Schedule: Saturday 26th September 2026

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

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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)
Playing with Suits of power armor: hobbying as a Suitsian game – Nathan Wildman	The Insatiable Self: In Space – Thomas Arnold	The Six Ages of Games Workshop: Understanding Warhammer History Through the Products, People, and Decisions that Made It – Jordan Sorcery
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	The Pack Saves The Wolf: Space Wolves, Viking Brotherhood and the Crisis of Male Loneliness – Jamie Ryder
	A grimdark narrative: the ineffable failure of the transhumanist project… Or not? A Kantian perspective on the Adeptus Mechanicus – Jonathan Landschützer	Western Esotericism and the Construction of the Thousand Sons Legion in Warhammer 40,000 – Elena Vladimirovna Yarkova

12pm–1pm – Lunch

1pm–2pm – Keynote [Details to be confirmed]

2pm–2.15pm – Break

2.15pm–3.45pm – Panel Session

Panel 4	Panel 5	Panel 6a (online)	Panel 6b (online)
War Never Changes: Technological stagnation in Warhammer Fantasy/The Old World – Rory MacLellan	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
Knights, Arms, and Allegiance: The Heraldic System of the Bretonnian Chivalry – Simon Rousselot	‘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	Hellish Paradoxes: Sigmarite Colonialism and Chaos Nihilism in Godeater’s Son – Adam Edwards
		Tectonic Storytelling and the Techno-social Engine: Warhammer 40,000 as a Governed World – Jay Springett	The Madness of King Ushoran: Hegemonic belief in Flesh-Eater Courts – Aasa Timonen

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 – Travel time

Delegates are invited to join us for an evening of painting and chat, at our informal research event, to be held at QuestHub, Frankfurt. The location is only a short ride on public transport away. Our Frankfurt locals will help guide us to the venue! You are welcome to stop for food on route.

6pm – Grimdark narratives, painting and research event

• Venue: QuestHub, Gutleutstraße 294, Frankfurt am Main, 60327