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Events Calendar for February 2014

By Claudia Rebaza on Sunday, 2 February 2014 - 5:54pm

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Welcome to our Events Calendar roundup for the month of February! The Events Calendar can be found on the OTW website
- XenaCon, The official Xena Convention, is a "must attend" for any Xena fan! Meet fellow fans and special guests in Burbank, CA February 7-9
  
  More about Xena: Warrior Princess on Fanlore
- Popular and American Culture Studies: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow With a mission to "promote innovative and nontraditional academic movement in Humanities and Social Sciences celebrating America’s cultural heritages," The Southwest Popular/American Culture Association's 35th conference will be in Albuquerque, New Mexico February 19-22nd.
- Like slash? Then Escapade is where you want to be February 28th-March 2nd! Escapade has been celebrating slash for over two decades! The fan designed convention and includes an art show, dealer's room, panels, a zine library and a songvid show.
  
  More about Escapade on Fanlore
We have four calls for papers for coming up in the next month!
- Call for Papers: Twitter, Celebrity and online public identity
  
  Contact and submissions to: Sarah Thomas skt [at] aber.ac.uk
  
  The ongoing adoption of Twitter as a tool for communication, broadcasting and interaction has meant that the social media platform has emerged as a significant site for re-thinking some of the key relationships between celebrity, performance and the presentation of the self. This CFP seeks short articles for Celebrity Studies Journal Forum section that explore Twitter and its usage beyond its status as a ‘new’ platform (that positions its singular significance through comparison with traditional representational media).
  
  The special issue of the journal will incorporate the style and ethos of Twitter in the submissions: Abstracts should be 140 words and are due on February 28.
  
  The short articles should begin with reference to a specific Tweet that sparks the analysis within the rest of the article. The final word count for the article will be between 750 and 1,500 words, depending on the number of accepted submissions.
- Call For Papers: New Directions in Sherlock, Sherlock Holmes
  
  The BBC "Sherlock" is now one of the most commercially and critically successful series of all time. This one-day symposium focuses on the series to look back at its roots in Conan Doyle’s stories, and examines its treatment of a range of issues including race, gender, terrorism, and international relations.
  
  The fruits of this symposium will lead to the publication of a special journal issue dedicated to the series. Please email your 200-word abstract for a 20-minute presentation and 50-word biography to ue_tom at hotmail.com by February 28.
  
  More about Sherlock on Fanlore
- CFP: FanPhenomena: Fan Studies & Fandom
  
  The Popular Culture Association of Australia and New Zealand (Popcaanz) is devoted to the scholarly understanding of everyday cultures. Proposals for both panels and individual papers are now being accepted for all aspects of Fan Studies, including, but not limited to, the following areas: Fan Fiction, Fan/Creator interaction, Diversity in Fandom, The Internet and Fandom.
- CFP: Fan Phenomena: Rocky Horror Picture Show
  
  Now accepting abstracts to be considered for a new book Fan Phenomena: The Rocky Horror Picture Show from Intellect Press. The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Fan Phenomena) title will examine the film’s fan culture, its essential role in creating the midnight movie, audience participation, and cult film cultures, as well as other areas of influence and social impact. Abstracts, along with CV or resume, are due March, 3rd 2014 and should be 300 words long.
  
  More about The Rocky Horror Picture Show on Fanlore
The Events Calendar is here to inform and connect fans about upcoming fan events both face to face and online! We are always open to submissions by anyone with news of an event. Events come in many categories such as Academic Events, Fan Gatherings, Legal Events, OTW Events, Announcements of fanwork fests and challenges, or Technology Events taking place around the world and online. New ideas and categories are encouraged! If you know about any upcoming fan events please let us know!
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Naomi Novik at House Judiciary Hearing

By Claudia Rebaza on Monday, 27 January 2014 - 5:46pm

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At 2 PM EST on January 28, former OTW board member Naomi Novik will be one of the witnesses in a hearing on The Scope of Fair Use. This hearing is being convened by the U.S. Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet (a Subcommittee of the House Committee on the Judiciary).

The purpose of her appearance is to inform members of Congress about what fan creators do, and the importance and significance of fandom -- including culturally, educationally, and creatively. As the comments compiled by our Legal Committee for the NTIA/PTO demonstrated, remixes and fanworks are made by everyday people with things they have to say. The OTW wants to ensure that legislators understand this and also have an idea of the size of the fannish community and the value of its activities.

