| Date | 30 June 2022 |
| Time | 09:30 - 17:00 |
| Location | Amsterdam |
| Organizer(s) | Dr. Merlijn Breunesse |
This interdisciplinary two-day workshop is devoted to the construction of fantastical worlds across various narrative media from antiquity to the present.
WELCOME
09:30 - 09:45 Welcome: coffee and tea
09:45 - 10:00 Word of welcome
KEYNOTE
10:00 - 10:45 Benjamin Stevens
Virgil's Otherworldly Sense of Wonder: Towards a Fractal Geometry of Immersive Fantasy?
10:45 - 11:10 Coffee and tea break
CLASSICAL STORYWORLDS
Chair: Mark Heerink
11:10 - 11:35 Koen Vacano
Worldbuilding from Homer to Star Wars
11:35 - 12:00 Greta Hawes (online)
Fictitious Interventions into the Greek Mythic Storyworld in Ps-Plutarch's On Rivers
12:00 - 12:25 Questions and discussion
12:25 - 13:30 Lunch break
THE FANTASTICAL WORLDS OF EPIC
Chair: Koen Vacano
13:30 - 13:55 Stephen Joyce
Worldbuilding and Fantasy in Ireland's Táin Bó Cúailnge
13:55 - 14:20 Frances Foster
Cosmic Junctures and Other Winds: Constructing the Spaces Beyond
14:20 - 14:45 Questions and discussion
14:45 - 15:20 Coffee and tea break
RECEPTION OF FANTASTICAL WORLDS IN MODERN MEDIA
Chair: Luuk Huitink
15:20 - 15:45 Kevin Wong
The Tangled Receptions of Online Fantasy Videogames: Navigating Classics and Comparatism within a Globalised Worldbuilding
15:45 - 16:10 Alice Bolland
Et in Arcadia ego: Appropriations and Appearances of the Arcadian Idyll in Classical and Contemporary Literature
16:10 - 16:35 Alexandra Gushurt-Moore
'Revolving Centuries and Cycles should Glide': Fantasy Worldbuilding in Late Victorian Art
16:35 - 17:00 Questions and discussion
17:00 - 18:30 Drinks offered by the Amsterdam School of Historical Studies (ASH)
18:30 Dinner
Please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions: Caterina Fossi (c.fossi@uva.nl), Merlijn Breunesse (m.r.e.breunesse@uva.nl) and Koen Vacano (k.vacano@uva.nl).