH FICTION STUDY DAY

Faculty of Humanities, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK.

Wednesday March 1, 2006


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"Fan/tastic Visuals"

Panellists are being sought for a potential session to be submitted to the 2006 International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts (ICFA), March 15-19 at the Wyndham Fort Lauderdale Airport Hotel, Ft.
Lauderdale, Florida. This panel will focus on fan art, photo manipulation, video, web design, costuming, body modification, and other visual methods of creativity/expression by speculative fiction fan communities.

A panel discussion at the ICFA is typically 4-5 people participating in a more informal discussion on a given topic with greater audience participation as compared to the formal (and longer) paper sessions. The ICFA allows people to present a paper as well as participate in a panel discussion (information on Division Heads and paper submissions can be found at http://iafa.org/).

As Fan Studies is, by its very nature, an interdisciplinary field, scholars of all disciplines are invited to participate as members of the panel.

Please send your contact info (including name, institutional affiliation, snailmail, email and phone number) and a brief summary of your scholarly interests as relating to the panel topic and the main
point(s) or questions you would like to present during the panel discussion to Eden Lackner (lothlorien AT shaw DOT ca).

Each panellist will have 5 minutes for individual statements, and then the discussion will be opened up for audience questions and participation.


CONFERENCE INFORMATION:

The 27th International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts
Drawn by the Fantastic: Comics, Graphic Novels, Art & Literature

March 15-19, 2006
Wyndham Fort Lauderdale Airport Hotel

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Acacia Group's 2006 Conference: Politicizing texts The Acacia Group of California State University, ( Read more... )

Call for Papers: Culture of Fandom
2006 Southwest/Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Association 27th Annual Conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico

February 8-11, 2006

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