Please note, all times are German-time, (UTC+1) / UK +1. All online sessions will run using Microsoft Teams.
9–9.30am – Welcome [Join online]
9.30–11am – Panel Session
Panel 1 | Panel 2 | Panel 3 (online) |
Ctrl+Alt+Deus: The Ridiculous Rise of Data in the 41st Millennium – Dimitrios Chatzinas | Gifts of the Grandfather: Warhammer’s Plague Narratives from the Perspective of an Epidemiologist – Eric Lofgren | Skulls, Gothic Futures, and the Weight of Iron: Visual Aesthetics and Design in Warhammer 40,000 – Glynn Stockton |
The Gaze of the Gods: Chaos, Symbolism, and Humanity’s Reflections – Markus Ressel | Da WAAAGH! Through Time: Temporal Paradoxes in the Saga of Warlord Grizgutz – Sascha Vogel | Mythbusters, icebergs, and why you learn more from Warhammer than you realise – Ioannis Costas Batlle |
In the grim dankness of the far future, there is only memes – Andreas Osterroth | Da red wunz go fasta! Depictions of Ork Technology in Warhammer 40,000: between colonial tropes, techno-spiritualism and the technological anti-sublime – Philipp Schrögel | Eldritch Aesthetics: The Diminishing Role of Gothic and Unknowable Horror in 40k – Jordan Sorcery |
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11–11.15am – Break
11.15–12.15pm – Keynote #1
In Conversation with… Bob Naismith [Join online]
12.15–1pm – Lunch
1–2.30pm – Panel session
2.30–3.30pm – Keynote #2
In defence of the topofocal approach to story development – Worldbuilding as an aid to narrative creation and the expansion of Elysian Drop Troops lore – Chris Dows [Join online]
3.30–3.45pm – Break
3.45–5.15pm – Panel session
5.15pm (approx.) – Close