This appearance follows the OTW's participation earlier this month in raising awareness about copyright issues and is part of the OTW's Legal Advocacy project to represent fans' interests in legal and government discussions about copyright's effects.

Edited 28 January to add: Prepared statement by Naomi Novik

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Copyright Week: Getting Copyright Right

By Claudia Rebaza on Saturday, 18 January 2014 - 5:07pm

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The week of January 13-18 is being used by a number of legal advocacy organizations in the United States as a week of action to speak out about potential changes to copyright law. The dates were chosen so that the conclusion today coincides with the anniversary of the SOPA/PIPA blackout in which many organizations and companies, large and small, worked together to protest this misguided legislative proposal.

A free and open Internet is essential to infrastructure, fostering speech, activism, new creativity and new business models for artists, authors, musicians and other creators. It must never be collateral damage in the copyright wars. All ideas and creations build upon each other and allow for both new creations and new ways of thinking. An open internet which fosters such communication allows for the expansion of ideas and culture.

Copyright has a valid purpose in that fostering of creativity. It encourages artists, writers, etc. to develop new and original ideas which can then be experienced by others. It serves as a way to recognize individuals for their creative achievements. However, copyright should never be so restrictive as to limit creativity and stifle growth. The free sharing of ideas and thoughts in many ways should be used to create new works from new creators who can then obtain copyrights for those works.

This balance between the rights of the creator and user have become more complex in our modern times as a free and open internet allow users to become creators through the creation of transformative works which derive from an original creation. Copyright should always encourage more creativity, not limit it. An open internet should also encourage creativity. Creativity in many ways drives both individuals and societies towards a better future through new ideas and inventions. We build upon old creations to make new creations and an open and free internet culture is crucial for this to happen.

The OTW has taken various steps to "get copyright right" on behalf of fans:

1) Via the Copyright Office, we have secured DMCA exemptions for fan creators so that video makers can use parts of their source in their works without being liable for copyright infringement.

2) We have joined legal arguments that address encroachment on fair uses of copyrighted works.

3) We have represented fans on academic and government panels that address existing or proposed legislation.

4) We have submitted comments to governmental bodies that oversee and propose copyright regulations.

5) We alert fans to new developments in cases that pertain to fair use, even if we are not participants, and we remain available to individual fans who have questions about fair use of materials.

This week is one of many opportunities to "get copyright right" through interactions between fans and lawmakers, as well as informing the larger public about concepts such as fair use and the public domain. The OTW and other organizations taking part in Copyright Week want to help facilitate those interactions and spread greater awareness of laws surrounding the use of creative works.

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Copyright Week: Fair Use

By Claudia Rebaza on Friday, 17 January 2014 - 5:18pm

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The week of January 13-18 is being used by a number of legal advocacy organizations in the United States as a week of action to speak out about potential changes to copyright law. The dates were chosen so that the week's conclusion on Saturday the 18th coincides with the anniversary of the SOPA/PIPA blackout in which many organizations and companies, large and small, worked together to protest this misguided legislative proposal.

On each day this week, organizations will focus on a different aspect of copyright. Today we are focusing on Fair Use. The OTW was founded on the idea that fanworks are creative and transformative, and therefore are protected by Fair Use under US law. For that reason our Legal Advocacy project has been proactive in protecting and defending fanworks from commercial exploitation and legal challenge.

In the United States, Fair Use is a part of the Copyright Act, which lists four factors the courts can look to in determining whether a work is Fair Use; they include (1) the purpose and character of the use (commercial nature, educational purposes, etc.); (2) the nature of the copyrighted work; (3) the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole and (4) the effect of the use upon the potential market for, or value of, the copyrighted work. Courts have addressed these issues many times over the years, and many recent cases involving Fair Use have expanded the types of works that can take advantage of Fair Use protections. Only last year, the Southern District of New York found that Google Books' database of complete scans of fiction and nonfiction books was a transformative work, and Fair Use, because it “advances the progress of the arts and sciences, while maintaining respectful consideration for the rights of authors and other creative individuals, and without adversely impacting the rights of copyright holders.”

