fanthropology CFP

[rm]

I want to draw everyone's attention to this CFP.

Not just because shit, I've got to come up with something, and so should a great many people I know, but because of the following quote, emphasis mine:

Love, desire, fannish obsession and emotional identification as modes of engaging with texts, characters and authors are often framed as illegitimate and transgressive: excessive, subjective, lacking in scholarly rigour. Yet such modes of relating to texts and pasts persist, across widely different historical periods and cultural contexts. Many classical and medieval authors recount embodied and highly emotional encounters with religious, fictional or historical characters, while modern and postmodern practices of reception and reading - from high art to the subcultural practices of media fandom - are characterized by desire in all its ambivalent complexity.

Today I feel like I exist in the world.

That said, someone needs to pitch something about Snapes on an Astral Plane:
http://www.journalfen.net/community/fandom_wank/1015949.html
http://www.journalfen.net/community/fandom_wank/1022112.html
http://www.journalfen.net/community/fandom_wank/1127219.html


I, myself, have another plan entirely.

Comments

[rm.livejournal.com]

Is it in Toronto? Somehow I thought it was in Bristol.

[lefaym.livejournal.com]

You know, you're absolutely correct. The blog post where I originally saw the CFP mentioned the University of Toronto first (as it's jointly sponsored by both unis), so I just assumed it was there, and didn't notice the really obvious (in retrospect) bit where it states that it's in Bristol. :P

Still, my chances of getting to Bristol are about the same as my chances of getting to Toronto (though the UK location makes it all the more tempting -- I really could combine it with a pilgrimage to the tourist office).

[rm.livejournal.com]

It's funny, because we'll be in London and Cardiff (and possibly Bristol, as well as a few days in Ireland) in April for a conference Patty is speaking at. But hey, if I have to dig up the money to head over twice, I'm more than happy to.

[lefaym.livejournal.com]

Well, if I happen to find the money somehow before that time (unlikely, but who knows what could happen if I finish my thesis and find a job), I'll be there in a shot, especially since my partner and I have wanted to do a proper trip around the UK for years.