On October 4th and 5th, the Fandom and the Ancient World International Conference will take place. For this hybrid conference, all in-person speakers are scheduled for day one, while the online speakers will present on day two.
Programme October 4th - In Person in Nijmegen
Erasmus building room E. 9.14
10:00 Welcome and introductory paper – Julia Neugarten
10:30 Panel 1 Fanfiction, history and mythology
- Franziska Pannach - Rape, Murder, and Death in Fanfiction Adaptations of Mythological Narratives in the Classical Domain: A Frame-Semantic Analysis
- Saskia T. Roselaar - Slavery and citizenship in fanfiction on The Eagle of the Ninth
11:20 Coffee/Tea Break
11:40 Panel 2: Ancient and modern texts as fanfiction
- Marieke E. Fleck – Ovid's Heroides in a fan fiction perspective
- Jo Messore – Atlantis and Numenor: Exploring classical reception in speculative fiction as a form of fan fiction
12:30 Panel 3: Online and musical fandom
- Sheridan Marsh – Patrochilles, the Internet, and the Racial Aesthetics of Queerness
- Yanxiao He – Lucian's De Saltatione as a Pantomime Fan Text: Understanding De Saltatione through Classical Receptions in K-pop Choreography
13:20-13:30 ROOM CHANGE: to Erasmus building room E. 3.29
13:30 Lunch
14:20 Panel 4: Ships and beyond
- Artemisa Loesburg – The Smothering Mother: The Hades/Persephone Ship as Offspring of the Homeric Hymn to Demeter.
- Amanda Potter – Response to the day and future areas for research
15:10 Break/Discussion time
15:30 Character creation workshop – Lillie Nadeau
17:00 Drinks at the Cultuurcafe (Mercatorpad 1) on campus
19:30 Optional self-paid dinner at Pizza Cafe DESEM (Smetiusstraat 7) in Nijmegen
Programme October 5th – Online, Netherlands Time
10:00 Panel 1: Published fiction and fandom
- Alicia Matz – Fanfiction and the Canon in Elodie Harper’s The Wolf Den Trilogy
- Susan Haskins – Apollo as Sexual Predator in Sherrilyn Kenyon’s Styxx
- Chiara Torrisi – How fiction boosts the research of antiquity
11:15 Break
11:30 Panel 2: Female characters and fandom
- Connie Skibinski – Monstrous Man-killer to Sympathetic Daughter: Fannish Engagement with Supernatural’s Amazon Emma
- Daniel Theodorou – "Octavia stared for a moment, before she stepped into Servilia's embrace”: Receiving Rome in Contemporary Lesbian/Queer Female Fanfiction
12:20 Lunch break
13:30 Panel 3: Cult-Religion and Intersectionality – 2 short papers
- Evan Shannon – Homeric Heroes to Hollywood Stars
- Matt Shinnick – Hades the Romantic: Shifting Depictions of the Rape of Persephone in Fanfiction
14:10 Panel 4: Games and Stories
- Katharine McCain – ‘Thank you for your feedback and support!': Canonized Transformation in Hades II
- Anastasia Zabalueva – Cultural Dynamics in "Cardamon": Critiquing Colonialism and Racism in Classical Archaeology
15:00 Break
15:15 Panel 5 – Ancient writers and fanfiction
- Gina White – Cicero the Fanboy: can real person fanfiction help us to understand Cicero’s dialogues
- Kris Fletcher – The Complementarity of Fandom Studies and Classical Reception: Vergil as a Case Study
16:05 Julia Neugarten and Amanda Potter – Response to the day and wrap up
16:30 ‘Ask Me Anything’ session with Henry Jenkins
18:00 Close
Conference Information
For this hybrid conference we have scheduled all the in-person speakers on day one, and the online speakers on day two. We hope that this will allow for networking and for discussion to be centred in the room on day one, although an option to join online will also be available for people who are not speaking on that day. Day two will offer an online conference experience, which will allow more people to join from outside Europe. For the in-person speakers in Nijmegen who have been in touch with us about this, we have a conference room available in Nijmegen on the online day. This room is located at the Guesthouse Vertoef, Nassausingel 3, a 4-minute walk from Nijmegen Central Station.
The conference is paperless. Presenters are encouraged to upload their PowerPoints and any additional material they want to share to our shared Dropbox folder.
Travel Information
The face-to-face element of the conference will take place in the Erasmus building at Radboud University.
Buses run regularly from Nijmegen Station to the Erasmus building (stop: Erasmusgebouw). You can take bus number 10 in the direction of Heyendaal.
The Cultuurcafe, our location for drinks, is a 3-minute walk from the Erasmus building.
If you are joining us for dinner at Pizza Café DESEM, take bus 10 back to Nijmegen station and the restaurant will be a 6-minute walk from there.
This event was organized by Julia Neugarten MA, Department of Arts & Culture Studies, Radboud University, and Dr. Amanda Potter, Open University and University of Liverpool.