{"id":4966,"date":"2021-10-25T17:10:49","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T17:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk\/?p=4966"},"modified":"2021-11-09T15:35:10","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T15:35:10","slug":"conference-dissenting-beliefs-heresy-and-heterodoxy-in-fantasy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk\/index.php\/2021\/10\/25\/conference-dissenting-beliefs-heresy-and-heterodoxy-in-fantasy\/","title":{"rendered":"Conference: Dissenting Beliefs: Heresy and Heterodoxy in Fantasy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic<\/a> and the University of Glasgow are happy to announce Dissenting Beliefs, an early career researcher conference on religious heresy and heterodoxy in fantasy literature and media. The conference is free to attend and will be held online via Zoom webinars on 11 December 2021.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our keynote lecture<\/strong> for the conference will be delivered by Prof. Alana M. Vincent<\/strong>, Professor of Jewish Philosophy, Religion and Imagination at the University of Chester.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can find the conference CFP <\/strong>here<\/a> and find our full programme below. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Registration <\/strong>is already open – here is the link<\/a> to book your free ticket.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Keep up with our latest updates by following Dissenting Beliefs on Facebook<\/a> and Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Organising Committee:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr Taylor Driggers<\/a>
Lucinda Holdsworth<\/a>
Meg MacDonald
Luise R\u00f6ssel<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Contact Email:<\/strong> Dissenting.Beliefs@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Programme:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

9:30-10:00: Welcome and Opening Words<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n


10:00-11:30: Panel 1: Feminist Mythic Counter Readings<\/strong>
Chloe Campbell \u2014 \u201cHell\u2019s Under New Management Now\u201d: Heresy, Patriarchy and Religious Subversion in The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eilidh Harrower \u2014 “Pharmakis”: Feminist Paganism in Circe<\/em> by Madeline Miller<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grace Worm \u2014 In the Hands of the Goddess: Feminist Religion, Religious Piety, and Mistaken Interpretations in Tamora Pierce\u2019s Tortall <\/em>and Other Lands
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10:00-11:30: Panel 2: Good Omens and its Descendants<\/strong>
Alex Booer\u2014 A Theology from the Margins: The Demon Crowley in TV\u2019s Good Omens<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Luise Roessel\u2014 Mirroring \u201csacred\u201d textuality only to break it: the liberating power of Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman\u2019s Good Omens<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Matthew Konerth\u2014 The Demon Ascendant Narrative
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11:30-11:45:<\/strong> Break<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n


11:45-13:15: Panel 3: Fantastic Queer Heterodoxies<\/strong>
Marita Arvanti \u2014 God Has An Asshole?: Queer Heterodoxies in Elizabeth Bear\u2019s Stratford Man <\/em>duology<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Koh Hui Ling Carina \u2014 Postmodern Fantasy and Queer Theology in Samantha Shannon’s The Priory of the Orange Tree<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Da Eun Kun \u2014 Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit <\/em>and Blakean Fantasies for a Lesbian Feminist Subject<\/p>\n\n\n\n


11:45-13:15: Panel 4: Interwar Paganism and Occultism<\/strong>
Andrew Korah \u2014 \u201cTo Pray to the Stars\u201d: The Nonmoral Devotion to Beauty in Dunsany\u2019s Fantasy<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Georgia Van Raalte \u2014 \u201cThe Ass that Carries the Ark\u201d: Fantasy, Initiation and Goddess Theology in Dion Fortune\u2019s Occult Novels<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sean Martin \u2014 Gnostic and Pagan Archetypes in David Lindsay’s The Violet Apple<\/em>, Devil’s Tor<\/em> and The Witch<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n


13:15-14:00: Lunch Break<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n


14:00-15:40: Panel 5: Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue<\/strong>
Anna Milon \u2014 The High Church of the Goddess: Religious Syncretism in Live Action Role Play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Smita Dhantal \u2014 A Socio-Psychological Analysis of Interreligious Dialogue in A Song of Ice and Fire<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Snigdha Basu \u2014 Theological subversion of the indigenous and trails of Womanist theology in Joanne Harris\u2019s Chocolat<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Venetta Octavia \u2014 Fantasy or History: Religion vs. Magic<\/p>\n\n\n\n


15:40-17:10: Keynote with Prof. Alana Vincent<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic and the University of Glasgow are happy to announce Dissenting Beliefs, an early career researcher conference on religious heresy and heterodoxy in fantasy literature and media. The conference is free to attend and will be held online via Zoom webinars on 11 December 2021. Our keynote lecture for the conference … <\/p>\n

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