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PROGRAMME
Day 1: Wednesday April 27 2022
9:00 – 9:20 Radio GIFCon Breakfast chat on Discord
9:30 – 10:00: Platform wide welcome / Opening words and explanation of the mechanics
10:00 – 11:00: Research Across Media Roundtable (BST)
11:25 – 12:40: Panel 1: Fantasy Will Be Televised
Chair: Katarina O’Dette
Deputy Chair: Liz Weis
11:25 Kat Humphries: “What’s this cheery singing all about?”: Fantasy television and the musical episode
11:45 Iana Nikitenko: Nostalgia and the Challenges of the Modern World in “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina”
12:05 Carrie Spencer: From Side-line to Storyline: How the Inclusion of Parents on Supernatural Adventures in US Teen Telefantasy is Changing Constructions of Adolescence
12:25 Discussion
11:25 – 12:40: Panel 2: Online Paratexts
Chair: Grace Worm
Deputy Chair: Rachel Milne
11:25 Jack Fennell: Thermonuclear Druid Power: ‘Post-Truth’ Fantasy and the Re-evaluation of the Celt
11:45 Alice M. Kelly: Dark Swans: Otherness, Queerness, and Femslash Reimaginings
12:05 Carmen Hidalgo-Varo: Bridging Fact and Fiction through the Internet: Jasper Fforde´s Narratives
12:25 Discussion
11:25 – 12:40: Panel 3: Playing the Game
Chair: Halle Campise
Deputy Chair: Isabel Ferrari
11:25 Emma French: ‘This Was Supposed to be the Evil Game!’ – Playful and Critical Subversion in D&D and Dimension 20’s Escape from the Bloodkeep
11:45 Anna Milon: By My Hand Alone: Augmenting Live Action Role-Play Experiences through Writing.
12:05 Gabriel Elvery: Fantastic Friends and Where to Find Them: Fantasy Friendships with Video Game Characters
12:40 – 13:10: Lunch
13:20 – 14:20: Keynote Marjorie Liu (BTS)
Chair: TBD, Deputy Chair: Maggie White
14:20 – 14:50: Coffee Break
14: 20 – 14:45 Radio GIFCon Fantasy Music Hour on Discord
14:50 – 16:05: Panel 4 Fantasies of Nation
Chair: Taylor Driggers
Deputy Chair: Suguru Ikeda
14:50 Barbora Kaplánková: One of These Things Is Not Like the Others: Princess Cursed in Time and The Issue of Czech Fantasy
15:10 Maria Arvaniti: Finding the Cyclolotogorgocircilarizo: Folklore and identity in the fantasy plays of Xenia Kalogeropoulou
15:30 Louise Child: Tricksters and Skinwalkers: Ambivalent Animism in Indigenous Religions and Native American and Canadian Films 15:50 Discussion
15:50 Discussion
14:50 – 16:05: Panel 5 Fandom Counternarratives
Chair: Mariana Rios Maldonado
Deputy Chair: Hannah Morley
14:50 Christopher Lynch Becherer: Schisms in the Discworld Fandom, or, Who Watches The Watch
15:10 Nicholas Wanberg: Renegotiating Light: Adaptations of Gender, Whiteness and Physicality Between Harry Potter and its Fanfiction
15:30 Discussion
14:50 – 16:05: Panel 6 Fantastic Hesitation in Digital Worlds
Chair: Halle Campise
Deputy Chair: Isabelle Gebhart
14:50 Pamela Elaine Miller: Foul Murder: The Role of Unreliable Narrative in “The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind”
15:10 Kate Fry and Rebecca Gault: Desired Realities: Reality Shifting and Portal Quest Fantasy
15:30 Eva McLean: ‘How strange and brief all of this is’: What Remains of Edith Finch, Empathy and Liminal Fantasy
15:50 Discussion
16:15 – 17:00 Radio GIFCon Closing Chat on Discord
Day 2: Thursday 28 April 2022
9:00 – 9:20 Radio GIFCon Breakfast Chat on Discord
9:30 – 10:45: Panel 7 Modes of Fantasy Production
Chair: Dimitra Fimi
Deputy Chair: Robin Daly
9:30 Kim Wilkins: Born Convergent: Young Adult Fantasy across Platforms and Media
9:50 Devika Mehra and Supriya Baijal: Fantasy, Nation, and the Hindi televisual space: A Study of the T.V. Adaptation of Devki Nandan Khatri’s Chandrakanta
10:10 Katarina O’Dette: It’s Not Fantasy, It’s HBO: Filtering Genre through Channel Brands
10: 30 Discussion
9:30 – 10:45: Panel 8 Out in the World
Chair: Taylor Driggers
Deputy Chair: Maggie White
9:30 Dipanwita Paul: Durga Meets The Avengers: How Fantasy Texts are reimagined in the religious festivities of Bengal
9:50 Douglas A. Van Belle: Metal as Medium: An Artisan Bladesmith’s Insights into the Fantasy of Magical Weaponry
10:10 Silvia Storti: Advertising the fairy tale: the happily ever after con
10:30 Discussion
9:30 – 10:45: Panel 9 Mapping Mediums
Chair: Grace Worm
Deputy Chair: Amy Richmond
Matthew J. Elder: The Utopian Potential of Fantasy Worldbuilding through The Quiet Year
9:30 Siravich Khurat: Serial World-Building: Resetting the Digital World and Trailing Zemuria
9:50 Tungabhadra Banerjee: Magic, Myth and the ‘Perilous Realm’ of Fantasy Media: Exploring the World of Xianxia in the Chinese Television Series ‘The Untamed’ (2019)
