Schedule: Saturday 28th September 2024

Please note, all times are German-time, CEST (UTC+2). All online sessions will run using Microsoft Teams. Links for each panel can be found in the tables below.

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9.15–10.45am – Panels (x3)

Panel 10	Panel 11	Panel 12 (Online)
What happened to the Lost Primarchs? Or, a case of invitational incompleteness	Case Study: American Middle School Youth in Collaborative Tabletop Gaming	Warhammer Lore as Apocalyptic Literature: Finding Purpose in the Grim Dark
Are We the Baddies?: The Ethical Implications of the Imperium’s War with Chaos and the Inverted Meaning of Order	Monetizing Play: An Intertemporal and Cross-Cultural Investigation of Business Models in Analog Gaming from Warhammer 40K to Dungeons & Dragons	In Praise of Depth: WH40K Minis as Borgmannian Things

10.45–11am –Break

11–11.30am – Keynote:  Writing Catachan (Victoria Hayward) [Watch online]

11.30–1pm – Panels (x3)

Panel 13	Panel 14	Panel 15 (Online)
In the Name of the Emperor? Authority and Pluralism in the Grim Darkness of the Far Future	Purpose between Humanity and Artificiality – Perspectives on the Life of a Space Marine in the Grim Darkness of the 41st Millennium	The Machine God endows thee with life – The Priesthood of Mars as a cultural expression of biomedicalization in the 21st century
Rule Consequentialism and the Edict of Nikaea	Avatars of Grimdark: the Imperium of Man and the T’au Empire in the Warhammer 40’000 setting	Tyranid xenobiology compared to real-life eusocial insects
Imperial Records: The Paradox of Preservation and Peril in Documenting Humanity’s Galactic Legacy		Who is the enemy? Genestealer Cults and the Diverging Political Paradigm of Warhammer 40,000

1–2pm – Lunch

2–3.30pm – Panels (x3)

Panel 16	Panel 17 (Online)	Panel 18 (Online)
“First and Last” The depiction of good soldiers in the Gaunt’s Ghosts novels	Silica Animus, Silica Animosity: How Artificial Intelligence in Warhammer 40,000 complicates the boundaries of the body, the soul, and the monstrous	Abandon reason, know only war! From Just War to just War in Warhammer 40k
Modeling for Advantage: constructing the miniature	Cyborg Monstrosity: Disability, Augmetics, and the Limits of Humanity in Warhammer 40k	“Ask Not Why, Just Do”: The Eerie Agency of the Imperium of Man
	Fatherhood and tradition in the first space marine legion	The Future of Animated Fear: Grimdark as a Genre Framework for Speculative Horror in Animation

3.30–3.45pm – Break

3.45–5.15pm – Panels (x3)

Panel 19	Panel 20 (Online)	Panel 21 (Online)
Numerical Narratives: A Mathematical Look at the Horus Heresy	Only Beasts Fear Nothing: Philosophical Reflections on Fear and Space Marines in the Horus Heresy Series	In the grim darkness of the far future there is only war… And gorgeous women
Absolute Daybreak: Comparing the architecture of religious dimension in Baldur’s Gate III and Warhammer: Rogue Trader	De Doctrina Haeretica: Transhuman Spirituality in Warhammer 40K	Clinical Use of Warhammer 40K for Treatment of PTSD in Veterans
	The incomplete reformations of Warhammer 40,000 – influences from the sixteenth-century on the theology and iconography of the Imperial Cult	Warhammer in Carceral Environments: An ethnographic exploration

5.15pm – Closing remarks [recording coming soon]