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Event registration can be found here<\/a>. 
Keynotes and Reading Suggestions can be found here<\/a>.
Abstracts and Speaker Bios can be found here<\/a>. 
Workshops and Roundtables can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Workshop registration opens on May 3 at noon BST. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This document is updated as needed. All times listed are BST, British Summer Time<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tuesday 9 May 2023
18:00-18:45 Discord Welcome <\/strong>in our Discord<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Day 1: Wednesday 10 May 2023<\/strong> <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
9:30 \u2013 10:00: Platform wide welcome \/ Opening words and explanation of the mechanics<\/strong> <\/td><\/tr>
10:00 \u2013 11:00: Roundtable: Researching Boundaries and Margins<\/a><\/strong> with Bettina Juszak, Dion Dobrzynski, Parinita Shetty, and Mariana Rios Maldonado<\/a>
Chaired by Grace A.T. Worm with Deputy Chair Dimitra Fimi<\/td><\/tr>
11:25 \u2013 12:40: Panel 1A          <\/strong>
Fantastic Liminalities          <\/strong>
Chair: Lucinda Holdsworth 
Deputy Chair: Madeline Wahl

11:25 Chengcheng You<\/a>:<\/strong> Outlandish Representations: Crossing Boundaries of Species and Genres in Young Adult Liminal Fantasy  

 11:45 Parvathy R.<\/a>:<\/strong> The Cracks Within: Liminality and Hero-making in Fantasy 

12:05 Vaibhav Dwivedi<\/a><\/strong>: The Porous House: Investigating the House as a Space of the Fantastic in Neil Gaiman’s Coraline 

12:25 Discussion 




<\/td>		11:25 \u2013 12:40: Panel 1B      
Boundaries of Humanity<\/strong>  
Chair: Anna Milon
Deputy Chair: Frances Pearson 

11:25 Canchen Cao<\/a><\/strong>: What the \u201cOther\u201d Uncovers: The Periphery of the Medieval Fantasy World and Universe  

11:45 Hannah Mimiec<\/a>:<\/strong> Won\u2019t Somebody Think of the Children! Liminal Fantasy and Biopower in Hope Mirrlees\u2019s ‘Lud-In-The-Mist’ 

12:05 Xiuqi Huang<\/a><\/strong>: Boundary Between the Human and the Inhuman in Arthur C. Clarke’s and Liu Cixin’s Science Fiction 

12:25 Discussion <\/td>		11:25 \u2013 12:40: Panel 1C      
Dungeons & Dragons & Drawing New Boundaries<\/strong> 
Chair: Emma French
Deputy Chair: Anika Klose

11:25 Amy Richmond<\/a><\/strong>: The Living (and Loving) Dead: The Erotic Rejection of Death in Critical Role: Campaign 3 <\/strong> 

11:45 Fiona Reid<\/a><\/strong>: Beyond the Table and Into the Dungeon: How Neurodivergent and Queer People Explore Identity Through TTRPGs 

12:05 Dr Dimitra Nikolaidou<\/a><\/strong>: Centering on the Margins: The Evolution of Fantasy Tabletop Role-Playing Games
 
12:25 Discussion 

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12:40 \u2013 13:10: Lunch <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
13:30 \u2013 14:30: Keynote: Dr Will Tattersdill<\/a>, ‘Breathe Deep, Seek Peace’: The Fantasy\/Science Boundary, Especially As It Applies To Dinosaurs<\/a><\/strong>
Chaired by Dimitra Fimi with Deputy Chair Madeline Wahl<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
14:30 \u2013 14:50 Coffee Break <\/td><\/tr>
14:50 \u2013 16:05: Panel 2A      
Queering Fantasies 1<\/strong>
Chair: Taylor Driggers
Deputy Chair: Jiaxin Liu

14:50 Tam Moules<\/a>:<\/strong> Flower of Knights, Knight of Flowers: Transgression of Gendered Boundaries in Retellings of the Tale of Peredur 

15:10 Mercury Natis<\/a>:<\/strong> <\/strong>“And its Folks are Queerer”: Queer Marginality and the Found Family Dynamics of the Bagginses of Bag-End 

