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HistoryCon 2.0: History Strikes Back!

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Nov 15

HistoryCon 2.0: History Strikes Back!

By The Trinity Long Room Hub, Arts and Humanities Research Institute

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Date and time

Fri, 15 Nov 2019, 11:00 – Sat, 16 Nov 2019, 18:00 GMT

Location

Trinity Long Room Hub Trinity Long Room Hub, Arts Building, Fellows Square Trinity College Dublin 2 Dublin Ireland

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Description

A conference organised by the Department of History.

The Trinity HistoryCon conference, now in its second year, provides an opportunity for members of the public, entertainment professionals, academics, and cosplayers to explore the influences of film, television, comics, music, and other forms of popular media, on how we imagine our past and present worlds. Popular media such as Game of Thrones, X-Men, Star Wars, and The Avengers have captivated audiences and opened new lines of enquiry across the arts and humanities. Each of these outlets has succeeded in large part due to their ability to contextualise and elucidate the experience of the individual in extraordinary circumstances. Trinity HistoryCon – the amalgam of an academic conference and comic-con – celebrates the nexus of popular media and the study of history. The conference provides a stimulating and exemplary opportunity for engagement between academic research and popular culture and media.

This year’s theme is ‘Humanising History’, focusing on how characters in popular culture are imbued with experiences that draw emotive responses when encountered by readers, audiences or gamers. A series of talks and panels will explore this theme across different media and eras of history.

The conference format will include academic presentations as well as panels and roundtables involving academics and industry professionals. Each panel addresses a specific theme, including ‘Dressing History’ (focusing on costume design), ‘Adapting History’ (addressing how histories are adapted for popular media), and ‘How We Remember Her’ (a panel discussing the adaption of Giulia Farnase in Showtime’s The Borgias).

Confirmed guest contributors include Dutch actress Lotte Verbeek (Giulia Farnese in The Borgias). Register here for this discussion
*please not that registeration for the panel discussion is seprate from the HistoyCon registeration

In addition to these social and educational events, HistoryCon proudly hosts a costume competition focusing on historical and period costuming. There will be two categories of costuming: ‘Historically Accurate’ and ‘Historically Inspired’. The costume contest will be judged by professional cosplayers.

Trinity HistoryCon celebrates the influence and impact of history in films, television, comics, novels, and stage.

See the line up of speakers and special guest here

09:45–10:00 Registration

10:00–10:15 Opening Remarks – Dawn Seymour Klos

10:15–11:15 Paper Session One: Modern Heroes and Villains

Chair: Mollie Kramer

Paola Medina-Gonzales Man in the High Castle: Conspiracy, Politics, and the Occult

Gareth Evans-Jones The Testament of Magneto: Depicting the Holocaust in a graphic novel

Hannah Granberry Helter Skelter in a Semicentenial Swelter: Charles Manson in the American Imagination 50 Years Later

11:15–12:15 Lunch

12:15–1:15 How We Imagine Her Panel ft. Lotte Verbeek, Catherine Lawless, Ruth Barton, Daria Drazkowiak

1:15–2:00 Break

2:00–3:00 Paper Session Two: You Win or You Die

Chair: Dawn Seymour Klos

Samantha Sandy Mad or Maligned? Daenerys Targaryen, Juana of Castile, and the Portrayals of Women in Power.

Ana Pais Tyrion Lannister: a buffoon character

Rafael Socarras What Were They Thinking? An Armchair General’s Assessment of Game of Thrones

3:00–3:30 Medieval Armoured Combat group of Ireland Demonstration

3:30–4:30 Paper Session Three: Reframing the Known

Chair: Elysée Yhuel

Dawn Seymour Klos Aggressive Negotiations: Leia Organa and Thirteenth-Century English Women

Ciara Glasscott Reclaiming Cathy’s voice: Kate Bush’s “Wuthering Heights”

Aratrika John Unearthing Loki: An Examination of the God of Chaos in Media Culture

4:30–5:00 Break

5:00–6:00 Adapting History Panel: Friends of Medieval Dublin and Film Studies (TCD) Discuss Outlaw King

Saturday, 16 November 2019

10:00–10:15 Opening Remarks

10:15–11:15 Paper Session Four: Stories from Below

Chair: Daryl Hendley Rooney

Christin Simons & Elena Romero-Passerin Mer-plant-ilism: The Making of a Historical Board-Game

G. Vaughn Joy The Common Man’s Capitalist: George Bailey and the Question of Communist Subversion in It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)

Carly Brown ‘Obnoxious and Disliked’: John Adams’ Legacy in Popular Media, from 1776 to Hamilton

11:15–11:30 Break

11:30–12:30 Dressing History Panel ft. Aislinn Collins and Guild of Nerds Cosplay

12:30–2:00 Lunch

2:00–3:00 Paper Session Five: Reconsidering Mythology

Chair: Savneet Kaur

Dr Shabeena Kuttay Untouchable Ambedkar: Touching Lives

Arnel Joven Examining Heroism: Comparing Perspectives on Heroes in Korean Dramas and Philippine Films

Rebecca Kwakman Fascinating: Spock, Seneca and the power of the stoic mind

3:00–4:00 Break

4:00–6:00 Costume Contest

6:00–6:05 Closing Remarks – Daryl Hendley Rooney

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  • Ireland Events
  • Dublin City Events
  • Things to do in Dublin
  • Dublin Conferences
  • Dublin Film & Media Conferences
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