Registration
A free hybrid conference for postgraduate students and early career researchers to be held on June 05 and 06 2024 at the University of Glasgow, supported by Glasgow’s Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic.
Registration is now open! To register, please complete the form found here.
If you have any questions about registration please email us at philophantast@gmail.com
Programme (All times in British Summer Time – GMT+1)
Day 1: Wednesday June 5, 2024
08:30 – 08:55: Informal Registration, Tea & Coffee
08:55 – 09:00 Opening Remarks
09:00 – 10:10 Panel 1
Giovanni Carmine Constabile (Friedrich Schiller University Jena) – The Beloved and Lúthien Tinúviel: Erotic Epiphany in Lévinas and Tolkien – Online
Hongliang Zhou (Changsha University of Science and Technology) – Happily Ever After: The Portrayals of Love and Sex in Chinese Zaju Theater under Kublai Khan’s Mongolian Rule – Online
Sophie Hylands (Sheffield Hallam University) – ‘Everyone has agreed on the need for a big change’: Imagining the Revolutionary ‘Event’ in 1930s Speculative Fiction – Online
10:10 – 10:20 Break
10:20 – 11:30 Panel 2
Taylor Driggers (University of Glasgow) – “All people are glyphs”: Queer Kinship and the Ethics of Reading in Laurie J. Marks’s “Elemental Logic” Novels – In-person
Rebecca Bachmann (Justus-Liebig-University Gießen) – Good for her. Feminist horror movies between empowerment and revenge fantasies – Online
Valentin Via (Rovira i Virgili University) – Exploring Post Apocalyptic, Queer, and Viscosity Aesthetics in the Filmography of Bertrand Mandico – Online
11:30 – 11:35 Break
11:35 – 12:45 Panel 3
Sagar Rao (Princeton University) – The Rasa of Roleplaying: Indian Aesthetic Theory and the Fantasy Roleplaying Game – In-person
Anna Maria Ronewicz (University of Szczecin) – Queering Heterotopias Through the Voices of an Archivist and a Museum Guide: Liminality in Contemporary Audio-Drama – Online
Saundarya (University of Delhi) – Representing the Other: Injustice and Indirect Agencies in Devanoora Mahadeva’s Kusumabale – Online
12:45 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 14:30 Keynote: Katharine Jenkins (University of Glasgow) – Blade Runner 2049 and Feminist Philosophy – In-person
14:30 – 14:35 Break
14:35 – 15:45 Panel 4
Argha Basu (Indian Institute of Technology Patna) and Priyanka Tripathi (Indian Institute of Technology Patna) – Narratological Formation of Discursive Subjectivities and Surfacing of Feminist Ontology in Select Indian Dystopian Fictions – Online
Sam Tegtmeyer (University of Glasgow) – The Curiosity Shop: “Discworld” and the Aesthetics of Fantasy – In-person
Edmund Ankomah (Illinois State University) – Interrogating a Fanonian Xenoracio-pathology in Black speculative fictions – Online
15:45 – 15:50 Break
15:50 – 17:00 Panel 5
William Taylor (University of Glasgow) – Alien Grammar: Using Speculative Fiction to Produce the ‘Disorganism’ in David Roden’s Snuff Memories – In-person
Gabriel Philpson (Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo) – Perspectivation and (cosmo)technical (imaginative) temporalities: the Angenommen script book as the culmination of the Flusserian Writing – Online
Maria Torres Romero (University of Málaga) – Towards a Posthumanist Philosophy of Technology in Ian McEwan’s Machines Like Me – Online
17:00 – 17:10 Break
17:10 – 18:00 Panel 6
Maha Farooq (Islamabad Model College for Girls I-8/4) – Speculative World Building in K-Pop: Sub-creation in Ateez’ Discography – Online
Chen Chen (University of British Columbia) – Desire At the Edge of Existence: Affect and “Weapon Fetishism” in Liu Cixin’s Ball Lightning and The Three-Body Problem Trilogy – Online
Day 2: Thursday June 6, 2024
08:45 – 09:00 Tea & Coffee
09:00 – 10:00 Keynote: Henry Bartholomew (Zi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University) – Dark Ontologies: Speculative Realism and the Gothic – Online
10:00 – 10:10 Break
10:10 – 11:20 Panel 7
Gunnar Lundberg (University of Minnesota) – Guano as a Gimmick: Applying Capitalist Form and Aesthetic Judgment to the Land – In-person
Sarah Snyder (University of Minnesota) – The Eco-erotic Speculative in The Blazing World of Margaret Cavendish – Online
Mayank Jha (Indian Institute of Technology) – You form a line to formalize the former lies – Online
11:20 – 11:25 Break
11:25 – 12:35 Panel 8
Saya Kanemoto (University of Leeds) – How not to be a prisoner of scissors: Ende and Bataille on the right kind of life – Online
Olivia Ho (University College London) – ‘A third thing, a heartish city’: Dialectical tension in China Miéville’s doubled cities – In-person
Smyrna Sharon S (Christ University) – A Study of the concept of Utopia in Vandana Singh’s short stories – Online
12:35 – 13:15 Lunch
13:15 -14:25 Panel 9
Ruchira Mandal (Lady Brabourne College) – Ideal Order in the World: Justice and Being on the Disc – Online
Nilo Sanchez (University of São Paulo) – Speculative Fiction as a Platform for Advocacy in Social Movements – Online
Katarina Dulude (University of Glasgow) – The Longing of the Silent People: Exploring Types of Nostalgia and Their Connection to Fantasy in Lud-in-the-Mist – In-person
14:25 – 14:30 Break
14:30 – 15:40 Panel 10
Stephen Pollicott (University of Lincoln) – Contrary to Descartes: The New
Weird and the Existential Other – In-person
Devika Yadav (Jawaharlal Nehru University) – Death, Death Everywhere! A
Study of Post-Death in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go and Agustina
Bazterrica’s Tender is the Flesh – Online
Megan Boothby (Memorial University of Newfoundland) – “How have the
monsters learned to speak?”: Phenomenology, Consciousness, and
Communication in Ray Nayler’s The Mountain in the Sea – Online
15:40 – 15:50 Break
15:50 – 17:00 Panel 11
Guillaume Andrieux (University of Glasgow) – Harmful Fictions – In-person
Wan Ziqian (Central China Normal University) – Speculative Fiction as Counterfactual Analysis – Online
Kerry Shanahan (Cambridge University) – ‘The True View About All People’: Watching Science Fiction and Rethinking the Debate on Personal Identity – Online
17:00 – 17:05 Break
17:05 – 18:15 Panel 12
Ashton Hoene (Indiana University Bloomington) and Matthew A. Hoffman (Indiana University Bloomington) – “Doctor…Who, Exactly?” – What Doctor Who Can Teach Us About Personal Identity – Online
Felipe Zárate Guerrero (University of Durham) – Truth in Fiction: Canon, Fanon, and Noncanon in Massive Serialized Collaborative Fictions – In-person
Cristina Diamant (Octocon; London Science Fiction Research Community) – Myles, Martian Away with the Fairies! Postcolonial Satire and Speculative Philosophy in Myles na gCopaleen’s Cruiskeen Lawn column (1940-1966) – Online
18:15 – 18:30 Closing Remarks