| Date | 05 October 2024 |
| Location | Online |
| Organizers | Julia Neugarten & Amanda Potter |
How can fan studies contribute to the study of Greco-Roman Antiquity and the field of Classical reception? How can Classics contribute to the study of fan culture? How does the community we call Greek mythology fandom differ from the community we call Classicists? How are they similar? How can they challenge and support each other's knowledges, methodologies, and epistemologies?
The Fanfiction and the Ancient World conference hopes to bring these two disciplines into dialogue with each other and to offer an academic platform to scholars working on the intersection of these fields.
Topics include, but are not limited to:
Fanfiction or fan art about, inspired by, based on or drawing on the style of cultural materials from Greco-Roman Antiquity
Fanfiction and fan culture as classical reception or rewriting
Conceptualizing Classics and academia as fannish endeavors
Affective, emotional, and communal ties in both Classics and fandom
Methodologies for studying classics fandom and studying fandom as classical reception
Analysis of cultural capital in fandom-oriented and classics-oriented communities
The conference will have an in-person component held at Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, on Friday October 4th, and an online component held on Saturday October 5th. On the Saturday afternoon we will be joined by renowned fandom scholar Professor Henry Jenkins, from the University of Southern California, who will close our conference with an 'ask me anything' session.
For precariously employed in-person speakers, we may be able to reimburse some travel expenses. Please contact amandapotter@caramanda.co.uk and julia.neugarten@ru.nl for more information. If you have any questions or needs surrounding the accessibility of this event, please get in touch.
The conference booklet, which includes the programme, author bios and Zoom links, can be downloaded here.