FanLIS 2025: 5 Years of FanLIS
Programme
Thursday 22nd May 2025
1:00pm-6:15pm (BST)
Venue: Online (Zoom)
Organizers: Dr Ludi Price (ludovica.price@city.ac.uk) & Dr Lyn Robinson (lynrobinson@ntlworld.com)
Registration: Eventbrite
Bluesky: @FanLIS.bksy.social #FanLIS #FanLIS2025
Twitter: @TheRealFanLIS #FanLIS #FanLIS2025
Please note that the schedule below may be subject to changes.
13.00 Welcome Address – Ludi Price
Panel 1
13.15 Food, fan art, and preserving a moment in time: a case study of the fandom-themed cafe ecosystem as alternative memory institution – Susrita Das
13:35 How subversive is shipping really? An analysis of heteronormative elements in same-sex relationships focused on German-language anime and manga fan fiction – Saskia Dreßler
13:55 Make It Pink: Superman, Pink Kryptonite, and Fandom – Tom Ue and Kristofer Starzomski-Wilson
14:15 Almost, beyond, or alongside fandom? An alternative frame for QAnon – Melissa D. Nelson
14:35 Panel Q&A Moderated by Ludi Price
15.00 Break
Panel 2
15.20 Multi-Sited Ethnography of Online Fan Binding communities: implications for LIS fields and Allied Crafts – Beck Chason-McCarthy
15:40 Fun, Friends, and Fitness – Why Fans Attend Anime Conventions – Billy Tringali, Maria Alberto and Jeremiah Martinez
16.00 Fandom does belong in the classroom: Designing a study of fandom, student confidence, and intertextual expertise – Amber Sewell
16:20 Panel Q&A Moderated by Lyn Robinson
16:45 Break
17.00 Keynote – I Am Giving This Talk Instead of Sleeping – Julia Bullard
18.00 Closing thoughts – Ludi Price
18:15 Close
