online program

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic worldwide, large parts of the 2020 Annual Fantastic Research Conference had to be cancelled. However, some lectures could be held online.

 

GFF Annual Conference, “Speculative Fiction and the Political” Online Panels

 Indigenous Futures

• Sarah Cullingham (Ontario) – “Worlding Dystopia: Settler futurity in Margaret Atwood's world of Gilead”
• Ania Paluch (Ottawa) – “Matriarchs of the Anthropocene: Indigenous North American and Eastern European Dialogues Through Feminist Ecocritism”
• Nora Castle (Warwick) – “Alternative Foodways and Alternative Futures: Food and Politics in Contemporary SF”

 

Science Fiction and Historical Voices

• Torsten Kathke (Mainz) – “From 'Future Shock' to 'Winning the Future': Newt Gingrich's SF Politics”
• Bodie Ashton (Passau)–"'Here is a fairy tale of the day after tomorrow': Raumpatrouille and Rethinking Germany's Place in the Global Future"
• Amanda Dillon (Norwich) – “Unheard Voices: The Time Traveling Woman as Writer of History”
• Magdalena Wasowicz (Krakow) – “Alternate History and Politics of Memory in Poland”

 

Re-reading Myths and Folklore in Contemporary Fantasy

• Jennifer Neidhardt (Düsseldorf)–“Lovers from the Underground: Revisions of the Hades/Persephone Myth in Contemporary Fantastic Fiction”
• Mark Schmitt (Dortmund) – “On Folk Horror as a Political Mode”
• Rebecca Graß (Bochum)–"Rebels vs. Soldiers: The individual versus the uniform in the fantastic" (German language!)

 

Gender and the Role of the Body in Science Fiction

• Iuliia Ibragimova (Dublin)–“Countering the Weapon Fetishism: Call for Non-Violence in Popular Culture of the Cold War Period as represented by Captain America Volume 1 (1941-1996) and Anne McCaffrey's The Ship Who Sang(1969)”
• Joseph Jenner (London) – “The Gendered Politics of the Anthropocene: The Body and Look of the Female Astronaut”
• Cristina Algaba (Seville) – “Empowering the simulacrum. Changing roles and power relationships in the dystopian theme park Westworld”

Contemporary science fiction fandoms

• Christina Wurst (Tübingen) – “The Rise of Skywalker Social Media Fan Response – Ideological Discourses in Online Fan Communities”
• Ashumi Shah (Augsburg) – “Participatory Culture and Experimental Speculative Fiction”

 

GFF Conference Augsburg 2020 online panels