Finally, some good news_ The world's only Warhammer academic conference is returning in September to
By Dr. Eleanor Vance | Published on January 01, 0001
Last year, I had the pleasure of covering the existence of the , the world's first academic conference devoted to philosophical, theoretical, and otherwise scholarly appraisal of everything involving Space Marines, Chaos demons, and grim [[link]] darkness both futuristic and fantastical. Today, I'm pleased to report that the Warhammer Conference is returning this September to Heidelberg, Germany for the second of what we can only hope is a long-lived annual tradition.
As with last year's academic gathering, Warhammer Conference: 2nd Edition can be attended both in person and—if you're not in the Heidelberg neighborhood—online via livestream.
"We believe that this conference can be appealing not only to a classic academic audience, but also to Warhammer fans at large," said organizer Joachim Besson in a press release. "By live-streaming and sharing all talks online, we aim to reach a wide audience of Warhammer enthusiasts."
If you aren't sure whether you're the right brand of sicko to enjoy academic Warhammer theory, you're in luck. All of last year's talks are freely available on the , covering philosophy, literature, games studies, and more.
Markus Ressel's "Are We the Baddies? The Ethical Implications [[link]] of the Imperium's War with Chaos" might be . Or for the , there's Elena Polyakova's "Tyranid xenobiology compared to real-life eusocial insects." Or if you really want to , you could watch Tom Reichert's "The Concept of Warp Space from a Physical Perspective."
As for what might be discussed at the second Warhammer Conference, we can only guess until the program is announced in August. Talks about sociological mimesis and Genestealer Cults, maybe? Considering the walking, hulking tomb of the Astartes Dreadnought through a transhumanist lens? The gestalt [[link]] psychology of the Greenskin species? We can only dream.
If you're an academic yourself and you'd like to submit your own scholarly contributions for consideration, the conference is accepting abstracts until June 30. For details on attendance, abstract submissions, and the conference's academic archive, check out the .
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