Please note, all times are German-time, (UTC+2) / UK time +1. All online sessions will run using Microsoft Teams.
10am – Welcome
Welcome to the Conference, event details and some reflections on what has been happening in the world of #AcademicWarhammer over the past year.
10.30am–12pm – Panel Session
| Panel 1 | Panel 2 | Panel 3 (online) |
| A grimdark narrative: the ineffable failure of the transhumanist project… Or not? A Kantian perspective on the Adeptus Mechanicus – Jonathan Landschützer | The Insatiable Self: In Space – Thomas Arnold | The Pack Saves The Wolf: Space Wolves, Viking Brotherhood and the Crisis of Male Loneliness – Jamie Ryder |
| Mathhammer vs. Narrative Play: Ludonarrative Dissonance on the Tabletop – Florian Diller | Through a Reflection Crack’d: Warhammer 40,000 as a model for Archaeological and Mythological reception – Noah Chapman | Western Esotericism and the Construction of the Thousand Sons Legion in Warhammer 40,000 – Elena Vladimirovna Yarkova |
12pm–1pm – Lunch
1pm–2pm – Keynote: Never going home: Space marines, soldiery and the indelible mark of war – Mike Ryder [Watch on YouTube]
2pm–2.15pm – Break
2.15pm–3.45pm – Panel Session
| Panel 4 | Panel 5 (online) | Panel 6 (online) |
| Lexis Imperialis: A corpus-linguistic analysis of Warhammer 40,000 language across media – Andreas Osterroth | In the Warp and in the World: Warhammer 40,000 as Occultural Transmission – Adrian Johansen Rinde | Debt for the Debt God: Visions of Khorne and Modern Neofeudalism – Alexander William Hofing |
| ‘Even in Death, I Still Serve’: Mourning, Animation, and Subjugation in Warhammer 40,000’s Petnoughts – Max Jokschus | Im-Material Semiotics: A Latourian Reading of the Warp – Richard Slaughter | |
| Knights, Arms, and Allegiance: The Heraldic System of the Bretonnian Chivalry – Simon Rousselot |
3.45pm–4pm – Break
4pm–5pm – Roundtable
Join us for a chat with a group of academic panellists discuss how and why Warhammer matters to their own discipline, and how Warhammer might be used as a form of public engagement.
5pm–6pm – Break for food
6pm – Grimdark narratives, painting and research event