15:30 Mars Nicoli<\/a>:<\/strong> The Sex of Angels: Nonbinary readings of otherworldly creatures in Supernatural (2005-2020) and Good Omens (2019-) 

15:50 Discussion  <\/td>		14:50 \u2013 16:05: Panel 2B      
Interrogating Fairy Tales and Folktales<\/strong> 
Chair: Anna Milon
Deputy Chair: Sarah Koki

14:50 Cristina Espejo<\/a><\/strong>: Fairy tales and Fantasy: Expanding Boundaries and Subverting Expectations 

15:10 Francesca Bihet<\/a><\/strong>: On the Borders of Fairyland: Science and the Supernatural in Andrew Lang\u2019s That Very Mab and The Chronicles of Pantouflia 

15:30 Madeleine Sinclair<\/a>:<\/strong> Fantastical Subjectivity in Rana Dasgupta\u2019s Twenty-First Century Folktales
 
15:50 Discussion   

<\/td>		14:50 \u2013 16:05: Panel 2C      
Crossing Thresholds<\/strong> 
Chair: Siobhan Mulligan
Deputy Chair: Annemarie Whitehurst

14:50 Madalena Daleziou<\/a>:<\/strong> Threshold Crossing and Deconstructed Portals in Philip Pullman\u2019s His Dark Materials and Laini Taylor\u2019s Daughter of Smoke and Bone.
 
15:10 Isabelle Hanshue<\/a>:<\/strong> From Prisoner to King: Entrapment and Escape Through the Fantastic in Susanna Clarke\u2019s Novels 

15:30 Luise R\u00f6ssel<\/a>:<\/strong> Crossing the lake \u2013 The land of the dead, resurrection, and Jesus in Philip Pullman\u2019s His Dark Materials 

15:50 Discussion






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Day 2: Thursday 11 May 2023<\/strong> <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
9:30 \u2013 10:45: Panel 3A  
The Political Fantastic<\/strong> 
Chair: Dimitra Fimi
Deputy Chair: Annemarie Whitehurst

9:30 Samantha Hammond<\/a><\/strong>: \u201cTo Win or Lose a Great Game\u201d: Board Games, Seth Dickinson\u2019s “Masquerade” Series, and Policing Fantasy\u2019s Political Boundaries 

9:50 Louise Marchel<\/a>:<\/strong> Revolution or Fantastic Dream? The Importance of William Morris’ ‘News from Nowhere’ in the Psychedelic Creative Landscape of 1960s London 

10:10 Esther Edelmann<\/a>:<\/strong> Fantastic Underdevelopment in E.T.A. Hoffmann\u2019s The Devil\u2019s Elixirs and Reinaldo Arenas\u2019 Hallucinations 

10:30 Discussion  
<\/td>		9:30 \u2013 10:45: Panel 3B   
Rewriting Women in National Contexts<\/strong> 
Chair: Isabel Ferrari
Deputy Chair: Hannah Mimiec

9:30 Yimin Xu<\/a>: <\/strong>Re\/discovering Women in Chinese Taoist Myth: New Gods: Yang Jian 

9:50 Aicha Daoudi<\/a>: <\/strong>Trickster Witches: The Manifestation of the Archaic Trickster Energy in Female Characters of the American Fantasy Genre. 

10:10 Ane B. Ruiz-Lejarcegui<\/a>:<\/strong> Embracing Hybrid Identities in Silvia Moreno-Garc\u00eda’s The Daughter of Doctor Moreau 

10:30 Discussion   
<\/td>		9:30 \u2013 10:45: Panel 3C      
Crossover Audiences<\/strong> 
Chair: Tom Emanuel
Deputy Chair: Grace A.T. Worm

9:30 Lizao Hu<\/strong><\/a>:<\/strong> Fantasy as crossover carnival: Transgressing boundaries in Aaron Becker\u2019s wordless picturebook trilogy 

9:50 Alvin Emmanuel Alagao<\/a>:<\/strong> A Filipino Gamer Gets Lost in the Universe of Saga Frontier in 1998 and 2021: An Autoethnography 

10:10 James Lowder and Fergus Attlee:<\/a><\/strong> Fantastic Interdisciplinarity: Two Human Geographers on Makoto Shinkai\u2019s Voices of a Distant Star and Your Name
 
