Welcome to our Events Calendar roundup for the month of February! The Events Calendar can be found on the OTW website and is open to submissions by anyone with news of an event. These can be viewed by event-type, such as Academic Conferences, Fan Events and Fests, Legal Events, OTW Events, or Technology Events taking place around the world.
- International Fanworks Day is on February 15th. The OTW’s celebrations include a live chat with fic/pro authors on February 8 and a short-form fanworks challenge among other activities. We are also collecting events from fans, so comment and let us know how you will be celebrating!
- The theme of the 36th annual Southwest Popular Culture and American Culture Association Conference is Many Faces, Many Voices: Intersecting Borders in Popular and American Culture, and its goal is to “embrace the scholarship addressing the ways we cross borders in our everyday lives.” This year’s event, February 11-14 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, includes a Pop Culture Game Night.
- NordicFuzzCon bills itself as “Scandanavia’s largest furry convention,” and this year’s theme is the Enchanted Forest. Events include dances with live DJs, tabletop gaming, and panels discussing art and costuming. Guests of honor are artist EosFoxx and video producer EZwolf (Bitter Lake). The event is in Stockholm, Sweden, February 26-March 1.
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Armageddon Expo. The Dunedin, New Zealand, event, February 28-March 1, is the first in the celebration of 20 years of the Armageddon Expo. Guests include DJ Qualls (Z Nation and Supernatural), Simon Fisher-Becker (Doctor Who), and Alaina Huffman (Supernatural, Smallville, and Stargate Universe). The Expo has additional dates and different lineups in Christchurch and Hamilton in March.
Calls for Papers this month come from:
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The “Transitions, Endings, and Resurrections in Fandom’” Edited Collection will focus on transitions and their effects on fans: actors or characters leaving television shows, shows’ cancellations, the deaths of famous people, and more. Submit an abstract of 300 words, along with a 150-word author biography, by February 15.
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SFRA 2015. The theme of this year’s Science Fiction Research Association Conference is “The SF We Don’t (Usually) See: Suppressed Histories, Liminal Voices, Emerging Media.” The conference is issuing a call for papers and panels on the three guests of honor as well as topics including feminist and queer SF, SF and ability/disability, liminal or marginal voices in canonical SF texts, and online SF fandoms and fan fiction. The conference is at Stony Brook University in Stony Brook, New York, United States, in June. The deadline for paper and panel submissions is March 1.
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Transformative Works and Cultures is issuing a special call for papers. Fan fiction is often compared to the literature of Greco-Roman antiquity. Both fan writers and classical authors use the techniques of allusion, appropriation, and transvaluation to expand on and/or to critique existing works. Final papers are due March 1.
The OTW encourages anyone to submit an event that’s not already listed, and to check out the calendar throughout the year!