For the Academic-y Types on my Flist...

[lefaym]

via Now and Rome:

DESIRING THE TEXT, TOUCHING THE PAST: TOWARDS AN EROTICS OF RECEPTION

A one-day conference co-organized by

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[verasteine]

Dude, I'm in the wrong field. Someone should have told me years ago this was a legitimate field of study... Darn. That looks so cool.

(And I love that icon, btw!)

[lefaym]

Fan studies is really taking off in academia at the moment. :)

(And the icon is hilarious, isn't it?)

[verasteine]

That icon is too true, and only understood by academics. I need me an academics icon :).

[lalaithlockhart]

BTW, LOL at your icon!! The U of T and Bristol, you say? This sounds fascinating!! *sighs at the plane ticket costs*

Can I ask what your field of study is, btw?

[lefaym]

YA fantasy literature. :)

[rm]

My brain is _almost_ coming up with something.

[lefaym]

I have to admit, I was thinking of you in particular when I posted this. :) I'm sure you'll come up with something brilliant -- perhaps even something about writing IHNIIHBT?

[rm]

God, _that_ hadn't even occurred to me.

Right now I'm sort of toying around with something about reactions to character deaths as a method of claiming desired bodies that don't technically exist. I'm thinking about reactions to the deaths of Ianto, Snape and Wash offhand.

But at the same time, I feel like there's some other idea in me that just hasn't surfaced at all yet, that's probably the more brilliant one.

Largely, I think -- I'm a fool if I don't find a topic here that feels personal. And all that other stuff is marginally so, but my god, I'm always on about the real lives of fake people... so I'm still looking.

[lefaym]

Okay, I love the character deaths idea. Actually my thoughts about what you could do with IHNIIHBT were along the same lines -- because IHNIIHBT is, ultimately, about accepting Ianto's death through the medium of an erotic narrative.

[xtricks]

Huh. Too bad I don't actually qualify as a scholar.

[rm]

That never stopped me. I have a BA in journalism and am presenting at the academic sister conference to Dragon*Con.

[lefaym]

If you have an idea for a paper, there's no harm in at least having a go at an abstract. :)

[lefaym]

(Btw, I just realised that I don't have you friended. Do you mind if I do so?)

[kalichan]

I definitely have to do something with this. The question is... what? *ponders*

Isn't Carolyn Dinshaw the woman who wrote an essay called "Getting Medieval" about medieval tropes in Tarantino's "Pulp Fiction"? I loved that essay.

[lefaym]

Yes, I believe she is.

There are so many possibilities here; I'm sure it'll be a wonderful conference.