10:30 Discussion  

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10:45 \u2013 11:15 Break <\/td><\/tr>
11:15 \u2013 12:30: Workshops<\/strong> 
4A: \u201cSolo Roleplaying Games: History and How To\u201d with Anna Blackwell<\/a> 
Deputy Chair: Tam Moules

4B: \u201cWriting Hybrid Genres\u201d with Dr Oliver Langmead<\/a> 
Deputy Chair: Laura Sanchez

4C: \u201cBoundless Empathy: Exploring Non-Anthropocentric Writing\u201d with Michael Deerwater<\/a> 
Deputy Chair: Maggie Naylor<\/td><\/tr>
12:30 \u2013 13:00 Lunch Break  <\/td><\/tr>
13:00 \u2013 13:55: Panel 5A
Representing Hostile Worlds<\/strong> 
Chair: Isabel Ferrari
Deputy Chair: Sarah Koki

13:00 Katarina Dulude<\/a>:<\/strong> To Refuse What Has Been Refused to You: Depictions of the Undercommons in the Future Imaginaries of Arcane and Babel 

13:20 Despoina Tantsiopoulou<\/a>:<\/strong> Opposing School of Thought: Marginalization and the Campus in R.F. Kuang\u2019s “Babel” 

13:40 Discussion








<\/td>		13:00 \u2013 14:15: Panel 5B
Screening Fantastic Horrors <\/strong> 
Chair: Maria Arvaniti
Deputy Chair: Jiaxin Liu

13:00 Jamie MacGregor<\/a><\/strong>: Now with more blood, guts, and gore!: Horror Cinema in the Wake of Covid-19 

13:20 Eilidh Harrower<\/a>:<\/strong> \u201cYou kids have fun\u201d \u2013 ‘Bodies Bodies Bodies’ and ‘Scream’ as Reflections of Changing Generational Fears 

13:40 Rebecca Gault<\/a>:<\/strong> A Conspiracy of Bodies: Negating Sexual Anthropocentrism

14:00 Discussion  
 <\/td>		13:00 \u2013 14:15: Panel 5C          
Renegotiating Fantastic Margins<\/strong> 
Chair: Siobhan Mulligan
Deputy Chair: Maggie Naylor

13:00 Suzanne Black<\/a>:<\/strong> Canon(n)s in the Distance: Black Sails Fanfiction, Decolonial Gothic and the Negotiation of Canon 

13:20 Anika Klose<\/a>:<\/strong> \u201cMy Colours Are Mine\u201d – New Shades of Detective Fiction in Ambelin and Ezekiel Kwaymullina’s Catching Teller Crow   

13:40 Saga Bokne<\/a>:<\/strong> Settler Fairies: Postcolonial Implications of Fairies in America 

14:00 Discussion
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14:15 \u2013 14:45: Break <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
14:45 \u2013 15:45: Keynote: Nghi Vo<\/a>, A Fantastic Conversation<\/a><\/strong>
Chaired by Matthew Sangster with Deputy Chair Laura Sanchez<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Day 3: Friday 12 May 2023<\/strong> <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
12:30 \u2013 13:30: Networking Event<\/strong> <\/td><\/tr>
13:45 \u2013 15:00: Workshops & Discussion Groups<\/strong> 
6A: \u201c\u2018The tale is the map that is the territory\u2019: Exploring national identity and the fantastic unknown through the Hunterian Collection\u201d with Siobhan Mulligan and Isabel Ferrari <\/a>
Deputy Chair: Laura Sanchez

6B: \u201cAcademic Yassification: From Essay to Article, Navigating Student Publishing\u201d with Gabriel Elvery <\/a>
Deputy Chair: Katarina O’Dette

6C: Tabletop Role Playing Games Roundtable<\/a> with Andy Tytler, Misha Grifka, and Beatrix Livesey-Stephens
Chaired by Emma French<\/td><\/tr>
15:15 \u2013 16:30: Panel 7A           
Gaming the Boundaries<\/strong> 
Chair: Rhys Pasternack
Deputy Chair: Maggie Naylor

15:15 Caighlan Smith<\/a><\/strong>: Colors of Compassion: Breaking Boundaries through Fantastical Empathy Play in Life is Strange: True Colors
 