This holding is in line with the OTW's longstanding view of transformative works and Fair Use, as our reading of U.S. law is that fan fiction and often other types of fanworks advance the progress of the arts (and sometimes sciences too), while respecting the rightsholders' ownership and ability to make commercial use of their intellectual property. Fair Use principles permit fans to create a wide range of transformative works without first seeking permission from rightsholders--including fanfic, fanart, vids, games, cosplay, fan films, ballets and stage plays. Noncommercial transformative works are generally permitted by Fair Use, but a lot of works within the Fair Use sphere are not also defined as transformative works.

The OTW's various projects all feature the amazing works that can be created and shared under the umbrella of Fair Use, whether remembered in Fanlore, preserved by Open Doors, archived on the AO3, explored in Transformative Works and Cultures, or featured in our Test Suite of Fair Use Vids.

Copyright Week is an important event for discussing how these laws and regulations impact citizens, but it's also an important opportunity for you to make your voice heard. You can help by:

1) Visiting the Copyright Week site and signing on to endorse the principles being expressed by the OTW and other organizations.

2) On that page you will find links to posts made by other groups that support a larger public domain, broader fair use, and open access. You can support the OTW or other groups working on your behalf.

3) Retweeting, reblogging, or linking to posts about the issues being discussed during Copyright Week.

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Copyright Week: Open Access

By Claudia Rebaza on Wednesday, 15 January 2014 - 7:24pm

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The week of January 13-18 is being used by a number of legal advocacy organizations in the United States as a week of action to speak out about potential changes to copyright law. The dates were chosen so that the week's conclusion on Saturday the 18th coincides with the anniversary of the SOPA/PIPA blackout in which many organizations and companies, large and small, worked together to protest this misguided legislative proposal.

On each day this week, organizations will focus on a different aspect of copyright. Today we are focusing on Open Access. Different entities define Open Access differently, but among its core principles is that the results of publicly funded research should be made publicly available, for free, online and in usable form. Open Access doesn't necessarily mean that everything in the world should have to be available for free--and the OTW supports the ability of fans to decide who should see their work and how their work can be used. But the OTW also believes that platforms should exist on which scholarly material is available and easily usable and quotable at no cost.

The OTW has walked the walk of this philosophy for five years with its publication Transformative Works and Cultures (TWC). Its editors and volunteers offer their services for free, as do all the OTW's staff, and they are committed to ensuring that the journal's content can be accessed by all. As TWC editor Karen Hellekson has written, the academics who have tried to move away from paywalled sites for academic research and print publications have found many barriers in their way.

"When I fill out forms, surveys, and index submission forms related to TWC and its practices, it becomes clear how strongly the print model affects every aspect of what is considered the norm for publishing. I skip entire sections: I don’t know the number of subscriptions because we don’t use a subscription model. I can’t estimate readership because many of the user accounts are obviously spam accounts, and plenty of readers never create a user ID. We don’t offer different levels of access to different people. We don’t have office expenses because we don’t have an office, instead using freeware OJS to shepherd copy through the publication process. I can’t estimate readership for an essay because our copyright permits the author, or anyone else, to repost, which bleeds off readers and thus they aren’t counted by the software. We have no income from reprint or author fees because we don’t charge those fees. All the questions meant to assess readership and subscriptions are, with an open access model, nearly impossible to estimate. Ironically, the traditional journal-publishing world seeks to maximize impact by minimizing access, even though study after study has shown that people are far more likely to read and cite publications available in full online."

This week marks a year since the death of Aaron Swartz, an activist committed to the principles of Open Access. At the time, the OTW's Fanhackers editor, Nele Noppe, wrote a post about why fans should be concerned about this issue, and how the about-to-launch Fanhackers project represented the OTW's commitment to this issue on behalf of fans and academics.

"[W]e're launching a new project to expand our efforts toward making research truly useful and relevant beyond the borders and acafannish audience of TWC. We'll experiment with concrete ways to make research on fans more accessible and usable, encourage researchers to publish their work in an open way (no easy task when the closed print model carries prestige, which in turn can be used toward promotion and tenure), and give any support we can to other projects that share those goals.

In 2008, Aaron Swartz articulated the feelings of many when he wrote in his "Guerilla Open Access Manifesto" that keeping academic research behind pay walls is "a private theft of public culture" that should be resisted by all means necessary, especially by the researchers who can actually access all those locked papers. We call on all academics whose research is relevant for fans to make sure that their results can actually reach the people who need information."