10:10 Discussion
10:45 – 11:00 Break
11:10 – 12:25: Workshops (Sign ups will go out via Eventbrite close to GIFCon)
12:25 – 13:00 Lunch Break
12:25 – 12:55 Radio GIFCon Fantasy Music Hour on Discord
13:00 – 14:15: Panel 10 Myths Adapted
Chair: Rob Maslen
Deputy Chair: Amy Richmond
13:00 Arusharko Banerjeea: A Study in Non-Anglophone Fantasy Literature: Graphic Re-presentation of the Mahabharata Mythology
13:20 Timothy Miller: Orpheus in the Wasteland: Anaïs Mitchell’s “Folk Opera” Hadestown and Satanic Capitalism
13:40 Discussion
13:00 – 14:15: Panel 11 Media Monsters
Chair: Taylor Driggers
Deputy Chair: Anadhika Basin
13:00 Steffen Hantke: “Size Matters”: Why Giant Creatures on Screen Keep Getting Bigger
13:20 Zoe Wible: Fantastic creatures and film form: the example of shot/ reverse shot
13:40 Anika Klose: I Am The Monster You Created: Deconstructing The Monstrous Other in Andrezj Sapkowski’s The Witcher Adaptations
14:00 Discussion
13:00 – 14:15: Panel 12 Visualizing Fantasy
Chair: Emma French
Deputy Chair: Rowan McCormick
13:00 Shree Thaarshini S: Winx Club and the Fates of Styling
13:20 Alexandra Gushurst-Moore: Space and Time in Visual Works of Fantasy: Towards a Methodology
13:40 Discussion
14:15 – 14:45: Break
14:45 – 15:45: Keynote Matthew Sangster (BST)
Chair: Mariana Rios Maldonado, Deputy Chair: Liz Weis
16:00 – 16:45 Radio GIFCon Closing Chat on Discord
Day 3: Friday 29 April 2022
12:00 – 12:45 Radio GIFCon Networking Event on Discord
15:15 – 16:30: Panel 13 Medium is the Message
Chair: Isabel Ferrari
Deputy Chair: Suguru Ikeda
15:15 Anthony E. Dominguez: Split-Screen(s): Interfacing with Shibuya in The World Ends With You
15:35 Alfredo Mac Laughlin: Philosophy Quest! Using Fantasy in a Game-Based-Learning Philosophy Course
15:55 Caighlan Smith: A Hero’s Morality Play: Epic Fantasy Heroes and Morality Mechanics in Video Games
16:15 Discussion
15:15 – 16:30: Panel 14 Negotiating Genre on the Small Screen
Chair: Katarina O’Dette
Deputy Chair: Ciara Higgins
15:15 Ida Yoshinaga: Fantasy Modes that Fuel Sadcoms: the Generic (Genre) Labor of Millennial Community Expression Innovates Televisual Pre-production Cultures
15:35 Paromita Patranobish: Solastalgia and Planetary Affect in Katla (2021)
15:55 Eilidh Harrower: “I’ll see you again in 25 years” – Liminal Boundaries of Genre, Time and Plot in ‘Twin Peaks’
16:15 Discussion
15:15 – 16:30: Panel 15 Magic and Mundane in Manga and Anime
Chair: Rob Maslen
Deputy Chair: Rowan McCormick
15:15 Hannah Barton: The Weathering is Magical: The Mundane Moments in Climate Change
15:35 Özcan Kahraman: A Fantastic Slice-of-Life Experience: Exploring the Ordinary in Fantasy with Hayao Miyazaki
15:55 Sydney Paige Guerrero: Indescribably Vivid: Lovecraftian Horror in the Manga of Junji Ito
16:15 Discussion
16:30 – 17:00 Break
16:30 – 16:55 Radio GIFCon Fantasy Music Hour on Discord
17:00 – 18:00: Keynote Cáel Keegan (BST)
Chair: Taylor Driggers, Deputy Chair: Katarina O’Dette
18:25 – 19:40: Panel 16 Fantastic Bodyminds
Chair: Taylor Driggers
Deputy Chair: Rachel Milne
18:25 Elizabeth Boothby: “Mom, it’s not you”: The Owl House, validation seeking, and the queerly-othered mother figure in children’s fantasy media
18:45 Julia Jin Wang: Disrupting Constructions of “Abledness”: A Neo-Daoist Reading of Fantasy Cultivation in Eternal Love
19:05 Madalena Daleziou: Representations of Disability in Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood and Dororo
19:25 Discussion
18:25 – 19:40: Panel 17 Moving Through Virtual Worlds
Chair: Halle Campise
Deputy Chair: Shannon Carroll
18:25 Sarah Bresnahan: Entering the Game: Videogames as Fantastic Portals
18:45 James G. Lowder: “There’s so much more to discover before the world ends”: Walking Through Ruins and Encountering Entropy in Horizon Zero Dawn
19:05 Misha Grifka Wander: Learning to Use Elfroot: Video Games and Worldbuilding
19:25 Discussion
18:25 – 19:40: Panel 18 Iconic Characters Across Media
Chair: Mariana Rios Maldonado
Deputy Chair: Samantha Godsick
18:25 Bettina Charlotte Burger: From Trickster to Villain to LGBT icon – Loki God(dess) of Mischief Across Media
18:45 Michael A. Torregrossa: Arthur, King of the Comics? The Functions of Arthur Pendragon in Comics and Comic Art
19:05 Marta Miquel-Baldellou: Traces of Gaston Leroux’s ‘Le Fantôme de l’Opéra’ in Alejandro Amenábar’s ‘Abre los Ojos’
19:25 Discussion
20:00 – Later Radio GIFCon Discord De-Stress Social
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