FanLIS23! Call for presentations (CFP)!
Hi everyone! Every year I co-host a virtual symposium called #FanLIS - 'Fan' as in fans and fandom, 'LIS' as in Library & Information Science. Basically, #FanLIS is about the intersection between fandom, fans and libraries, galleries, museums and archives.
The theme for next year's symposium is “Halliday Journals and holodecks: audiences and information in sci-fi fandoms”. Here's the link to the call for presentations: https://blogs.city.ac.uk/fanlis/fanlis-symposia/fanlis-2023/call-for-presentations/
The TL;DR version of the CFP is - if you have something you want to talk about on sci-fi fandoms and fanworks that is somehow linked to libraries, information, data, archives, cultural heritage institutions, whatever, please feel free to submit a proposal. We'll consider it even if you don't have an academic background. Academics need to hear more from fans anyway.
We're geared to students, fans and first-time presenters, and we try to make the event as informal as possible so people aren't intimidated. Hell, running this thing is intimidating, but somehow I make it work despite tech fails and all that jazz.
If you're a fan, you're welcome to submit a proposal. Details are in the link above. If you have an idea, but aren't sure whether it fits - DM me and we can discuss it. My asks are open too. We want this to be as open as possible. And we're also open to interesting formats, not just slideshows. Workshops, vids, comics, whatever, we'll consider it. 😊