For more about this week of action, visit the Copyright Week site, where links are being collected to various posts, whitepapers etc., and users and organizations are encouraged to endorse the principles. Participating organizations include Public Knowledge, Creative Commons, library associations, Ownership Rights Initiative, iFixit, and Wikimedia among others.

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Copyright Week: Building a Robust Public Domain

By Claudia Rebaza on Tuesday, 14 January 2014 - 5:56pm

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The week of January 13-18 is being used by a number of legal advocacy organizations in the United States as a week of action to speak out about potential changes to copyright law. The dates were chosen so that the week’s conclusion on Saturday the 18th coincides with the anniversary of the SOPA/PIPA blackout in which many organizations and companies, large and small, worked together to protest this misguided legislative proposal.

On each day this week, organizations will focus on a different aspect of copyright. Today we are focusing on the importance of building and maintaining a robust public domain. A robust public domain is important for allowing public access to information and material, and also for promoting creativity.

The term public domain means different things to different people, but it generally refers to works that are free to use and copy because they aren't protected by copyright exclusivity. This includes works that don't fall within the scope of copyright protection--for example, copyright doesn't protect ideas, only expressions--and it it includes works that were once protected by copyright, but whose copyright protection has expired. There are many famous examples of works that are in the public domain. Shakespeare’s works, Beethoven’s symphonies, and many silent films are all in the public domain. The expansion of the public domain is important because it allows for free access to a greater amount of works and information which can then be used to create new works. The OTW is a strong supporter of people's right to create new works based on old ones--and the public domain is an important piece of that.

The public domain is itself threatened as countries extend copyright duration and the scope of copyright protection. In the United States, copyright expiration is very complicated, and depends on considerations like when a work was created, where the work was first published, and when (and if) the creator died. U.S. Copyright on new works lasts for 70 years after the death of the creator. If the work was a work for hire (e.g., those created by a corporation) then copyright persists for 120 years after creation or 95 years after publication, whichever is shorter. This long term is the result of decades of legislative lengthening of copyright: The very first U.S. copyrights lasted only 14 years with the ability to renew the copyright for another 14 years.

According to Bernt Hugenholtz and Lucie Guibault*, the public domain is under pressure from the "commodification of information" as items of information that previously had little or no economic value have acquired independent economic value in the information age, such as factual data, personal data, genetic information, and pure ideas. The commodification of information is taking place through intellectual property law, contract law, as well as broadcasting and telecommunications law. While there has been good news in regards to public domain with the recent Sherlock Holmes decision, the public domain is still threatened and should be protected.

There are numerous important works which are in the public domain and have current remakes or remixes. One example is the TV show Sleepy Hollow, which is based on Washington Irving’s 1820 short story, as was the 1999 Tim Burton film of the same name. Washington Irving's own story may have been based on or inspired by Germanic folktales like The Wild Huntsman. Many of Disney's famous works were also based on folktales, and these have not only been used by numerous creators, but Disney itself has remixed a number of them in their TV series Once Upon a Time. The works of Shakespeare have been utilized many times, in many ways, including the play by Tom Stoppard, which in turn has its own fanworks.

Cultures across the globe have been enriched by the use of their heritage as displayed through the medium of stories, religion and lore. New versions of characters and tales appear regularly and are able to garner new readers, watchers and creators.

The OTW also supports the creation of transformative derivative works as fair use--a topic we'll be discussing in a future Copyright Week post. But broad Fair Use privileges are not a substitute for a robust public domain. Over time, works and characters become part of the public consciousness and should be uinambiguously free, not only for noncommercial transformative use, but also for copying and commercial use. A robust public domain permits people to have access to consume and create based on works they might not otherwise be able to afford, and allows people to create without having to wonder whether their creations are fair use.

*Guibault, Lucy; & Bernt Hugenholtz (2006). The future of the public domain: identifying the commons in information law. Kluwer Law International.

For more about this week of action, visit the Copyright Week site where links are being collected to various posts, whitepapers etc., and users and organizations are encouraged to endorse the principles. Participating organizations include Public Knowledge, Creative Commons, library associations, Ownership Rights Initiative, iFixit, Wikimedia, Your Anon News, and SPARC among others.

