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Event registration can be found here<\/a> including tickets for Workshops and the Networking Event.
Speaker abstract and bios can be found here<\/a>.
Keynotes and this year’s Reading List can be found here<\/a>.
Workshops and Roundtable information can be found here<\/a>.
The Crafting Your Queer Fantasy TBR post can be found here<\/a>.
Our post on How to Join the Discord can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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Day 1: Wednesday May 7, 2024<\/mark><\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
12:30-12:45 <\/strong>
Platform Wide Welcome and explanation of the mechanics with Will Tattersdill<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
12:45-13:45 <\/mark>
Opening Roundtable: Queering the Fantastic in 2025<\/strong> with Anna Oleszczuk<\/a>, Emma Tueller Stone<\/a>, Sam Tegtmeyer<\/a>, and Sydney Brouillard-Coyle<\/a>

Chair: Rebecca Gault
Deputy Chair: Lily Golich<\/mark><\/td><\/tr>
13:45-14:00 Break<\/td><\/tr>
Panels<\/strong> 1 <\/strong>
14:00 \u2013 15:15<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
Panel 1A  <\/strong>
Queering Medieval Retellings<\/strong>
Chair: Lorna Ross
Deputy Chair: Makayla Widger

14:00 Gabriella Fryer<\/a> <\/strong>\u201cMarvellous wound\u201d: a medieval-queer reading of Angela Carter\u2019s The Bloody Chamber
14:20 Tam Moules<\/a> <\/strong>Armour, Body Parts, and Queer Masculinity in Arthurian Retellings
14:40 Cheryl Myfanwy Morgan<\/a> <\/strong>The Fourth Branch \u2013 Past and Future

15:00 Discussion<\/strong><\/td>		Panel 1B<\/strong>
Fairy Stories<\/strong>
Chair: Lea Warren
Deputy Chair: Meganne Rizk

14:00 Silvia E. Storti <\/a><\/strong>Queering villainy: disruptive storytelling in contemporary fairy-tale narratives
14:20 Paula Rivera Donoso <\/a><\/strong>The queer\/crip fantasy journey in ‘Las flores crecer\u00e1n sobre mi cuerpo’, by TopoPanda
14:40 <\/strong>Catherine Olver<\/strong> <\/a>Family (of) Trees? More-Than-Human Families in Queer Fairytales
15:00 Discussion<\/strong><\/td>		Panel 1C<\/strong>
Magic and Liminality<\/strong>
Chair: Hollie Willis
Deputy Chair: Rachel England

14:00 Harry Rollison<\/a> <\/strong>\u201cShe\u2019d be both, or none at all [\u2026] a witch and a wizard too\u201d: Queering the Gendered Magical Binary in Terry Pratchett\u2019s Equal Rites
14:20 Orla Davey<\/a> <\/strong>\u2018Reweave the Threads of Fate\u2019: Femslash Fantasy and Queering the Classical Myth Canon
14:40 Elisa Pesce<\/a><\/strong> Transcending Life, Death, and Magic: The Falt Lines of Identity in Aiden Thomas\u2019s Cemetery Boys
15:00 Discussion<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
15:15\u2013 15:30 Break<\/td><\/tr>

15:30 \u2013 16:30 <\/strong><\/mark>
Keynote Kirsty Logan<\/strong>

Chairs: Grace A.T. Worm and Lorna Ross
Deputy Chair: Rachel England<\/mark><\/td><\/tr>
16:30-16:35 Short Break<\/td><\/tr>

16:35 \u201317:30 <\/mark>
Seminar \u2013 Here, There, and Elsewhere<\/em>: Editing for Inclusion and Access in a Fantasy Periodical <\/strong><\/strong><\/mark>with Saige Severin, Stephen Welsh, M\u00e9ganne Yasmeen Rizk, and Caleb Berk Fantasy MLitt Fiction Journal Elsewhere<\/em> in the Discord <\/a><\/strong>
Deputy Chair: Will Tattersdill

<\/strong> (Limited spaces, Zoom links only available via Eventbrite ticketing)<\/td><\/tr>
17:30-17:35 Short Break<\/td><\/tr>
Panels 2<\/strong>
17:35-18:50<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
Panel 2A  <\/strong>
Cooperative Identity Explorations<\/strong>
Chair: Lea Warren
Deputy Chair: Caleb Berk

