World's First Academic Warhammer Conference

[Casual Heresy]

I only stumbled across this today as I follow Victoria Hayward on Bluesky. From the 27th to 28th September, the world's first academic conference dedicated to Warhammer is being held.

 

Home – Warhammer Conference (warhammer-conference.com)

 

Looking at the schedules and submitted abstracts, it looks to be an incredibly varied programme but its also just a very cool thing to see happening.

 

 

[Kallas]

Looking at the topics, they sound pretty interesting. They're going to record, hopefully they'll put them up for folks to watch, I'd definitely like to check them out at my own pace rather than live.

[phandaal]

At last, the intelligentsia have arrived! Half of these titles make me feel like the authors were just having fun with their thesauruses.

 

Nice reminder about Age of Reckoning coming back. That was a fun game! Totally broken and unbalanced (hence the original shutdown after people stopped playing), but fun nonetheless.

[Brother Casman]

Wow, there's a lot of panels happening - I'd kind of like to go to this, hopefully they do put up the recordings for people to view after.

[Xirix]

Someone could watch and record them just in-case, but if they say they're officially recording it I would hope they'd release them in full after the fact.

[Focslain]

Well for the online ones, you'd need to have two people recording at the same time. Each day has three lectures going on at the same time, though not all are online during the conference. 

 

Really hoping they do post these, these are some neat subjects.

 

Also noted this is in Germany, so subtitles please if not in english.

Edited September 18 by Focslain

[Marshal Rohr]

Finally I can submit my life’s work! An 800 page paper titled “Space Marines: Why we should triple the defense budget”

[grailkeeper]

 

At last, the intelligentsia have arrived! Half of these titles make me feel like the authors were just having fun with their thesauruses.

 

 

 

How sesquipedalian of them

 

Wow, there's a lot of panels happening - I'd kind of like to go to this, hopefully they do put up the recordings for people to view after.

 

There's teams links so you could go when its live?

[Dark Shepherd]

Finally, the chance of an academic paper  surpassing 'Why Only White People Get Abducted by Aliens'

[grailkeeper]

I just wrote a book on Habeas Corpus. I could talk about whether people could claim that their imprisonment is illegal on the basis that they dont have access to Warhammer. There's a guy already talking about Warhammer in prison.

 

The one talk I think I could learn most from is the one comparing Tyranid biology to insects. That could even impact how people model stuff. 

[gideon stargreave]

There’s some really interesting stuff going on here. My job is academy adjacent so I’m lucky enough to understand all their jargon. I’m interested in what the Borgmann talk will look like

[grailkeeper]

 

 Borgmann Talk 

 

He was an Inquisitor back in 2nd Ed right?

[Brother Casman]

 

[snip]

There's teams links so you could go when its live?

Sure, but for the whole "working for a living" thing, haha.

[gideon stargreave]

 

 

He was an Inquisitor back in 2nd Ed right?

He is now

[Cenobite Terminator]

 

 

He was an Inquisitor back in 2nd Ed right?

Resistance is futile.

[Kallas]

 

Finally I can submit my life’s work! An 800 page paper titled “Space Marines: Why we should triple the defense budget”

"In this treatise, I will explain why we need to divert more Imperial Credits into expanding the number of Astartes Chapters in deployment, and why Inquisitor Grumblebum is a filthy heretic for opposing it..."

[Xenith]

Wow, this is...something. Kudos for whoever put it together, and not normal for me to see such a diverse range of topics, however all threaded together with plastic crack. I'll try and catch up with them for sure. 

Edited September 20 by Xenith

[mecanojavi99]

I'm missing 2 more entries in that list.

 

"Erebus: can you hate a character beyond time and space?

 

And 

 

"Magnus: how he actually did nothing wrong"

[Mazer Rackham]

 

"In this treatise, I will explain why we need to divert more Imperial Credits into expanding the number of Astartes Chapters in deployment, and why Inquisitor Grumblebum is a filthy heretic for opposing it..."

 

Low key meta: This is how the Badab War started.

 

 

[DuskRaider]

This is actually incredibly interesting… I may not agree with a lot of what GW does these days, fluff or otherwise, but it’s easy to see how something like this could be built upon the vast and rich (and sometimes stolen) lore that is Warhammer. I would love to see these presentations. 

[Dagoth Ur]

 

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What a profoundly uneducated and nonsensical thing to post. I'm in touch with several of the people presenting at this conference and all of them are highlighting just how academically interesting Warhammer 40k can be and how to this day its complex origin and inspiration shines through.

 

Edited September 21 by Lord_Ikka

[phandaal]

 

What a profoundly uneducated and nonsensical thing to post. I'm in touch with several of the people presenting at this conference and all of them are highlighting just how academically interesting Warhammer 40k can be and how to this day its complex origin and inspiration shines through.

 

 

40k is based on other properties that are themselves complex, but it doesn't really change those themes much. It is something people bring up whenever GW swings back around to claiming they own every idea that is even tangentially related to their IP.

 

Dune is complex. Heinlein's writing is complex. Moorcock is complex. 40k took the popular themes from those properties and put them together into something people enjoy because it embodies those themes. An actual in-depth discussion of those themes would have to start from those older properties, not maybe work backwards to them.

 

Don't get me wrong - if my job was to write papers and someone asked me to get paid to do my job and think about 40k at the same time, I would jump at the chance and come up with something to show off too. 

 

Edit: also, I wonder if people are actually reading the abstracts for these sessions or just looking at the titles. Out of curiosity, I did read them, and if I summarized half of them here, this thread would get insta-locked. So maybe before dropping that grey minus sign on someone, take a look beyond the titles and see for yourselves.

 

Edited September 21 by phandaal

[Lord_Ikka]

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Edited September 21 by Lord_Ikka

[DuskRaider]

 

Edit: also, I wonder if people are actually reading the abstracts for these sessions or just looking at the titles. Out of curiosity, I did read them, and if I summarized half of them here, this thread would get insta-locked. So maybe before dropping that grey minus sign on someone, take a look beyond the titles and see for yourselves.

 

I see exactly what you mean now. Bleh. 

[Arikel]

I did read a good portion of the abstracts and still have no idea what you’re talking about. They all seem pretty cool to me.
 

Why would you even bother checking it out if you think academic discourse on fictional literature is just so much meaningless drivel anyways?  Your posts seem to imply you don’t think higher education is worthy of respect or recognition, in any case.