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Events Calendar for January 2014

By Angela Nichols on Thursday, 2 January 2014 - 4:34am

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Happy New Year! Welcome to our Events Calendar roundup for the month of January! The Events Calendar can be found on the OTW website

The Events Calendar is here to inform and connect fans about upcoming fan events both face to face and online! We are always open to submissions by anyone with news of an event. Events come in many categories such as Academic Events, Fan Gatherings, Legal Events, OTW Events, Announcements of fanwork fests and challenges, or Technology Events taking place around the world and online. New ideas and categories are encouraged! If you know about any upcoming fan events please let us know!
- Space City Con is an all-ages festival of comics, sci-fi, fantasy, gaming, literature, and art! Envisioned as a "geek festival with free parking," their goal is to put on the best convention possible for current generations of fans, and instill a love of comics, Sci-fi and fantasy in the next generation. In their 2nd Annual Gathering Space City Con is offering a robust mix of authors, artists, comics, sci-fi, fantasy, anime, gaming, costuming, fan group networking, literature, writing workshops and more, in a venue meant to be more approachable to families and children. Space City Con will take place January 3-5 in Galveston, Texas
- MarsCon2014 is a multifandom, multimedia convention in Williamsburg, Virginia, USA from 17 to 19 January. MarsCon features a wide range of programming including panels, workshops, movie screenings, music and comedic entertainment, gaming spaces, an art room, and more. The convention also offers a family programming track
  
  More about MarsCon on Fanlore
- Arisia 2014, New England's largest and most diverse science fiction and fantasy convention, will be held from 17 to 20 January at the Westin Boston Waterfront in Boston, Massachusetts. The 2014 theme will be cross-culturalism. The event features panels on a wide all aspects of science fiction and fantasy literature and media, an art show, a masquerade, gaming spaces, musical guests, a film festival and much more. Arisia may hit our membership cap this year. Pre-registration is strongly recommended.
  More about Arisia on Fanlore
We have 3 calls for papers for January.
- CFP: Fifth International Graphic Novel and Comics conference. The theme of this conference incorporates comics production as part of but also outside of institution. Comics are unique in the mass media because the individuals who produce and distribute the products are usually fans: from creators to comics shops owners and comicon organizers. Papers are enocouraged on all aspects of production: from the multinationals and media conglomerations to small scale production such as fanzines and independent presses. Related aspects of the industry are also of interest, for instance censorship and copyright issues, promotional practices (comicons, comics distribution, historical practices eg: the change in distribution from newsagents to comics shops to collecting and comics promotion). It also has long been argued that comics are a medium with the potential for anarchy, whose narratives often push against cultural boundaries and whose graphic nature can render them a target for moral panics and political objections. Although the exhibition will clearly concentrate on the collections of British-published comics held in the library, contributions in this section which deal with these themes across any national culture or period are welcome. Proposals for specific panel topics are also needed.
  Send a 300 word abstract to: d.huxley at mmu.ac.uk and j.ormrod at mmu.ac.uk by 17th January 2014
- CFP: The Politics and Law of Doctor Who - Politics, law and constitutional questions often feature prominently in Doctor Who stories, whether in the form of the Time Lords’ guardianship of the universe, the Doctor’s encounters with British Prime Ministers, or the array of governance arrangements in Dalek society. Abstracts should be 250 words in length, and should be accompanied by a 100-word biography of the author. Deadline for receipt of abstracts 17 January 2014.
  More about Doctor Who on Fanlore
- CPF: 'Fandom, Brands and Public Relations'- The goal of this project is to bring scholarly attention to the disciplines' interaction, engagement, and interaction with fans who are publics. The purpose of this special issue is to integrate stakeholder and publics theories with those of participatory cultures and media studies/fan perspectives. Submission deadline: 1st February
The OTW encourages anyone to submit an event that's not already listed, and to check out the events calendar throughout the year!
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Board Annual Meeting in Berkeley

By Claudia Rebaza on Friday, 13 December 2013 - 11:01pm

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The following post was written by the OTW Board

The OTW Board of Directors had a very productive meeting in Berkeley, California, the first weekend of November. The meeting was a welcome opportunity to finally meet our colleagues in person and to be able to put faces to names. It's fair to say that we were all surprised and pleased at how much more productive we were when sitting in one room facing each other across a conference table, rather than through a chatroom client.

The full minutes from our two and a half days of meeting sessions is available on the OTW website.