17:35 Caighlan Smith<\/a> <\/strong>Challenging Chronos: Re-Queering Classical Mythology in Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical
17:55 Emma French<\/a> \u201c<\/strong>They hate to see a girlboss winning\u201d: the reinvisioning of race and sexuality within D&D\u2019s drow elves
18:15 Alexis Lothian<\/a> <\/strong>\u201cWhite Men, Otherwise? Slash Fanfiction, Race, and the Persistence of Slavefic\u201d 
18:35 Discussion<\/strong><\/td>		Panel 2B<\/strong>
Lud-in-the-Mist<\/strong>
Chair: Mercury Natis
Deputy Chair: Sam Tegtmeyer

17:35 Martine Gjermundsen R\u00e6stad <\/a><\/strong>One With the Silent People: Queerness and Fairy Fruit in Hope Mirrlees\u2019 Lud-in-the-Mist
17:55 Saige Severin<\/a> <\/strong>The Erotic as Magic: Fantasy and Lasting Political Action
18:15 Amy Richmond<\/a> <\/strong>\u201cThe blood of the tree spreading over her tongue\u201d: Drinking the Juices of Queer Power


18:35 Discussion<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
19:00\u2013 19:45<\/strong> The University of Glasgow Fantasy Master’s in Literature<\/a> 10 Year Anniversary Event<\/strong> with Dr. Robert Maslen<\/mark><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Day 2: Thursday May 8, 2025<\/mark><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Panels 3<\/strong>
9:30 \u2013 11:10<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
Panel 3A<\/strong>
Monstrosity and Queer Narrative<\/strong>
Chair: Joseph Paolantonacci
Deputy Chair: Stephen Welsh

9:30<\/strong> Frankie Bradley<\/a> <\/strong>Monstrous Love & Queer Identity

9:50 Mar\u00eda de la O Ruiz Rodr\u00edguez <\/a><\/strong>The Vampire Revolution: Gothic, Queerness, and Subversion in V. E. Schwab’s First Kill (2022)

10:10 Faarih<\/a> <\/strong>Gothic Sanguinities: Reimagining Vampiric Metaphors in the Post-AIDS Era

10:30<\/strong> Discussion<\/strong><\/td>		Panel 3B<\/strong>
Explorations of Normativity<\/strong>
Chair: Sam Tegtmeyer
Deputy Chair: Saige Severin

9:30 Taylor Driggers<\/a> <\/strong>\u2018All people are glyphs\u2019: Queer Kinship and the Politics of Reading in Laurie J. Marks\u2019s Elemental Logic and Ursula K. Le Guin\u2019s Annals of the Western Shore
9:50 Nike Sulway<\/a><\/strong> \u201cTo meet once more as aliens\u201d: exploring the relevance of fantastic literature for queer studies
10:10 Sarah Courtis<\/a> <\/strong>Write my way out (of the closet): challenging the compulsory heterosexual narrative of fantasy musicals
10:30 Zvonimir Prtenja\u010da<\/a> <\/strong>Destabilizing Homonormativity: Wiccan from Marvel Comics\u2019 Young Avengers and The Children\u2019s Crusade to Disney+\u2019s Agatha All Along
10:50 Discussion<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
11:10 \u2013 11:20 Break<\/td><\/tr>
11:20-12:20<\/strong> <\/mark>
GIFCon 2025<\/strong> Networking Event with Grace A.T. Worm <\/strong>
Deputy Chair: Lea Warren
Ticketed attendees only, see Eventbrite for tickets and information <\/mark>
(currently sold-out with waiting list)<\/mark><\/td><\/tr>

12:20\u201313:20 Lunch Break Research Spotlight in the Discord with Mercury Natis<\/strong><\/mark>
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13:20-13:30 Break<\/td><\/tr>

13:30\u201414:30: <\/strong><\/mark>
Keynote Anna McFarlane
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Chair: Will Tattersdill
Deputy Chair: Reese Reynolds <\/mark><\/td><\/tr>
14:30 \u2013 14:45 Break<\/td><\/tr>
14:45 \u201316:00 <\/mark>
Panels 4:<\/strong><\/mark> Workshops<\/strong>
(Limited spaces, Zoom links only available via Eventbrite ticketing)<\/strong>

