Please note, all times are German-time, (UTC+2) / UK time +1. All online sessions will run using Microsoft Teams.
10am – Welcome [Join online]
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 | |
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12pm–1pm – Lunch
1pm–2pm – Keynote: Never going home: Space marines, soldiery and the indelible mark of war – Mike Ryder [Join online]
2pm–2.15pm – Break
2.15pm–3.45pm – Panel Session
| Panel 4 | Panel 5 | Panel 6a (online) | Panel 6b (online) |
| No panel | 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 | Hellish Paradoxes: Sigmarite Colonialism and Chaos Nihilism in Godeater’s Son – Adam Edwards | |
| Knights, Arms, and Allegiance: The Heraldic System of the Bretonnian Chivalry – Simon Rousselot | 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 | |
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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