February 27th, 2026 - Workshop “Fan Practices of Memory and Remembrance” in Marburg/Germany

With contributions by:

Christian Alexius (Marburg): Everyone’s Favourite Movies in 1950s Super Panavision 70: AI Generated Fake-Retro-Trailer on the YouTube Channel Abandoned Films

Nicole Braida (Mainz): Caring Supereighters: Networks of Super 8 Amateur Collectors in Germany and Europe

Jennifer Ehrhardt & Charlotte Kitzinger (Gießen): “We Are Constantly Producing the Past:” Historical ‘Fan’ Fiction and/as Practices of Holocaust Memory?

Linnea Gehlert (Münster): (Re)Writing Schoethe: (Re)Modeling Literary Processes and Characters in AU Fanfiction

Anastasia Glawion (Nürnberg-Erlangen): Nostalgia and the Imagined Past in Bible Fanfictions

Reïnda Hullij & Floris Schuiling (Utrecht): Batavia, a Swinging Town! Jazz and Colonial Nostalgia in Indo-Dutch Culture

Suman Jha (Passau): Scrolling Through History: Social Media Fan Discourse and Postmemory in Bollywood Biopic Reception

Dana Lissmann (Gießen): "As of Today, 221 Baker Street Is Essentially in Home Quarantine:“ COVID-19 and Its Impact on Fanfictions (and Their Authors)

Jana Zündel (Frankfurt): Memes as Working Memories of Audiovisual Media and Fan Cultures

 

Find the full workshop programme here: Workshop Programme

If you have any questions or would like to join us, please contact us: fcr-journal[AT]uni-marburg.de