Register on Eventbrite Event registration can be found here. Speaker abstract and bios can be found here. Keynotes and Reading Suggestions can be found here.  Workshops and Roundtables can be found here.  Workshop registration opens on May 6. This document is updated as needed. All times listed are BST, British Summer Time Twitter Instagram Facebook Discord Day 1: Wednesday May 15, 2024  9:45 – 10:00: Platform Wide Welcome / Opening words and explanation of the mechanics with Will Tattersdill   10:00 – 11:00: Opening Roundtable: Conjuring Creatures and Worlds wi ..read more

A free hybrid conference for postgraduate students and early career researchers to be held on June 05 and 06 2024 at the University of Glasgow, supported by Glasgow’s Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic. Deadline for Submissions: April 19 2024 Contact Email: philophantast@gmail.com Call for Papers: Speculative fiction and media encompass multiple genres and modes that, like philosophy, make us question the possible and impossible. Speculative creations provide tools to delve into philosophical questions, such as exploring the nature of identity and approaching the ineffable, in addition to sp ..read more

Event registration can be found here (tickets on sale March 18th).  The Programme can be found will be coming soon.  Keynotes and Reading Suggestions will be coming soon.  Paper Speaker Bios can be found here. Workshop registration opens on May 6. This document is updated as needed. All times listed are BST, British Summer Time Twitter Instagram Facebook Discord Please find the bios for speakers appearing in Workshops and Roundtables during GIFCon 2024. Workshops All workshops take place on Thursday May 16 Epics and Emporiums – A Cozy Storytelling Game Frankie Bradle ..read more

Event registration can be found here (tickets on sale March 18)  The Programme will be coming soon.  Keynotes and Reading Suggestions will be coming soon.  Workshops and Roundtables information can be found here.  Workshop registration opens on May 6. This document is updated as needed. All times listed are BST, British Summer Time Twitter Instagram Facebook Discord Panelists in alphabetical order (by first name): Alice Langley  Amy Richmond  Ane B. Ruiz-Lejarcegui  Anisha Das  Anna Milon & Tom Emanuel  Astrid R. Abildgaard  ..read more

Thursday December 14th, 6pm-7:30pm Join the Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic as we celebrate the launch of Realms of Imagination: Essays from the Wide Worlds of Fantasy, recently released by British Library Publishing as a companion volume to the Fantasy: Realms of Imagination exhibition.  This highly-illustrated book contains twenty essays providing a wide range of perspectives on Fantasy, its forms and its communities.  Collection editors Tanya Kirk and Matthew Sangster will be in conversation with essay authors Cristina Bacchilega, Dimitra Fimi, Sofia Samatar and Ann VanderMe ..read more

To celebrate the publication of Matthew Sangster’s An Introduction to Fantasy (Cambridge University Press, 2023) and Brian Attebery’s Fantasy: How it Works (Oxford University Press, 2022) receiving the 2023 Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Myth and Fantasy Studies, Glasgow’s Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic invites you to an online conversation between the two authors, exploring how we can make compelling cases for Fantasy’s particular qualities and values. The discussion will take place via Zoom webinar on Thursday 5 October 2023, and will be followed by a Q&A session. Matthew Sangste ..read more

Image courtesy of the British Library, Shelfmark: Harley 3244 The Call for Papers for the 59th International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA (May 9-11, 2024) is now open. Proposals of papers and contributions to roundtables are due Sept. 15, 2022. The Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic, University of Glasgow, is sponsoring the following session:  Here Be Dragons: Tolkien at the Medieval Margins Modality: Virtual Boundaries, margins and marginality are expanding areas of research in contemporary fantasy studies, in which Tolkien’s work is still central ..read more

CFP: Leeds 2024 IMC Tolkien Sessions  Paper abstracts are currently being sought for the following Tolkien sessions for the International Medieval Congress at Leeds, 1-4 July 2024.  The special thematic strand of this conference will be ‘Crisis’.  See more here. We are very pleased that the 2024 IMC Tolkien Sessions will again be sponsored by the Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic at the University of Glasgow. Paper submissions are being sought for the following sessions:   Tolkien’s Medieval Sub-creation in Crisis  This session will examine different concepts of cri ..read more

Join us on 20 July 2023, at 6pm BST, for an online talk and Q&A with Dr Theresa Jean Tanenbaum,  Associate Professor in the Department of Informatics at UC Irvine. Her talk is entitled: “Restorying Trans Game Studies: Playing with Memory, Fiction, and Magic as Sites for Transformative Identity Work”. The event will be chaired by Gabriel Elvery. Dr. Theresa Jean Tanenbaum (“Tess”) is a game designer, artist, activist, and Associate Professor in the Department of Informatics at UC Irvine where she is a founding member of the Transformative Play Lab. Dr. Tanenbaum’s work ..read more

You never know where magic can be found, even in the Lowlands… Puck’s Players Presents: Nicholas Stuart Gray’s The Seventh Swan July 7th and 8th, Govanhill Parish Church Poster design by Georgia Zachari Amateur theatre company Puck’s Players present a stage production of Nicholas Stuart Gray’s The Seventh Swan. Puck’s Players was originally formed in 2020 by Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic members Marita Arvaniti and Chris Lynch-Becher with the aim to stage and perform fantasy theatre. This is their second production, after a successful staging of Terry Pratchett’s The Truth, adapted by S ..read more