Programming Submissions and Topics
Now that L'Université des Arts Magiques has welcomed all registrants (and if the owl seems to have forgotten to deliver your e-mail, please let us know at registration@thephoenixrises.org, and we'll send it again), Phoenix Rising is turning its attention to programming. In other words, this is when we start our near-constant reminders that we can only accept programming that people submit, so if you want to see a topic, please either submit or encourage someone else to.
We posted here with a very detailed explanation of programming and the submissions process. The short version is this: Our staff does not design programming, except for the keynote presentations. All of Phoenix Rising's presentations, panels, roundtables, workshops, fanfic readings, fanart portfolio showings, gallery art, and everything else that people can dream up to present must be submitted by November 1. Our four independent vetting boards -- academic, creative, fan, and professional -- will review the submissions and vote on whether they are thoughtful, interesting, relevant, and of course, well put together.
That sounds a bit daunting, we know, so we're starting a series of posts to, first, help people through the process, and second, establish a trading post, if you will, for topics and collaborators. It's quite easy for us to find academics who might be interested in submitting, but Phoenix Rising's programming is much more than scholarly treatments of established topics. It's about a fan presenting an amazing literary analysis, a lawyer offering up a presentation on wizarding justice, a fanfic writer reading her work or a fanartist presenting his portfolio, educators talking about using Harry in the classroom, and fans talking about what they love to do in the fan community. We really want our programming to be a broad exploration of all things Harry Potter, and we need your help to do that. So we're helping you to help us put together a wonderful, creative, broad program of presentations.
First, if you are interested in submitting, you may want to read the post we linked to above. Submitting isn't as daunting as you might think, but we do require a couple things: your biography, a summary of your presentation for our program book and website, and most importantly, an abstract that shows our vetting boards the quality of your work and why you should be accepted. There are no educational or affiliation requirements for submission; you only need to be old enough to attend Phoenix Rising. Submissions should have something to do with Harry Potter, at least generally, and should be grammatically correct, so you might want to have someone edit yours before you submit. If you ever have any questions at all about submitting, please e-mail us at programming@thephoenixrises.org. We know it can be intimidating and we're quite happy to help you through it.
Second, if you know a fandom author, artist, friend, essayist, archivist, anyone, please let them know that we're looking for submissions. It's quite easy for us to track down academics and send them our Call for Papers, but it's harder for us to track down fans, educators, librarians, lawyers, professionals, artists, authors who are interested in participating, whether it's with a scholarly paper, a roundtable discussion, an arts workshop or a creative fandom pursuit. Please feel free to use our Tell a Friend feature -- or if it's someone you don't know, we're happy to send them an e-mail. (Though you should know that our e-mails will likely be much more formal than yours!) Again, programming@thephoenixrises.org.
Third, we're going to start making weekly posts of topics and people looking for collaborators. We know some of you have ideas you'd like to see but don't want to present -- and some of you would love to adopt an idea. We have a collaboration forum on our message boards, but we know a lot of you like livejournal better, so we're focusing our brainstorming here. Please feel free to participate, whether you have a topic idea, you're looking for someone to be a co-presenter on your topic of choice, or something else. Any topic that's suggested this week will make it into our post next week, and we'll be doing this from now until November 1. We hope this really helps everyone feel comfortable submitting and gets the ideas flowing. We can't tell you enough how much we'd like to see all possible avenues of programming -- fan, academic, professional and creative -- represented in our schedule.
This week's list of topics:
- Approaches to beta reading
- Moderating large communities: Public relations and other delicacies
- Dumbledore's Army: The New Order?
- Splitting the Soul: morals, ethics and ramifications
- Producing fanart to spec: How does this change the process?
- Serial Fanfiction: How does fandom feedback affect the WIP?
- The exposure of the fanfiction author between the canon and the fanon
- Nooks and Crannies: The Expanding, Contracting Harry Potter Fandom
- Navigating Boards, List and Groups: Fandom Etiquette
- New Sources and Harry Potter
- Fandom Website Structure: How to create a usable site
- Navigating an international fandom
- Does Fanfic Help or Harm Original Writing: A Discussion
- The Insidiousness of Evil: Is Umbridge Scarier than Voldemort?
- Slash: What is it and why do you write it?
- Giving feedback in the fandom: Flames, con crit and responses
- Translations: character changes from book to film
- I can draw Voldemort. Can you?
- Writing your way out of the WIP corner
- Knitting the perfect HP scarf
- How to teach using Harry Potter, despite his rampant rule-breaking
- The rise of YA fantasy lit after HP: How has HP changed the landscape?
- Drawing Quidditch: Motion, light and muscles
- Betaing: handling difficult authors
- Fandom public relations: how to handle the masses when they hate your fic/site/whatever
- The incorporation of dragons into JKR's work
- Quidditch: Sport of Champions?
- Rule-breaking and HP: Good, bad or indifferent?
- Quality Control: Submissions Guidelines, Mandatory Beta-Reading and Invitations for Archives
- It's all in the numbers: discrepancies in the books and whether they matter
- Flora and Fauna as Metaphor in the Harry Potter Novels
- Muggle-Magical Communications
- World Influences on Harry Potter: From Vampires to Inferi
- Multimedia and Harry Potter Fans: Expressions, Inspirations and Distribution
- Choosing a Moment: Illustrations and Films of Harry Potter
- Rising Heroes: Less Recognized Characters
- Does "Dead" Really Mean "Dead"?
