FanLIS: Five Years of FanLIS
Interdisciplinary Symposium
Thursday 22 May 2025, 13:00-18:15 (BST)
Organisers: Ludi Price & Lyn Robinson
Event Image Artist: Ludi Price
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Bluesky: @FanLIS.bsky.social #FanLIS #FanLIS2025
Twitter: @TheRealFanLIS #FanLIS Bluesky: @FanLIS.bsky.social #FanLIS #FanLIS2025
Our fifth anniversary FanLIS symposium will take place online on 22 May 2025. Please see our programme for timings.
To celebrate our 5th anniversary, we will be hosting a general event for broadly presenting and discussing research on the intersection between fandom and Library & Information Science.
We invite all who have an interest in the ways in which fandom, fan studies, and library & information science overlap. Examples include the ways in which fans create, organise, disseminate, classify and preserve fanworks; the publishing of fanfiction as mainstream literature; fans as citizen journalists; or the beta-reader as editor. This symposium will contribute to the nascent interdisciplinary dialogue, by bringing together scholars from fan studies, LIS and beyond, to find commonalities, inspire new conversations, reveal hidden and unexpected intersections, and suggest new methodological approaches that will enrich the current discourse of fandom and fan practice.
We explore the liminal areas between disciplines, seeking out new domain approaches, innovative practice, and the as yet undiscovered ways in which the processes of the information communication chain can be further refined and understood.
In this year’s #FanLIS symposium, we will be celebrating our 5th anniversary by hosting broad presentations on the intersection between fandom and Library & Information Science, from physical places as sites of communication, to fanbinding, to world queering through fanfiction.
Through our speakers and their presentations we seek to discuss the following questions – how do we record and document immersive, sensory and dynamic fan experiences? And how do we preserve more complex fanworks and experiences – if at all?
See our original call for papers; now closed.
