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Game of Thrones: An International Conference
University of Hertfordshire, De Havilland Campus, 6-7 September 2017
Co-organised by the Media Research Group of the School of Creative Arts and Humanities
DRAFT Programme Schedule
DAY ONE: WEDNESDAY 6 SEPTEMBER 2017
9.00-9.30 Coffee and Registration
9.30-9.45 Opening Remarks
9.45-11.15 KEYNOTE 1 – Professor Anne Gjelsvik – ‘The Hall of Faces in Game of Thrones: Facing the Changes from Words to Images’
11.15-11.30 Coffee
11.30-1.15 PARALLEL PANELS X 2
Panel 1 – Transmedia and World Building
Ian Sturrock. Games of Ice and Fire: Close reading the themes of Game of Thrones through analogue and digital play.
Alexander Sergeant. Across the Narrow Screen: Televisual World-Building in HBO’s Game of Thrones.
Andrew Lynch. Watercooler Westeros: After the Thrones as transmedia Quality paratext.
Rachel Mizsei Ward. ‘ We’re going to need a bigger box of red crayons’ – Adapting Game of Thrones for the adult colouring book market.
Panel 2 – Politics and Power
Giancarol M Sandoval. Jon Snow vs Laura Roslin: The demise of democracy’s representation in Game of Throne.s
Cason Murphy. ‘Get thee to a Mummery’: Power, Politics and Performance in A Song of Ice and Fire.
Luisa Valeriani. The Dialectical Image of a Paradigm Shift.
1.15-2.00 Lunch
2.00-3.45 PARALLEL PANELS X 2
Panel 3 – Virtual Westeros
Julie Escurigan, Briony Hannell, Amanda DiGioia, Rose Butler. ‘Virtual Westeros’: Fan Practices in the Online Game of Thrones Universe.
Panel 4 – Adaptation and Transtextuality
Eve Smith. What if Richard had left the princes with their mother rather than putting them in the tower? Oh wait, isn’t that the plot of Game of Thrones?: Shakespearean transtextuality in Game of Thrones fandom.
Amanda Potter. Classical Heroines in HBO’s Game of Thrones: Iphigenia and Medea in Westeros.
Stella Louis. The Accursed Kings or the ‘original Game of Thrones’: from the national Maurice Druon’s work and its 1972 French TV adaptation to a fascinating hybrid produce of popular culture.
Emre Tuncel. Game of Thrones and Greek Katabasis myth.
3.45-4.15 Tea and Refreshments
4.15-5.45 PARALLEL PANELS X 2
Panel 5 – Fans and Viewing Practices
Héctor J. Pérez. Fan Theories and Aesthetic Consciousness: On Jon Snow’s Death and Resurrection.
Kingka Jakabffy and Joan Ramon Rodriguez-Amat. Games of Piracy and Fandom: Technology, Copyright and Industry.
Zoë Shacklock. Embodied Spectatorship and the Game of Thrones reaction video.
Panel 6 – History, Heritage and Tourism
Daniel Clarke. Westeros via Belfast: faux-authenticity and the heritage experience of HBO’s Game of Thrones.
Nicholas Furze. Time through a lens: Game of Thrones, a modern perception of Late-Medieval Life.
Niamh Kirk: From fantasty to reality: Representations of Northern Ireland and Ireland in media coverage of Game of Thrones.
6.00-7.00pm Launch of the George R. R. Martin Society.
7.30 – late Conference Dinner
DAY TWO: THURSDAY 7 SEPTEMBER 2017
9.00-9.30 Coffee and Registration
9.30-11.00 KEYNOTE 2 – Associate Professor Rikke Schubert – ‘Broken Things, Women and Change: Game of Thrones and Playing with Existential Explosive Plasticity’
11.00-11.30 Coffee
11.30-1.00 PARALLEL PANELS X 2
Panel 7 – International Audiences
Florencia García-Rapp. The fourth wall and ‘The Wall’: A cross-cultural reception analysis of Game of Thrones.
Carolina Assunção e Alves, Carolina Vieira Rocha de Sousa and Isadora Viana Valle de Oliveira. The repercussions of Game of Thrones in Brazil: Content production and publicization in convergence culture.
Panel 8 – Representation 1
Rosser Johnson. Legitimacy and being female: character arcs and storyline convergence in Season 6 of Game of Thrones.
Olivia Hinkin. Representations of Incest within Game of Thrones.
Lidiane Nunes de Castro. Daenerys Targaryen: A journey to become queen of the Seven Kingdoms and herself.
1.00-2.00 Lunch
2.00-3.30 PARALLEL PANELS X 2
Panel 9 – Death and Trauma
Matteo Barbagallo. The one we are living in: Westeros and the dantesque interpretation of Death
Simon Born. Valar morghulis – Representations of Death and Dying in HBO’s Game of Thrones.
Ben Tyrer. Fantasy Decomposed: Traumatic desire and (dis)integration in Game of Thrones.
Panel 10 – Representation 2
Ronaldo Henn & Christian Gonzatti. Game of Thrones and Journalism: the emergence of feminist collectives in Brazilian digital pop culture.
Debra Ferreday. The Revenge of Sansa Stark: rape-revenge narratives and the cultural politics of gendered spectatorship.
3.30-4.00 Tea
4.00-5.30 KEYNOTE 3 – Professor Martin Barker – Questeros Round Table – ‘Letting the smallfolk speak: a first report from the International Game of Thrones Audience Project’
5.30-6.00 Closing Remarks
6.00pm Conference Close