- Hermione and Steve Kloves (OTP!)
- Crime and Punishment in the Wizarding World
At the moment, none of these topics has been submitted. If you'd like one of those topics, feel free to claim it and we'll take it off the list for next week!
We posted here with a very detailed explanation of programming and the submissions process. The short version is this: Our staff does not design programming, except for the keynote presentations. All of Phoenix Rising's presentations, panels, roundtables, workshops, fanfic readings, fanart portfolio showings, gallery art, and everything else that people can dream up to present must be submitted by November 1. Our four independent vetting boards -- academic, creative, fan, and professional -- will review the submissions and vote on whether they are thoughtful, interesting, relevant, and of course, well put together.
That sounds a bit daunting, we know, so we're starting a series of posts to, first, help people through the process, and second, establish a trading post, if you will, for topics and collaborators. It's quite easy for us to find academics who might be interested in submitting, but Phoenix Rising's programming is much more than scholarly treatments of established topics. It's about a fan presenting an amazing literary analysis, a lawyer offering up a presentation on wizarding justice, a fanfic writer reading her work or a fanartist presenting his portfolio, educators talking about using Harry in the classroom, and fans talking about what they love to do in the fan community. We really want our programming to be a broad exploration of all things Harry Potter, and we need your help to do that. So we're helping you to help us put together a wonderful, creative, broad program of presentations.
First, if you are interested in submitting, you may want to read the post we linked to above. Submitting isn't as daunting as you might think, but we do require a couple things: your biography, a summary of your presentation for our program book and website, and most importantly, an abstract that shows our vetting boards the quality of your work and why you should be accepted. There are no educational or affiliation requirements for submission; you only need to be old enough to attend Phoenix Rising. Submissions should have something to do with Harry Potter, at least generally, and should be grammatically correct, so you might want to have someone edit yours before you submit. If you ever have any questions at all about submitting, please e-mail us at programming@thephoenixrises.org. We know it can be intimidating and we're quite happy to help you through it.
Second, if you know a fandom author, artist, friend, essayist, archivist, anyone, please let them know that we're looking for submissions. It's quite easy for us to track down academics and send them our Call for Papers, but it's harder for us to track down fans, educators, librarians, lawyers, professionals, artists, authors who are interested in participating, whether it's with a scholarly paper, a roundtable discussion, an arts workshop or a creative fandom pursuit. Please feel free to use our Tell a Friend feature -- or if it's someone you don't know, we're happy to send them an e-mail. (Though you should know that our e-mails will likely be much more formal than yours!) Again, programming@thephoenixrises.org.
Third, we're going to start making weekly posts of topics and people looking for collaborators. We know some of you have ideas you'd like to see but don't want to present -- and some of you would love to adopt an idea. We have a collaboration forum on our message boards, but we know a lot of you like livejournal better, so we're focusing our brainstorming here. Please feel free to participate, whether you have a topic idea, you're looking for someone to be a co-presenter on your topic of choice, or something else. Any topic that's suggested this week will make it into our post next week, and we'll be doing this from now until November 1. We hope this really helps everyone feel comfortable submitting and gets the ideas flowing. We can't tell you enough how much we'd like to see all possible avenues of programming -- fan, academic, professional and creative -- represented in our schedule.
This week's list of topics:
- Approaches to beta reading
- Moderating large communities: Public relations and other delicacies
- Dumbledore's Army: The New Order?
- Splitting the Soul: morals, ethics and ramifications
- Producing fanart to spec: How does this change the process?
- Serial Fanfiction: How does fandom feedback affect the WIP?
- The exposure of the fanfiction author between the canon and the fanon
- Nooks and Crannies: The Expanding, Contracting Harry Potter Fandom
- Navigating Boards, List and Groups: Fandom Etiquette
- New Sources and Harry Potter
- Fandom Website Structure: How to create a usable site
- Navigating an international fandom
- Does Fanfic Help or Harm Original Writing: A Discussion
- The Insidiousness of Evil: Is Umbridge Scarier than Voldemort?
- Slash: What is it and why do you write it?
- Giving feedback in the fandom: Flames, con crit and responses
- Translations: character changes from book to film
- I can draw Voldemort. Can you?
- Writing your way out of the WIP corner
- Knitting the perfect HP scarf
- How to teach using Harry Potter, despite his rampant rule-breaking
- The rise of YA fantasy lit after HP: How has HP changed the landscape?
- Drawing Quidditch: Motion, light and muscles
- Betaing: handling difficult authors
- Fandom public relations: how to handle the masses when they hate your fic/site/whatever
- The incorporation of dragons into JKR's work
- Quidditch: Sport of Champions?
- Rule-breaking and HP: Good, bad or indifferent?
- Quality Control: Submissions Guidelines, Mandatory Beta-Reading and Invitations for Archives
- It's all in the numbers: discrepancies in the books and whether they matter
- Flora and Fauna as Metaphor in the Harry Potter Novels
- Muggle-Magical Communications
- World Influences on Harry Potter: From Vampires to Inferi
- Multimedia and Harry Potter Fans: Expressions, Inspirations and Distribution
- Choosing a Moment: Illustrations and Films of Harry Potter
- Rising Heroes: Less Recognized Characters
- Does "Dead" Really Mean "Dead"?
- Hermione and Steve Kloves (OTP!)
- Crime and Punishment in the Wizarding World
At the moment, none of these topics has been submitted. If you'd like one of those topics, feel free to claim it and we'll take it off the list for next week!