15:35 Mark Hines<\/a>:<\/strong> Stats and Soil: Race and Homeland in Fantastic Worlds 

15:55 Charlie Schroeder & Roxanne Tuckman<\/a>:<\/strong> Grotesque Bodies and Surreal Planes: Transgressing the Boundaries of the Weird through Video Game Glitches  

16:15 Discussion <\/td>		15:15 \u2013 16:10: Panel 7B     
Queering Boundaries<\/strong> 2<\/strong>
Chair: Maria Arvaniti
Deputy Chair: Anika Klose

15:15 Rachel Milne<\/a>: <\/strong>We\u2019re All Mad Queer: Breaching the Boundaries of Sanity and Sex in Wonderland and Oz 

15:35 Amber Hancock<\/a>:<\/strong> Rejected and Searching for Home: An Exploration of Doorways and Queer Representation in Seanan McGuire\u2019s Every Heart a Doorway  

15:55 Discussion<\/td>		15:15 \u2013 16:10: Panel 7C     
Negotiating Genre<\/strong> 
Chair: Tom Emanuel
Deputy Chair: Hannah Mimiec

15:15 Nathaniel Harrington<\/a>:<\/strong> \u201cs\u00edneadh eile len\u00e1r dtraidisi\u00fan sc\u00e9ala\u00edochta\u201d: Fantasy and \u201cCeltic\u201d tradition 

15:35 Anushmita Mohanty<\/a><\/strong>: On Why We Read Fantasy: Affective Responses as Generic Boundaries  

15:55 Discussion<\/td><\/tr>
16:30 \u2013 17:00 Break <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
17:00 \u2013 18:00: Keynote: Dr Sami Schalk<\/a>, <\/strong>Reimagining Bodyminds and Liberation in Pandemic Times<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a>
Chaired by Taylor Driggers with Deputy Chair Jiaxin Liu<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
18:25 \u2013 19:40: Panel 8A    <\/strong>
Embodied Fantasy<\/strong> 
Chair: Siobhan Mulligan
Deputy Chair: Annemarie Whitehurst

18:25 Megan Stephens<\/a>: <\/strong>The borders of power: Superheroes and disability
 <\/strong> 
18:45 M. Caroline McCaulay<\/strong><\/a>: “The Childbed is Our Battlefield”: Examining Depictions of Childbirth in Contemporary Fantasy <\/strong> 

19:05 Madeline Wahl<\/a>: <\/strong>Who Is Allowed To Cast Spells?: Stuttering, Fluency, And Spellcasting In The Harry Potter Series 

19:25 Discussion 
<\/td>		18:25 \u2013 19:40: Panel 8B       <\/strong>
Transgressing the Text <\/strong> 
Chair: Anna Milon
Deputy Chair: Hannah Mimiec

18:25 Cameron Bourquein<\/a><\/strong>:  How Do You Solve a Problem Like \u201cMairon\u201d?: Exploring How Sauron\u2019s Most Marginal Name Recasts the Lord of the Rings
 
18:45 Timothy Miller<\/a>:<\/strong> Unicorn Variations: Continuity and Change in the Many Versions of The Last Unicorn 

19:05 Eugenia Biavati<\/a>:<\/strong> Resisting narrative patterns: the transgressive power of Terry Pratchett\u2019s parody 

19:25 Discussion  
<\/td>		18:25 \u2013 19:40: Panel 8C    <\/strong>
Fantasies of Environmental Realities<\/strong> 
Chair: Grace A.T. Worm
Deputy Chair: Sarah Koki

18:25 Maggie White<\/a><\/strong>: Challenging Energy Exuberance through Epic Fantasy: A Study of N.K. Jemisin’s The Broken Earth trilogy 

18:45 Declan Roberts<\/a><\/strong>: Blurred Battle Lines: Analyzing Energy Analogues in Tracy Deonn’s Legendborn 

19:05 Sababa Monjur<\/a>:<\/strong> \u201cI Don\u2019t Wanna Become a Demon\u201d: Rethinking Binaries in Princess Mononoke and Okja 

19:25 Discussion  <\/td><\/tr>
20:00 \u2013 Later: Post-conference social [in person and on Zoom] <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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