FRIDAY 15 MARCH
9:00-9:30 EDT
13:00-13:30 GMT
Opening Remarks
Shamma Boyarin, University of Victoria
Jeremy Swist, Miami University
Charlotte Naylor Davis, Independent Scholar
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9:30-11:15 EDT / 13:30-15:15 GMT
Panel I
Symbolic Thought Patterns of Spiritual Healing: Deciphering Religious Symbolism
Chair: Peter Miller, University of Iowa
- To Hades and Back: A Reflection on the Reception of Religious Symbols in Metal
Anna-Katharina Höpflinger, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München - Ancient Egypt and Extreme Metal
Markus Kutschka, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München - Puratu, Tigris, Esir: Anatolian Culture and Spirituality in the Music of Pentagram (Mezarkabul)
Ceren Kuşdemir Özbilek, Yaşar Üniversitesi
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11:15-12:15 EDT
15:15-16:15 GMT
Social Hour
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12:15-14:00 EDT
16:15-18:00 GMT
Panel II
Aproximaciones a la premodernidad en tu idioma: Miradas desde investigaciones hispanohablantes y latinoamericanas (Approaches to Premodernity in Your Language: Perspectives from Spanish-Speaking & Latin-American Research)
Moderadora: Sol Pérez-Pelayo, Académica independiente
- Conversando con Quijano sobre las warmikuna. Sexo-género, evidencia histórica y metal andino peruano (Talking with Quijano about warmikuna. Sex-Gender, Historical Evidence, and Peruvian Andean Metal)
María de la Luz Núñez, Universidad de Chile - La premodernidad en el otro lado: Mitología mesoamericana en los nombres de bandas mexicanas de heavy metal (Premodernity on the Other Side: Mesoamerican Mythology in the Names of Mexican Metal Bands)
Miguel Reyes Contreras, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México - “The philosopher adept of Sophrosine”: Hipatia de Alejandría en el heavy metal (Hypatia of Alexandria in Heavy Metal)
Marina Díaz Bourgeal, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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14:00-15:00 EDT
18:00-19:00 GMT
Break
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15:00-17:15 EDT
19:00-21:15 GMT
Panel III
Taught in a Mosh: Unique Approaches to Metal & Premodernity
Chair: Charlotte Naylor Davis, Independent Scholar
- Wild Eyes and Thundering Hooves: Representations of Equines in Album Art
Carolyn Willekes, Mount Royal University
Clara Wanning, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt - Disability as Super-Ability: Blindness and Divine Judgment in Heavy Metal Depictions of Samson
Ben Gould, Brandeis University - Historical Consciousness and the Reception of Classical Antiquity in Heavy Metal
Ingrid Cristini Kroich Frandji, Universidade Estadual do Paraná - The Classical Canon: The Use of Ancient History and Myth
as a Defining Feature of Core Metal Subgenres
Kris Fletcher, Louisiana State University
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17:15-18:15 EDT
21:15-22:15 GMT
Happy Hour
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SATURDAY 16 MARCH
9:00-9:30 EDT
13:00-13:30 GMT
Coffee & Housekeeping
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9:30-11:15 EDT
13:30-15:15 GMT
Panel IV
Metallic Mythography: Retellings & Inventions
Chair: János Fejes, Pázmány Péter Katolikus Egyetem Budapest
- Of Vampires and Ancient Tales: The Use of Mesopotamian Elements in Black Metal. Two case studies from Austria and Germany
N. Nyar Linder, Universität Wien - Metal, Myth, and Virtuosity
Steven Gonzalez, University of Southern California - Strange Cousins From the West: Clutch and the (Re)Construction of American Mythology
Eden Kupermintz, Heavy Blog is Heavy
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11:15-12:15 EDT
15:15-16:15 GMT
Multilingual Social Hour
Room 1: Español
Room 2: Türkçe
Room 3: Deutsch
Room 4: Italiano
Room 5: Ελληνικά
Room 6: Português
Room 7: Français
Room 8: Češký
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12:15-14:00 EDT
16:15-18:00 GMT
Panel V
Wimps and Romans Leave the Hall: Battle Hymns of Ancient Transgression
Chair: Osman Umurhan, University of New Mexico
- Carthage in Metal Music
Nathaniel Katz, University of Arizona - Spartacus in Metal
Alexandra Sills, University of Leicester
Christina Hotalen, University of Massachusetts Amherst - Laurel-Wreathed Lies and Triumphal Tragedies: Eluveitie’s Counter-Readings of Caesar’s Commentarii de Bello Gallico
Ralph Moore, Independent Scholar
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14:00-15:00 EDT
18:00-19:00 GMT
Break
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15:00-16:15 EDT
19:00-20:15 GMT
Pedagogy Workshop
Can I Play with Metal? Visions of Heavy Metal in School and University Curricula
Antje Bosselmann-Ruickbie, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen
Tyler Franconi, Brown University
Stefanie Acquavella-Rauch, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Thomas Göttlich, Goetheschule Wetzlar
Moderator: Shamma Boyarin, University of Victoria
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16:15-17:15 EDT
20:15-21:15 GMT
Happy Hour
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SUNDAY 17 MARCH
9:00-9:30 EDT
13:00-13:30 GMT
Coffee & Housekeeping
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9:30-11:15 EDT
13:30-15:15 GMT
Panel VI
Pagan Fears, the Past is Alive: Reviving Ancient Heritage
Chair: Vanessa Toupin-Lavallée, Université du Québec à Montréal
- De Ferro Italico: Uncovering the Italic Pagan Past in the Music of Draugr
Tobia De Siati, Università degli Studi di Pavia - Pagan Warriors in Czech Pagan Black and Folk Metal
Miroslav Vrzal, Masarykova univerzita - Heavy Stories, Heavy Music: Representations of Indigenous and Colonial Heritage in Metal
Stephen W. Silliman, University of Massachusetts Boston
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11:15-12:15 EDT
15:15-16:15 GMT
Social Hour
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12:15-13:15 EDT
16:15-17:15 GMT
Keynote Lecture & Performance
Constructing Byzantineness within Metal
Fulya Çelikel Soğancı, Independent Scholar
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13:15-14:15 EDT
17:15-18:15 GMT
Break
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14:15-16:00 EDT
18:15-20:00 GMT
Panel VII
Let’s Not Listen to Kamelot, ‘Tis a Silly Band: Comedy, Critique, & Medievalism
Chair: Jacqueline Jung, Yale University
- New Bards in Town: Bardomagno, Feudalesimo e Libertà and the Reception of the Middle Ages in Italian Folk Rock
Federico Landini, Independent Scholar - Heavy Metal Gimmickry with Warrior Pope
David Burke, Bath Spa University - Mead, Miezen—and Introspection? Feuerschwanz, the Medieval, and a Shift in Gender Roles
Brian Egede-Pedersen, Nykøbing Katedralskole
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16:00-16:30 EDT
20:00-20:30 GMT
Concluding Remarks
Shamma Boyarin, University of Victoria
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16:30-17:30 EDT
20:30-21:30 GMT
Happy Hour