Big part of fan studies focuses on fans as a community, on their relation to the source text, and on their activities as a group. To offer a bit of a different perspective we would like  to focus instead on fans as individuals and specifically on the things they make. What is it that they write, what does their art mean, how are fanvids made, how their productivity manifests itself in many different ways, from crocheting and “potions” making to nail art? We are interested in fans’ knowledge, fan archives and fanon as well as examples of fan engagement with specific subjects in a form of all consuming heated discussions (being it shipwars, anti-fans or so called fandom wank, among others). We want to study cases of fan productivity in various shapes or forms, focusing on specific artifacts along with their meaning and modes of  functioning in fandom. We want to avoid blanket theories on fans as a homogenous group based on unrepresentative research.

Suggested subjects include, but are by no means limited to:

• case studies of fan texts
• various manifestations of fan productivity
• non-textual artifacts
• fan collections
• fanon and specific fanworks that gather a fandom of their own
• the collective production of knowledge and sharing it: tutorials, fan archives, wikias and encyclopedias
• manifestation of the feels
• relation between a fan and a source text
• relations among fans
• shipping
• cases of conflict in fandom

Each presentation will be about 20 minutes long and will be followed by a brief discussion. We invite you to submit abstracts of 300-500 words through EasyChair until the 16th of June 2019. Each submission needs to include a list of references for works cited within the abstract; references do not count towards the word limit. All abstracts will undergo a process of blind peer review. We will inform you about accepting or rejecting your paper by the 30th of July. The conference fee is 50 EUR (for foreign accounts) or 220 PLN (for Polish accounts). We will inform you about accepting or rejecting your paper in June. If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to contact us.