Welcome to our Events Calendar roundup for November! 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.
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The Lois & Clark Fanfic Archive is challenging fic authors to rewrite an episode set during U.S. Thanksgiving. The holiday-centric challenge is just one month of the archive’s annual author inspirations. Submit your stories during the month. (Read about Lois & Clark on Fanlore!)
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FANdom Con is an anime-focused convention that includes a regional qualifier event for the World Cosplay Summit. Con guests include Scott McNeil (Dragon Ball Z and Gundam), Chuck Huber (Soul Eater and Shin Chan), and Robert Axelrod (Power Rangers and Digimon). It is November 7-9 in Fort Walton Beach, Florida.
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Shatterdome Con is a fan-run event celebrating Pacific Rim but welcoming other fandoms as well. Guests include Robert Maillet and Heather Doerksen (the Kaidanovskys from Pacific Rim) and Tim Russ (Star Trek: Voyager). It is November 7-9 in Herndon, Virginia.
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The 2nd Global Conference on Fan Communities and Fandom: Practices and Participatory Cultures facilitates deeper engagements involving participants from across disciplinary and professional backgrounds in explorations of the nature, meaning, and implications of fandom as it impacts individuals, fan communities, and the societies in which they operate. It takes place November 7-10, in Prague, Czech Republic.
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Supanova Adelaide and Brisbane are billed as “Comic-con, Australian style! Supernova is where the adoring public comes face to face with Supa-Star celebrities and the creative talent that inspire their imaginary worlds under one big roof. The event includes comic books, animation, science-fiction, TV/movies, toys, gaming, fantasy, technology, books, internet sites and fan-clubs, the result is an amazing atmosphere tailor made for expressing your inner geek and where getting into cosplay obvious thing to do!” The Adelaide event is November 21-23, and Brisbane is November 28-30. (Add your Supanova experiences to Fanlore!)
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The Otherness and Transgression in Celebrity and Fan Cultures conference will look at the emerging fields of celebrity studies and fan studies in a new light, through the veil of otherness and transgression. This conference will bring together scholars to look at the cross-section of these fields, the intersection of their own interests, and hopefully the network of these scholars will form a bridge through which these fields can become more interlinked within scholarship. It’s November 21-22 in Aarhus, Denmark.
The OTW encourages anyone to submit an event that’s not already listed, and to check out the calendar throughout the year!