[Sfts-faculty] Fwd: [Englishfaculty] andré carrington on Piracy and Fandom (FYI from the Colloquia Committee) Thursday March 11

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From: John Ganim <ganim at ucr.edu>
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2021 at 15:30
Subject: [Englishfaculty] andré carrington on Piracy and Fandom (FYI from
the Colloquia Committee) Thursday March 11
To: <englishfaculty at lists.ucr.edu>, <englishgrad at lists.ucr.edu>, Christy
Gray <christy.gray at ucr.edu>, Perla Fabelo <perla.fabelo at ucr.edu>, C Jacob
Marcos <cjacob.marcos at ucr.edu>, Crystal M Petrini <crystal.petrini at ucr.edu>


AN EVENT STARRING ANDRE CARRINGTON THURSDAY MARCH 11

Scholars of color will discuss how fandom is racialized, how race is
addressed (and not) in fannish spaces, how and where people of color
explore and express their fannish interests, how fans of color are
responding to the media industries’ attempts at diversifying casts and
narratives, and fan studies and critical race theory currently intersect,
and their visions for the future of fan studies.

Likely topics include fandom and political activism, representation in
media, race and fan platforms, and the Movement for Black Lives.

*Register *here
<https://berkeley.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_OsD0xgnYSJa-dSEkj_EBTg>
* to join.Or stream via YouTube at this link *here
<https://youtu.be/uRrP3KDxXNk>*. *

with

*andré carrington*, Associate Professor of English at University of
California, Riverside.

*Racquel Gates*, Associate Professor of Cinema and Media Studies at College
of Staten Island, CUNY.

*Alfred Martin*, Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at University
of Iowa.

*Rukmini Pande*, Assistant Professor of English Literature at O.P. Jindal
Global University.

Moderated by *Abigail De Kosnik*, Associate Professor in the Berkeley
Center for New Media and the department of Theater, Dance and Performance
Studies at University of California, Berkeley.

*About Virtual Mini-Series Fandom & Piracy 2021*

*Fandom + Piracy website *here <https://www.fandomandpiracy.online/>*.*

Fandom and piracy are two modes of countercultural computing, alternative
media, distributed creativity, and copying culture. While critics have
often characterized them as illegitimate or even criminal, fandom and
piracy have played a crucial role in the evolution of the Internet. Though
marginalized by the media industries, legal establishment, and academia,
the work of fans and pirates remains central to x and y [could be any
number of things lol still thinking about what’s most relevant].

In this conference mini-series, we will hear from scholars whose work
enables us to understand how fandom and piracy have attracted millions of
participants and become akin to social movements, how they have given rise
to digital platforms that both augment and defy the corporatization of
media production and the web, and how race/ethnicity, gender, and sexuality
operate within fan and pirate communities.

This event will consist of two keynote lectures and two panels taking place
online on four consecutive Thursdays (February 25, March 4, March 11, and
March 18, 2021).

For more information, please visit the Berkeley Center for New Media’s
event webpage here
<http://bcnm.berkeley.edu/events/4223/conference/4194/fandom-piracy-fandom-race-panel>.


Presented by the Berkeley Center for New Media <http://bcnm.berkeley.edu/>.


>From JMG for the Committee on Colloquia


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