Schedule: Friday 26th September 2025

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

9–9.30am – Welcome

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		Eldritch Aesthetics: The Diminishing Role of Gothic and Unknowable Horror in 40k – Jordan Sorcery

11–11.15am – Break

11.15–12.15pm – Keynote #1

In Conversation with… Bob Naismith

12.15–1pm – Lunch

1–2.30pm – Panel session

Panel 4	Panel 5	Panel 6 (online)
“Into the Underhive”: Year 2 of Case Study on American Middle School Youth in Collaborative Tabletop Gaming – Ben Gould	The Emperor of Mankind: A Multi-Dimensional Leadership Analysis Through the Horus Heresy Series – Richard Calnon	Monarchy and Biopolitics: Political Power and Somatic Modifications using Examples from the Warhammer 40k Universe – Edi Radan
“Survival isn’t enough”: How UK secondary school students found belonging in Warhammer Club– Matthew Davis-Wright	Litany of Interaction: Human-Centred Design in the Age of the Machine God – Martin Dechant & Maximilian A. Friehs	The Emperor and the Chthonic: Warhammer 40,000 as Mythic Dreamwork of the Western Tradition – Anthony Sedgley
	The (Green) Stuff Games Are Made of: Towards a Media Ecology of Warhammer 40,000 – Max Jokschus	Analyzing Orkish Speech in Brutal Kunnin: A Quantitative Approach to Linguistic Stylization in Warhammer 40K – Gabriel Gomes Santa Rita Oliveira

2.30–3.30pm – Keynote #2

3.30–3.45pm – Break

3.45–5.15pm – Panel session

Panel 7	Panel 8 (online)	Panel 9 (online)	Panel 9b (online)
“The more things change, the more they stay the same” – Narrative Development vs. Setting-Stagnation – Moritz Schmid & Dennis Weigt	Remade, Reforged, Reborn: Stormcast Eternals as the simulacra of humanity in polycrisis – Aasa Timonen	The Stars are Right: Exploring the C’Tan as Lovecraftian horror in the Black Library – Christopher DeRosa	Chaos in the Warhammer Setting – Tomas Rawlings
Of Reikspiel and High Gothic. Philological Notes on Fictional Languages in Warhammer – Jonas Hermann	“This is not how biology is supposed to function”: The Philosophies of the Post-Necron in Nate Crowley’s Twice Dead King novels – Adam Edwards	Al-Farabi’s Attainment of Happiness and the God-Emperor of Mankind – Tim Polelle	The Great Game Anew: The Legacy of European Colonization in the Warhammer Fantasy Setting – Matthew D. Harris
	(Whose) Flesh Is Weak? Analyzing Racialized/Gendered Socio-technical Imaginaries through the Adeptus Mechanicus – Abel Koby Gutierrez		Machine Spirit Epistemology: Ritual, Reason, and Trust in the Cult Mechanicus and Modern Explainable AI – Nicholas Evancich

5.15pm (approx.) – Close