4A: Together We Write Private Cathedrals<\/a>: A Collaborative Epistolary Game about Queer Community and History <\/strong>with Stephen Welsh
Deputy Chair: Lorna Ross

4B: Family (of) Trees<\/a>: An Ecoqueer Fairytale & Fantasy Workshop <\/strong>with Catherine Olver
Deputy Chair: Ane B. Ruiz-Lejarcegui

4C: Publishing WITHOUT Perishing<\/a>: Mapping The Impossible\u2019s <\/em>Survival Guide to Student-led Publishing<\/strong> with Brianna Best and Rachel Milne
Deputy Chair: Grace A.T. Worm  <\/mark><\/td><\/tr>
16:00-16:15 Break<\/td><\/tr>
Panels 5<\/strong>
16:15 \u2013 17:30<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
Panel 5A<\/strong>
Interrogating Foundations<\/strong>
Chair: Lea Warren
Deputy Chair: Rachel England

16:15 Eleanor Patterson <\/a><\/strong>Outside the Box: Form and Gender in Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman
16:35 Robin Anne Reid<\/a> <\/strong>An Incomplete Academic Fellowship: Excluding Queer Feminist Women from Tolkien Studies
16:55 Mercury Natis<\/a> <\/strong>Against Correct and Sober Taste: Tolkien and Sontag on Fa\u00ebrie and Camp


17:15 Discussion<\/strong><\/td>		Panel 5B<\/strong>
Reimagining Queer Representations <\/strong>
Chair: Lorna Ross
Deputy Chair: Reese Reynolds

16:15 C.T. Power<\/a> <\/strong>House of the Dragon: Making Things Perfectly Queer

16:35 Makayla Wigder<\/a> <\/strong>\u201cIs My Hair Out?\u201d: The Queer-Coding of Hercules\u2019 Hades

16:55 Katarina Dulude<\/a> <\/strong>What if I Choose the Dream?: Exploring Fantastic Otherworlds in Queer Neo-Victorian Texts

17:15 Discussion<\/strong><\/td>		Panel 5C<\/strong>
Fanfiction and Fandom<\/strong>
\u00a0<\/strong>Chair: Hollie Willis
Deputy Chair: Lilly Golich

16:15 Anna Bark Persson<\/a> <\/strong>\u201cSword Lesbians: Fantastic Fantasies in Fantasy Fiction and Fandom\u201d

16:35 Alexandra Davies<\/a> <\/strong>\u201cAre we too heteronormative?\u201d: Mpreg and transgression in Teen Wolf fanfiction

16:55 Kashish Gera<\/a><\/strong> \u201cFrom Ships to Shifts: Exploring Queer Transformations and Reader Biases Across Fanfiction Platforms\u201d

17:15 Discussion<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
17:30-Later Gaming Expo and Play in the Discord\u2014Hades II & Jackbox Games <\/strong><\/mark><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Day 3: Friday May 9, 2024<\/mark><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Panel 6<\/strong>
10:00 \u2013 11:40<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
Panel 6A<\/strong>
Borderlines and Marginalization<\/strong>
Chair: Will Tattersdill
Deputy Chair: Caleb Berk

10:00<\/strong> Elizabeth Elliott <\/a><\/strong>Early modern Scottish fantasy: Queer embodiment and practices of social exclusion in The Gyre Carling
10:20 Alex Henderson<\/a> <\/strong>The Queer Trickster in Margaret Owen\u2019s Little Thieves
10:40 Rheanna Mathews<\/a> <\/strong>Queer Temporality and Disenfranchised Grief in Tasha Suri\u2019s The Jasmine Throne
11:00 Nathaniel Harrington<\/a><\/strong> \u201cFully male and hold-bred\u201d: Sexuality, class, and the construction of gender in Anne McCaffrey\u2019s Dragonriders of Pern

11:20 Discussion<\/strong><\/td>		Panel 6B<\/strong>
Worldbuilding and Queer Identity<\/strong>
 <\/strong>Chair: Ane B. Ruiz-Lejarcegui
Deputy Chair: Lilly Golich

