Schedule: Sunday 27th September 2026

Please note, all times are German-time, (UTC+2) / UK time +1. All online sessions will run using Microsoft Teams.

9.00am–10:30am – Panel session

Panel 7	Panel 8	Panel 9 (online)
Miniatures and Masculinities: Community, Creativity, and Gender from Warhammer 40,000 to Mars – Tara B. M. Smith & Lars De Wildt	Suffer Not the Economist to Live: What Warhammer 40,000 Gets Right About Institutional Dysfunction – Brian Lucey	Making the God-King: The Religious Reinvention of Founding Figures in Imperial Tibet and Warhammer 40,000 – Stephen James Pigott
The Cyborg Imperium: Servitors, ideology and Transhumanism in Warhammer 40,000 – Thea Hatton	The Tithe: The Population Dynamics of Space Marine Recruitment – Eric Lofgren	Gazing into the Immaterium: Visual Reception of Religion in an Age of Darkness – Chris Porter
Female representation in Warhammer fiction: a critical review – Gunnar Jacob & Britta Schulte		Ruined, Infinite, Sublime: The Aesthetics of Warhammer 40,000 as Baroque Accumulation – Vlad Manciu

10:30am–10:45am – Break

10:45am–12:15pm – Panel session

Panel 10	Panel 11	Panel 12 (online)
‘Where Else Would They Go?’ Warhammer Stores as Informal Youth Provision in Post-Austerity England – Gavin Davenport	Orcs ≅ Humans: Parallels of Orcish Thoughts and Human Cognition – Maximilian A. Friehs	Social Distinction in prosthesis wearers in the Imperium of the 41st millennia: an analysis through the eye of Early Modern Europe – Théophile Mattera
For the Emperor and My Wellbeing: Depicting And Exploring Mental Health through Warhammer 40,000 – Martin Dechant	Beasts of War: the influence of medieval and contemporary bestiaries on Warhammer – Joachim Besson	Skulls, Servitors, and Sustenance: The work of the dead and human remains in Warhammer: 40,000 – Trent Trombley
	Harbingers of Change: Tzeentch and the folklore of Birds in the British Isles – Elodie de Groot	Death, Undeath, and Dying in the Grimdark Future: Even in Death I Analyze – Alexander Krieg & Sarah Keenan
		Girard’s Scapegoat Mechanism as Resolution of Mimetic Crises in Warhammer 40,000 – Denis Chistyakov

12:15pm–1:15pm – Lunch

1:15pm–2:45pm – Panel session

Panel 13	Panel 14	Panel 15 (online)
Are We Xenos?: Necron Pessimism, Anthropocentrism and Magic: The Gathering – Roman Sachweh	The God-Emperor and a Meditation on Religion – Kamyab Ghorbanpour & Marianne Kramer	Using Evolutionary Computing to Explore Strategies in Warhammer: The Horus Heresy – Thomas Sarachan & Sherri Buerdsell
The RIPPLE Effect in the Inquisition: Strategic Placement Through Dan Abnett’s Eisenhorn and Ravenor – Richard Calnon	What Truly Matters, and Why: Honor and the Structure of Meaning-Making in Warhammer 40,000 – Marcel Siegler	Environmental DNA as a promising technology for early detection of xenos contamination – Elena Poliakova & Leandro Gammuto
	The Archaeology of Damnation: Twice-Bound Primarchs and the Collapse of Intelligibility – Markus Ressel	The Zen of WAAAGH!: Deconstruction, Reconstruction, and Positive Satire in the Orks of Warhammer 40,000 – Ryan Johnson

2:45pm–3pm – Break

3pm–4pm – Roundtable

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4pm – Close