We were also able to meet with other fans at the Meetup of Our Own on the afternoon of Sunday, November 3! The meetup was a welcome chance for Board members to relax after a rather exhausting weekend, and for everyone who attended to hang out, talk fannish things for a while, and eat some delicious cupcakes. Thanks to the generosity of attendees, we even made a net profit in donations to the OTW!

The OTW Board at the Meetup of Our Own. From the top left going clockwise are Cat Meier, Kristen Murphy, Franzeska Dickson, Andrea Horbinski, Nikisha Sanders, Ira Gladkova, and Eylul Dogruel.

All in all, we had a wonderful time meeting with each other in person, and the Board is definitely planning to make some kind of in-person meeting an annual practice—perhaps including chairs or designated representatives from committees, perhaps moving to a different time of the year, almost certainly moving to a different location depending on Board member locations and availabilities. We'll keep OTW staff, volunteers, and members updated on these plans as they evolve in 2014.

Financial Cost of Board Annual Meeting:

Travel $3069.11
Lodging $1613.64
Per Diem $2481.65
Supplies $27.79
Meetup $193.42
Income $330.00

Travel costs were for flights for five Board members to Berkeley, including the fees for a flight change due to illness for one director. Lodging covered three rooms, each for five nights, for the five of us who flew in. A daily per diem was issued to cover meals and ground transportation as needed, for a total of $300 for each of seven Board members, via prepaid cards, each with a $5.95 activation fee. Also included in the per diem cost was an opening dinner as a group at a local cafe. Supplies included a PayPal Here device, notebooks, and markers.

The costs of the Meetup covered snacks and soft drinks, and the income from the event came to $330, with a net profit of $146.58.

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Events Calendar for December 2013!

By Angela Nichols on Tuesday, 3 December 2013 - 12:00am

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Welcome to our Events Calendar roundup for the month of December! The Events Calendar can be found on the OTW website

As this will be the final Events Calendar post of the year we'd like to encourage everyone to submit events for 2014 as our calendar's looking a little bare!

In addition to face-to-face events we are also open to entries about online events, such as announcements of fanwork fests and challenges, as well as our usual categories of fan-related conventions, academic or technology events.

New ideas and categories are encouraged! If you know about any upcoming fan events please let us know!
- Con+Alt+Delete is a brand new anime convention in Chicago, Illinois! C+A+D is happening December 13-15, 2013 at the Sheraton Hotel in Lisle, Illinois. If you love Hetalia, Fullmetal Alchemist, Dragon Ball Z, Yu-Gi-Oh, Lolita Fashion, Homestuck, My Little Pony, Sci-Fi, or Video Games this is the event for you. Cosplay is encouraged!
- If you are looking to supports charities, such as Toys for Tots and to attend a holiday themed anime, comic and cosplay convention look no further than Holiday Matsuri in Orlando, FL on Dec 13-15.
- Comic Fiesta is Malaysia’s largest and longest-running animation, comics and games convention. Comic Fiesta is the first and biggest non-profit convention of its kind in Malaysia, organised by a group of passionate individuals brought together by one common goal, and powered by a massive community of professionals, amateurs and enthusiasts of all age groups. It's being held 21–22 December 2013 at Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre.
- A holiday that has worked its way into several fandoms (and built up one of its own), Festivus, will once again be celebrated worldwide on December 23rd. Originally created by Daniel O'Keefe in the 1960s, the holiday gained mainstream popularity after being featured on the television sitcom Seinfeld.
  
  More about Festivs on Fanlore
We have one call for papers for December
- Lunds University is hosting the Producers and Audiences, International conference 2014 They are looking for submission in the three areas of enquiry in media, communication and cultural studies: relations between producers and audiences; theories, methods and practices; and creative content for contemporary mediascapes. 300 word abstracts in English are due by December 9th 2013.
The OTW encourages anyone to submit an event that's not already listed, and to check out the events calendar throughout the year!
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Chat with Open Doors

By Claudia Rebaza on Friday, 22 November 2013 - 1:09pm

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A reminder that Open Doors will be holding an open house on November 23, from 20:00 UTC to 23:00 UTC to discuss the import of Stargatefan into the AO3 (click the link to see when the chat will be held in your timezone).

You can access OTW's public discussion chatroom using this link. If you can't make it, you can visit the Open Doors FAQ page or contact the Open Doors committee.

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