10:00<\/strong> Stephanie Rincon Ramos<\/a> <\/strong>Reimagining Resistance: Postcolonial and Environmental Visions in She-Ra and The Owl House
10:20 \u015eevval Tufan <\/a><\/strong>Queering the Weird: Rethinking Ecology and Nonhuman Entanglements in Jeff VanderMeer\u2019s Southern Reach Trilogy (2014)
10:40 Laura Garc\u00eda Soria<\/a> <\/strong>\u201cBoy Island\u2019: Trans Creationism and a New Materialist Approach to Gender\u201d
11:00 Laura Ciriza Mart\u00edn<\/a> <\/strong>Just because something has always been done…”: Gender, Sexuality, and Binaries in Samantha Shannon\u2019s The Priory of the Orange Tree
11:20 Discussion<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
11:40 \u2013 12:45 Lunch Break<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>

12:45-13:45 <\/strong><\/mark>
Keynote Alice Chapman-Kelly<\/strong>

Chair: Matthew Sangster
Deputy Chair: Saige Severin<\/mark><\/td><\/tr>
13:45-14:00 Break<\/td><\/tr>
Panels 7<\/strong>
14:00 \u2013 15:15<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
Panel 7A<\/strong>
Gaming and Queerness<\/strong>
Chair: Grace A.T. Worm
Deputy Chair: Saige Severin

14:00 Stephen Welsh<\/a> <\/strong>Playing with queerness in Monsterhearts 2 and Thirsty Sword Lesbians 

14:20 Reese Reynolds<\/a> \u201c<\/strong>Coming Full Circle: Cozy Gaming and Capitalist Narrativity\u201d

14:40 Jamie Nicholas, Esther MacCallum-Stewart, &Catherine Flick<\/a> <\/strong>\u2018From where I stand, you’re all legs\u2019. Expectation, Desire and Queerness in Dragon Age: Veilguard


15:00 Discussion<\/strong><\/td>		Panel 7B<\/strong>
Family Dynamics and Children\u2019s Media<\/strong>
Chair: Joseph Paolantonacci
Deputy Chair: Makayla Widger

14:00 Isabelle Hanshue<\/a> <\/strong>Monsters Who Inspire Love: Monstrosity and the Queer Family Dynamic in Gerardo S\u00e1mano C\u00f3rdova\u2019s Novel Monstrilio
14:20 In\u00eas Guedes Vaz<\/a><\/strong> Us Princesses Have to Stick Together: Uses and Representations of Queerness in Contemporary YA Fantasy Animation
14:40 Madeline Wahl<\/a><\/strong> “I think we ought to live happily ever after”: Chosen Family and Family Representation in Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
15:00<\/strong> Discussion<\/strong><\/td>		Panel 7C<\/strong>
Queer Utopias<\/strong>
Chair: Ane B. Ruiz-Lejarcegui
Deputy Chair: Caleb Berk

14:00 Rebecca Gault <\/a><\/strong>Dystopic Queer Futures in Seth Dickinson\u2019s Masquerade Series

14:20 Meg Horridge<\/a> <\/strong>Stepping Out of Time: Towards a Queer Utopia

14:40 Rebecca Jones<\/a><\/strong> Queer Communities as Utopias of Potentiality in the Graphic Novels of Kay O\u2019Neill


15:00 Discussion<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
15:15-15:30 Break<\/td><\/tr>
15:30 \u2013 16:30<\/strong> <\/mark>
Roundtable: Omegaverse Fanfiction and the Politics of Fantasy<\/strong> with Ann Alex<\/a>, Kristina Busse<\/a>, Tanvi Chowdhury<\/a>, and Alexis Lothian<\/a>

Chair: Alexis Lothian
Deputy Chair: Meganne Rizk<\/mark><\/td><\/tr>
16:45-17:45 <\/mark><\/strong>
Artist Spotlight in the Discord with Elisabeth (Essa) Flett<\/mark><\/strong><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Event registration can be found here including tickets for Workshops and the Networking Event.Speaker abstract and bios can be found here.Keynotes and this year’s Reading List can be found here. Workshops and Roundtable information can be found here.The Crafting Your Queer Fantasy TBR post can be found here.Our post on How to Join the Discord … <\/p>\n

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